Can someone tell me WHY they are so grossed out by sanitary products in a BIN?

[KateTush]

I know this thread may invite the haves and the have nots of bathroom bins to argue endlessly about it, but what I really want to know is…

…(to the people who DON’T think it’s acceptable to put a tampon/sanitary towel into a bathroom bin): WHY ON EARTH NOT?!?

It’s a bloody bin (pun not intended). In a bathroom. For bathroom rubbish. Which for many women is primarily used sanitary products. I’ve often seen threads where people say it’s disgusting to have to “handle” or “root around for” a friend’s tampon…er…you don’t do either?! You tie a knot in the bin bag, without looking at the contents cos you’re not deeply weird, and chuck it in the outside bin.

Using kitchen bin is one thing, but expecting a guest to put bathroom waste in their handbag next to their phone/snacks/pen/chewing gum/whatever is just so unreasonable it boggles my mind. Even more so if you have a bathroom bin but think that this particular use of it is unreasonable.

I’m wondering who I’ve offended in my life by using their bathroom bin in this way - it would never occur to me that there was an unsaid rule about sanitary products not going in there when it seems to be the main purpose of the bin being there in the first place.

I’m sorry, but I’ve also got to ask all the handbag smugglers/hosts who expect guests to handbag smuggle - are you generally a bit uptight about hygiene and bodily functions or perhaps periods in general? And again, how is it more gross to BIN something that PUT IT IN YOUR HANDBAG.

A bin is a bin. It’s for rubbish. That includes used sanitary products (obviously unless a recycling bin). A handbag is for putting everyday and useful items of an inoffensive nature in.

yup. Used mooncups for at least 10 years now, probably longer, so do most (probably all) friends, this was totally off my radar by now.

GCRich8 - ''And if there isn't a bag within the bin then there is still no wrapping necessary''*

Oooh no!
Unwrapped used sanitary products into an unlined bin??! In someone elses house? 😳😳No no no!

Anyway, am not grossed out by blood etc, just a bit surprised by the bathroom bin concept still having a purpose.

I wrap them in loo roll and put them in the bathroom or kitchen bin (if using downstairs loo).

🤷🏻‍♀️

Another thought, all the people putting used san pro in the outside bin, what does your street look like after bin day? Our bin men drop refuse all over the place.

Use period pants, then no arguments :D

It looks clean and tidy. Unless it's blowing a gale and the paper recycling bins got knocked over.

Complain if they leave it looking a mess. If it's because bins are over-full, they can refuse to empty them.

@Nickwinkle, you take them out of the immediate vicinity to a larger garbage bin with mixed waste. You fully complete the job. Yes it’s disgusting. Your mother should have taught you this.I’m sorry you found the learning curve cruel, but she did you a favor.

I think it's nuts to have a bathroom bin and not expect female guests to use it for their period stuff if needed. What if a woman on her period visits and has no handbag or anything to put it inside? I'm not shy about being on my period but wouldn't really enjoy having to ask my host what to do with my used sanitary towel.

3 of us using sanpro in this house (4 in a couple years). We have these fablittlebag.com/ for heavier days when the wrapper isn't enough. Bathroom bin is emptied every other day.

I have never been embarrassed to use my dad's bin for them. At the end of the day, men know women and girls have periods ffs, it's not new information. I've been to male friends and used their bathroom bins. Then again I'm quite happy to discuss periods with males and females alike. I don't get the whole embarrassment people seem to feel about them

This is sarcasm, right?

She puts it wherever she she got the fresh product from. I would be pissed off if a random put a used condom in my bin or a tampon. Or vomited in a bucket and left the bucket in the bathroom. It's not shameful to ejaculate, or have a period, or throw up but it's not my job to do the clean up.

Do none of you bin haters floss your teeth?! I put my dental floss in the bathroom bin every night. Can imagine trekking down a flight of stairs in the dark to put it in the kitchen bin every night.

It’s gross in that it’s disposable single use plastic wrapped in more disposable single use plastic, but at least it hasn’t been flushed. The period part should be the least of our worries on that account.

I have a bathroom bin. But it doesn’t get used much, and it’s emptied infrequently. Loo roll goes down the loo, all our toiletries and bottles are refillable from either the huge ones in the cellar or at the shop. Face pads, soap bags and flannels go in the laundry with clothes. Nappies, wipes, period pants and reusable sanitary towels go in the wet bag. Hair clumps from the hairbrushes go out for the birds. There’s not much left to put in the bin.

So when you have your period, when you change your tampon/sanitary towel in the middle of the night, or first thing in the morning, you put your shoes on and go outside the house to throw it in your outside bin? Even if it's 3am?

To avoid throwing your own used tampon in your own bathroom bin?

A wrapped, used sanitary towel is not really the same thing as a bucket of vomit, is it?

Are people really this weird?

@MissyCooperismyShero I think that’s the thing though, I would say that you can control when you have sex, and you wouldn’t do it while popping round to a mate’s for coffee. If I vomited, I would use the toilet and flush it and clean up anything visible. If I had a used sanitary product, the “clean up” for me would be to put it in the bin. Because it’s a bin. Bins are for waste. Bathroom bins are for bathroom waste. Where’s the “clean up” part for the host? Bins get emptied.

To me, it is disgusting and rude to expect a guest to have to smuggle bin waste in their handbag for literally no rational reason. Sorry to be blunt.

I save being pissed off for when people have done something wrong, personally.

With what you deem to be an ok act of teaching a lesson, I really hope you do not have children. And if you do, with that attitude, I feel so incredibly sorry for them.

We regularly stay at friends'. Not one of them has a bin in the guest bathroom or ds loo.

We often have friends stay here. We do have a bin in our guest bedroom en-suite, but in all the years we have been here, no-one has ever put a used tampon or towel in there. I'd be revolted if they did tbh.

I won’t even bring my menstruating vagina into someone else’s little bathroom.

I have no words. I wouldn’t even leave the shunning cave for seven days.

@DockOTheBay I have been thinking about period pants for DD but have a genuine question... surely you'd need to change them during the day? How does that work - it must be a hassle having to half-undress to do so? How do you carry round the used pair of pants if you're out (ie stuff them in a little plastic bag)?

@ArtVandalay

What is there to be revolted by? Is this because you go through your bins and inspect the contents with your bare hands? Don’t you just tie a know in the bag and get rid, like every other time a bin gets emptied? I’m genuinely so interested to know.

Same here. It doesn’t bother me in the least, as long as it’s wrapped up and put in a lidded bin.

@stuntbubbles 😆