AIBU to not have 'guest' sanitary protection in bathroom?

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Long story short, a relatively new friend and teenage daughter visited I later received a text

'Thank you for having us, unfortunately you have caused xxx embarrassment as she could not find the guest tampons and had to come home with toilet paper in her underwear'

Is this a thing? I have never once thought before that I should have pads/tampons in the bathroom, easily accessed by guests

My mum was great and I loved her a lot but we never talked about periods (I bought my own stuff from pocket money/paper round money) and now I'm wondering if this is just another thing I was never told about and feel a bit stupid to be honest

Does everyone else have things available in the bathroom for guests? I'm thinking about other bathrooms I've been in and can't say I've noticed this before?

YABVVVU! I always have an assortment of tampons in my guest bathrooms, tastefully arranged in order to be discreet and not to embarrass possible male guests. Like the ones in the pictures.

I have a photo of me standing in front of that aurynne :o

A tampon chandelier? How err useful.

Bit of a fire risk though.

I have had a very stressful morning (way above the stress induced by finding my hostess hasn't provided guest sanpro or a penis beaker) & I am now crying with laughter. Yes please move this to classics.

If one more poster says 'twee basket' without proper footnoted references

Do you put your effing bog roll in a twee frigging basket? No!

My mum puts toilet roll in a basket!! (No sanpro though)

And my grandmother put toilet roll under a doll wearing a green knitted dress

And can we all PLEASE stop this nonsense that a full selection of wings/non wing, applicator/non applicator, different absorbencies and brands must be provided to make the exercise worthwhile and it is therefore unworkable?

Given the choice between wedging a handful of loo paper against one's fanjo or using a thoughtfully provided generic midweight sanitary towel, under what circumstances is any passably sane woman going to get sniffy and opt for the toilet roll?

Anyone absolutely desperate for wings or applicators will have to have a bash at fashioning their own, blue-peter style from things they can find in the bin.

There are some impressively determined loons on this thread.

As a devoted mooncup user in a household full of males, my last box of tampons in the household bathroom gathered a thick layer of dust until dh chucked them out, saying "nobody is going to want to your old tampons. Why on earth have you left them in the boys' bathroom?" Clearly he needs training in menstrual etiquette. He should have put a little ribbon round the box with a 'please help yourself - smiley face' notice.

Perhaps I should ensure each of my teenage sons carry a few spare tampons along with their tissues, condoms and cash just in case any of their female friends get caught short?

Do you think they have guest tampons with HRH embossed on the side in Buckingham Palace? My guess is the Queen expects you to bring your own.

My friend used to roll towels, tie them with ribbons and stack them in a wicker picnic hamper in the bathroom. I used to think it was the height of sophistication but now I realise it was horribly twee.

Her husband wore a purple velvet suit to their wedding. He looked like a Time Lord. They were a bit pretentious.

Actual towels, not sanitary towels, btw. Gauche as I was, I'd have known that was naff.

I wouldn't mind marrying someone who looked like Matt Smith a Time Lord, even if they stacked their towels in a horribly twee manner.

Purple Velvet suit, did he work for Cadburys?

My first sanitary protection, was a thin elastic belt thing, that you attached a towel too (sort of like a towel suspender belt). I wore it a couple of times, before making my mum buy me sticky pads.

Compared to the towel suspender belt, toilet roll was infinitely preferable...

If I was caught without a tampon, I'd always go for the loo roll in knickers option before I rummaged around in someone elses cupboards. And then I'd go and ask them if they had any sanpro. Problem sorted with no need for ostentatiously (or otherwise) displayed products cluttering up the bathroom.

And it's very ill-mannered to "look" for anything in another person's house. You ask - you don't assume.

Mathanxiety, (nice name btw), a wad of loo roll would've lasted longer than a regular tampon as I would've put so much down there, I'd have been walking like John Wayne. I wouldn't have needed to however, as I would always have had my own tampons with me.

i seem to remember that the purple velvet suit was Jon Pertwee - did he look like him? [horrified]

That was the one. A morning suit - so tailcoat fastened with frogging at the waist. White ruffled shirt.

When you're at risk of going down the twee route. STOP and think.

WHAT WOULD ANTHEA TURNER DO?

When you're at risk of going down the twee route. STOP and think.

WHAT WOULD ANTHEA TURNER DO?

WHAT WOULD JASON STATHAM DO?

...fixed that for you.

I dud comment about the bin issue. If only physically possible, every loo shod have a bin. Actually I've been rather lucky to find that is the case in something like 90% of loos.

Of course every loo/bathroom should have a bin - where else are you going to put the used bogrolls/sanpro coverings?

Oh buggrit. I'm going to have to move house, so that I've got room for the tampon chandelier.