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?

Stark you have answered your own question. Too many faffing bins to empty of other people's waste! I would expect a bin in a hotel but in someone elses house I would accept their ways.

On the other side of the coin why do people feel the need to be so squeamish about sanitary protection.

Why the need to hide it or squirrel it away? Just ask "I need to dispose of a towel/tampon, where's best to put it".

I'd have to empty it to ensure my items weren't seen.

Didn't you wrap them up? And is it so so terrible that a person might see a bundle of loo roll that might contain a sanitary item?

If I had to transport a tampon or ST out of a bathroom, I'd be so paranoid about drips that I'd need half a toilet roll around it! If it's just going into a plastic bag in the bin next to my feet, not a problem.

Recyclables like loo rolls and empty bottles get taken downstairs - so we have one recyling bin downstairs and a few other bins around the house, including next to both toilets.

I don't have one. I'm the only fucker who empties it, but everyone else is quite happy to stuff a fuckload of bulky crap into it (non-sanitary items!), filling it up quickly so I have to empty it five times a week. No more.

However, I'm not a dick, and if I know an adult female is paying us a visit I will put it in there.

Ludo

Your mum has serious issues.

I never knew people were so against bathroom bins!

My PILs don't have one in their bathroom and I always thought it was weird but maybe I'm the one who's weird.

Just seems to much easier to me to have it right there than have to carry it into kitchen/garden.

Also, I had no idea it was bad form to put a sanitary item (wrapped) in a friend's bin? I wouldn't mind if someone put one in mine (find the idea of transporting sanpro up jumper more gross tbh) but do others think this is terrible? I don't find it that gross if it's wrapped, it's not like you have to touch it! Then surely you just tie the sides up and empty fairly regularly. I'm not really seeing the issue there.

I don't have one in my bathroom.

I just wrap things in toilet roll and bring it down to the bin.

It's no hardship.

We have a bathroom bin. Why would you sort through a bin? Why would you put the middle bit of the loo roll and plastic bottles in the bin? In our house they get left on the side and taken down to the recycling.

Yy going

Wtf is all this wrapping it up and traipsing through the house with it. So you wash your hands pick it up again and hope it doesn't soak through the paper on the way to the front garden?

What do you do if the door goes? Stand there with it in your hands chatting to the postman?

Only on MN is using a bin for its intended purpose somehow rude or unreasonable

Haven't read the full thread but I have never had one why are they essential? I just flush everything, as does everyone that I know!

*I just flush everything, as does everyone that I know!"

The only things you should be flushing down a toilet are wee, poo and toilet paper.

Everything else should go in a bin. The sewage systems aren't intended for waste like tampons, sanitary pads, cotton buds etc. They're all non-biodegradable and will risk blocking the sewage systems, meaning some poor person gets the shitty job of clearing it all out. And if it gets to the sewage treatment plants, they'll have to be filtered out and sent to landfill anyway, due to them not being biodegradable.

Those of you who take it the kitchen bin.... what do you do last thing at night?

For me I go to the loo, do the necessary, pop my tampon in the disposal bag and put it in the lidded bin in my bathroom. If I were (some of) the PP then I would go to the loo, do the necessary, wrap my tampon, put on a dressing gown, go down two flights of stairs not disturbing the DC, go into the kitchen and put rubbish in the bin, go back up two flights of stairs again. ....

What a faff compared to just emptying a small bin when needed.

I have 2 bathroom bins. One for nappies and sanitary products, and one for other bits. Recycling goes straight into the recycling bin in the kitchen. I can only empty them once a week when it's bin day as we have no outside space for bins. Friends are free to use the bins. My house hasn't exploded yet.

yy rabbit and nuclear It just seems a lot easier. And I do put the recycling straight in the recycling box so it's not like I just bin everything. Another thing I don't get though is when people don't line bins, my DM has these wicker type bins with no liner in which I just find a bit gross. But if you put a bag in and empty fairly often, I don't see why it's gross.

Namechanged please please don't flush them. Anything that doesn't cause a blockage and have to be manually dug out by sewer workers and taken to landfill will not be broken down like actual sewage and will end up in the sea, or on the beach. The loo isn't a magical disposal unit (unfortunately!)

"I don't have a bathroom bin. I take sanitary wear out immediately...I certainly don't want a bin of festering pads! Blech!"

YES!

"bin day". We have wheelie bins and empty house bins into it. In the kitchen we have two bins, and put recycling stuff directly into the recycling kitchen bin. No big deal to empty the downstairs toilet bin frequently, and the main bathroom bin if people are staying overnight. I am not a clean freak by any stretch, but this is not a difficult job. Wastepaper bins in bedrooms though can get emptied far less frequently.

I have a bin in every single room of the house and they all get used daily!

I think these people are either secret sanpro flushers or people who don't have periods.

My mother doesn't have a bin in her bathroom. She taught me to rip San towels in half and flush them!

What on earth did your mum do when she had her period?

Was she confined to a bunker or something?

Sounds like the only problem you had woth your periods were of her making. Nothing access to sanpro and a fucking bin wouldn't have sorted

She almost makes carrie's mum look normal