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

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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?

Zoe, i feel blessed that i don't work with you. There is nothing shameful about a tampon.

However I wouldn't flush a sanitary towel down there or a panty liner. If you choose to use them, you dispose of them.

Really Vintage? I would never have guessed.... Are you wanting a toilet brush bunfight too?

Agree with Buckinbronco, Zoe, you sound pretty intolerable yourself, why on earth are you so hysterical about the use of your bathroom bin?

To answer HOsauciness's question, as someone who is happy for guests to use my bathroom bin, it gets emptied once or twice a day, and washed out with boiling water and vinegar once a week.

Vintage why do you think it's smoke and mirrors? I'm not necessarily suggesting you are causing all the blockages in your area but you can and will be contributing to a much bigger problem. Maybe if it blocked your toilet or drainage within your boundary lines and you have to pay to get it sorted then maybe you would think differently

ZOE HOW DO YOU DISPOSE OF YOUR SANITARY PRODUCTS?

You have no right to do that ever, in someone else's house, without permission.

I have no idea what your parents did to give you such serious issues about tampons and bins zoelife111 but something, somewhere has gone wrong for you to be so upset about a tampon in a bathroom bin.

What about your own children? Are your girls expected to smuggle their tampons out and dispose in a public bin?

Also, whilst you may think they are small in relation to drains, they freaky are not. Most foul drainage is made up of 4" or 6" Osma pipe work. All it takes is a belly or slight misalignment for items to get caught and build up.

I meant really not freaky

neither does tissue.

Get some toilet roll wet and then try to wipe something with it. You will find that it disintegrates almost immediately.

Can't believe the strong reaction to the idea of someone leaving a tampon in your bathroom bin. Presumably you have a lid on the bin so you don't have to see the contents, and there's a bin liner in there which you just pick up, tie and put in the dustbin? No-one's asking you to pick one out and inspect it! I'd be a bit confused if someone went to the trouble of carrying one to my kitchen to squirrel away in the bin there to be honest...

'Disgusting, shameful' - ????!!!!
Are you ashamed of the fact you menstruate, Zoe?
Thank god my mum was a biology teacher and brought me up not to be ashamed of my body. Maybe that's why they don't have a bin in their bathroom....

I have remembered that at my old house I had a Saniflo loo upstairs, down which you really mustn't put anything other than loo roll, so when I had female guests I left out a box of the little scented bags 'just in case'. Having to explain this to people was a bit excruciating, but better that than having to get a plumber out....

Surely that's what a bin is for?
If it was in my house I'm not bothered, I would just empty the bin, and people can help themselves to tampons etc
I tested the fab bags - they're not see through, sealed strip and you can stick it in your handbag until you find a bin
No, I'm not planning to buy them regularly because of the cost but I'm going to keep one or two in my bag for times like when in hospital the other week and no sanitary bin

And why are you not cleaning out your empty shampoo bottle to go in the recycling rather then putting it in the bathroom bin.

I don't know many people with bins in the loo tbh. Maybe none of us have many guests?!

Also, why ate these 'FabLiitleBags' any better than Pop-Ins which have been about since I lived at home?

why would I want a toilet brush bunfight I just said what I don't like in my toilet?

why is rude elf shouting?

As for the pipework then, its clearly not fitted correctly?

I don't understand this thread at all. If I am in someone's house to do a job I expect to use the toilet facilities and for women that includes sanitary protection. It just is part of using the toilet. That doesn't mean to say you have to flush the tampon (although tbf I would as an occasional thing if there was no bin rather than wander through the house with a full tampon). But it does mean it's a perfectly ordinary facility to provide - along with the toilet, a basin and water.

As for being outraged at a guest leaving a tampon in a bin - why so much women hating? Someone can do a poo in your toilet and leave their germs everywhere but a tampon which cannot be flushed has you "enraged"??

I don't have a bathroom bin. Actually I only have a kitchen bin - I've never got round to buying any for the other rooms.

I don't have periods because of my contraception and hadn't even thought about it, although I do have a selection of sanitary products incase anyone should need them, and some disposable pants.

I must get a bin!

But those who are (rightly) not squeamish about their used tampons going in someone else's bin, why would you be squeamish about taking it to another bin? Or putting it in your bag?

Not necessarily, most pipework moves to some degree as it has to flex with ground conditions. When pipework moves, joints can become slightly exposed. It would only take a couple of mm for things to get caught. But in all fairness that's now a homeowners responsibility too if it's in your boundary line so it's a moot point really.

So does my bin have a chute to the recycling bag? Pipbin? I said I put it in the bathroom bin. Surely you would know that I do actually take it out of the bin and put it in the recycling bag?

I've not used the pop ins so can't comment really! The ones I tested are strong plastic, not see through, have a glue seal and one handed opening - like I said the price is high so for everyday use at home I won't be using them but I can see how they're useful in a "precious snowflake bathroom bin" situation

Seriously though - it's a bin. For rubbish. I don't get it at all!

Any mention of toilet brushes on MN-bunfight. Feelings run very high about toilet brushes, and this thread wasn't about them....

Slightly off topic but I use a mooncup which avoids this issue. I also have a copper coil. Op says she can't use one because of this. Why?? Have I missed something?? I have been using mine for over a year.