To panic about bathroom bins (or lack of)?

[likeacrow]

Always wondered this if at someone's house and notice they don't have a bathroom bin. What the fuck are you supposed to do with your used period paraphernalia if on the blob? Take it home with you? Make a little parcel and attempt to smuggle it into to another bin? Try to force it down the bog?!?
Why don't people just have a bathroom bin...? What do you do if you don't have one (and are a menstruating female)??

[AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight]

'For anyone saying why would you fish it out of the bin. Imagine putting a new binbag in the bin and someone comes around and puts a used tampon in your bin. It needs removing straight away and normal people would not waste an entire bin bag on one tampon.'

Why does it need removing straight away? It's not radioactive toxic waste.

[likeacrow]

Aw Snuggybuggy. I think I def would have just flushed it in that situation!

[SnuggyBuggy]

I remember a bad incident when I was a stupid 13 year old at a family members house with no bathroom bin and I ended up leaving in a tampon for 12 hours. I didn't know what to do, I would have had to walk it past a bunch of extended family to get to the kitchen bin, the toilet was a bit iffy so didn't want to risk flushing and I just panicked and decided to leave it.

[imnotreally]

My x inlaws didn’t have a bathroom bin and when I first stopped there on my period and didn’t know I was mortified at having to smuggle my used sts into the kitchen bin.

Now my dd has her periods it’s a struggle to get her to put them in a bin and not on the floor 🤢. She would never bin them if she had to come downstairs. Has made me realised I could do with a lidded bin for the bathroom tho.

[UghAgh]

This thread is hilarious in how polarized it is.
I can't believe people get so worked up over having a bin or not having a bin (or having a regular bin AND a recycling bin).

I seem to remember a thread about whether people should take their kids nappies home with them after visiting friends or not and the was similar outrage from both camps.

I can't fathom why people get so angry about things like this.

[likeacrow]

Nothing nice is going to go in or come out of one so we don't have on
So by that logic you don't have bins full stop.
Madness on this thread! Ha ha.

[TotHappy]

I'm really bemused by that, butler. Agree, nothing nice is going to go in (sanpro, hair and used makeup wipes in mine, plus occasional nappies) but you'd have all that stuff anyway; what else are you going to do with it?

[butlerswharf]

I'm an ex medic so not squeamish in any shape or form but I don't have a bathroom bin as I think they're rank . Nothing nice is going to go in or come out of one so we don't have one. I actually don't recall seeing one at any friends or family's home either.

[flowersinaugust]

There's no bathroom bin at one of the sites I work at. It's all guys apart from me so they've presumably never had to consider it. It has given me the push to finally get a mooncup but honestly trying to figure out what to do before that was tricky at the best of times.
I've never not had a bathroom bin at home and I'm suddenly thankful all my friends do too

[Aridane]

(though I did have a friend who shouted at me for putting my Coke can in a rubbish bin when out and about instead of taking it home and recycling)

[Aridane]

Thank fuck I don’t have friends who are binless

[LakieLady]

do you carry your empty loo roll/toothpaste box/tissues/cotton wool pads, empty cleaning products etc etc to another bin all the time?

Empty aerosols, plastic bottles/jars and anything cardboard or glass gets carried downstairs because it goes in the recycling. I don't line my bathroom bin because I'm trying to reduce consumption of single use plastics, and the bin has a plastic inner bin that gets washed out if it gets grotty.

But then no-one in this house is incontinent or menstruating. I may start leaving a few nappy sacks (used as poo bags) in the bathroom for guests who may be using sanpro though.

[letsallhaveanap]

also its really odd that some people would rather have guests putting used sanitary products in their handbags than just emptying their bathroom bin each day.... only on mumsnet

[likeacrow]

letsallhaveanap Exactly. That's what we do.

[letsallhaveanap]

and I think its very odd to rifle thru bins for recycling... surely you just keep recycling separate at the outset rather than fling it in a bin that youd then have to sort thru?
I put empty shampoo bottles and toilet roll inners at the top of the stairs to take straight down to the recycling when I next go downstairs.
Bathroom bins are for minging items like used sanpro, tissues, hair, used cotton buds, cleaning wipes, toenails etc who on earth wants to rifle thru that?

[lostfrequencies]

This thread is hilarious and I have often wondered the same myself OP.

[letsallhaveanap]

omg yes its awful when people dont have bins... was at a friends house once.. a female friends house which was full of people at the time and she had no bin in the downstairs loo.... TMI but my tampon was absolutely flooded and just fell out practically when I went to the loo.. had to wrap it in toilet paper but then had no where to put it! Couldnt sneak it thru to put in kitchen or upstairs bathroom bin because house full of people... ended up having to wrap it up in loads and loads of toilet roll and put it in my handbag to dispose of later... it was so so grim.....
I make sure theres a bin in an obvious place in my bathrooms now I dont want anyone to go thru that... and a bin with a bag and a lid... not just a basket

[Ragwort]

We have no bins at all in my house - do you honestly go out to the wheely bin everytime you need to get rid of a sweet wrapper, food packaging, used tissue etc etc - I must generate more rubbish than most people as I have a bin in every room plus another one for recycling,

[lynmilne65]

It's a boast, re no of bathrooms!

[SnuggyBuggy]

Obviously you should always carry a poop scoop for that eventuality

[OneStepSideways]

Very inhospitable to not provide a bathroom bin for guests/visitors (it should have a liner and lid too so it's discreet).

[JacquesHammer]

Yes I go "fishing" though the bin for that reason.
A good two thirds of the waste is for recycling.
I don't just tie up the bag and chuck it in general waste.

It's mostly shampoo and shower gel bottles, cardboard tubes, cardboard boxes from toothpaste tubes etc.

I'm surprised to hear a lot of posters don't recycle this stuff

Who says they don't recyle?

I recycle absolutely everything - I have a large recycling caddy downstairs and a small one upstairs so we sort as we go.

There's absolutely no need to fish about in a bin; far easier and quicker to sort as you go along.

I also don't line my bathroom bin, no need for excess packaging, just a wipe out every week.

[likeacrow]

snuggybuggy
"Would you expect your guests to piss in a plastic bag and take that home so as not to befoul your toilet?"
Bah ha ha haa!
God this thread is brilliant. Even if I do say so myself.
I wish I could meet some of these bizarre human beings who find the idea of sanny pads being put in a bathroom bin or even the whole concept of a bathroom bin utterly unspeakable. Can you imagine if you ever took a dump in their bog and left skidders (as clearly a bog brush on show would be far too vulgar). What would they DO?!?
Mental.

[Sparklingbrook]

I just take the bathroom bin out every day without even looking in it.

[speakout]

I don't " double handle" my sanpro stuff either- straight in the main bin.