AIBU to be so naive - embarrassing question!!!!

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Almost too embarrassed to ask... so simple, so ignorant....

Im a long-term Lillets user... occasionally I buy Tampax as desperate and nowt else to buy....

So much stuff... Lillets, everything flushes down the loo....

Tampax - nice little paper wrapper AND double tube thing.... At home, where do you put these? Presumably neither flush....

I've spent last 3 days, carefully wrapping in loo paper and putting in bathroom bin... feel a bit ridiculous... but they feel too revealing just lying there for all to see in the bin.....

Guessing Im missing something really obvious....

jaques the plastic applicator eases your period pain??!! Intriguing

Slightly confused as to where you got pain from? I have abominable periods due to fibroids which don't currently meet the criteria for treatment here. Due to birth injuries the only way I can get a tampon in the correct place is plastic applicators.

You can easily buy bio-degradable sanitary disposal bags. They're much smaller than nappy bags, and don't have that awful strong smell. Never flush tampons. www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/womens-blog/2016/may/16/tampons-not-for-toilets-flushing-fab-little-bag-periods

jacques sorry for my naiivety, but why wouldn't smooth cardboard do the same job?

I wouldn't flush anything down the toilet except toilet paper. Tampons and some wipes claim to be flushable but in practice they often aren't.

Try a moon cup. I got one about 6 months ago & I love it.

Oh god no, I tried one of them and couldn't get the bloody thing out, had a very interesting conversation the the doctors reception trying to explain why I needed to see the doctor today!!! She kept saying "a moonwhat" 😂😂😂

MikeUniformMike

Someone has been watching Bing!!

Strawberry - no, the smooth plastic end goes right over the cotton wool bit of the tampon, making it less painful to insert if you have endometriosis etc. Surprising how much difference it makes. 👍

My dh is also in the tampon police. As disgusting and fifty shades as that sounds. He has those long poles for cleaning the drains and regularly gives off about flushing anything other than what should be flushed. He is totally right of course.
Yes tampons and the wrappers should not be flushed.

The vans from the water company round here have this on them ......

We have a second mini bin next to the toilet brush just for the girl stuff, stops my teen boy getting embarrassed

You shouldn't be flushing ANY of it!!

We keep cheapo nappy bags in the bathroom, it all goes in there. Used ones too. Then in the kitchen bin.

Use a bathroom bin with a lid, and put all rubbish in there. You should not be flushing ANY tampons down the toilet, whatever brand they are.

Couldn't the lillets pearl things still hve the same design but cardboard? So curved still etc.

but why wouldn't smooth cardboard do the same job?

Did not know that cardboard applicators existed.

Would that not be like sandpaper?

I've always used the plastic ones - tried using a non-applicator one, and instead of going in, it squashed into a ball. Never again lol.

It a bin with a lid if it bother you.

*Schrodinger" tell your teenaged DS to get over himself. He needs to man up in the event that he ever moves in with another woman.

strawberry even the smooth cardboard has more "drag" than plastic. 😱😱

Lillets.....NOTHING flushes down the loo!!

You don't flush tampons whatever the make!

FFS, why are there still people in the world who flush tampons?

Seriously, why???

You shouldn't flush any sanitary protection! I can't believe people still do this

Wrapped in toilet tissue and in to the bathroom bin, it's what the bathroom bin is for. Seriously buy a bin with a lid and then they won't be there "for all to see"

I use Tampax pearl. I have sanitary disposable bags for used tampons and wrapper from the next one, I put them in that, tie it and put it in the bathroom bin.
Though we have 2 bathrooms and I always tend to use 1 and my dh tends to always use the other.

yolo applicators only ever used to be cardboard. ( you young whippersnapper you)

Srsly, don't chuck it in the loo, I once had the embarrassment of being 13 and blocking my Auntie/Uncle's loo just with bloody loo roll!

I was fuming when I found out my BF chucked condoms in the loo!

jacques sorry for my naiivety, but why wouldn't smooth cardboard do the same job?

Not for me. The plastic of the applicator goes over the tip of the tampon meaning it's smoother. They're also much shorter than cardboard ones so don't catch/give as much drag.

Everything should go in the bin. I always thought tampons could be flushed until DH started working for a water company. I have a friend who thought it was ok to flush sanitary towels, until her drains got completely blocked with them!

We have a second mini bin next to the toilet brush just for the girl stuff, stops my teen boy getting embarrassed

I would have thought that a special separate bin was making way more of a big deal out of periods than just wrapping and chucking in the regular bin.

Teenage son: why is there blood in the loo?
Me: [looks at him with slightly raised brows]
Teenage son: Oh right
[both get on with day]

nb it just hadn't flushed well.