To not accept that there is 'period poverty' in the UK.....?

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Fully expecting to be told I am BU, but I genuinely do not get this 'period poverty' malarkey.

Some reports say periods cost £42-45 a month (£500 a year.) Never in my life have I - or anyone else I know - spent £42-45 a MONTH on their period. Not even a tenth of that actually.

Some of the things they (supposedly) spend money on are tampons and STs (obviously...) You can get a pack of sanitary towels for less than a pound. Less than 50p in some shops!

And also mooncups.

Although mooncups cost £16 to £22, most mooncups will last 10 years, so you'd only buy 3 or 4 in your lifetime!!! And they also spend on pain relief - but paracetamol and ibuprofen are 16 to 26p a packet from Wilkos. And plenty of other shops sell them for a similar price!

Oh and apparently, they have to keep spending money on new underwear every month. What a load of shit.. I have bought 18 pairs of underpants in 5 years, (at a cost of around £25 for the entire 5 years!) 5 pairs of them are dark coloured - and I wear them for my periods. Never in my life have I bought new underpants for every new period.

So what is this all about? And how on earth are they coming up with such a ludicrous figure as £42-45 a month?! I mean, some girls are apparently using toilet roll as they 'can't afford' sanitary towels? In most cases, toilet roll is more expensive than sanitary towels FGS!

Does going bankrupt not cost 700 odd quid nowadays? I'm so poor i couldn't even afford to go bankrupt

More if it's a limited company.

Benefits allow a good standard of living

What absolute bollocks

I am a SAHM and I don’t claim any benefits. You can stick that one up your fanny for free.

I don't think I've read a more stalkerish, trolling post than boxsets on here in a very long time.
Scary how twisted some people can be, isn't it.

not hard to make sensible decisions

Life is so much rosier when you have a crystal ball up on your little perch. Fuck me sideways some people really do need a poke up the arse with a broom. Should I just have shoved DD back up my vagina when my job situation changed then?

How the fuck do workshy folk earn working tax credits?? Please do fill me in on this gem

Wow. Who on earth said that?

Okay, I'll bite. Name a poster who actively chooses to exist on unemployment benefits and doesn't want to find work.

How much would it cost the state to identify, investigate and sanction parents who fail to provide their DD's with sanpro, to fight the appeals and send out the necessary letters and warnings? I bet it would cost a lot more than £24 a year per girl.

Mine are disability related. So are the ones I get for the kids, so they don't count. Well, they would in boxsets' book but she's a troll genuine poster according to mnhq (biggest laugh I've had in a while)

I used to get DLA before they changed it to PIP. No doubt boxsets thinks that’s wrong

@Frequency

I'll bite. I chose to exist on benefits, because although I could probably do a full day of work (badly), I wouldn't be able to have any life outside of work. Just sort of existing in a malnourished smelly sleepy haze until I killed myself from stress and overwork.

That's a hard one to explain to ATOS assessors, but it does qualify me for ESA because it's not reasonable to expect me to choose to exist only for the purpose of working and sleeping.

But it is a choice. I could genuinely do the opposite and the state would approve.

Don't listen to Boxsets. She's an old name changer who has an axe to grind with anyone who has more than one child, SAHPs, anyone who doesn't spend his/her life chained to a desk.

choutted if you don’t mind me asking, what’s the condition?

They rejected my PIP claim for depression and anxiety which leaves me feeling like that. I also have horrible fatigue that no one can find a cause for.

When I ended up in a refuge because of DV and had to claim to survive while my injuries healed I did not have a good standard of living thank you very much neither did my dd

In afraid period poverty is alive and well in the Uk. As is fuel poverty Ava many other types of poverty! Some women are victims of financial abuse; not a penny to their name as their pesky husbands etc keep every penny. Others have gynaecological problems which make period ten times worse than the ‘ average period’. Some are so poor they don’t know what to buy first; san pro, food, electric, kids clothes. Come on OP, life in modern Britain is tough for many !

And before anyone jumps on me with millions of links to articles, I know these situations exist, but they are not the reason the majority of woman supposedly cannot budget to buy sanpro.

In your opinion Jacques, but not in mine. You do realise your opinion isn't fact, I take it?

And yet you have not produced a single fact to support your own opinion. Or are we supposed to bow down to your natural authority?

Chouetted, I would class you as being unable to work not actively choosing not to.

If someone said to you you could be healthy and work or stay as you are, you wouldn't choose to stay as you are, would you?

Benefits allow for a good standard of living

First: ha ha ha ha ha.

Second: always assuming that you qualify for benefits.

In 2017 the total backlog of uncollected child maintenance payments in the CSA/CMS reached £3.8bn. Given that women are more likely to be the resident parent I wonder what the impact of all that missing money might have on their budgets.

Good point Box I'm shocked that people are so desperate they fail to do anything to improve their situation and will see their DDs go without. It's easier to say it's the Governments fault, or society's fault, but it's never my fault.

Ergh, do people really still use the term "work-shy"?

I'm shocked that people are so far up their own arse they cannot see why poverty is a trap that's very hard to get out of.

When they finally kill off the thread it's onto the next
Left wing socialists at best, trolls at the worst.

Yet the only reason the thread is standing is because MN decided it was a useful demonstration of the reality of Period Poverty. The OP had a range of their posts deleted and was deemed 'goady' also by MN mods.

Evening, folks. We have had a fair few reports on this thread and, to be honest, it does seem a tiny bit goady and we were going to delete it.

However, having read it, there are so many stories and experiences on it that we think are actually quite important to have 'out there' so people can see that period poverty is a real thing and how many 'ordinary' average women it has affected at some point. So we were thinking about leaving the thread up.

Also since you are so keen on improving the level of the debate it's, perhaps, worth noting that 'left wing socialist' is a tautology, in addition using 'left wing' to qualify the noun 'socialist' means that 'left wing' becomes a compound verb so should be hyphenated.

I'm really please to hear that there's a Red Box donation point local to me. I will make sure I donate some quality san pro.

@MrSpock I'm autistic, and dyspraxic which has secondary effects of fatigue and depression when I interact with the rest of the world. I was misdiagnosed as recurrent depression for nearly a decade.

You should appeal the PIP claim if you can, a lot of people are denied first time. I went from 0 points to enhanced daily living on appeal.

Also, get your vitamin D level checked - not because I think it'll cure you, it's just it won't help you not feel like crap if you're deficient in it, and it's very common to be deficient in it.

@Frequency Hell no, I had very different plans for my life. I wouldn't choose not to be autistic, but I would choose not to have the other aggro. if I could merely just be properly accepted and supported, that would go a long way.