to expect a bin in the bathroom?

[IsabelleSE19]

Recently I've stayed with a very dear friend of mine and close family of DH's. Both households are very hospitable and I love visiting them. BUT. In neither case was there a bin in the bathroom, and in one of them there wasn't even one in the guest bedroom. AIBU not to want to put used cotton pads/buds and sanitary stuff back into my sponge bag, or cart it round the house in my hands looking for a bin?

DesolateWaist yes but in the case of reusable/washable sanitary products you wouldn't be putting them in the sanitary waste bins therefore they'd have to go in a handbag until you got home... 3 days a week I go elsewhere after work so not home until 10pm!

The ones I use just fold back up and don't look like a used towel. In fact they look no different to an unused one. Popped into a purse and into your bag and there is no danger of anyone seeing them.
I do realise though that reusables are not for everyone.

I'm glad all of this is behind me now. One of the advantages of being older.

If a good friend why did you not simply ask for one?

I do have a bin in my bathroom and always would be it's only ever used one week a month. I don't have one in my bedroom either...

I'm now sat here wondering if I'm a bad person for not having a bin in my bathroom or my spare (any) of my bedrooms....

...Although in my defense I have 4 dogs who would steal anything left unattended in a bin

No, you're not a bad person Cherry - many of us are the same.

As MN continually highlights, we all do even the minutest, seemingly innocuous things so differently from each other. It's only through the advent of anonymous forums that we get to discover and discuss these difference. And just not get each other.

It seems I am odd! I have bins in every room in the house! Kitchen and bathroom bins have liners and are emptied when necessary (only non recyclable goes in them); weekly I take a large bag and empty every bin into it, really doesn't take long, then drop it in the green wheelie bin. The wheelie bin is emptied fortnightly but it is rarely more than a quarter full. Recyclables are either left beside the bin in a room or taken to the basket for recyclables by the front door; anything left beside the bins I simply pick myself when I do the weekly bin walk. I have a kitchen diner - I would hate to have to walk past my family eating breakfast to dispose of my overnight sanpro or last nights condom in the kitchen bin

I carry nappy bags with mine so if ever in this situation I pop it all in a nappy bag and back in my handbag until I get home

I like bathroom bins. Handy for tampons, eye make up removal or toner pads, HRT patch waste etc. It needs changing regularly if tampons in it. We never had one in the bathroom as a child but used to flush tampons then

It is the only upstairs bin though. I don't want more bins to empty

See, if I used them, I would never want to throw tampons in someone else's bathroom bin if I was a guest there.

And yes, exactly, it does need changing regularly if there are tampons in it. So as a guest, how do you alert your host to the fact that they need to change their bathroom bin because of something you've just put in it?!

This has been a fascinating thread to read - I can't believe grown women are so grossed out by bins and believe they're disgusting. of course they're disgusting - it's a bin! I assumed it was ok for them to be disgusting?!

I would hate any menstruating woman to feel she had to sneak a bog roll covered San pro into her handbag (massive boak) in my house. I would never put one in my handbag it's Cath Kidston FFS but I carry nappy sacks with my sanpro.

For those people who don't have any bins or just one bin - BTW this blows my mind, we have bins in all 3 bathrooms/toilet, kitchen and our bedroom and I'm getting more as it's not enough - have you ever had a baby? I ask because I am 4 days post birth, and there's all manner of unpleasant goings-on with my body that means me using loads of maternity mattresses towels, breast pads, paper knickers etc. I've actually said to the family the big bathroom is only to be used by me while I 'recover' so they don't find the blood soaked pads etc in the bin and I don't have to worry if I make a mess. I empty the bin every night before bed, but surely it would a massive PITA the take a trip into the garden every time you need to dispose of a maternity of or breast pad? I'd never be inside! And I am not particularly bad this time round for breeding/leaking. Same with dirty nappies - DS goes through 10 a day, do you make a special trip each time?

I'd rather have 10 'false timesavers' () than to have stinky nappies lying about.

Also massive LOL at the face wipe snobbery - "what do people use face wipes and cotton buds for, I don't use them". Bully for you, funnily enough, people use face wipes for wiping their faces and I also use cotton buds for eye make up correction, didn't think people actually stick them in their ears anymore? Also on our bathroom bin goes contact lenses, the cases, toothpaste tubes, floss, tooth picks etc. Couldn't be without it!

And that's fine Cherry - you're at that time of life (post natal), and you find a bathroom bin convenient. Others don't see the need. Surely if they did, they'd get one.

I'm not grossed out by bins. I just don't see the need for them in every room. Again, if I did, I'd get one. I'm not being some sort of bin martyr by going without.

That's why I asked Dowager if no-binners had babies and if so what they'd done with the various postnatal paraphernalia, if they went outside each time they had to dispose of them.

I agree if people don't feel they need bins then no point in having many but I can't get past people objecting to putting used Sanpro in other people's bathroom bins and vice Verda. Oh well different strokes different folks!

Cherry - see I never had any of that rubbish wise. Breast pads I had washable ( it's only milk), a used same pads as before, just in washable nappy bin and wash every 2 days ( did rinse in cold water in sink first). Would have just used normal pants, and washed if any leak. I can't imagine sitting in paper pants and plastic pads very comfy.

I wonder how many no binners have teenagers who somehow manage to create mess everywhere they go.

If there wasn't a bin in DD's room there would be rubbish all over the floor.

I dont have a bin in my bathroom because I think its rather revolting, folk ask for a little bag (is use nappy sacks) if they want one.

Bathrooms without bins are one of my pet hates! It always makes me want to just leave blood smeared on the wall as a sort of dirty protest.

There really is no frigging reason to not have one. Where do you put (for example) the little bit of foil off the tube of toothpaste? Or the wrapper from the soap you've just opened?

Babycham you mean they don't go on the countertop beside the sink ? I must inform DD of this!

We just leave them scattered all over the bathroom to build up over time.

Or ... we walk them down to an alternative bin.

I just put them in the bin in our bedroom.

Cherry yes I've had babies. Having never lived in a house with a bathroom bin, it never occurred to me that taking items to the bedroom or kitchen bin was an inconvenience. I was invariably heading back to the bedroom after getting washed so it just meant walking a few more steps! By the time I had my second baby, we had a nappy bin that lived in the bathroom so I would have used that.

I don't understand your comment about having to go out to the garden every time someone has to dispose of a breast pad - no-one has said they do that! (and washable breast pads are much more comfortable)

There's no face wipe snobbery. Some people asked 'what do you do about face wipes?' People answered. If they don't use them, what else are they supposed to say?

Iamastonished yes I have teenagers. They do have a bin in their bedroom. Far more useful in the bedrooms than in the bathrooms.

There really is no frigging reason to not have one.
When you have something in your hand that needs to go into a bin, do you have to immediately without moving from the spot, have to put it in a bin, or are you capable of putting it down for a minute, then picking it up again and walking with it to the nearest bin?

I don't have a bathroom bin because I don't need one. I'm not saying no-one has a need for a bathroom bin, if you prefer one that's fine, but it's also fine for me to neither need nor want one. If you come visit my house, you are welcome to make use of any of my bins. None of them are placed in the middle of a room under the gaze of a spotlight and there's one within a few steps of every bathroom.

There's no face wipe snobbery. Some people asked 'what do you do about face wipes?' People answered. If they don't use them, what else are they supposed to say?

Erm, nothing as the question isn't relevant to them. Its either very obtuse oR PA to say "why do people use face wipes?". Clue is in the name.

I don't understand your comment about having to go out to the garden every time someone has to dispose of a breast pad - no-one has said they do that! (and washable breast pads are much more comfortable)

People on this thread have said they don't have bins indoors and so take their uses sanpro straight to the outdoor bin. I asked if they do this with breast pads, so not quite sure why you don't understand the comment it's a fairly simple question.

When you have something in your hand that needs to go into a bin, do you have to immediately without moving from the spot, have to put it in a bin, or are you capable of putting it down for a minute, then picking it up again and walking with it to the nearest bin?

I know this question wasn't aimed at me, but I think WRT sanpro then yes, it does make a huge difference to be able to reach over and pop straight into a bin rather than walk it through various rooms worrying about drippage (not sure about others but my periods are that bad, unless I used half a roll the blood would soak through the tissue by the time I got to the kitchen!).

nannybeach what is revolting about a bathroom bin that isn't revolting about, say, a kitchen bin?

MyWine Sorry, I meant no bins at all. DD has a bin in her bedroom, and we have a bathroom bin which I only put there after DD started her periods. All other non recyclable upstairs rubbish goes in the bins in our bedrooms.