DL-Boy

I bought three cases of InControl BeDry EliteCare earlier this week and received two of them yesterday (the third didn't make it on the plane Thursday night in Canada). EliteCare is my go-to now. I use them along with a Wellnes "Excelerator" booster attached to the crotch, then lined with an AbenaBoost booster. The Excelerator is SAP filled and gives more capacity, and the Abena is pulp so it allows better wicking. The combo allows about 24 hrs of wear before changing (with proper barrier creams applied). If Rearz/InControl doesn't find a suitable solution to the new De minimis changes to imports, I don't know what I'll do. The three cases will take me up to the end of July, when I include the two remaining bags I already had. Maybe POTUS will make another reversal of decision!

I'm reviving an old thread to pass along some urgent info about Rearz and InControl to all our members in USA who like and use them. I discovered early in the week that both Rearz and InControl (same company) are "pausing" (tempoarily) shipments to the USA due to the changes in import regulations in the US. Specifically the "De minimis" rule has changed which allows some small consumer shipments to avoid import taxes (if I understand it correctly). The email I received from both Rearz and InControl claims that the pause is temporary while they explore potential solutions to the change. That being said, I bought three cases of InControl BeDry EliteCare a couple of days ago, in hopes they'll last until the end of July and by that time hopefully either POTUS will either reverse the decision (yet again) or they will have arrived at a solution and started shipping to the US again.

I'm late to chime in here but I bought Inspire diapers first, when my supplier (along with everyone else) was sold out of my go-to brand, BetterDry. I thought the Inspires were okay but I was expecting at least a fair fraction of the ISO capacity and not getting it left me a bit meh. I then bought a case of InControl BeDry EliteCare and a case of InControl BeDry Overnights. I found that their capacities were so close to one another that it wasn't worth my spending extra for the overnight variety again. I was dubious of the hook and loop closures when I discovered that they had them, because I've had less than stellar success with hook and loop in other brands in the past (XP-5000, for instance). Honestly though, I prefer InControl's closures over Inspire's tapes and landing zones. I just bought two more cases of EliteCares tonight even though my go-to provider has BetterDry again and they would ship from a warehouse not more that 700 miles away (as opposed to international UPS shipment from Ontario, Canada to Dallas, Texas). I thought with the separate website for Incontrol products that maybe they spun off from Rearz company but tonight that theory was disproven as UPS shows my Incontrol diapers as being shipped from Rearz. I feel that the capacity of the Incontrol BeDry EliteCare are better that MegaMax, of which I have half a case of tie-dyed color left that I'm probably going to sell. I think the issue with MegaMax leaking for me may be the design. They gap around the back of my legs and do feel a bit thinner than EliteCare. I've got one bag of Crinklz, one bag of Crinklz Buccaneers, one bag of BetterDry along with a few singles of Buccaneers, Aquanauts, Astronauts, Crinklz (OG), BetterDry and one single MegaMax tie-dyed, one Inspire plus one bag and seven Incontrol, plus I'm getting two cases (72) next week from UPS. Incidentally, I boost all of my premium diapers with one Wellness Excelerator booster followed be an AbenaBoost pulp booster next to my skin. The first one gives increased absorbency and the AbenaBoost gives superior wicking.

I have a more surefire way to get rid of JW's (those people who distribute the Watchtower pamphlets). I've never tried this before (I could be so inclined to though), but a former co-worker's late husband did it to fluster the JW's who kept knocking on their door on the weekends to testify. He would open the door NUDE. I say I would be so inclined because I'm actually a home nudist when not in diapers. I've been nude at a private club in my area on many occasions where such things are permitted, and I'm looking at visiting one or more "clothing optional" camps in the area. If it weren't for the fact that my front door faces a neighbor's patio and we have a common sidewalk running between our buildings that goes to the soccer field (heavily trafficked by all ages), I might. But I won't knowingly expose minors to my nudity. Now if my kilt blows up and exposes my bare butt, now that's simply a wardrobe malfunction and "force majeure" (an act of God).

I've had the occasional "step out of the house" to pick up a package at the door while wearing only a diaper, t-shirt and even a pacifier (usually retrieving boxes of diapers that were just delivered), but this morning after just getting new patio furniture yesterday, I went out on my patio before work to drink my coffee, wearing only a Crinklz original and my gray "Felix" shirt. I sat there right off the main sidewalk to the soccer field, with my wife until the mowers started churning up the grass on the other side of our fence.

For what it's worth, my tapes rarely creep or fail on my Crinklz when worn at night while sleeping. I guess being far less active at night is the reason. I do get the right leg tape (and sometimes the left) loosening and popping off quite frequently while working from home (while only wearing the Crinklz and a t-shirt) but if I apply the leg tapes a little loosely and don't try to remove and reposition them they are more prone to last out the workday. Early on I had the blue tapes on the legs fold back and start to roll up which caused the whole tape to slide back and lose surface area on the adhesive contact, ultimately leading to tape failure but this was when I was trying to tighten the legs of my Crinklz way too much.

I'll usually point the nozzle down into the bottom of the diaper when putting on the nighttime diaper but as soon as I can, I'll lay on my belly to wet the front (employing gravity to wet from the lower part where I'm pointed, up into the waistband).

Wish I could "sleep wet". I wake with intense all-over body pain and hot flush due to kidneys complaining about a full bladder, then have to position and breathe just right to let the flow start (sometimes sticking finger or two into the leg holes to brush over "Wee Willy" to encourage voiding). Once I've voided, I usually feel good enough to fall back asleep (almost like clockwork around 4:30am).

Not sure if anyone else who uses Crinklz or BetterDry have ever experienced this but I had my first ever blowout at a leg tape where the plastic shell popped open because there was to much stress on the tape. I'm not sure how I did that but I'm going 3-tape for the remainder of this diaper because I couldn't get the 2nd chance tape to patch and hold the shell together. Anyone else had a catastrophic failure of the plastic backing on a Crinklz or BetterDry because the tape pulled on it too hard?

Here's Felix the Fox on a dark gray heather t-shirt.

Funny he should mention specific ABDL markers... Three of the images from Crinklz are of their signature mascot, a white tiger named "Crinklz", involved in several activities (blowing bubbles, chasing a butterfly, snuggling a "security blanket" a la Linus from the Peanuts comics). This mascot, "Crinklz" is the only animal in their lineup who is wearing any sort of clothing at all, and it is a tape on diaper with a colorful decorated landing zone area across the front where the tapes are attached. I'd wear a shirt with Crinklz in public just as readily. Matter of fact, I've got a couple of old images somewhere of "Baby Muppets" and "Baby Looney Tunes" characters, all or most of them in diapers too. I'd wear them too.

I'm not too concerned about the IP owner (intellectual property) wanting permission for my own personal use. The images I'm using are freely downloadable from their website as coloring book pages. All I'm doing is using Photoshop to color it in as closely as possible to stock colored images they already have on their website. As long as I'm using the images for my personal use and not profiting from them or using them in a commercial venture (print ads, etc), I should be fine. The three images attached are in order: Crinklz stock image, Crinklz coloring book page and my colored image using Photoshop:

Let me break it down since it made little or no sense to you. Since you seemed to state that 95% of people wouldn't be comfortable wearing this outside of special ABDL-Cons or similar, then I must be in the other 5% of people. I wore "Theodore" (the t-shirt in the picture, with Theodore on the front), to Tom Thumb (grocery store) and CVS (pharmacy) to pick up prescriptions (medications). I was wearing the shirt along with my black utility kilt which is similar to a traditional Scottish kilt but with pockets on the sides. A kilt is a wrap around garment without legs. You might call it a skirt, but you'd be wrong. I wasn't concerned about other people seeing me dressed this way and did not worry what they might think. As soon as I get two other characters printed (Felix and Leah, the fox and mountain lion characters from the Crinklz adult disposable diapers), and have them ironed onto shirts, I will happily wear them in public too. I finished up the post by mentioning that while I was out getting my prescriptions, I was in a disposable diaper that was over half full (wet) and my only challenge was that it made me walk a little funny due to its thickness - I waddled.

I guess from your estimate then, I'm in the other 5%. I wore "Theodore" out to Tom Thumb and CVS, along with my black Utility Kilt to pick up my prescriptions and didn't think twice about what other people might say. As soon as I get Felix (the fox) and Leah (the sports loving lioness) printed and on shirts, I'll be happy to wear them in public too. IIncidentally, I was also wearing a 60% full Crinklz diaper under the kilt while I was out, but my only concern was that it made me walk a little funny.

You could probably find one on Etsy, or maybe Red Bubble. They probably aren't cheap though, $25 easily. I bought a shirt on Red Bubble a couple of years ago with the green Abena "L4" stripe and it was $35.00.