To wonder why Tampax bother including the purple ones in their selection boxes?

[Nancy66]

Does anyone ever use them? I always end up with dozens of them...

Personally i could do with a couple more green ones, a few less yellows and none of the purple.

Which one is purple?

LOL @ a tampax selection box

the weeny thin ones....

I've always wondered the same thing!! The ones for 'lighter flow'

I'd need about 8 of those

Selection boxes sound like something you get at christmas. FWIW, i often use mini towards the end of my period.
Could you save them for your dd to use or donate them to a friend with a young teenager.

Are the purple ones the very light flow? I used to mostly use them and hardly ever they heavier ones because of my PCOS. Then I started taking Metformin and started to have normal periods, which was a bit of a shock to the system, but I still used the purple ones for the last day or so.

Now I use a Mooncup which is fab. I left it at home once when travelling and had to buy and use tampons instead, it was awful.

Like waving a pencil in the Albert Hall.

If you're on Mirena, purple ones suffice.

They are for your daughters Barbie, you are not meant to use them yourself...

I agree, get a Mooncup - problem solved and you'll save loads of money.

Buy a box of yellow and a box of green and sod the selection boxes.

That way you will use up all tht you buy and can top up on Yellow or green as necesasary.

I bet it works out cheaper too.

Are the purple ones like the purple Quality streets (the cornish pastie shaped ones with a big nut inside)
They are my favourite

Can't do the Mooncup thing...too squeamish.

My ideal box would include a few orange ones too..

i use Lil-lets (non-applicator) as opposed to Tampax, but i always used the Mini ones right up until i had DC, and now i use Regular. Just looking at the Supersize ones makes my fanny wince

Oh something makes me think you are not talking about chocolates

Genehunt, when we were on holiday in Australia some years ago, I asked my DH to get me some super plus, he came home with a box of regular and a box of super . When I asked him to explain this extraordinary choice he said they hadn't had SP on the shelves and he didn't like to ask teh assistants as they were all female.
I asked what I was supposed to do with them, his answer floored me. Use one of each.

Need the super plus extra these days, and often a nappy(st) as well. Sigh. Being on the pill was great...

I always need the purple ones- go from green to purple in 36 hours usually

Awww GeneHunts Mistress. Is your OH not very well endowed then?

@ Jason

Tampax selection box . Now there's a treat for that hard-to-buy-for relative at Christmas...

Yeah but there's always the hard caramel one that no one likes (for very good reasons in the case of tampax. Very low absorbancy).

The coffee cream of the sanitary protection world.

I do quite like the thin purple ones

Am I the only person who doesn't know what a "mooncup" is? Please enlighten me!

I want the purple ones, but I can't find any in my local shops! As Staranise wrote, if you're on Mirena, that's all you need. (and it's a helluva lot better that my eight days of super-heavy flow pre-dcs)

Never tried a mooncup, but might look into it (figuratively speaking...).