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)??

[echt]

Flossing tape boak ? Where does that go?

I think you'll find that lots of people flush it. Unfortunately.

[Dobby1sAFreeElf]

We don't have a bathroom bin currently. Not an aversion to them, but an aversion to our DC enjoying filling them with scraps of loo roll . Hopefully we can reinstall one soon. I suppose we got lucky in that they liked to fill the bin rather than the toilet.

[lindalee3]

I don't care if a female wants to leave a used ST or tampon in my bathroom bin, (wrapped up in loo roll maybe,) but no way on God's earth would I leave mine in anyone else's bathroom bin.

And re the OP, yeah it IS odd to not have a bathroom bin.

[MerryDeath]

absolutely hideous cruelty to not have a bin in a bathroom. savages.

[sprinklesandsauce]

I carry nappy bags, wrap the used towel in toilet roll, then in the wrapper from the new one, then double bag it and put it in my bag. I’m freelance and have worked in some offices with male staff only where the only bins are under desks and I think it’s gross to pop it in there. Or places where there is just one giant open bin for all to see.

Once it’s double bagged it’s quite safe and doesn’t smell.

[Pastaagain78]

I have a bathroom bin. But I wouldn’t put used sanitary products in someone else’s bathroom bin and expect them to empty it. I put the stuff wrap in loo roll in a nappy bag in my handbag and dispose of it at home or in a sanitary bin elsewhere.

[Fluffyears]

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? confused. Or does my house (four bathrooms - four bins grin) just generate more rubbish than other people's. Genuinely confused - and no one menstruates in this house anymore but we still have bathroom rubbish.

Easy finish loo roll take the cardboard one tomthe bin, finish toothpaste, put out new tube, take old tube to the bin.....how is that difficult?

[CoffeeAndToffee]

I don't have a bin in my bathroom. Two reasons: it's a wet room and when DH showers the entire room gets soaked (not quite sure how he manages to do it, but he does!).

Secondly, after I caught my toddler delving into the bin in the upstairs bathroom and chewing on a used cotton bud (and with a used tampon tube in his hand to be sampled next) I removed all bathroom bins from the house

[60sname]

PIL have only one bin...outside their back door When we stay I take a carrier bag with me that I keep in my suitcase (knotted at the top if anything icky).

[Thorsday]

I feel a bit bad about putting it in somebody else's bin, especially when I'm staying. Like, do I expect them to take out my period blood covered pads or do I take out their bathroom bin for them??

[Idratherbeaspider]

I never thought about this! I use reusable/washable pads due to allergies to the disposable ones so I don’t have any rubbish when going to the toilet. I also don’t have any visitors like ever.
We do have a bin but it’s unused, no liner and well hidden. It’s just another thing to clean when it’s being used where I would find it easier to stick empty cartons/toothpaste tubes in the main bin.

[RebelRogue]

@Ludovica your mum is all kinds of fucked up.

[MarthaArthur]

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? confused. Or does my house (four bathrooms - four bins grin) just generate more rubbish than other people's. Genuinely confused - and no one menstruates in this house anymore but we still have bathroom rubbish.

I am reducing all plastic. No cotton buds because theh shouldnt go in ears anyway. No sanitary products as reusable cloth ones. No wipes because we use muslin clothes and flannels. Only loo roll tube and occassional plastic empty bottle both of which go straight in recycling. Guests are free to use main bin in the room by the back door.

[StepBackNow]

Why would you think it's ok for a friend to dispose of it for you? Take it home, you dirty mare.

[Hotdogjumpingfrogs]

I have a bin in every room (including the bathrooms) except the living room. I have better things to do than cart every little but of rubbish down the stairs to the kitchen.

I wouldn't put sanitary products in someone else's bin. It's not my friend's job to clear away my tampons. I wrap, nappy bag and take home.

[bawbles]

I have a tiny bathroom bin that’s lined with a nappy sack and lives in the built in cupboard next to the toilet. Next to it is a pack of sanitary disposal bags. There’s no need to handle anyone else’s period products nor would I notice if guests had left them as it would be in the bin and bagged up.

I don’t have a toilet brush though as they make me shudder.

[lindalee3]

Have to agree with @bawbles, I would NEVER get a toilet brush ... EWWWWWWWWW!!! 🤢

@Ludovica


I have posted about this before. My mum has a bathroom bin. She goes through bins collecting "evidence" against me. I really don't know what would happen if she found sanitary products in her bin. As it is I have to account for everything I take into her bathroom and out.

So if I went in with a tampon in my pocket and came out having changed the tampon I would have to find some way of concealing it on the way out of the bathroom. Usually up my jumper. If she saw that I had anything about my person I would have to hand it over.

She has now started going through my daughter's schoolbag and has found sanitary products. She thinks we don't know.

What 'evidence' would your mom have against you if she found a tampon?

That you have periods? WTAF?

And how come she goes through your bin? Do you and your daughter live with her? Or does she live with you?

I'm confused...........

@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? confused. 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.

As a pp said above - just take your rubbish out with you if there is no bin, and put it in a bin downstairs?

You put a GRIN after saying you have 4 bathrooms. What's so funny about having 4 bathrooms?

[tinyme77]

Bawbles

I think that you win best post. Most thoughtful for guests.

[UghAgh]

Ugh, I don’t want anyone else’s sanitary towels in my bin and I wouldn’t dream of leaving mine in someone else’s bin 😂😂😂

[PlatypusPie]

We have two bins ( I know, the extravagance ) - one by the sink, where empty toothpaste tubes, cotton wood pads etc go, and another, tucked away next to the loo, with a pack of sanitary bags strategically yet discreetly, placed on top.

As this bathroom was used by our DDs and their constant stream of friends during school/ uni visit times, there also used to be a little notice near it saying to please not put any tampons or pads or make up wipes down the loo , as our street’s eccentric Victorian drains could not cope with them.

[Wavescrashingonthebeach]

YY to toilet bin. Im trying to reduce plastic waste but still bathrooms produce non-flushable & none-recyclable waste. I use a mooncup myself but i would ALWAYS ensure i had a bin for female guests.
Some people just dont think of other peoples needs so all you can do is either tell them, or make do with hiding your waste discreetly wrapped up then put in your handbag. Or just dont visit haha.
Ludovica sorry what on earth is your mum doing?!?!?!? How old are you?!
NN to loo brushes - yuck - cleaning liquid, rubber gloves & tissues remove need for one!!

[Aridane]

No one we know at present has any continence issues

How do you know this?

[Fluffyears]

Because the only people who visit my home are my brother, my mother, my mil, my best friend and not one had any issues. Also since we don’t have bin they’d need to dispose of any tena etc in the general waste which Imwould draw attention to it. My mil and mother are a bit to open about medical complaints so we’d know if continence was an issue

[AlexaAmbidextra]

Lost me at ‘on the blob’. Gross.