...to ask a question about who buys your sanpro?

[LadyPlumpington]

TAAT, sort of.

Posters were saying that lots of men buy their wives sanpro and are totally unfazed by the topic. Is that generally the case please?

It's never occurred to me to ask DH to do that, ever, partly because I'm a better judge of what suits me and partly because....well.....he's a MAN. My dad would have been mortified at the very suggestion that he buy such things for his wife or daughters, and in the intensely patriarchal country we lived in, he'd have been looked at very oddly by the pharmacist.

What happens in your house?

I buy them because I do the supermarket shopping, usually online. DH would buy it if asked, but would want specific instructions to get the right kind. He did buy maternity pads while I was in hospital m and in fact bought sanitary pads when I was in hospital with pregnancy complications and was getting irritation from the pads I had.

Whoever happens to be going to the shop.

I think I'd struggle to respect a grown man who was so squeamish about periods that he couldn't cope with buying tampons.

I tend to chuck mine and DDs sanpro in the trolley as I wizz round the supermarket. DH will get them when doing the shopping if I ask. He doesn't know when stocks run low any more than I realise he needs shaving gel etc.

I use a mooncup.
Dh does the supermarket for us and would buy them but would need strict instructions as he tends to buy whatever's in bogof regardless of suitability.

DH will, but only if is end him a picture of the packet so he knows what to get. I think he's bought it once in the past 4 years, 99% of the time I do the shopping.

Whover goes to the shops. Is this even a question?.... If you put your penis/hands/face in it and have seen a baby come out of it, it's not too difficult to pick up some cotton products for it while you buy milk and bread?

DH will get them when he does the weekly shop, if I remember to ask him. Most of the time, though, I forget and so wander up to the local supermarket during my lunchbreak. He had no problems buying me maternity pads after I had given birth.

I got my own before the mirena coil. I don't think DH would have minded. It just never occurred to me to ask him.

Generally it's me because I know when I'm running low. I did have to send do to the shop to get pads last week though when it was too heavy to go out. He doesn't care.

I tend to but it whenever I'm out and o remember. Now DD needs it too, I tend to overstock as she's still trying different brands etc to see what suits her. If I'd ran out I'd stick it on the shopping list and DH would buy it without question. I'd have to give him the precise brand/type though

DP would get them if asked, have sent him out for a thrush treatment before. However I usually just get them myself as he will just grab whatever is closest and I prefer to look for deals/best value!

Similar query to Dutch1e but why is this shopping treated separately from other consumable items / grocery shopping?

i buy it. no DP to do it for me. DM sad face

must ask SIL - I think she buys her own too but I think DB wouldn't be averse to chucking some in the basket at Tescos

As it's generally me who goes to the supermarket it's me that buys it. I think he's bought some tampons once in all the years we've been together and I don't recall him making any kind of a fuss.

Ilove-I shop in Aldi and don't like their San pro do buy else where,I usually get panty liners as I use a moon cup. If I got all my shopping in one place I'd sling them in the trolley along with everything else-or Dh would.

My dad used to buy my mums (and later mine as well) because he was the one who did the supermarket shopping.

I buy mine because I do the shopping. If DH did it, then he'd buy the sanpro. Though I think I'd have to give him a detailed description first. Last time he bought me some after the birth of DS1 he brought home massive Tena lady instead of anything resembling what I'd asked for.

Whoever is going to the supermarket. So far in my life I've asked my step dad, husband and best friend's husband to pick some up for me and all three have obliged!

DH has bought sanpro for me plenty of times, he never considered it a big deal. At first he used to take the empty box to be sure he got the right item.

But he refused to buy condoms when we used them after the children were born. Because he wore a wedding ring, he thought 'people' in our small town local store would think he was cheating on me ('safe sex' vs birth control). Didn't bother him if I bought them though.

We normally do the supermarket shop together and I choose the ones I want then. Sometimes DH pays for the shopping, sometimes I do. He has on occasion bought sanpro for me when I've asked him to, particularly maternity pads, but generally it's done in the big shop.

My DF is very proud of the fact that he managed to buy maternity pads for my mother when she ran out, at some point in the mid 80s. He also bought cystitis medication for Dsis on my wedding day, when she was getting her bridesmaid hairdo done!

I've never heard anyone say 'Sanpro' in rl and yet I read it on mn all the time. I don't say it - I just use the word tampons (and yes, DH would buy them if necessary).

Is sanpro real outside of mn posts? Are people just copying the term because someone else has used it or have I just missed it becoming a thing?

I bought/chose my own. As often as not it went in the supermarket shop. I also bought the condoms for the short time we used them. And for 30 years I have bought the shaving gel and the razor blades!! And the socks and underpants!! :) :)

Husband buys mine without me asking. He checks the cupboard as buys them along with anything else we need.

I call them tampons. I don't know anyone who uses the term 'sanpro'.

DH will happily pick up supplies for me or our two DDs.

I was brought up in a household where periods were absolutely not discussed. My Mum would stingily dole out the pads like they were made of gold and be mortified if I then had a leak. My Dad once flew into a complete frothing rage because I hadn't flushed a pad down the loo properly. Even at 14 I was thinking, "For goodness sake don't be such a dickhead".

I always make sure there is an abundance of sanpro available for the DDs. I put packages in food bank collections too.

I use a mooncup, but before that my DH did by tampons for me sometimes, if I asked, but more often than not because I have such irregular periods I would forget and have to pop out in my lunchbreak from work etc to get them.

Growing up my dad would by san pro for us in the weekly shopping, but it wasnt allowed to be stored in the bathroom, it had to be in out wardrobes preferably hidden underneath clothing, so a visitor wouldnt faint from a shocked sighting of it. We also had to use sanitary towels not tampons, and the thick ones too, because both my sister and my mother got heavy periods and my mother didnt understand that I didn't need the thick ones.

Santitary towels went wrapped up into the bathroom bin, so that my mother knew when we were on our periods, any delays in our cycles meant we got accused of having sex and being pregnant. Sometimes she would open them up to check their was blood on them! Having an irregular cycle meant I was constantly being asked when my last period was and why wasn't I on. Any discharge on knickers also got the you must be having sex talk.

My mother has issues....

My DH comes from a mostly male household where his mother never really mentioned periods, so the first few times I talked about them he was funny about it, but he got over it pretty quickly, mostly I think because I didnt tolerate it.