to think it would be common courtesy and common sense to that? possibly tmi.

[someonestolemynick]

To put a bin next to the toilet.

This makes me irrationally angry: My job involves going to people's houses. Normally I will be with them between a and 4 hours, so occasionally I will have to use their toilet.
Today I'm on my period and have quite heavy flow. I was on a longer job (3hrs) and bled through my tampon. I discovered that there was no von in the bathroom. Just to be clear. I try to avoid having to change my tampon in client's houses by changing in public loos, McDonald's or Starbucks and carry scented plastic bags with me tobwrap the offender in when I have to do it at someone's house.
So, anyway, i was in the very awkward position of having a soaked tampon and no way of getting rid of it. I was in charge of a very young child - so no way of nipping out to the bins or a pub (to use the loo) and ended up stemming the flow with toilet paper and going back to working with their dc for another hour.
I will not flush a tampon down the loo because I don't want to block the clients toilet.

So, aibu to ask you all to provide a bin for female visitors?

Onwards that's horrible. People don't realise that just because it doesn't affect them it isn't affecting someone in the next street etc.

Rudeelf, no of course I don't. There is no way I would use a bin in a communal room, even in my own home. That would be foul.

hesterton, would you SERIOUSLY leave a used tampon behind in someone elses house????

Well yes. Not on their pillow or anything, but in their bin. Which they will be tipping into their outside bin soon anyway. And it's it like they will have to touch my tampon.

Rudeelf, no of course I don't. There is no way I would use a bin in a communal room, even in my own home. That would be foul.

So how do you dispose of it?

Not on their pillow or anything, but in their bin.

It was utterly vile.

I don't have any issues with anyone using my bin, by the way. I have a bin because it's convenient for nose wipe tissues, baby wipes etc and don't really care if people use it! Surprised some mind, but I don't agree that people should have a bin just in case a visitor needs it. The visitor should really be a bit more prepared.

I would have no problem with women using my bin

But expecting other people to accommodate you ? No. I am not that entitled. Other people's homes may be where you ply your trade but they are not workplaces as such and they have no responsibility to you

It might be there is no other menstruating woman in the house. They have no obligation to consider your needs, they really do not. Although I would.

It is not ok to fail to cater for menstruating women.

This such a strange comment. Why should I cater for anyone in my private home? I'll arrange it how I want, thanks

Also what's so terribly awful and embarrassing about periods that you can't wrap your tampon in loo roll and put it in a kitchen bin??! What's the big deal?

vintage I think you might be winding us up with your 'they float out to sea' comment but, just in case any flushers are reading this....

Three times a year I have to call Dynorod out to open up the manhole cover in my back garden and unblock the mass of tampons, towels, nappies and wipes that have clogged the pipe junction. My house is at the end of the street and the junction where the sewage pipe joins the next street's pipe is a bottleneck. So, for your convenience of flushing your tampons 'upstreet', I spend a lot of money, have to take a day off work to let Dynorod in, have the stench of raw sewage floating round my garden and kitchen, and have a non-functioning toilet. USE A BIN!

I would hate for anyone to visit me and feel the need to carry used tampons around in their handbag because there's nowhere to put it. That's gross.

I am baffled by this.

Why on earth would someone using your bathroom bin make you furious? Isn't that what it's there for? It's not like you root through the bin when you empty it. I just grab the lining, tie it up and sling it out.

Fair enough it's rude (and gross) if there is no liner in it as someone is going to have to fish it outta there. But I'm not sure one used tampon in a nappy sack or bag, in a liner is as offensive as some people are making out.

As for rude...God forbid a woman should menstruate and have to dispose of her used tampon!

I would go for kitchen bin or, failing that, outside bin if there isn't a bathroom bin. Wouldn't have it swimming around in my handbag - ick!

Lol, has this thread been started by FabLitttleBag ?

I'm not providing a bin for guests so there.

If I have to dispose of sanpro then I put it in bog roll or the plastic cover from a sanitary towel or a piece of paper then I dispose of it later. If I remember I use little ziploc bags or sandwich bags which cost a fraction on the FabLitttleBags.

Mostly I use a mooncup.

No need for fancy bags. Nappy sacks do the job just fine.

It is funny that a handbag is deemed by some as a more suitable place for a used tampon than someone's bin.

Zoe you have issues!
Why do people use expensive bags rather than nappy sacks? Did someone really say they were £1.90 PER BAG?

Kandy I seriously think it has. People are recommending them, when surely the cheapest, thinnest bags you can get or just (shock horror) loo roll.

Zoe do you use hygiene bins in public toilets?

I used to be a flusher (I was ignorant). Then I flushed maybe 2 small tampons at my mum's house, blocked the drains, caused the drains to overflow her yard and the plumber who lived over the road had to come and unblock them. Apparently it was fairly obvious that a tampon was the culprit.

That was embarrassing enough, but now he's my mum's boyfriend.

Don't flush

(PS carry scented nappy bags with you when you're on and at clients' houses?)

I didn't used to have a bin in my downstairs loo because it's right next to the kitchen and it's all of three steps (and two doors) to put used sanpro into the bin. Which is fine for grown adults, but now I have a teenage daughter with teenage friends visiting, I understand that those three steps with a tampon wrapped in bog roll are the Most Embarrassing Thing Ever In The History Of The World!!!

Sorry, just repeated a bunch of other people's advice! Didn't RTWT

Yes, we have teen girls visiting the DSs, and I would hate them to feel they had to walk around the house with used tampons, or go home with them in their handbag.

Was worth it to hear about your embarrassment :o

I never ever understand people with downstairs loos who have no bin. My brother and very posh SIL have one. It has usually minimal amount of toilet roll, silly heart shape mirrors placed randomly over a wall, no proper towel and terrible flush. I may sound bleugh ... I have a proper bin plus a stack of toilet rolls, bleach, toilet duck, air freshener, hand sanitiser etc etc, I'm not posh, but I've hated being on my period and trying to go upstairs at brothers and wife shouted , don't go upstairs we have a downstairs Loo. Grr, but you so don't accommodate visitors. Except for clique mates☹️

Worth repeating I think Eggbert.

vintage really? you don't see the problem with flushing tampons and them ending up in rivers/sea/on beaches rather than landfill?