Noisy sanitary product wrapping

[hellsandwich]

AIBU to expect the manufacturers to come up with something that doesn't make it sounds as though I'm opening and packet of fucking sweets in the toilet?

[Cauliflowersneeze1]

no , I hate it too

[youareallbonkers]

It would be better if they included a few sweets in the package IMO :)

[butterbeerfloat]

Haha this is something I always thought too, although I don't care anymore.

When I was younger I was mortified over it and recall one time trying so so carefully to open up a tampon without making it crackle, then managed to drop it and it went rolling out the cubicle to join the ladies at the sink

Now I think fuck it, we all bloody use them!

[hellsandwich]

The toilet at work is on a corridor - lots of people traffic. I'm considering a mooncup, but wonder if the big "SUCK" it makes when changing it might be more embarrassing?

[butterbeerfloat]

Omg yes youareallbonkers

[Bulbasaur]

I'm pretty sure most women know that it's the sound of sanitary items and not your eating a baggie of chips in the toilets.

I personally like playtex tampons, they just quietly pop out the top.

And of course, here's an obligatory MN mooncup post. Mooncups make no noise.

[hellsandwich]

Well I've been using them for over 30 years and they don't seem to have improved. It still bothers me. Rather inconsiderate I think.

[Bulbasaur]

Dammit, you beat me to it hellsandwich!

[moxon]

There is a brand that wraps in a sort of thin material that makes no noise, but tbh I have long since given up caring. We bleed. The wrapper is the least of all those issues.

[hellsandwich]

Bulb See post above. The toilet is on a main corridor. It's not a room full of cubicles, but a single toilet (old building). Similarly embarrassing if I have a wee and a trump accidentally comes out.

[Mammanat222]

Yep, a massive annoyance!

I always feel so self conscious, which is ludicrous as I am a 34 year old woman FFS!

[PourquoiTuGachesTaVie]

This was something that worried me greatly when I was a teenager. I used to wait until someone flushed the chain and quickly ripped the packaging open while the noise from the flush was going.

[Bulbasaur]

Maybe I'm being daft, but... if it's just a bathroom with no cubicles, are you sure people can hear you? Or even something so soft as a wrapper noise?

I think if people are listening to your bathroom noises, you have bigger problems than the noises you make.

[HouseBaelish]

But, but at least if you're taking time and there's a tell tale rustle it stops people thinking you're having a poo

I like Lilets. Awesome and such soft wrapping.

[IAmAPaleontologist]

I use cloth when not using a cup. No rustling. I ordered some new ones that arrived today and there were sweets in the box .

Unless your period is heavy then you would probably find you don't have to empty a cup at work anyway so no sucking issues. Besides which if you break the seal correctly then it doens't happen anyway.

[BertieBotts]

The mooncup isn't that loud at all. It's completely obvious if you hear someone changing a pad/tampon but I think you'd be hard pressed to hear a mooncup noise.

I think in that kind of setup it's actually harder to hear what's happening inside the toilet because people are making noise/concentrating on whatever they are doing as they walk past. Is there an extractor fan? All the places I've worked where there is a single toilet have had an extractor fan which is pretty noisy.

[hellsandwich]

Well I've heard people in the men's loo when I've passed it, and they have the same set up as the ladies, so assume people can hear it. I know I shouldn't care, but - well - I do and I think it's the manufacturers' fault!

[BertieBotts]

Oh that's a point, the lillets pad wrappings are quiet.

[hellsandwich]

[TheHappinessTrap]

That made me giggle OP! Every month, "rrrrrrip!" to take the old one off and "rustlefustle" to unpackage the new one. I don't mind unless there are young women/girls in the public toilet as they can be prone to shock and amusement by these things.

[Poolomoomon]

I've always thought this too! I'm usually lucky enough that the toilet is completely empty when I change it or someone is using the hand drier so it masks the noise . I do pull it as slowly as possible to make as little noise as possible though. It's silly really, we all use them!

[Selks]

Why be self conscious about this though? Seriously, it's a non-issue, surely.

[hellsandwich]

Selks - I don't know. I'm trying to think of something comparable so as to justify it. Um.

[AWombWithoutAFoof]

Surely the solution is to wrap your sanitary goods in cling film every morning. You can then be thrifty and take it home again to use for tomorrow's butties.

[hellsandwich]

Womb