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)??

[TheFirstMrsOsmond]

But surely now that we all do recycling, the real problem in someone else's house is knowing which bin is which? Every household has their own system

[MarthaArthur]

Are all british women prudish and weird about periods? Do men in the uk not know periods exist? This is all very weird.

[Dodie66]

Buy some pop ins. Sandro disposable bags. Sorted. Hopemits ok to post the link. Tesco sell them too. What’s the problem with putting it in a bag tying it up and taking it home with you?
www.amazon.co.uk/Robinson-8062-Pop-ins-Sanpro-Disposal/dp/B019FGR6U6/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=popins%20sanitary%20bags&ie=UTF8&qid=1528748181&sr=8-1&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21

[Murane]

I don't have a bathroom bin, or a bin in any room other than the kitchen. Imo there's no reason that you can't just put your rubbish straight in the kitchen bin. I don't want rubbish piling up in any other room. I'm particularly grossed out by the idea of people putting sanitary products in my bathroom bin to sit and fester because I don't know they're there. Take it away with you or put it in the bin outside!

[echt]

We are all grown ups so what if someone knows you have your period as a woman of pre-menopausal age it’s perfectly normal

And still a private matter. Also not sure any woman would like to have to carry their used Tena pads through to the kitchen.

[RebelRogue]

@Sparklingbrook I asked a friend I was visiting where her toilet brush was after DD went. She said she didn't have one,the boys just pee on any "stains" until they go away. Oh well..

[Sparklingbrook]

Very environmentally friendly that Rebel No bleach required. Perhaps cleaning the toilet bowl with urine is the way to go...

[TokenBritPoshOfCourse]

This thread has made me realise that my aversion to pads/nappies/snotty tissues in the kitchen bin isn’t the norm.

And I’m not even that much of a neat freak or germ phobic. How funny.

Bathroom bins all the way here.

[hidinginthenightgarden]

We have 3 bathrooms and no bins. I use a mooncup though and have a 2 yr old who goes in everything so wouldn't want to find her with period stuff in her hands.
We don't really have guests as we have no spare room and most family and friends are no more than an hour away.

[Sparklingbrook]

No festering here, the bathroom bin gets emptied every day like any other bin.

[Fluffyears]

@echt dunno no one in my house uses Tena so that’s irrelevant 🤷🏻‍♀️

[EdWinchester]

I couldn't put a used tampon in someone's bathroom bin. Just no way. Not the kitchen bin, that's almost worse. I would treat a used tampon the same way I would treat a dirty nappy - straight into the outside bin, or kept in a bag until I could get it there. I think it's disgusting to expect hosts to empty a bathroom bin that has a sweating tampon in it, wrapped or otherwise.

We have house guests almost every weekend. In over 20 years, no guest has ever left used sanitary products in the guest bathroom bin.

[Fluffyears]

Also I would want tena pads to be put straight outside! My father had continence issues before he died, his pads went straight outside.

[echt]

@echt dunno no one in my house uses Tena so that’s irrelevant

This thread, in case you hadn't noticed is about being a guest in someone's else's house, and feeling apprehensive about there being no bathroom bin.

[Fluffyears]

No one we know at present has any continence issues either and I don’t feel embarrassed in someone’s house I usually wrap my sampro really well and ask when I come downstairs if it’s ok to use the outside bin. I’m not leaving festering toweksbfirvsome poor sis to come across.

[MeyYael]

Just saw that picture of the carpets in the bathroom.

That's really grim imo! (Much worse than no bathroom bin.)

Why...?! :=0

[RebelRogue]

Honestly,if you come into my house just put it in the kitchen bin. Whatever it is...can't be any worse than left over cat food. Stupid cat.

[Shadow666]

Yes, you should trek out into the garden with your used sanitary products. I suggest you also ring a bell and chant unclean, unclean, as well just for safety.

My mum has IBS. She's very grateful for people who are thoughtful enough to provide things like loo brushes and toilet bins.

I also want a DS with magical cleaning urine. That would make my life so much easier.

[likeacrow]

RebelRogue that made me lol!

edwinchester Have you fully inspected the contents of your bins every time a guest has departed? That's fucking weird.

I knew I'd get a load of super self-righteous responses along the lines of "hey man, periods are natural, we're grown ups, what's wrong with everyone knowing you're bleeding? I'm sooo chilled out compared to you..." But in REAL life, not everyone is comfortable with everyone else knowing such an intimate detail and prefers to keep certain things private in certain company. I don't need my father in law to think about my periods thanks. If that makes me uptight or immature so fucking be it!

All these people carrying it all to a separate bin downstairs, I really don't get how that's easier!

hidinginthenightgarden My 15 month old roots around in everything too, but she doesn't hang out in the bathroom on her own so the bathroom bin will remain!

[likeacrow]

Shadow666 Giggling so much!!

[Ragwort]

I can't believe people don't have bathroom bins, do you carry your empty loo roll/toothpaste box/tissues/cotton wool pads, empty cleaning products etc etc to another bin all the time? . Or does my house (four bathrooms - four bins ) just generate more rubbish than other people's. Genuinely confused - and no one menstruates in this house anymore but we still have bathroom rubbish.

[Ragwort]

Flossing tape boak ? Where does that go?

[KERALA1]

Host teenage girls so bathroom bins, lidded, with plastic bag inside essential in every bathroom. Would hate anyone feeling uncomfortable. Mooncup user myself tho.

[KERALA1]

Shadow your post made me laugh

[RebelRogue]

@Ragwort there's two (longish) steps from my bathroom to the kitchen and the bin. Though I stopped doing the toilet rolls as DD collects them to "do" something with them.
Wonder if she's building a bathroom bin.