CampbellScot
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I posted this over on the families board and I wanted to post it here too!!
I have been looking around for a while for a bag to carry at the parks that wouldn't be too big, but big enough to carry everything a family of four (a 5 year old boy and an 8 year old girl) might need for a day of commando park trekking! i also wanted a bag that my DH wouldn't cringe away from if I asked him to hold it for a while! I think I found the perfect bag! I just received it today!!!
It's the Diaper Dude Messenger Bag!!
Last summer I had the Donner bag and it worked really well for my husband and me on our honeymoon.
But we are taking my step kids this summer and I was actually pretty concerned that my Donner bag wouldn't hold everything I might need to carry as the designated "pack mule"!
The Diaper Dude is marketed as a diaper bag for "hip dads".
It's completely unisex and no one would know it was supposed to be a diaper bag. I LOVE IT! It comes in a green camo print, all black, brown w/ pink zippers and trim, navy blue, a really loud plaid, a pink camo print (the diaper diva), I think gray and orange as well.Some of the bags have skulls and crossbones on the pockets, others have dragons or peace signs...It's comparable in price to the Donner bag and it's got TONS of compartments, a "bottle" holder that fits a diet coke bottle cuz I checked FIRST THING! It's got three large pockets on the front, pockets on the back, a large inner compartment that comes with a little changing pad which you can take out of you don't need it, a zippered compartment inside and a cell phone holder on the shoulder strap. It's also got a "pacifier"/key holder on the strap. It also has a "stroller strap" so that it can easily hang onto the backs of strollers keeping everything handy to whomever is pushing the stroller! 
I got the green camo print bag. It's not too huge, but big enough to carry everything you might need. I think it's going to work out great. I'm going to use it as a carry on to the plane as well. I can use it for school too. (one more year to go and I've got my doctoral degree!
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I got mine on @ www.travelingtikes.com . They have the lowest price on the web. Even on Ebay these bags go $65 and up unless you want to try and get a used one...which go fast and there are always tons of bids. These bags are on Ebags.com for $61 and up. Traveling tikes has them for $49.99, no matter what color you choose. Their customer service department is fantastic and you get free shipping! I really researched this and I think I got the lowest price and the best deal on the web. The bag I got sold for $65.99 at every other site.
I was so excited when I got my bag the first place I wanted to go was the Dis and let everyone know about this really versatile bag! It ROCKS!!
I have been looking around for a while for a bag to carry at the parks that wouldn't be too big, but big enough to carry everything a family of four (a 5 year old boy and an 8 year old girl) might need for a day of commando park trekking! i also wanted a bag that my DH wouldn't cringe away from if I asked him to hold it for a while! I think I found the perfect bag! I just received it today!!!
It's the Diaper Dude Messenger Bag!!
Last summer I had the Donner bag and it worked really well for my husband and me on our honeymoon.
But we are taking my step kids this summer and I was actually pretty concerned that my Donner bag wouldn't hold everything I might need to carry as the designated "pack mule"! The Diaper Dude is marketed as a diaper bag for "hip dads".
It's completely unisex and no one would know it was supposed to be a diaper bag. I LOVE IT! It comes in a green camo print, all black, brown w/ pink zippers and trim, navy blue, a really loud plaid, a pink camo print (the diaper diva), I think gray and orange as well.Some of the bags have skulls and crossbones on the pockets, others have dragons or peace signs...It's comparable in price to the Donner bag and it's got TONS of compartments, a "bottle" holder that fits a diet coke bottle cuz I checked FIRST THING! It's got three large pockets on the front, pockets on the back, a large inner compartment that comes with a little changing pad which you can take out of you don't need it, a zippered compartment inside and a cell phone holder on the shoulder strap. It's also got a "pacifier"/key holder on the strap. It also has a "stroller strap" so that it can easily hang onto the backs of strollers keeping everything handy to whomever is pushing the stroller! I got the green camo print bag. It's not too huge, but big enough to carry everything you might need. I think it's going to work out great. I'm going to use it as a carry on to the plane as well. I can use it for school too. (one more year to go and I've got my doctoral degree!
)I got mine on @ www.travelingtikes.com . They have the lowest price on the web. Even on Ebay these bags go $65 and up unless you want to try and get a used one...which go fast and there are always tons of bids. These bags are on Ebags.com for $61 and up. Traveling tikes has them for $49.99, no matter what color you choose. Their customer service department is fantastic and you get free shipping! I really researched this and I think I got the lowest price and the best deal on the web. The bag I got sold for $65.99 at every other site.
I was so excited when I got my bag the first place I wanted to go was the Dis and let everyone know about this really versatile bag! It ROCKS!!
I'm fine with a fanny pack, but she thinks those are waaaay too dorky. 
when I went to Babies R us to look for it the girl I talked to said that they don't sell bags that are "snobby"...
It IS more expensive at BRU than at travelingtikes.com though...so I feel slightly better. 
) I had really appreciated the bottle holders on either side of my donner bag last summer and I didn't want to give up that little luxury!
