We got this as a shower gift... we did register for it because we heard good things about it. But i have to say to operate it is a pain in the neck. You have buy special liners for it and then when it's full take out the sausage linked diapers and put it in ANOTHER garbage bag - so your double bagging. The manual wheel you had to turn to seal each bag didnt work properly half the time and wouldn't seal the diaper correctly. Eventually it got to be too much of a hassle to use so we have stopped using it and are going to to get a Diaper champ instead. It may not seal each diaper but at least we won't have to buy special liners for it and can use a regular garbage bag.