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Nappies in the kitchen bin

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MountCrumpit · 26/12/2017 17:43

Over the course of Christmas we've visited, and been visited by my sister and her family. My DN is 2 and obviously in nappies.
Both at hers, and ours, I've noticed a pile of soiled (varying degrees) nappies going into the kitchen bin and staying there for however long it takes the bin to get full.

Now I'm a bit weird about bins, never put anything wet in them, taken out every day etc... But I find keeping soiled nappies inside the house, in the kitchen bin, repulsive!
AIBU? Would I quickly get over it if I had kids if my own?

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BatShite · 27/12/2017 14:43

You will get people arguing that it's perfectly acceptable to change a baby's nappy on the kitchen table, using the family silver - and if you have a problem with it, you're upright.

Now this I do find quite vile tbh. I have seen people in restaurants just put their baby on the table and change a shitty nappy. A couple of times actually. last time it was in costa, so not a restaurant but still in public.

BlurryFace · 27/12/2017 14:57

DS2's bagged nappy goes in the kitchen bin - along with Ddog's bagged shit.

Pengggwn · 27/12/2017 15:01

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beforeihit30 · 27/12/2017 15:14

This is one of those moments where I back away slowly from MN try to work out which is the minority opinion in the grand scheme of things.

Like a lot of people in this country, I didn’t have a wheelie bin outside when the DCs were in nappies, or space for special nappy bins, because we lived in a small flat. Absolutely everything went into the one bin (including recyclables ) because I had about 2 x 0.75 metre of kitchen floor and a very small bathroom. That then required walking down several fights (no lift) and out to the bin stores to empty.

Now that we are lucky enough to live in a house and have an outdoor bin, I still wouldn’t raise eyebrows about not immediately running outside with a nappy as if it were some sort of bomb

I feel like I will be judged/flamed for this...

TakeMe2Insanity · 27/12/2017 15:21

We put nappies in a nappy sack then directly in to the outside bin if a downstairs change

minipie · 27/12/2017 15:30

Me too beforeIhit. MN seems to contain a lot of fanatically clean people who think humans are basically disgusting and anything that has touched a bodily fluid must be nuked immediately or else it will cause an epidemic. They are the same people who Dettol everything, wash towels and jeans after one use, use flushable wipes because loo roll isn't clean enough, and throw food away as soon as it hits the use by date even if it smells and tastes fine.

They are not my people.

bendywindy · 27/12/2017 15:35

how is doing an elaborate flicking off poo from nappy into the loo less horrifying than a nappy (presumably you all know to roll and re-do-up the used nappies, yes?) that's been tucked in on itself sitting in the kitchen bin for a few hours!!? i mean is there a nappy flicking tool??? where do you store that then??? did i miss that aisle in baby land?? i shudder to think how many times i would have had some form of hilarious error if i had flicked every of my sons 300 or so poos into the loo.

bendywindy · 27/12/2017 15:39

but then i also learnt on MN today that some people think bathroom(?) bins(?) are disgusting(?!) so i should stop being surprised now. personally i think sidling out of the loo with a pocket containing used tampon, and new tampon wrapper is disgusting. particularly if i happen to meet a dog before i've found a discrete but acceptable bin for such foulness. obviously i have nappy bags on my person at all times and happily fill the oceans with them. lots of bin liners. filled with nappy bags. then we put them in a big black bin bag and throw them in a landfill. marvellous. well done MN. do warn me before you invite me round that your rubbish must be bagged before being bagged.

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 15:44

They are the same people who Dettol everything, wash towels and jeans after one use, use flushable wipes because loo roll isn't clean enough, and throw food away as soon as it hits the use by date even if it smells and tastes fine

That's not me at all; I just don't want any kind of shit in my kitchen bin. Not bothered about what other people put in their bins, nor judging.

TammySwansonTwo · 27/12/2017 15:44

When my twins were small we had those angelcare nappy bins where they're sealed away but the cartridges were so expensive. Ours go in the kitchen bin now - our wheelie bin is way at the end of the garden, no way I can leave two toddlers inside while I walk to the end of the garden 12-18 times a day. It is emptied daily.

mirime · 27/12/2017 15:52

Can't get worked up about this. I put nappies in the kitchen bin, it was fine - but then we have cats and the cat litter tray is in the kitchen next to the bin.

Fffion · 27/12/2017 16:10

A bin is a bin is a bin to me.

If Ddog has an accident in the house, I might put it in the kitchen bin, if it’s about to be emptied anyway. This is much worse than a baby poo rolled in a nappy.

Obviously, we all have different kitchens and bins. I have a biggish kitchen and the bin isn’t near any food prep area.

I think the key thing is that you do what you want in your own house, whether that is clarty on one end or OCD on the other, and everything else in between.

Your guests are not you. They are their own people, with their own standards and practices. If you can’t stand nappies in your kitchen bin, you have to tell your guest that. If you are fine with nappies in your bin, equally let your guest off the hook of going outside in their slippers in the spooky dark.

The OP is talking about her sister, whom presumably she was brought up with. Was it OK in the family to put nappies in the kitchen bin, or is this a new thing? When I was a child, nappies soaked in a bucket in corner of the living room, and were then dried on the maiden above the kitchen table.

First world problems, eh?

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 16:11

i mean is there a nappy flicking tool??

At the risk of exciting the poo troll by sharing this, no, no tool was used; a solid poo could be quickly flicked in the downstairs toilet on my way to the bin though. If not, the nappy went straight outside.

With DS I used cloth nappies due to his severe eczema; so a paper liner placed in the nappy made it even easier to dispose of poo.

As I said, I really don't care what goes in other people's kitchen bin, only my own

NoWittyNamesAvailable · 27/12/2017 16:28

I put ds's in the kitchen bin, double bagged. The bin gets emptied daily before dh goes to bed. I don't have the option of putting them outside each time as it would require me leaving a 3 and 2 year old in a top floor flat unattended.

BionicMercenary · 27/12/2017 16:38

A bin is a bin though? Also how do you put poo from a nappy into the loo? Youd have to have something to scrape it off and the nappy would still have poo on it... doesnt magically make it any cleaner.

MrsKoala · 27/12/2017 16:39

Wees go in the kitchen bin (which is changed twice a day at least). Poos straight outside double bagged and in a bag in our vestibule then get walked down to the wheelie bin every evening.

DenPerry · 27/12/2017 16:55

When we were new parents, we would just put them in the kitchen bin... until the stench got too much. So then we started lobbing them down the stairs in nappy bags to take outside later (lived in an upstairs flat so a pain to take out each individual nappy) but then the entrance stank so now we have a proper nappy bin. So I think she should have not put them in your kitchen bin but I can't judge too much basically

Lilymoose · 27/12/2017 17:10

I dread to think what some posters on this thread think of cloth nappy users. 😁

CurlsandCurves · 27/12/2017 17:16

I agree a bin is a bin, but it’d be the smell that got to me. Even when put in nappy sacks, they don’t half pong after a few hours in a warm environment!

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 17:17

Why? I used cloth nappies for DS?

BatShite · 27/12/2017 17:37

but then i also learnt on MN today that some people think bathroom(?) bins(?) are disgusting(?!)

Really...why on earth would anyone think that?! I empty the bathroom bin everyday if I am on my period as the thought of blood just sitting festering in it is quite vile. But how on earth is a bathroom bin disgusting otherwise?! Ours tends to contain empty loo rolls and such usually

Fffion · 27/12/2017 17:44

The only experience of cloth nappy users is my SIL. They visited us when their PFB was about a month old.

They used cloth diapers and had a cleaning service, which meant the dirties were picked up once a week and robustly washed ones were returned. On their three day visit, they did not wash their diapers. Instead, they piled them up against our living room wall until it was time to leave.

SIL, in those days, was evangelical about her cloth nappies, so wanted us all to admire them. I would have been happy for her to store them in the futility room.

I have some weird relatives, and some times it is easier to let them get on with it. It’s give and take.

Lilymoose · 27/12/2017 17:51

Michaelfabricantshair because it involves a lot of poo flicking, scraping, dirty nappies in the house for a couple of days and shock horror nappies in the washing machine.

minipie · 27/12/2017 18:12

I don't understand people who tip the poo out of the (disposable) nappy into the loo. As a pp said the nappy will still have loads of poo on it (ie enough to smell) even if the main lumps have gone down the loo.

MichaelFabricantsHair · 27/12/2017 18:13

I flushed poo from both disposable and cloth nappies; I used flushable paper liners in DS's cloth nappies which were great for shit-flicking
My issue with dirty nappies going directly into my kitchen bin was the potential for lingering smell, nothing else. I'm certainly not squeamish.

Anyway I'm recovering from a stomach bug and have invested way too much time talking about shitty nappies. I just preferred to flush poo wherever possible, when my DC were babies. What other folk do with dirty nappies is up to them.

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