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Bedroom bins

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ThisLittleKitty · 14/01/2018 21:52

My sister was complaining that her partner leaves used condoms on her dressing table instead of putting them in the bin in the bathroom. When I suggested she get a bin for her bedroom she said that it was weird and who has a bin in their bedroom and that it would basically be a "condom bin" I have a bin in my bedroom (not for the reason!) are bedroom bins weird? Do you have a bin in your bedroom?

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Ohyesiam · 14/01/2018 22:41

Ask her to weigh up the comparative weirdnesses of having a bin in ones bedroom, and having used condoms on ones dressing table.
That is if she doesn't listen when you tell her to LTB.

AprilShowers16 · 14/01/2018 22:43

No bedroom bin here, I use the bathroom bin for most things people have mentioned or just take any rubbish to the kitchen bin in the morning when I take glasses/laundry/whatever out of our room.

Nanny0gg · 14/01/2018 22:43

Bedroom bin for tissues, tags from new garments, contact lens packs, sanitary items, dental floss. Where do you put these items otherwise?

Bathroom bin

Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake · 14/01/2018 22:43

Speakout... Sanitary items are changed in the bathroom anyway, so go straight in the bathroom bin. Dental floss is kept and used in the bathroom too, as are contact lens boxes. A bit of cardboard such as clothes tags just waits where it is and the next time I go to the bathroom or kitchen it comes with me.

minniemoll · 14/01/2018 22:48

Every room has a bin, the bathroom, guest bedroom and kitchen ones have liners, the rest just get taken out and emptied into the wheelie bin as necessary. I really couldn't be bothered carrying my rubbish round the house to dispose of it!

peterpanwendy · 14/01/2018 22:53

I have a bin in every room except the living room. If I have big bits of recycling I will take those downstairs but everything else goes in the bin where I am and all bins are emptied weekly when I do the rounds.

Absolutely nothing worse than going to the loo on your period at someone else's house and they have no bin! Everyone should have a bin in their bathroom to save guests the embarrassment of disposing in your kitchen bin. Makes me cringe thinking about it.

Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake · 14/01/2018 22:53

It's not much bother really because i move from room to room throughout the day anyway, having a cardboard tag or a tissue in my hand is not really any extra bother. I definitely find it less bother than having additional bins to empty.

Whatthefucknameisntalreadytake · 14/01/2018 22:54

Totally agree that bathroom bins are essential.

Bowerbird5 · 14/01/2018 22:55

I' m another one with a bedroom bin. Tissues etc tucked next to my wardrobe but in pitching distance from the bed.
He is disgusting. I would get a small one, wrap it up and give it to him. She probably told everyone to shame him.

Don't have a bin in sitting room as I have a coal bucket

Love the mum explanation OP the one about small boys and bins.

Judydreamsofhorses · 14/01/2018 22:55

I’ve always had a bedroom bin since I was a child - DP never did so finds it weird. I use it for cotton wool, tissues, tags etc. Bathroom bin for sanitary products, dental floss, contact lenses, and toilet roll innards get put straight in the recycling box, or occasionally in the bathroom bin if I am lazy. (God forbid DP move them, despite the fact he is absolutely fanatical about recycling otherwise.)

BackforGood · 14/01/2018 22:57

Bin in every room here.
Yes, including the living rooms (whyever not ? )
Yes, all bedroom bins are lined.

Never really understood some MNers aversion to bins, tbh.

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ThisLittleKitty · 14/01/2018 22:57

He's 29 and they have been together 9 months (don't live together.)

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ThisLittleKitty · 14/01/2018 22:58

I've just never seen a bin in anyone's living.

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Sparklingbrook · 14/01/2018 23:01

9 months of putting up with that? I thought she was going to be a teenager or something at 29 she needs to sort it out.

Where does he put it at his own house? On the kitchen table?

HermionesRightHook · 14/01/2018 23:02

We have bins in every room. I thought that was completely normal - but now I think about it I think it's about half and half with my friends. Pretty much the ones with dogs and cats have a bin in the kitchen and one in the bathroom with lids on, everyone else has bins near where rubbish is likely to be.

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ThisLittleKitty · 14/01/2018 23:02

She doesn't go to his house as he lives with his mother.

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Sparklingbrook · 14/01/2018 23:03

Is he a teenager?

CherryMaDeara · 14/01/2018 23:03

Definitely need my bedroom bin. Hair from hairbrush goes in there morning and evenings and cotton wool pads and buds. And snack wrappings.

LouLouLove · 14/01/2018 23:04

Bedroom bin for tissues, rubbish from bottom of my handbag like old train tickets or receipts, cotton wool, ear buds, packaging tags - no condoms! Would seriously miss my bedroom bin if it wasn't there.

LouLouLove · 14/01/2018 23:05

we have them in bathroom, kitchen and living room as well!

JaceLancs · 14/01/2018 23:06

Bedroom bin is mainly things like cotton buds, cotton pads, labels from clothing, prescription drugs packaging, old receipts etc

Leigha3 · 14/01/2018 23:06

I've never not had one in the bedroom...it's great for disposing of the paper towels we also keep in the bedroom. 😏

80sMum · 14/01/2018 23:09

Not at all weird to have a bedroom bin, imo. I have a bin in every room except the dining room (which is more or less part of the kitchen anyway).

sabs22 · 14/01/2018 23:10

I’ve just purchased a tabletop bin for the bedroom as I’m fed up of hubby moaning about me leaving cotton buds and things lying on the furniture

DoreensEatingHerSoreen · 14/01/2018 23:14

My gran had a living room bin but never used it, in fact when we used to put sweet wrappers in there (she kept a jar of humbugs in the living room) she would tut, take the wrappers out and put them in the kitchen bin ... never understood why she bothered having it

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