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?

"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 have explained many times that many hosts would not like to see you walking through their house with a bloody tampon, even if wrapped in tissue.

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?

This isn't to me, but ...

All houses need at least one bin, somewhere, to dispose of rubbish.

Some people just don't see the need for them in the bathroom.

I'm assuming people are also on with cotton buds and cotton wool padding and dental floss and said wrapped towell/tampon being placed at the side of the sink or wherever while you finish in the bathroom. I mean removing g make up takes more than one pad/wipe etc so with no bin you have to put one down to use the other one. Likewise you may well have to put the wrapped towell down while you then move onto removing and replacing then wrapping the tampon many people double up on San pro. How's it more disgusting to be able to put them into a bin than having them dotted about the bathroom til a person is done and can collect up the stuff then walk round the house to the hole in garden at midnight with half a potato bin they are permitted to use..

So much bin angst on mumsnet

I am a kitchen bin only person. No way am I walking through the house changing bins when people are perfectly capable of bringing their own rubbish to the one bin in the house. To be fair we don't really have people over very much so it's just us at home but any sanitary stuff etc gets wrapped in toilet tissue and then taken to the kitchen bin which is changed at least once a day. No one has died yet.

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?

This isn't to me, but ... confused

All houses need at least one bin, somewhere, to dispose of rubbish.

Some people just don't see the need for them in the bathroom.

I get that, my comment was aimed at a PP who stated it was wrong/disgusting to place sanitary products in a bathroom bin, and suggested they were put in the kitchen bin instead. I couldn't understand the logic of one being better/worse than the other.

Giles exactly. Ultimately, it's always going to be more hygienic to pop waste immediately into a lined bin with a lid. Even better if it's a pedal bin so you can open it with your foot.

If you don't want a bin in the bathroom because you don't want to bother emptying it etc, fair enough. But objecting to all bathroom bins because they're disgusting is weird logic, considering the alternatives.

So, doesn't anyone use tissues to blow their nose? How do you dispose of them? You aren't supposed to flush them down the loo you know.

Surely you need to flush tissues to stop them spreading germs.
If in the bathroom, you would blow your nose on toilet tissue - can't see how tissue with snot on it is any less flushable than tissue with other stuff.

Nickname tissue paper is the same as loo paper surely!? Do you put pooey loo roll in the bin!?

Nemosnemsis Kitchen bins are fine, it's the only bin in the house that has a liner. Liners are extremely bad for the environment. Bins in the bedrooms are more convenient as they can be used for other rubbish generated in the bedroom, no liners needed there. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms so I would need 3 more bins in the house, if sanitary items might get put in them then they would all need liners. And if I did have bathroom bins, recycling would get put in them instead of in the recycling bin!

Everyone leaving a bathroom would walk past a bedroom or kitchen to get anywhere so there's no extra walking involved.

I don't think bathroom bins are disgusting, I just have no need for one.
If you need to dispose of your own sanitary items, carry some nappy sacks with your supplies so you never find yourself with nowhere to dispose of used items. It's not something that ever caused me any stress in all the years that I used disposables. I suspect that's why I had no problem when I switched to reusables.

So, doesn't anyone use tissues to blow their nose? How do you dispose of them? You aren't supposed to flush them down the loo you know.

Oh wow, I try to do my bit for the planet, but not flushing tissue (loo roll?!) - which disintegrates on contact with water - down the loo, is a step too far for me.

I use a mooncup so it's not an issue, but, I have to admit, I wouldn't want to leave used sanitary products in someone else's bathroom bin. I don't know how often they empty it, and wouldn't want someone to come across it days later - or empty the bin that day, and know a). what it was, and b). that I'd left there.

I'd far rather discretely dispose of it in the kitchen bin, or just take it with me.

In a bit of a panic...

Staying at a friends house & need to dispose of sanitary products, had planned on putting in the bathroom bin like I know she does with hers but now thinking maybe this isn't acceptable... everyone else is asleep & the alarm is set so can't go downstairs to kitchen bin or outside to the wheelie bins!

WTF do I do?

My DH refuses to have a bathroom bin as it grosses him out. Although it does mean he is now grossed out by sanitary items left on the sink when I shower and rush out of bathroom. We did have an incident in past where toilet paper ran out and neice went through bin rather than getting new loo roll... I would prefer to have bin but hey ho not a top priority.

Nickname tissue paper is the same as loo paper surely!? confused Do you put pooey loo roll in the bin!?

Actually, facial tissues like kleenex etc are NOT like loo roll, they are NOT designed to disintegrate in the same way and should definitely not be flushed!!!!!

NotLady

Just put it in the bathroom bin! That's what it's there for!

IWantATardis it's in the bin all wrapped up... had coffee & a good giggle over this thread with friend before leaving for work

I use a mooncup etc. but in the upstairs bathroom we have a bin for non recyclables like sanpro, tissues, floss. I would hate my friends or family feeling like they have to smuggle a tampon out.
I line it with the plastic that loo or kitchen rolls come in or any other plastic bag like wrapper.

We have quite an efficient recycling system in our area.
Cooked food waste goes in biodegradable bags and then in a small bin outside that gets collected weekly.
This means we only have to empty the kitchen bin maybe once a week, as it doesn't get smelly and everything else gets recycled.
We compost peelings etc for the allotment.

I'm amazed that people think it is more hygienic to put sanpro in a kitchen bin than bathroom

"empty the bin that day, and know a). what it was, and b). that I'd left there. blush

I'd far rather discretely dispose of it in the kitchen bin"

They will know it's you in the kitchen bin as well if you're the only menstruating woman who's been in the house recently. Why is the kitchen bin better?

Yes someone enlighten me as to why magical properties a kitchen bin has over a bathroom bin meaning they are festering and disgusting in one and emitting roses and puppies in the other.

Bin bags are far more likely to split and leave a trail of rubbish on the way out than a tied up tesco carrier bag from the bathroom bin

Facial tissues don't disintegrate the same way that loo roll does. The only two things that should go down a loo are human waste and loo roll, nothing else. DD has a very snotty nose hence the need for bins in the bedroom and lounge.

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People saying that all rubbish should only go in the kitchen bin must live in small flats/houses. To do that in our house wouldn't be workable.

Nickname I live in a small 2 bed flat (me & 15yo DD) & there's no way that a bin in the kitchen would be enough.

Between face wipes, baby wipes, cotton wool pads, cotton buds, contact lenses, tissues, panty liners, tampons & towels I'd have no room for actual rubbish in my kitchen bin so a bathroom bin is a necessity.

I remember dating a guy who didn't have a bathroom bin - I took him shopping the first time I slept over... he didn't have a toothbrush holder either though & I was expected to leave mine lying on the sink

The magical properties of hygiene are just to do with how often most people will empty them.
Dh used to put nappies in the bathroom bin, which drove me nuts as it would be emptied weekly when one of us cleaned the bathroom. Kitchen bin is emptied daily/every other day. Less of a festering opportunity.

removing g make up takes more than one pad/wipe etc so with no bin you have to put one down to use the other one.
I use a flannel, a clean one each day, to remove makeup and then pop that by the shower to wash with in the morning.

I use a hot cloth cleansing routine, but wash the flannel with soap after each use and hang it up to dry, then throw it in the wash every time I do a hot wash, not after every use. Is that bad?

The magical properties of hygiene are just to do with how often most people will empty them.
Dh used to put nappies in the bathroom bin, which drove me nuts as it would be emptied weekly when one of us cleaned the bathroom. Kitchen bin is emptied daily/every other day. Less of a festering opportunity.

Well this is part of the problem I guess, we're making assumptions about each others habits. I'm really in to composting, recycling etc so produce very little kitchen waste - so I actually empty my bathroom bins more frequently than my kitchen bin. I would also always empty the guest bathroom bin as soon as any guests had left. So no festering.