Day 1

Day 1:

1:30 AM on May 31st - 1:30 AM on June 1st

The Day in Diapers:

Number of changes: 6

Status of diapers at change time: All wet, third one was messy too.

Estimated cost for the day: $5.76

Kinds of diapers used: 6 Abena Abri-Form S2s, One Depends Maximum Protection

Journal:

I made it to the end of the first 24 hours! I wet about two Abena S2s to capacity this afternoon. I feel like I pee more when I wear diapers but maybe I'm just more conscious of it. In any event, I'd like to reduce the total number of changes per day for expense reasons but I also want to pee when I have to pee.

I was expecting a houseguest at around 10 PM tonight, so I wanted to have a fresh diaper on when she arrived so I could be inconspicuous about wearing. I'm concerned about the odor. But my last Abena for the afternoon was soaked through around 9 PM so I needed a stopgap diaper for about an hour. I whipped out a super flimsy Depends which was able to withstand the wetting between 9 and 10. When my houseguest arrived, I was fresh, clean and odorless and the evening passed without incident.

I'm still in the Abena I wore for her visit but I've wet it a few times now and I'll definitely have to change before I go to sleep for the night.

Observations:

*In the past, I've only worn diapers when I can sit around the house and do nothing but now that I'm attempting to go 24/7 for a bit, I'm realizing what it's like to have a big, bulky diaper on while you actually do stuff, whether outside or around the house. Today, for instance, I cleaned my bathroom - toilet, sink and shower - all while in a fairly wet Abena. Having a diaper on for all of that can be a pain in the butt - literally!

*Abena makes a nice, thick disposable but it has pretty terrible odor control. Sometimes I want to change even when I'm not all the way wet just because it smells bad but then I remember that these little babies are costing me 96 cents a pop. I've heard that Tranquility has better odor control, so I'll put that to the test when I get my sample pack on Saturday. If Tranquility works as well and smells better, I might invest in a case of 100 for my 24/7 attempt.

*I have to take my trash out to the apartment complex dumpster A LOT more frequently now that I'm wearing diapers all the time. You don't want to keep soiled diapers in your house for very long so it looks like, at least once a day, I'm stuck walking a big, heavy bag of diapers out to the dumpster. This is not the most glamorous part of being 24/7.

*When I change after a shower, I need to really dry off down there before I hop in a diaper or else it feels pretty icky to put on a new one.

*For now, despite the annoyances I've encountered so far, it was still an amazing day. I did not use the toilet at all today. It feels pretty amazing to think that I could just abandon it completely but I'm sure I still have a lot to learn about being 24/7. It's a fantasy, sure, but we don't always want to live out everything we fantasize about. At the moment, I'm loving this fantasy. But that's what this challenge is for - to push me to my limits in order to discover the point at which the cost, cleanup, and nuisances of being 24/7 cause me to break.