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....

Bloody children don't have a clue what we used to have to make do with before phones!

So pleased I
Am a Mooncup convert 😇😇😇😇

I responded to the post about razors and manufacturers responsibilities.
Mooncups aside, and I do agree that they are not for everyone, a big part in that post was declining to take responsibility because it's not required of men using razors or because it's mainly manufacturers fault.
And that's bollocks.

Washable, reusable cotton sani-pads. You'll never go back to the chemical trash.

There is so much anger on here. I saddens me.

Thought it was common knowledge that only toilet paper was 'allowed' to be flushed down British loos.

No paper towels.
No cleansing wipes (baby inc).
No San-pro.
Kitchen roll.
Anything else really as they contain a plastic element(?) that won't degrade.

Have you ever went abroad op? You need to put your dirty, used loo roll in sanitary bins in many countries.

Nappy bags are a no no now?

runs for the door

My neighbours' drains empty via our drains (old houses).

I am well acquainted with their tampon preferences. As is my local DynoRod man.

We have cheapo nappy sacks (50p for 200 tesco value!) that we mainly use for scooping the cat litter into, they do for sanpro also.

I don't get why ppl use applicators too. The cardboard is so catchy. I cut out the middleman really and use non.

Seriously considering a mooncup tho.

why ppl use applicators too.

possibly not essential in your own home, but vital when you have to use public toilets and your hands just touched the door and everything else. Yuk.

I used applicator tampons because it wasn't The Done Thing to entertain the idea of fingers going near your vagina without you being a "slag" when I was at school. No one wanted the name calling.

What material are mooncups made of? I don't mean generic, I mean exactly what are they made of?

I still tear towels in half and flush!

Really? I haven't thought of that but I do wash my hands thoroughly when I come out. I carry anti-bac gel in my bag so I'll apply it liberally before I 'go' now..

What are mooncups made of as previous poster asked?

Seen cheap ones on eBay for £2. Frugal as I am, I'm not sure I want to put a fake in my fanny.

You flush towels Ali??

Flushing towels is so gross. Flushing any of it is gross, but tearing a towel up to flush is on another level.

Genuinely - having grown up with a cess pit and living in a house with temperamental plumbing (though not around tampons - mainly rain) I genuinely have never heard of "don't flush tampons" outside of MN. Not even from the plumber who deals with the aforementioned temperamental plumbing. Indeed, he has opinions - on MN wisdom on this matter, and irrespective of call out fees etc - that don't tally with MN groupthink on the matter. Just throwing it out there, anyway...

I am nearly 50 and I remember when I started my periods I was told to tear and flush but then, when I was about 16, my Mum gave me a bin for my room (so my poor deluded Stepfather wouldn't be upset by womanly things...) and a pile of newspapers to wrap towels in. I then emptied the bin each night.
I currently use a Mooncup and towels as a back up. I plan to move to reusable towels once I get round to making some!

Me neither Hefzi

I also am of an age where we were taught to flush. I know not to, I think moving abroad a long time ago where it's just not done, educated me. But the message has been truly reinforced by English guests, despite repeated requests blocking my loo and costing me €€€ In plumbers bills.
Last year, during a PHSE lesson on periods, the (Canadian) colleague told the girls to flush. I interrupted and said no, must bin it, but clearly girls are still being taught to flush. Mind boggling.

As an aside, I don't think you can get applicator tampons here. Said colleague brings hers from CA.

I can't believe people still flush sanpro.
I stopped when I got a bollocking off my uncle about 25 years ago when I was on holiday in Australia. Have never flushed since.
Recently changed to mooncup after becoming allergic to whatever shit they use to bleach tampax with. Could be evangelical about it- but won't (it is amazing through and I'll be encouraging DD to try it when the time comes)

I use a moon cup and haven't looked back. Can't imagine using a tampon now.

I was taught to flush (towels too) in the 80s but moved abroad and learned not to. I was surprised when I moved back and saw a thread on MN where all the posters were up in arms about flushing, I looked then on my Lillets box and it still said to flush them. That must have been at least 2010, maybe later. So I don't think it's at all surprising that many people still flush. Apart from that one time I don't think I've reread a tampon box since I was a teenager and I doubt most people do, so how would they know to change their behaviour?

You're right not to flush because when you flush them they end up on the beach or blocking the drains on the way there.

Bin in the bathroom is the answer and wrapped in loo roll works.

Another Mooncup advocat over here!