to have my tampons on display?

[ElleGrace]

Hi there,
This is actually my first post on here (despite me being an avid mumsnetter for the past 5+ years!) so bare with!
Basically, OH and I have recently moved in to a new place together and are having a ridiculous rather silly debate over whether or not it is socially acceptable to have (unused) tampons on display in the bathroom.
To my way of thinking, anyone who enters our home will be perfectly aware that I, a woman, have a menstrual cycle and therefore use some form of feminine product in my bathroom. The only hidden storage we have in the bathroom is on the opposite side of the room to the toilet, which is an inconvenience to get to. Therefore, I have a glass jar of tampons on the shelf right next to the toilet, alongside many other glass jars filled with cotton buds, cotton pads, candles etc. IMO, there is no difference in seeing a tampon in the bathroom than seeing something like a cotton bud.
On the other hand, my OH argues that although people are aware I use tampons, they don't really need to see proof of it. He compared it to having a jar of condoms in the bathroom.
I understand this is a really ridiculous argument, but it really got me thinking as to whether I should really have to hide my feminine products in my own home, or as to whether I'm simply being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn.
I'd love to hear your opinions on this trivial matter, and I'd also like to know whether your products are hidden from view too.

I would not care at all.

For some reason I'm feeling a it squeamish about unwrapped ones being in a jar, though - hygeine perhaps? But wrapped ones would be okay. Unwrapped is probably fine too, really, I'm not sure why I'm less keen on that idea.

We have a little flowerpot of condoms in the bedroom. It would be in the bathroom no issue except, well, you don't need them in the bathroom!

WTF at displaying tampons being "extroverted behaviour".
I'm a total introvert and I couldn't give a fuck who sees my box of Superdrug own-brand non-applicator.

but it's quick to type and all inclusive Hester - YABU!

I share a flat with my male partner and a male flat mate. My tampons are on the window sill above the toilet.

I would say 95% of guests here are male and not one has ever commented on it, nor would I expect them to.

It's a clean unused tampon in a wrapper, an item used by millions of women daily, hardly offensive.

I've never understood women who get all embarrassed if a wrapped unused tampon falls out of their handbag either.

I would be tempted to respond to this by hanging them from light shades and curtains.
And only then agree to "compromise" by having them only in the bathroom.

I have a Lego brick box - goes in the cupboard but comes out when I need them and sits on the windowsill as you can't reach the cupboard from the loo. DH doesn't mind - think he appreciates the warning! All my regular guests know ehere the box of tricks is and I know where theirsare, too. All been there!

hester - honest I was only using the shortened version as quick to type and all inclusive too... there are worse words to use!

OnlyLovers whether it bothers him or not,..her DH may think moving them without her say so is out of order. He is not a dictator,..he is just someone who would prefer OP not to keep the tampons on show.
Not moving them does not mean he is not bothered. If he did that OP would probably be on here accusing him of being controlling and everyone would be saying LTB.
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When I was living alone in my early 20s I used to have them in original packaging on bathroom shelf, not hidden away at all, didn't think anything of it until a friend commented. Now I live with DH I keep them in a discreet zip-up wash-bag on a shelf near the loo, though wash-bag has been stored in cupboard since start of pregnancy! However, I keep a box of pads inside bathroom cabinet for female visitors (I assume they will look in cabinet if they need one).

I think many men feel a bit uncomfortable with fem hygiene products on display, i know my dad would be embarrassed!

I want mine in a jar under a crochet dress dolly now.

I washable Sanpro and people who come here sometimes see them on the radiator or washing line.
Glass jar sounds subtle and classy.
Love the idea of the condom jar next to it with labels.

Sorry I think that's horrible! The argument about there being 'no shame in it' is a red herring. For me it's about 'modesty', something people seem to think is old fashioned and to be laughed at.

I don't feel the need to tell everyone I'm a menstruating woman! That's my business. I keep mine next to the toilet but in a wicker drawer. My husband knows what's in there but I don't need to advertise it to anyone else.

StrumpersPlunkett.. have my first yeeeeeeeeuuuuwww !!

I don't think I'd have tampons displayed in a glass jar, cotton wool ball styley. I'm definitely a 'hide them away' kind of girl.

I washable Sanpro and people who come here sometimes see them on the radiator

Grim.
Not because it's shameful, but its unpleasant to see underwear, socks, knickers or any other personal garments drying on a radiator.

Mrsross- I agree. I don't really wnat people to know that I use a certain brand of tampon, whether I have a regular or extra heavy flow. But only in the same way that I dont want to advertise the fact that my OH has athlete's foot or I use special cream for my cracked heels.

Neither do I leave bank statements or credit card bills lying around for visitors to see.

Some things are personal.

I suspect my rather prudish DP would secretly prefer me to hide LadyItems. However, he knows better than to suggest this out loud.

BillyBigChin men getting the vapours over it

I'm afraid anyone who enters the Inferiority Complex has to put up with pants. And socks. And bras. All of them drying on racks in the kitchen.

motherinferior- each to their own.

I like my surroundings with a little more aesthetic quality. I certainly wouldn't subject my visitors to my grundies drying on the radiator.
Sounds like a grotty student flat.

I don't want to see a box of anything too practical when I am in the room unless I am using it, that includes athlete's foot powder, shaving foam ot tampons

Exactly.

I should probably start my own thread, but I bulk-bought a load of always sanitary towels before I realised that they were evil and stank like the devil's own air freshener.

Would I be a terrible terrible host to put them on display in any bathroom that may be used by guests in need, in the hope that the bastard things get some use?

To be clear, it's the horrible quality of the things that I'm ashamed of, not the display itself.

I think its good to have them on show, i have been caught by surprise once or twice at friends houses and it was handy to just grab one!

I don't get why anybody would be bothered by a box/jar/whatever of sanitary products!

I have mine in our en suite just when I need them. They're not on display the rest of the time!!! So YABU, I think...

Clothes have to dry somewhere. Tumble-driers are evil buggers for the environment. They're on racks, not radiators. My house is actually quite nice. As are the pants.

FuckYouChris - you could hand them as little farewell gifts to departing guests? The adult equivalent of a party bag?

How embarrassed can someone get in a locked bathroom on their own?