DS emptying DD's bin?

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DS's job is to empty the bins in the house the day before rubbish collection day. He has just told me that DH said he is not to empty DD's bin as it has sanitary towels in it. They are in bloody plastic sanitary towel bags so aren't smelly and aren't going to leap out and bite him or rub blood off onto him for cripes sake!

AIBU to tell DH and DS that he can bloody well empty the bin and carry on doing so each week regardless of its contents?

Hopefully at one stage in his life he will have a wife and I can't imagine her falling for his not being able to empty the bathroom bin because it may have used sanitary (adequately covered) protection in it.

we don't have a bathroom bin..

shampoo bottles and loo roll cardboard get put straight in the recycling as soon as they are done with.

Sanitary towels get bagged and put in the bin outside, i wouldn't leave them festering in a house bin. Gross. Tell your DD to stop being so filthy and put them in the bin outside herself.

Why not have a small pedal bin with a liner on for Sanpro?
I can see wj

Just read your update, eeeew you make your ds pick through bathroom rubbish? How about you stick whatever straight into the recycling bin??

DH thinks it's dirty!

The bin is in her bathroom, she doesn't change her sanitary pads in her bedroom.

If DS starts using condone at some stage and put them in sealed bags in his bathroom bun I wouldn't have an issue with asking DD to empty it.

We don't pick through the bins, just quickly pluck bottles and tubes out and lob everything else in a black sack.

Why do people need to be 'discreet' about a sanitary item in a sealed plastic bag?

That is surely picking through the bins.

So if DS is picking through all the bins including his sisters, which will contain soiled sanitary towels, albeit wrapped, what is DD doing for her brother that is similarly gross?

Your DS is emptying all the bins in the house every week? Why isn't your DD taking turns?

Periods aren't dirty but no one wants to run the risk of getting bodily fluids on their hands for the sake of just separating your recycling first, surely? There's a really easy solution to this!

Still gross and lazy in my opinion

And why aren't you as parents, emptying the bins for bin day?

It is a bit much to ask him to do it every week. You should all take turns.

Periods are not dirty - but that doesn't mean it's wrong for DH and DS not to want to pick through used Sanpro. I'd be the same if another female exclusively used a bin, or it was full of used condoms, plasters etc.
As others have suggested, why not have s small bin solely for Sanpro and put a liner in it? Or keep recyclables elsewhere so you don't have to pick through the rubbish?

that is picking though bins, and no child/person should have to be dealing with picking through anyone elses bodily fluids.. that goes for Sanpro or condoms!

I wouldnt want my teenage brother rifling through my bins and seeing my pads. Those plastic liners are not opaque.

Have a separate bin for recycling. God, that's rank.

You can even buy bins with two sections for this purpose.

If she can have her own bathroom she can keep it clean herself. I wouldn't want anyone picking through my things.

Man I thought I was strict.

But then I dispose of my period stuff into the outside bin straight away rather than have them festering in the house so can't really comment.

He shouldn't have to pick through for recycling though, nobody should. I would put in another system.

Do period fluids now possess the ability to jump through plastic bags now? Who knew...

OP we empty our bathroom bin once a week too, picking out the recyclables. As long as anything containing bodily fluid is bagged properly, which you said it is, I honestly can't see the problem.

I assume your ds washes his hands after his bin chores?

If he and your dd are ok with it there is no problem. DH has just made an issue where there was none.

Sorry but if she has her own bathroom then she ought to do her own bin. No one should be hand rifling through any bathroom bins (old razors/soiled tissue etc) that's mank.

She ought to be bagging up her own rubbish and putting it in the main bin.

No one should be putting recyclables into the main bins and then picking them out - that's silly.

Did someone really suggest bin emptying is an adult only job Jesus these kids are teens, not toddlers.

Why do people need to be 'discreet' about a sanitary item in a sealed plastic bag?

Why do people need to be 'discreet' about a sanitary item in a sealed plastic bag?

YABVU. Your DD should do her own. Poor DS.

Did someone really suggest bin emptying is an adult only job

If you are referring to me, I said why isn't everyone taking turns?

The parents and the DD. She can pick through her brothers bin full of semen fill tissues.

You do pick through the bins, you just said you quickly pluck bottles and tubes out - just using different words but it means the same thing.

We have a recycling bin in the hall, it's easy to take loo roll tubes or empty bottles out of the bathroom and put them in there in passing. They don't go in the bathroom bin at all to be picked out later. That's just grim.