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)??

[Wavescrashingonthebeach]

Exactly Aridane its the type of thing people can be mortified about & their closest friends would prob never know.
Its not a big ask to keep a small lined bin in the bathroom..

[lindalee3]

Weird how some people on here claim to have neat little 'sanitary bags' in their bathroom for the sanitary towels and tampons of their visitors. Yet of all the houses I have ever visited (friends, family, acquaintances, work colleagues, neighbours, extended family, DH's family, my kids friends houses and so on,) I have not once - EVER - seen a sanitary bag in someone's personal bathroom for guests. Not ever. Not once...

Do they look something like pic 1 here.

Do these people have a sanitary bin as well?! (pic 2!)

And a rotating cloth towel dispenser?! (pic 3!)

Do you have INITIAL come empty your sanbin for you?! 🤣😂😂😂

[Fluffyears]

We’ll surely dig someone was ‘Mortified’ at needing incintinence pads they would not be disposing of them in a bathroom bin which is usually quite small and continence pads are usually fairly bulky (or at least the ones my dad used were). As for private I get told all about my mothers bowel
movements or mils pee colour as she thinks she may be dehydrated so they aren’t exactly shy!

[SnuggyBuggy]

I really resent having to carry used sanitary wear in my hand bag, especially tampons which just leak no matter how much toilet paper they are wrapped in.

I'd also be pretty mortified to have to walk it to the kitchen bin in front of everyone.

[ineedaholidaynow]

For those people saying just put it in your bag and take it home as it is disgusting to leave used tampons etc in someone else's bin, what happens if you are staying with someone for a few days? Do you end up going home with a handbag full of little nappy bag parcels?

[Wavescrashingonthebeach]

Linda your post made me giggle, but yes you can get small boxes with bags in.
I remember them being a floral pattern box with purple bags in. Similar to a fancy tissues box (nose blowing not toilet tissue).
We had them in a drawer though not on display.

[TotHappy]

Mental... What is wrong with leaving your sanitary stuff in someone else's bin to empty? That is not gross - its WHAT BINS ARE FOR! They're not meant to stay pristine!

[paxillin]

I can guarantee this thread will bring up the people who think they are absolutely disgusting

I read bins other than the one big one referred to as "rubbish satellites" on MN before.

[TheOriginalEmu]

i fear i am a person with no bathroom bin. my bathroom is downstairs, next to the kitchen, so stuff just goes into the kitchen bin. I don't have periods and haven't since i was 23, so it doesn't even occur to me. I don't have guests often though.

[ElderflowerWaterIsDelish]

Keep a scented nappy sack/doggy poop bag in your pocket or handbag...and put the used folded up pad or used tampon in...press all the air out of the bag, tie handles tightly then roll up small and put in handbag or pocket until you can drop it in a bin

[ElderflowerWaterIsDelish]

Ludovica that is awful that you have to hide used tampons and that she's rooting through your daughter's bag too...what would your mother do if she found a used tampon in the bin?

[UghAgh]

I feel like we need a Venn diagram of MN’ers opinions on bathroom etiquette. 🤔

Everyone who has a loo brush
Everyone who has a bathroom bin
Everyone who lets visiting plumbers etc use the bathroom.

[lindalee3]

@wavescrashing

[bawbles]

Linda we have these www.boots.com/boots-deg-fragrant-disposal-bag-10094672
They are just mini nappy sacks in a darker colour.

[likeacrow]

StepBackNow
Because I'd do the same for them. When I have a female friend to stay of course they can use my bathroom bin to put used sanitary products in. It's got a lid & a liner, it's zero issue, that's what it's there for. I'd be genuinely gutted if they felt the need to snuggle their own rubbish home (not always practical anyway as some of my close friends live hours away) or into my outside bin. So unnecessary.
Do people really not have close and comfortable enough friendships with their female friends to be able to put a tampon or towel in a bathroom bin?! How sad.

[UghAgh]

Do people really not have close and comfortable enough friendships with their female friends to be able to put a tampon or towel in a bathroom bin?! How sad

How patronizing 😁. I don't have a bin in my guest loo but I have a close relationship with my friends and I'm sure they would just use the kitchen bin or ask if they wanted.

I find it a bit weird that people are so cool about putting sanitary towels in other people bins but suddenly so squeamish about putting them in their handbags until they get home.

Do people check their bins everyday? I wouldn't ☺️. I think a few days old bloody towel might smell. Surely that's worse than people just carrying them home or popping them in a kitchen bin.

[SnuggyBuggy]

The whole point of a bin is to pit offensive waste in surely?

[speakout]

It's because I value my close friends that I wouldn't put a used tampon in their bathroom bin.
Fishing tampons out of a bin ( even wrapped ones) is not a job I enjoy.
I wouldn't put my own used tampon in my own bathroom bin at home, because that just creates another task.
And not a task I would create for my friend at her house either.
Much easier just to take it downstairs and shove it in the bin in the kitchen.

[Sparklingbrook]

No need for any 'fishing out', just knot the bin liner and take it out. Do people really go rooting through a bathroom bin?

[bawbles]

ughagh I find your comparison between putting used sanitary products in a bin and in a handbag bizarre. Bins are there for the purpose of storing waste, I would always have a bag/liner in a bathroom bin so nothing needs handling. The idea of a used tampon in my handbag is gross, why would I want that nestled between my lipstick/baby teethed/phone.

[theconstantinoplegardener]

Used sanitary wear in the kitchen bin? I once heard an awful story about a pet dog who retrieved interesting items from the swing bin in the kitchen and presented them to his owner in the sitting room, in front of the guest who had put the items in the bin.

I think they got a pedal bin for the bathroom after that.

[speakout]

This thread is hysterical.

[Sparklingbrook]

Threads about bathroom bins on MN are always hilarious, and just make you glad your RL is normal.

[JacquesHammer]

I have a bathroom bin in each bathroom.

In each cupboard I have sanitary towels, tampons and disposal bags. I would hate anyone to come over and feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

My 11 year old went over to a friends house and they didn't have a bathroom bin. Poor kid had to text me and ask what to do with her used sanpro. Fortunately I'd packed her some disposal bags in her "period kit".

[JacquesHammer]

Fishing tampons out of a bin ( even wrapped ones) is not a job I enjoy

Christ - because you touch some wrappings?!

Why do you need to fish in the bin anyway?!