... to not understand what panty liners are for.

[woollyideas]

I just don't get it. Either it's TOTM and you need to use something, or you don't need anything.

(Feeling disgusted having just emptied about 40 of the damned things - used but clean if you know what I mean - from the bathroom bin* and need a rant.)

Oh, the waste! The plastic! The bleached paper! The pointlessness of it all...

*deposited by language student...

[Goodynuff]

problem solved link
I am pro recyling, but anti picking used q tips out of the bottom of the bin

[woollyideas]

at foreverondiet because she puts loo rolls and shampoo bottles in the bin!

Don't you recycle?

[BadaBingBang]

YABU. She is entitled to use PL, and you should use a bin liner so you don't have to scrape them off the sides of your bin. At least she isn't flushing them and potentially blocking your plumbing. Do you expect her to carry them in her hand to the main bin? In someone else's house??

[Tortoiseonthehalfshell]

Oh my God, get a recycled brown paper bag and use it to line the bloody bin with, and then get on with your day.

Ew ew EW.

[TheHumanCatapult]

quick one where is your language student from ?.As that may explain why in bin unwrapped

some areas in greece you can not even put toilet paper in the loo when been for a poo you have to dispose of in a bin .and do te walk so everyone knows what you have been to the loo for

[ZacharyQuack]

Does she only have one pair of knickers?

[Crazybit]

Was there really 40? You should line the bin or leave some nappy sacks for when she is on her period anyway.

[CointreauVersial]

I have very heavy periods and it's the last line of defence. Otherwise, I risk flooded knickers.

I roll them up and wrap them in tissue. The bathroom bin goes out daily when AF is in town.

[biscuitmad]

Put a bin liner in the bin then you wont be peeling them off the bin in future.

I use a pantyliner every day, not by choice. I hate having to wear tena lady but I have no choice. Maybe she is in the same boat. A lot of women have problems down below and its stops in smelling get my drift??

[foreverondiet]

I use them during my period - i have a mirena and so bleeding is very light. I used them during pregnancy combination of pelvic floor weakness and increased discharge.....

WRT the bin, she was unreasonable to put them in the bin without a bag, I'd never do that even in my own house - as I'd be mortified if my cleaner had to deal with it eg when I was pregnant I put a nappy sack in the bin and loosely tie it so could open again and put a few in. A used tesco bag would suffice. I would fold up a few supermarket bags and but them at the bottom of the bin, and ask her to line the bin with one if she is going to use for anything other than empty loo roll or bottles of shampoo.

I have read that women on the continent use them more than us Brits....

[TheLadyEvenstar]

trust me my link is not TMI but quite funny

[TheLadyEvenstar]

- this is what the are for

[CocoPopsAddict]

YABU not to put a bin bag in your bathroom bin.

[piprabbit]

Well, this is why Always think we should be using daily panty liners.

To get through 40 liners in a week, the student must be changing them almost 6 times a day - that's every 4 hours . She must be thinking of nothing else expect when it's time to change again.

[cantstandthenoise]

not sure what you don't understand about them?

I have very light periods and they are sufficient - I don't need a sanitary towel and find tampons uncomfortable at the end or beginning of a period.

I also occasionally use them if I'm not sure if my period is about to start and I'm wearing light coloured clothes (not that regular with my periods so never quite sure when it'll start).

[maristella]

Thank you OP for reminding me to put the bins out

And please line your bathroom bin!

[LieInsAreRarerThanTigers]

Robins is that what the OP should say to the language student?

[LieInsAreRarerThanTigers]

To avoid plastic, you can line a bin with a sheet of newspaper, like I do in the compost bin.

[2rebecca]

mooncups that sometimes leak? heavy days of your period when you don't want to risk blood coming through your tampon and onto your pants and clothes? women who get stress incontinence?
I can think of loads of reasons some women would use sanitary towels/ pant liners. Mine go in the bathroom bin which is lined with a plastic bag, you can get biodegradable bags in a roll from Tesco.
I wouldn't want to wear one every day, and suspect some of the "juicy vagine" brigade could do with wearing skirts stockings and cotton gusset knickers or french knickers so it's less humid in there, but each to his own.
Continence problems are a big problem for older women though, many of whom aren't keen on surgeons fiddling with their bits.

[allegrageller]

I do use binliners but the recycled ones. And only for essential waste that can go to landfill. I get through a hell of a lot more kitchen roll than 1 roll a year but I've got it down to about 10 I think (not great but could be worse) by deliberately using washable cloths for everything but the vilest messes.

I'd be fucking horrified to find 40 unbloodied panty liners in my bin and not cos of the 'feminine hygiene' aspect of it.

[allegrageller]

auntiepickle, for that reason I can understand their use, fair enough.

[AuntiePickleBottom]

life saver atm....hay fever + a weak pelvic muscle + total hell.

[SuePurblybilt]

I am like nutty bin bag lady - no sandwich bags, bin liners, as little plastic as possible. That's why I don't have a bathroom bin - there's nowt to go in it. I don't buy kitchen roll either.

So I get you woolly

[heleninahandcart]

I am vair vair impressed by one roll of kitchen towel

[bonkers20]

I don't use a liner. I put sanitary stuff in a nappy sack and then in the bin then transfer to main outside bin every day or so.