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Original poster

to expect a bin in the bathroom?

356 replies

IsabelleSE19 · 16/01/2017 13:30

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?

OP posts:
Chattymummyhere · 16/01/2017 14:20

That's should read

No bins

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/01/2017 14:20

If there's a towel in it I'd empty.no festering at all.

user1477282676 · 16/01/2017 14:20

Ghosty I don't think that! I just don't think you should have a bin full of bloody, rotting sanitary wear in the bathroom!

user1477282676 · 16/01/2017 14:21

Giles so you empty the bin every time you change your towel? So...how many times is that in a day!? Why not just take the towel outside to the bin?

HermioneWoozle · 16/01/2017 14:22

If they don't have a bin I flush it. I'm not going to wander the house carrying used STs.

LightTheLampNotTheRat · 16/01/2017 14:22

Tampon wrappers, cotton wool pads with old makeup on, used cotton buds, used tampons wrapped in loo paper, used toothpaste tubes, toenail clippings... The bathroom bin is necessary for all of these.

Mistletoetastic · 16/01/2017 14:22

I am off right now to to buy myself a new bathroom bin, mine is a bit smelly, has a dent in it and its my birthday today. Thanks OP!

YANBU btw

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/01/2017 14:24

Because with a bin.you can shock. Horror put the thing down to wash your hands. Far more disgusting having to walk through a house with it in your hand wrapped in toilet paper. And not much difference between a carrier bag in a bin and a nappy sack.

RortyCrankle · 16/01/2017 14:25

sabelleSE19
Rorty, where do you put all your cotton buds and toiletry wrappers etc?

I live alone so it's not too onerous to transport a couple of cotton buds and the occasional soap wrapper or used loo roll into the kitchen bin Smile

Original poster
IsabelleSE19 · 16/01/2017 14:25

How long do you have to leave an ST in a bin for it to start rotting and festering?!

I always put liners in bathroom bins so I can just take out, tie up and get in the outside bin. I don't tend to root through it first either Confused

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Nemosnemsis · 16/01/2017 14:26

User blah blah ...
They're not going to be festering or stinking within a day. They're wrapped up and in an enclosed container. Much more sanitary than most kitchen bins. Do you also ban your guests from defecating in the loo?

My bin is at the end of my drive, I wouldn't expect a guest to hike over to it every time they have to change a sanitary towel.

UnexplainedOnHerCollar · 16/01/2017 14:26

With you OP! I can't understand it when people don't have a bathroom bin. No it would not be nice to leave a used pad flapping around on open view, but well wrapped in toilet paper and/or the wrapper from the new one, pushed well down in a bin with a lid (like what bathroom bins generally have) is fine surely. It's what bathroom bins are for! As well as all the used cotton buds, cotton wool, etc.

And to these weirdos I will add people who don't have a LOCK on their bathroom door!

Still I have a friend who doesn't have a kitchen bin. They just use a carrier bag then chuck it out every couple of days. Blech

Yankeedoodledickhead · 16/01/2017 14:26

I'm another with a mil who has no bins in the house at all.

Didn't realise it was a thing until I met my husband. She doesn't even have bin bags to put rubbish into.

Nutty as a fruitcake.

SpringerS · 16/01/2017 14:26

Why on earth would you be sorting through it? Just pull out the bag and chuck. Do you not have a kitchen bin either? What do you expect your guests to do in this situation?

Because it's not the early 80s anymore and we don't stupidly send everything to landfill. All the rubbish in my house (and I assumed everyone's house) gets sorted into different bins so anything recyclable can be recycled. If I had a bathroom bin, I'd have to go through it to remove toilet paper holders, recyclable plastic, glass containers, etc from the rubbish that could only go to landfill.

And no I don't have any bin, kitchen or otherwise, in my house. They are pretty disgusting and pointless in the era of recycling. Why would I want to have to remove a day old slimy banana peel that's half stuck to a cornflakes box and half in a dog food tin at the end of every day, instead of immediately taking them outside and sorting them into the right containers. Indoor bins are false timesavers that actually create a load of gross and unnecessary work.

KnittingPearl · 16/01/2017 14:27

See, I agree with you that I like a bin in a bathroom when I stay at someone else's house, but am embarrassingly aware that we don't have a bin in any of the bathrooms in our house, or in the guest bedroom.

There are bins in all the bedrooms, but I just put whatever it is I'm disposing of in the kitchen bin at home. Wouldn't dream of doing that in someone else's house...

Original poster
IsabelleSE19 · 16/01/2017 14:27

Happy Birthday Mistletoetastic! Tis my gift to you Smile

OP posts:
Chattymummyhere · 16/01/2017 14:28

unexplained we have no locks. It's a rented house which appear to never of had locks on the bathroom doors. I feel uneasy about putting purely a sliding bolt on the doors due to the children and the landlord would have a hissy fit about his doors being damaged/changed anyway.

Original poster
IsabelleSE19 · 16/01/2017 14:31

SpringerS Ah, now recyclable stuff is different. That I bring straight to the box in kitchen, so no rooting through bins necessary.

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Gileswithachainsaw · 16/01/2017 14:32

I recycle.
However the bathroom. Bin is the one thing I leave. Too much hair and plug hole gunk to go through it...

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/01/2017 14:34

Toilet roll middles rarely make the bin anyway..

Any opportunity to use a glue stick and get "crafty" Hmm

They kids that is...

brasty · 16/01/2017 14:34

Yep if people don't have a bathroom bin, I just rip up the towel and flush it down the toilet. I know it is more risky for plumbing, but no I am not going to carry bloody sanitary towels home.

ghostyslovesheets · 16/01/2017 14:35

I'm really interested in what people expect their guests to do - if they aren't allowed to use your bin for their towels are they a) expected to stay away 1 week a month or b) expected to carry used towels out with themselves in their purse?

Hygellig · 16/01/2017 14:35

I wouldn't sort through a bathroom bin (or any bin). Toilet roll tubes I take straight downstairs and put in the recycling.

I remember a friend staying overnight with me and letting me know she'd put some sanitary towels in my bathroom bin. I suppose she was worried that I wouldn't want other people putting such items in my bin, but that was what it was there for and I was quite surprised that she felt it necessary to tell me!

Gileswithachainsaw · 16/01/2017 14:37

And fuck off should anyone be going to the end of the drive way I'm the middle of the night in the rain rather than use a bin ffs

melj1213 · 16/01/2017 14:37

All the rubbish in my house (and I assumed everyone's house) gets sorted into different bins so anything recyclable can be recycled.

As does mine ... but I do that straight away - who actually digs through rubbish bags at the end of the week to find their recycling?!

I have two bins in the back hallway - a general rubbish bin and a recycling bin (both clearly labeled as to which they are) when I go to throw things away, I immediately sort them into "recycleable and rubbish" ... when they get full/it's bin day, the binbag from the general rubbish gets tied up and put straight in the wheelie bin and the recycling gets sorted into the relevant recycling receptacles (glass&paper/card&plastic/cans&tins) to be put out