to use a piece of folded loo roll in place of a panty liner when I don't have one to hand?

[Weirdypants]

Just wondered if I'm alone in doing this, or if it's weird?

Really?! Loo roll instead of a tampon?!

In Ancient Egypt, they used to use greased lambswool (ok) or papyrus...

I have done this too... Not the loo roll tampon mind... Would it not leave...shreds??

I can't I fancy it...better than papyrus though .

The loo-roll trick is very handy for emergencies. Take a few squares (I'll leave you all to judge how many you need...), fold, fold, fold, roll. You need a tight little wad about the size of a non-applicator tampon. Insert! Source a more substantial alternative pretty quickly, it doesn't last that long. And then remove! No shreds.

I must say I have used loo roll quite a few times for this. The only downside, as others have said, is getting it to stay put. I have felt utter dreadwalking along a busy street and feeling a wad of paper making an escape bid up the front of my pants. That's where a big handbag can come in handy - just hold it front of you whilst tucking the offending item back under, mid stride!

Do you know what, I think some things are best kept to yourself. I don't get this need on mumsnet and other forums to relentlessly compare and contrast every single little aspect of your daily life.

Neither do I Emma.

I thought you meant an 'empty' folded loo roll! Then I realised you meant the paper - I need to properly read posts. God knows what crap I spout most days through not reading properly

Maybe that's why we all have hundreds of odd socks.

I did this for the whole of my first period - my family are a bit too uptight about things like periods for me to ask for a lift to the shops to get sanitary towels, and the alternative was a two-mile walk. Other than that it's just been strictly an emergency measure - once when I came on suddenly at uni and once babysitting at a friend's house (two days before I was due on) when I couldn't leave and had no idea where my friend kept her tampons. It's really crap at night though!

I do this at least once during every period.

I have had periods for the last 30 years.

30 x 12= 360

So 360 times, roughly.

Hold on, does that sound right? Have I only had 360 periods in my 41 years?

I should have at least 65 babies by now.

I'm the opposite in that I carry far too many towels and tampons in my bag and one or the other often falls out and it's ALWAYS one that's been in there for months and has gone raggedy, dirty and is falling to bits :(

I've done the loo roll thing and to stop it falling out of my knickers I er.. tucked it between my legs. ahem.

Emma & Bibbity I love these sort of threads. Where else do you get to share the nitty gritty about real life?

I don't care what that says about me :P

Worst experience was stopping over at a male friends house and having to ask for one of his daughter's newborn size nappies to use as a substitute. Couldn't ask his wife, she was upstairs asleep with the baby.

I've been pretty thick skinned in these areas ever since!! and thrice

It's not going to do much good. It will scrunch into a tiny ball, and nothing will really be trapped by it.

It won't do much harm, though, unless you are relying on it.

Ha ha just come back from day out to find out that I'm not weird, or at least if I am, I'm not alone!

Seems I'm actually not nearly ingenious enough.. now I know I can also use loo roll tampon or a sock if necessary.

I love a bit of anonymous oversharing, god bless mumsnet!

Glad to hear I am normal to do this! Would never dare ask anyone about this in RL so thanks Mumsnet!

crazynanna-that happens to me (minute one hemmorage style blood loss.)
Oh my God, am I menopausal!?
That would explain the hairy chin I suppose.

yy Northern, ime it means menopause
I don' have a hairy chin though

Last night I had a similar problem, where I desperately needed to blow my nose (tail end of nasty cold) but had no tissues about my person.

However I had some pantyliners in my bag and so I blew my nose on one of those. It was an act of desperation.

It worked fine (very absorbent) and I don't think anyone saw.

I don't really have a hairy chin!
I'm too young for the menopause! I do have fibroids though. Could that be the reason?

wandrin as long as you didnt put your knickers on your head while you did it I reckon it would pass for a tissue very resourceful

Not at all - haven't we all done it when we've been caught short?

Apart from the delightful time when I was caught short at an airport with nowhere to purchase the necessary, had a reasonably long flight ahead of me and had to ask a random group of women if any of them could help me out.

My mum does this all the time, no idea why she is long past menopause,far to to ask her, but they fall out all the time I am forever picking them up and binning them, god knows where she thinks they go