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To ask what the strangest thing is that you've seen in a family home/life...

888 replies

purpleworms · 03/01/2019 12:06

...that to them was completely normal?

I have just seen someone asked this on an AMA on their Instagram. Their reply was walking around fully naked in front of parents/siblings/any family members.

While this is obviously okay for some, if it happened in a home I was visiting I'd be Shock but that's just because it's not the norm in my family.

I'm racking my brains but I don't think I've ever noticed anything! But people have such different ways/customs within their home lives and routines. We all regard our own as normal without ever really knowing if what's normal to us is strange to others!

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KirstyAllsoppsFatterTwin · 05/01/2019 17:21

I don't have a bin in the bathroom! I just don't like them.

You don't like them? Confused

But you don't bedroom bins and you'd rather carry manky stuff like used tampons through the house to the bedroom or the kitchen? Confused

If you are having a period you just need to make sure you empty it more often than when you're not. Putting sanitary ware in the kitchen or bedroom bin is GRIM.

Some people are so odd.

Donkdonkgoo · 05/01/2019 17:25

👍😷🙋🚿

Roussette · 05/01/2019 17:27

I don't have a bathroom bin either! Never have! (Mind you I'm post menopausal but even when I wasn't, I couldn't stand to put all that in a bathroom bin, it went in a nappy sack and straight out)

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 17:27

I don’t have a bathroom bin and have used entirely reusable sanitary products for years.
I have no children so no girls in need of using it.
My closest female friend doesn’t have a bin in her bathroom either so I don’t feel the need to provide one for her when she comes over.
My bathroom is so tiny that there isn’t an inch of floor space where one could fit.

W0MANlikeME · 05/01/2019 17:27

San pro in the kitchen is grim 🤢

Clionba · 05/01/2019 17:28

Ok, Kirstie, I'm odd.
I'll live with that!

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 17:28

Putting sanitary ware in the kitchen or bedroom bin is GRIM.

Why? Why is having it in a room with the toilet in different to having it in a room with a bed in?

Santasshoe · 05/01/2019 17:29

I only have a kitchen bin. Often think about getting a bathroom one but always need to buy other stuff.

regmover · 05/01/2019 17:30

Family eating and sharing - it's got to be 20 years ago but I'll never forget going out for a chinese with a fairly recent boyfriend's family. They were all a bit "up themselves" if you get my meaning, particularly Mum who was like a bloody ogre round their dinner table. Anyway, we are sat at the chinese ordering food and all agreed that we'd share what came. Great. Food arrived and as I was the newbie I'm airily waved to go first and I do - I take a little bit of rice and a few spoons of something. Because that's what you do isn't it? Then you take a bit more later and maybe try something else...
Well they were like a flock of bloody locusts. They must have all been able to see the tiny portion in my bowl but they passed the dishes round between themselves until they were scraped clean. Then of course I was left looking at an empty bowl while they sat there stuffing. So I called the waiter over and ordered myself a chow mein. Clearly my manners were considered worse than theirs because the matriach glared daggers at me and didn't speak to me for the rest of the evening. Oh... and we all paid for our own calculated pretty much to the last penny, so I paid for my chow mein. And the mains that I'd chosen and they'd scoffed in front of me. Fuckers. Grin

Donkdonkgoo · 05/01/2019 17:31

I have better things to do than empty a bathroom bin everyday.... leaving a bathroom bin with stinky sanitary towels in for more than a day is grim! Also my son uses bathroom bin so more likely to see inside it, kitchen bin is bigger so can push it under other waste.... nothing grim at all..... sanitary waste does start to smell after a few hours.

piefacedClique · 05/01/2019 17:32

My dad used to do home deliveries and when we were little we would go along with him. We delivered bread to one house where in the kitchen they had chickens who lived under the table. The table was surrounded by chicken wire and the chickens were underneath it. The family ate the meals using the top of the table and the chickens lived underneath! Stills amazes me!

flameycakes · 05/01/2019 17:44

Gerbils!! Once went back to a lads house to meet his family, there were gerbils running everywhere, too many to count, my ew dinger went through the roof, never went back again x

KirstyAllsoppsFatterTwin · 05/01/2019 17:44

Why? Why is having it in a room with the toilet in different to having it in a room with a bed in?

Really? You really need me to explain this? Shock

A bathroom is generally an environment where everything is washable/bleachable and easy to make as hygienic as possible, given it's a place where we shit. It's a room where it's reasonably easy to contain or deal with unpleasant smells or bodily fluids without them needing to contaminate the rest of the house.

You don't want your bedroom, with its carpets and curtains and bedding and clothes everywhere to be smelling of stale menstrual blood every time you open the bin. And stale used sanpro is about as foul smelling as it gets.

You can wrap tampons in loo roll or a nappy sack and make sure the bin is emptied regularly but so long as it has a lid on it, it's no big deal if they are there a few days. No-one has to look at it but you.

To stick them in the kitchen bin only to have someone else in your family open it to scrape the remains of their dinner onto a used tampon in full view, to have to smell it several times a day every time the bin is opened is fucking grim and as for keeping them in a bedroom, words fail me.

Donkdonkgoo · 05/01/2019 17:50

Ffs I don't leave it on full display like an effing sunburnt mouse..... it's wrapped in loo roll hidden under other waste in the kitchen bin which is emptied every evening. 🙄

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 17:51

A bathroom is generally an environment where everything is washable/bleachable and easy to make as hygienic as possible

Is the used towel or tampon going to climb out of the bin and wipe itself on the curtains?

KirstyAllsoppsFatterTwin · 05/01/2019 17:53

No, but it's going to stink the room out. Who wants to sleep with that?

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 17:53

Not if you put it in a disposal bag.

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 17:54

Anyway. I don’t have or need a bin in my bathroom.
You aren’t likely to be visiting me anytime soon.
So it doesn’t really matter.

flameycakes · 05/01/2019 17:55

Not sure how long you would have keep a tampax in so it'd end up stinking ffs x

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 17:58

I like the idea that to put then in the kitchen bin is grim. You know, the bin with the discarded bits of dead animals in.

LloydColeandtheCoconuts · 05/01/2019 18:14

Ffs I don't leave it on full display like an effing sunburnt mouse...
GrinGrinGrin

MitziK · 05/01/2019 18:20

Sunburned Mouse? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! Amazing!

(This is, by the way, one of the reasons I use a cup instead it's better than having to deal with physical waste)

And bits of dead animal never feature in the kitchen bin. Because I have a cat with one out out constantly for food the opportunity to bankrupt me with vet bills .

MitziK · 05/01/2019 18:21

who is on the look out. Duh. Why is there no Edit function?

AnotherOriginalUsername · 05/01/2019 18:34

Is the used towel or tampon going to climb out of the bin and wipe itself on the curtains

Just woke my blissfully seeping baby laughing at this 😂

I'm wondering how badly some people's menstrual flow smells?!

AnotherOriginalUsername · 05/01/2019 18:34

Sleeping. The baby is sleeping!