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?

We don't have a bin in either bathroom, nor the guest room.

I use a mooncup, but all other rubbish just goes directly into the kitchen bin. Easy.

I have no issue with people putting whatever they want in the kitchen bin. I don't go rooting around in it, sorting and/or sifting through it (wtf?!), so I'll be none the wiser as to what exactly you've disposed of in there.

If I'm staying at someone else's house, again, any rubbish would go straight into the main bin.

I have a bin in my bathroom, but I would prefer not to deal with other people's used sanitary products!!

I would always deal with those myself and dispose if I were at someone else's house if they could not be flushed!

My poor DD stays at her boyfriends parents house who only have boys. She's had to fit her visits around her menstrual cycle as she's fed up of trying to smuggle her pads out of the bathroom. I've given her nappy sacks in the past to put used pads in.

Well, I have TWO bins in my bathroom and downstairs loo One for rubbish and one for recycling preens

It does annoy me though when I go to various homes and there is no bin in the bathroom. I wrap sanitary towels in their own plastic wrapper, Bodyform have really good sealable edges, and put it back in my bag if there isn't any.

still have a bin in the bathroom, and it fills up pretty quick! Cotton buds, finished loo rolls, facial wipe pads, old toothbrushes, packaging... where do people put that stuff otherwise?
I don't use cotton buds or facial wipes - why do people use these things?
I do use cotton wool pads for removing waterproof mascara.
The other things mostly need recycling. If those things need to be carried to different bins for recycling, why can you not carry everything to the nearest bin? It's never going to be more than 1 or 2 items and you don't have to carry them very far. It does seem incredibly lazy that you need bins everywhere!

My poor DD stays at her boyfriends parents house who only have boys. She's had to fit her visits around her menstrual cycle as she's fed up of trying to smuggle her pads out of the bathroom. I've given her nappy sacks in the past to put used pads in.
Oh honestly I have to say get a grip! She's clearly a grown woman. Her boyfriend must know when she has her period. If she has to carry a clean pad into the bathroom, she can carry a used pad out. Surely a nappy sack solves the problem. She could take her bag into the bathroom with her - that's what I used to do.

I cannot imagine planning my life around where there are bathroom bins!

We have a bin, but it's rarely used. I suppose it's only for guests.

I assume people are sorting through bins as stuff like toilet rolls are recycled so you wouldn't want to sort through to take plastics or card out.

Sanitary - washable here. But pull so rare.
Cotton buds - don't use, I thought bad for ears as can damage inside. Use flannel
Face wipes - don't use. Use flannel

We have a box with 30+ Small clean flannels in so everyone just uses those fresh each time and into wash when towels washed.

Any toilet rolls card or soap wrappers or shampoo bottles would be taken to recycling bin in kitchen

I wouldn't expect a guest at my house to not use my bathroom bin. If I'm disposing of my own rubbish I can dispose of someone else's as well. I don't need to actually touch any of the rubbish in the bin when emptying it.

My mum was a "no bins in the house" person. We had an outside bin that was accessed by leaving the flat, going down a path, down some stairs and into the garage.

One small plastic bag was used for kitchen rubbish and any other rubbish; it was disposed of straight after dinner.

If I changed a sanitary towel at night there was nowhere to put it. I wasn't allowed to leave the flat to access the bin and she was completely unapproachable about periods so there was no discussion possible. I used to wrap them up and put them in a dressing table drawer. She went through all my stuff all the time and found one in there one morning and raged at me for being filthy. It was hard growing up with her.

"Cotton buds, finished loo rolls, facial wipe pads, old toothbrushes, packaging... where do people put that stuff otherwise?"

"I assume people are sorting through bins as stuff like toilet rolls are recycled so you wouldn't want to sort through to take plastics or card out."

Recyclable stuff never goes into the bin, but straight into the recycling bins in the kitchen. I don't root around rubbish bins looking for bits of cardboard or used plastic bottles because we all know not to put them in the bin in the first place.

I don't use cotton buds
I don't use facial wipes
Loo roll centres go straight into recycling
Old toothbrushes go into the bedroom bin

The only thing our bathroom bin is used for is DD's used sanpro, and the odd cotton wool pad that has been used to remove make up.

I have a bin in the bathroom, but it's pretty much only used for the tubes out of toilet roll and the box the toothpaste comes in so only gets emptied weekly to go out with the recycling.

Use a mooncup or washable pads, wash my face with a flannel. So no cotton wool or sanitary products. What else would go in?

Only bins in the house are the one in the bathroom and the kitchen. Is this weird too? Does everyone have one in the bedroom?

I have a waste bin in my bathroom, plus a bin for recylables (off to polish my halo, which incidentally is recyclable.)

I've got bins bloody everywhere. And still no bastard manages to put their rubbish in them.

I did used to have one in the downstairs bathroom for this very reason. Sadly it is having a holiday at the moment. The occasion which caused it's trip (to the understairs cupboard for a while) was my toddler going through the bin and sticking a used sanitary towel down the back of the hall radiator (the smell!) and the a week later I found her sucking a used tampon applicator.

Until my toddler is less interested in bins and more reliable at following instructions it will stay gone!

"Does everyone have one in the bedroom"

We do, and so does DD. We also have one in the lounge, study and kitchen.

"I would always deal with those myself and dispose if I were at someone else's house if they could not be flushed!"

How would you dispose of them yourself if you're at someone else's home for a while? Keep them in your suitcase for a week until you're home?

"Not had a period for 20 years
Are people really this hung up about getting rid of evidence of normality?"

Hung up about carrying used san pro through the house to a kitchen bin you mean? It's not necessarily the menstruating woman who is hung up is it, but could be the hosts who maybe old men or whatever.

I assume people are sorting through bins as stuff like toilet rolls are recycled so you wouldn't want to sort through to take plastics or card out.

Who seriously 'sorts through bins'?

For all the sorters, there's a surprisingly simple solution: buy a second bin. Recycling straight into the recycling. Rubbish straight into the rubbish bin.

No more messing around in your rubbish bin, pulling out the recycling through layers of guests' sanitary product waste.

What do all the non-bin people do with floss then? That's the number one item in our bathroom bin.

I don't have a bathroom bin as there is no room in my bathroom but also there is nothing to put in it.
Reusable towels
No cotton wool or buds.
Toilet roll tubes and empty bottles in the recycling box.
Floss in the bedroom bin.

Bins in bathrooms are vile. Who wants to clean up other people's fanny pads? Yuk wrap it bag it and put it in outside bin.

How would you dispose of them yourself if you're at someone else's home for a while? Keep them in your suitcase for a week until you're home?
How about you just put them in the kitchen bin or the outside bin. I don't understand how some women make this so hard for themselves!

What do all the non-bin people do with floss then? That's the number one item in our bathroom bin.
Do you use a bin liner to collect dental floss?
There's a bin in each bedroom and recycling is in the kitchen. Whatever rubbish you generate, you take it to the nearest appropriate bin. If you can carry an empty shampoo bottle to the recycling bin, you can carry some dental floss to the nearest bin.

Our bathroom bin has an inner plastic bucket with a handle for easy lifting and dumping into the kitchen bin, we don't need bin liners. A bathroom bin is not a necessity of course but it's definitely convenient and makes it easy to to keep the bathroom tidy.

Mind you, do many people have a bedroom too then? That's a bin too many for me!

How about you just put them in the kitchen bin or the outside bin. I don't understand how some women make this so hard for themselves!
I'm sorry but how on earth do you convice youself that kitchen bin is fine, bathroom bin the work of satan? What's the difference?

Do you use a bin liner to collect dental floss?
Er...yes, used dental floss is a more disgusting and unhygienic item than a wrapped sanitary towel IMO

There's a bin in each bedroom and recycling is in the kitchen. Whatever rubbish you generate, you take it to the nearest appropriate bin. If you can carry an empty shampoo bottle to the recycling bin, you can carry some dental floss to the nearest bin.
Fine, but you're just making life harder for yourself. More bins to empty (assuming you have more bedrooms than bathrooms) and longer distance to take rubbish (assuming you floss in the bathroom). And again I wonder why you think a bedroom bin is ok but bathroom bin not. Why is it unacceptable to wash in the same room as a bin, but fine to sleep all night with one?

What do all the non-bin people do with floss then? That's the number one item in our bathroom bin.

As with all rubbish created in the bathroom, walk it through to the kitchen bin.

If it was that much of an inconvenience, I suppose I would get a bin for the bathroom, but it's really not. And besides, bins (in every room) look cluttery.