Remember the first time you bought dips?

[Outdoorlife]

I was just thinking of the first time I bought diapers at the store and had to chuckle.

I would casually browse the aisle trying not to stare too long at all fun things I wanted to wear. Then I had to talk myself up for a week just to commit to the grab and go operation. But what if someone I knew saw me? Does the person at the register know they are for me? The anxiety was enormous. But just s quick as I went in, I was out and on my way for a fun evening.

Just kinda funny how easy it was in the end. Better yet, thank you to self checkout and online shopping.

How was the first time for you all?

 

[dpcare]

what kind of dips, like chip dips? I like French onion

 

[sbmccue]

I've never bought dips. I've never used tobacco in any form.

Seriously, my first time was in the summer of 1982, when adult disposables were still quite a novelty. This was also a time when credit card receipts were handwritten and processed on a mechanical device. I still remember that the lady at the pharmacy wrote 'Diapers' on the charge slip and handed it to me to sign.

Incidentally, if anyone wants to see how far we've come in 40 years, try looking for vintage 1982 adult disposables. Using them was an experience akin to sitting in a paper towel.

 

[blaincorrous]

Yep. Rode my bike to a drug store and picked up Goodnites with my allowance. It was nerve wracking. I slipped them in my backpack. Felt like I was transporting drugs, in retrospect.

 

[GoodnitesXL21]

I was just thinking of the first time I bought diapers at the store and had to chuckle.

I would casually browse the aisle trying not to stare too long at all fun things I wanted to wear. Then I had to talk myself up for a week just to commit to the grab and go operation. But what if someone I knew saw me? Does the person at the register know they are for me? The anxiety was enormous. But just s quick as I went in, I was out and on my way for a fun evening.

Yep. Rode my bike to a drug store and picked up Goodnites with my allowance. It was nerve wracking. I slipped them in my backpack. Felt like I was transporting drugs, in retrospect.

My experience was an exact combo of both.

Now I order my main diapers online and get a box of Goodnites at the store just like any other item.

 

[bigtoddler96]

It's diapers, not dips.

 

[Outdoorlife]

And here I was thinking I was using ABDL lingo. Haha no worries if you want to reminisce about dips, I am not going to stop you. It’s almost lunch time for me and I could go for some fondue to dip things in

All seriousness though, has anyone else heard someone refer to diapers as dips, or is it just something with the folks I talk to.

 

[LifesAB]

Yep. Rode my bike to a drug store and picked up Goodnites with my allowance. It was nerve wracking. I slipped them in my backpack. Felt like I was transporting drugs, in retrospect.

Hah that sounds all too familiar, for me with the added dread of coming across someone you know whilst checking out. 😅

 

[PaddedInHaslet]

I was maybe 21 or 22 years old. I remember thinking about it all day at work that it was finally going to be the day I buy myself some Depends. After work, I went to the Walmart on my way home. Walked over to the Depends aisle, took a deep breath and picked up the package of depends protection with tabs. I’m sure my face was redder than red, but I made my way to the cashier, paid for them without making any eye contact, taking them to my car and putting them in my back pack so I could sneak them to my room. Luckily nobody was home when I got there so I was able to easily take them to my room and hide them. Good times. I used them the next couple of nights, but then I became super ashamed and tossed the rest one morning.

 

[messydiaper]

Podcasts about ABDL tend to abbreviate diapers to "dips." I don't like it personally, but language is an evolving thing and it's going to change whether we like it or not.

 

[Hemix]

Of course, it was on December 30th, 2021. I took a bus, and walked for 45 minutes or so to reach a distant mall. I looked for the nappies I wanted, I grabbed them and went to the self-service cash desk.

I went to the restroom and put one on and I remember the alarm rang when I was about leaving the building. I had to open my bag and show its contents, but the warden reaction was completely normal and let me go.

Like I once told, when I got to the bus, I fell in love with them, and I've wore them very often since then 😍

 

[blaincorrous]

I was maybe 21 or 22 years old. I remember thinking about it all day at work that it was finally going to be the day I buy myself some Depends. After work, I went to the Walmart on my way home. Walked over to the Depends aisle, took a deep breath and picked up the package of depends protection with tabs. I’m sure my face was redder than red, but I made my way to the cashier, paid for them without making any eye contact, taking them to my car and putting them in my back pack so I could sneak them to my room. Luckily nobody was home when I got there so I was able to easily take them to my room and hide them. Good times. I used them the next couple of nights, but then I became super ashamed and tossed the rest one morning.

This is more like my resurgence in college. I was aware of pictures of women in diapers on the internet and thought it was just fodder for my sexual expression. Then, when I drove back to college from my hometown, something clicked that I could do that myself. I thought about it the whole trip. As soon as I got home, I went to a drugstore and got Depends Adjustable Underwear. I was likely beet red as well and just as paranoid, since the town isn’t big. The rest they say is yesterday’s garbage.

 

[Vintage84]

Never had the balls to go into a shop buy and some

 

[sbmccue]

And here I was thinking I was using ABDL lingo. Haha no worries if you want to reminisce about dips, I am not going to stop you. It’s almost lunch time for me and I could go for some fondue to dip things in

All seriousness though, has anyone else heard someone refer to diapers as dips, or is it just something with the folks I talk to.

Back in the 1980s, some of the DPF contributors would refer to diapers as 'dipes,' as in, 'She's the one who needs the dipe.'

I don't presume to speak for the OP, but I imagine this is the abbreviation they were after.

 

[Nowididit]

Like it was yesterday.
Heart pounding.
Knees shaking.
Scouting the parking.
Scouting the store.

Ah yeah.....the good old days.
I look back on those times and laugh but at the time it was no laughing matter. I believe my diaper buying excursions were some of the scariest experiences I'd ever had. Definitely got my blood pumping.

 

[Diaperman95]

Glad I am not the only one that refers to them as dips! 😂 My wife and I have referred to my diapers as dips ever since my kid could talk. Just because I never wanted to say in front of her to my wife.. "don't forget to buy me some diapers" My kid will be 27 in April. But Dips was just a short hand when around young ears at our house. It is hard to explain to your kid why she needs to use the potty if she knows you are in diapers as well. I personally don't care what people call them. I Never understood people getting mad because many in the incontinent community refers to them as briefs. I guess maybe if you had no choice but to wear them as a kid growing up or young adult maybe you understand more why many of us don't use the word diaper as easily. I mean we all know they are diapers.

 

[Kittyinpink]

Like it was yesterday.
Heart pounding.
Knees shaking.
Scouting the parking.
Scouting the store.

Ah yeah.....the good old days.
I look back on those times and laugh but at the time it was no laughing matter. I believe my diaper buying excursions were some of the scariest experiences I'd ever had. Definitely got my blood pumping.

I remember those feelings!
I needed at least one diaper , just to dry off all the nervous sweat ! 🤣..

 

[BabyDenise]

I don't remember when but it was a long time ago.

I brought a package of the old Depends 3-tape diapers. I took the package up to the register along with a number of other items.

I was nervous but not overly nervous.

No problem was encountered and the few times I brought diapers in person after that, I really wasn't nervous at all (except if I encountered a person I knew).

 

[Prairie]

I was with my friend at the grocery store and pointed to them on the shelf to have him get them down (Pull Ups, when they were the old Disney Minnie Mouse design in mid 1990s). I had wanted them for so long and was finally getting some. Nowadays I'll go in and grab multiple boxes of Goodnites XL and check out and not bat an eye.

 

[Diaperman95]

I was with my friend at the grocery store and pointed to them on the shelf to have him get them down (Pull Ups, when they were the old Disney Minnie Mouse design in mid 1990s). I had wanted them for so long and was finally getting some. Nowadays I'll go in and grab multiple boxes of Goodnites XL and check out and not bat an eye.

I don't think buying pull ups or diapers for children would be a embarrassing thing at all. I had a baby at age 20 and even as a teenager people would assume it is for another kid. But buying incontinent products was a lot more embarrassing because people could draw the conclusion that they are going on Me.