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)??

[Mousefunky]

I have stayed in the home of someone who didn’t have a bathroom bin. I know this is disgusting but I had to wrap my pads in tons of toilet roll and leave them in the front pocket of my bag till I could discretely dispose of them in their wheely bin.

[Broken11Girl]

Agree OP.
If you have guests, just have a bathroom bin.
I wouldn't carry used sanitary products around in my bag and wouldn't put them in the kitchen bin, not nice for whoever empties it, and not nice carrying it around the house, especially as a guest not knowing who might appear and see it.

[Rainydaydog]

Its definitely more hygienic to have a separate bathroom bin for any bathroom stuff and not use the kitchen bin.
On the other hand its only sensible to take a plastic bag with you if you aren't completely sure what bins people have when visiting.

[mommybear1]

I have a bin in every room (including the three bathrooms and wet room). I have better things to do than cart every little bit of rubbish down the stairs to the kitchen or go round picking up everything cluttering each room that DH leaves behind I'd like to say he got that habit as he got used to having someone go round picking up after him but no PILs house has an eclectic mess in every room. My particular pet hate is letters taken out of envelopes then put back with envelopes (with, not back inside) in the bathroom- why???? Thanks MIL LOVELY HABIT

[CutesyUserName]

Frankly, I'd remove my bathroom bin if I thought someone would shove their used tampon/pad in it. Yuck. Think ahead, for gods sake. Keep a couple of small plastic bags in your handbag, wrap the tampon in loo paper and shove it in the bag. Dispose of it in a proper (outside) bin or take it home.

[Sparklingbrook]

Cutesy Your poor visitors!

[Angie169]

I have a bathroom bin , When I am going out I take some doggy poo bags in their little dispenser so they do not take up to much room in my bag or pocket .
I hate it when you go to public / pub / restaurant loos and either they do not have proper sani bins or they are full .

ikeepaforkinmypurse
where do you get your nappy sacks from that cost absolutely nothing ?

[JacquesHammer]

where do you get your nappy sacks from that cost absolutely nothing

Asda do packs for 40p

[likeacrow]

ughagh
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.
A bin is for waste. A handbag isn't. Obviously...

[likeacrow]

Why the actual fuck would you be fishing tampons out of a bin?! Put the bin bag in the outside bin! No fishing required! Mental.
Made me chuckle though so thanks for that

[BingTheButterflySlayer]

We have a bathroom bin - it's intended for things like cotton balls, sanitary disposal etc so it's a dainty little thing. In reality the kids and husband keep putting huge bits of rubbish in so the bloody thing is always fucking full.

[Flexoset]

I haven't RTFT but if nobody has mentioned the Fab Little Bag company yet then this is probably what you are looking for.

They do special period disposal bags. Biodegradable (so a bit more green than most nappy sacks) and also opaque (so you're not flashing your tampon to the world if you leave them in any bin). They seal at the top and have little loops at the top so you can hold them open with one hand.

They used to be a bit on the small side because they were initially designed for tampons only, but now they make them big enough for towels as well.

I know I sound like an advert but these things saved my life when I had to stay at my in-laws' in a remote area with a heavy period. In fact I can't believe nobody has been making these before.

They have a website if you want to google.

[Flexoset]

God that really did sound like an advert!! Sorry. I have no connection with the company or anything. But those things are really good.

[peeseandchickle]

I have a bathroom bin upstairs but not in our downstairs loo (which is the one most guests would use). Really should get that sorted! I use a cup so never need to get rid of sanitary products in a bin and I must confess I kind of forgot that some people do need a bin! Going to sort it out this week.

[UghAgh]

The Fab Little Bag company bags are very expensive. The boots ones listed earlier in the thread are a lot lot cheaper.

I'm still surprised at people being so squeamish about carrying around their used san pro in their bags. It's wrapped up carefully and in a little bag. There is absolutely no chance of it leaking or smelling. I don't know why people find that gross.

[AnElderlyLadyOfMediumHeight]

I wouldn't mind emptying a bin containing my guest's used sanpro. Why ever would I? I'm not putting my bare hands all over it and licking it.

Sad to see so many women still feel periods are disgusting.

[TotHappy]

@UghAgh it's squidgy, smelly... Besides mine wouldn't be in a little bag because i don't have any little bags. I just wrap used towel in wrapper of new one, put in bin. Anyone's bathroom bin. Or if i was in a house without one, i suppose I'd cart it to the kitchen, but I'd rather not.

[allertse]

If there's no bathroom bin and the kitchen bin isn't a few convenient steps away, I'd flush it. Their fault if their pipes get blocked! Moot point now as I use a mooncup these days anyway.

I think it's fucking weird that people think bathroom bins are gross but will quite happily keep (or expect others to keep) a used tampon/pad in their handbag though!

[MarthaArthur]

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.

[IncyWincyMouseRat]

We don’t have a bathroom bin as I use a mooncup and the cottage we live in is so tiny that carrying any other waste down to the kitchen really isn’t a problem. My mum never liked sanitary waste going in a bathroom bin as it can get a bit smelly so I’m very used to just wrapping it up and putting it in a kitchen bin and have never thought of this as odd. I hadn’t even considered that guests might not feel comfortable putting it in the main bin! Maybe a tiny bin is in order.

[MissCherryCakeyBun]

We live with elderly family and out of 5 I'm the only woman, men aged 93, 78, 72 and OH at 53 1/4
Both our upstairs and downstairs loos have this arrangement little bin, Sani Bags and a small zip bag with a few wrapped tampons and some wrapped pads. We do have female visitors ( 3 young adult daughter as well as friends) and I find this works perfectly. It easy to see when the bin needs emptying and it's the right size to pop loo roll inners in too. The older guys have never mentioned it so it's not an issue there

I totally agree on the carpet in loos and bathrooms utterly grim

[MissCherryCakeyBun]

Sorry here is the pic

[gryffen]

Our bathroom is too small (litterly too small for a bin) so we have nappy bags if needed and people know the bin is outside.

Pretty common sense if your on period then be prepared and not first time family or friends have started at our house and I just hand them what's needed and say feel free to shower - painkillers or anti sickness in top shelf.

I started my period in primary 6 though so I had to had organised a pack etc and I was heavy.

[SerenDippitty]

I don't have a bathroom bin. Always just taken rubbish straight to kitchen bin.

I'd find that a pain. Period stuff not an issue but what about used cotton wool pads, used lady razor blades, soap cartons empty toothpaste tubes. Right pain to have to go downstairs every time I had bathroom waste.

[theconstantinoplegardener]

It needs removing straight away and most normal people would not waste an entire bin bag on one tampon. But why would you need to remove it straight away? It's not nuclear waste. It's (presumably) wrapped and in a covered bin. Just empty your bin once a day or every couple of days as normal!

To all those PPs saying women should carry their used sanpro home with them in a bag because it's disgusting to expect somebody else to deal with it, do you feel the same way even if the person emptying the bin is not known to you? So for example if you are staying in a hotel or eating in a restaurant, would you leave used sanpro in the bathroom bins in this situation or would you put it in your handbag and take it home with you?