AIBU to not wear panty liners every day?

[Sammysees]

Tbh this is a complete new one for me. Was having a conversation with a friend yesterday who wears panty liners every day and has done since she was 15. I’d never heard of this before and told her so. She told me I was a manky minge and that everybody wore them. Is this true? Thoughts please ....

RiverTam waste of money, bad for the environment. Why would you?

THIS!

YANBU.

Night time or for more protection.

Why do so many people assume that those, who wear pantyliners, don't change their underwear daily??????

I wear Tena panty liners as I have incontinence issues.

Why wouldn't you just change your pants if needed, or use washable liners? Throwing liners away daily is a ridiculous amount of waste.

@Rudgie47 ok but just to clarify any type of incontinence pad is not the same as a panty liner. at all. So to suggest someone may have incontinence and that's why they might be wearing a pantyliner is insulting.

Oh god .... DONT google sootikins!

You're welcome!

Lots of judgey comments here, presumably from people who don't suffer from excess discharge. I do and have since I was a teen. There's nothing wrong down there, I'm just more 'moist' than others [shudder]. Mine aren't to protect my pants (which are of course changed daily!), they're to protect my trousers, which - for environmental and cost reasons - I don't want to have to wash after one wear. I also wear liners that aren't plasticky or scented.

Oh and unless it's really bad - ovulation mucus yaaaaay - I only wear one a day.

Pant and liner free at night though!

But that's terrible for the environment!! Why on earth would you? There's no need. Plus, they make me itch terribly. They're so perfumed. Yuk. Much better to wear cotton pants and shower every day.

@GummyGoddess

I don’t really want to carry several pairs of clean and worn knickers in my handbag at work!

I guess I am very naive/ignorant about these things. I thought panty liners were for periods or incontinence. I genuinely had no idea.

Get her some washable ones for Christmas, think of how many she has sent to lanfill

I don’t wear them unless at the end of my period. I don’t always wear knickers either.

But Arthur, does your discharge stop at night?

If you can go eight hours at night without pants/liner, then why not in the day?

[I can't believe I'm asking this.]

No, although I have used them a few times since I've been pregnant as my discharge level has been off the charts. But generally no, I don't like the way they feel against my skin and they make me feel more icky than just wearing pants alone for some reason. Also they are deeply unsexy if you're getting intimate and there's a panty-liner stuck to your knicks!

I guess next we'll have to wear liners to protect our panty liners?

May I suggest that if you need them to protect your trousers you could wear more absorbent pants?

Much better to wear cotton pants and shower every day.

Why on earth do you think people wearing pantyliners DON'T do this??

I do everyday, the scented ones, no they dont give me thrush, yes i do wash my nickers everyday

If you can go eight hours at night without pants/liner, then why not in the day?

Gravity. No, I'm not joking.

@celebelly not sexy is it?

I don't always wear knickers never mind panty liners.

Why on earth do you think people wearing pantyliners DON'T do this??
Apprently not washing

YANBU Panty liners? What's the point of them? Aren't they an invention to make women feel unclean? Why wear that bleached material next to your skin every day? Ewwwww! Get some air to your vulva, christ on a friggin bike!

Bugjune glad I’m not the only one 🤣 I don’t wear underwear at home, I wear it for work but as soon as I get home I go without (unless on my period). I can see why some people feel they need to wear them but if you are one of those people please do look a washable one.

I struggle with wearing pads for 5 days a month and they often give me thrush.