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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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Shockers · 05/01/2019 18:48

This is hilarious!

Drogosnextwife · 05/01/2019 18:55

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

😂😂 just nearly wet myself!

pineapplepenthouse · 05/01/2019 19:02

I'm going to get flamed here but.... I thought you could flush tampons??
Quickly hides from the internet

ChesterGreySideboard · 05/01/2019 19:09

Oh for the love of money! You just said about flushing to get everyone excited and start flaming you didn’t you.

Next you’ll be saying something really controversial like you stand up / sit down when you wipe your arse.

pineapplepenthouse · 05/01/2019 19:11

Well @ChesterGreySideboard there's nothing much on tv and I'm doing Dry January so..... Blush

Drogosnextwife · 05/01/2019 19:12

pineapplepenthouse

What the actual fuck is wrong with you! Wink

In all seriousness though, really bad idea.

pineapplepenthouse · 05/01/2019 19:14

I would never flush a sanitary towel but always thought Tampons were flushable. That's a long time I've been flushing them, yikes!
Every days a school day I guess!

Shockers · 05/01/2019 19:20

Doesn’t it say on the box???

Georgeofthejungle · 05/01/2019 19:20

Me too @pineapplepenthouse! It was a previous thread on here that I found out. I was genuinely shocked! x

LadyRochfordsHoickedGusset · 05/01/2019 19:22

The thought of the Sanpro walk of shame to the nearest bin makes me shudder. swerving in-laws or hosts. Eek.

NorksAreMessy · 05/01/2019 19:29

“Sunburned mouse” Grin

“Wipe itself on the curtain “ Grin

Well done MNetters, well done Flowers

Roussette · 05/01/2019 19:31

I always flushed tampons but haven't had periods for more than a decade and everyone did then. Bathroom bin... nah, can't be bothered with that. Never did.

KittensAndCake · 05/01/2019 19:31

The Mum told me the kids had been all jumping on the bed upstairs and it had fallen through the floorboards.

🤣

If guests arrive uninvited she doesn't make the dogs get off the sofa!

Oh wait, that's me and I care not a jot what my wanker SIL thinks

Ha ha, nice one 😂

Santasshoe · 05/01/2019 19:42

At school we were told to flush tampons by our very old teacher. Since being on here I have learnt that was wrong.

Helipad · 05/01/2019 19:48

I’m dying at the sunburnt mouse 😂 doesn’t everyone else keep the sanpro wrapper on the side and roll the used towel inside it after the use? Or failing that a piece of toilet paper. Putting each sanpro in it’s own nappy sack is such a waste and unnecassary use of plastic.

Gingerkittykat · 05/01/2019 19:54

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

It probably depends on how heavy your flow is but after a few hours of not changing a pad stinks of fresh blood.

Leaving blood to get stale (leaks on clothes, used pads) would very quickly get stinky and stink a room out.

Nappy bags are ideal for wrapping pads and then just sticking them in the bathroom bin.

AnotherOriginalUsername · 05/01/2019 19:58

We don't have a bathroom bin because the dog breaks in and eats the contents. She's also partial to a dirty nappy 🤢

Subtlecheese · 05/01/2019 20:01

No books in a house. So weird.

KirstyAllsoppsFatterTwin · 05/01/2019 20:02

Fresh menstrual flow doesn't smell all that much but once it's dried it smells awful.

PookieDo · 05/01/2019 20:04

My ex has never and still never owned a book

NoIsACompleteAnswerSometimes · 05/01/2019 20:04

On the subject of sanitary towels, here's one.
My mum used to store our used sanitary towels (wrapped in newspapers) in the spin drier, and burn them outside when dad and my brother weren't in ( can't have them knowing that used sanitary towels exist!)
One day the spin drier went wrong so a chap took it to be mended. It wasn't til he brought it back mum remembered that there was a bag of them in there she'd forgotten. Oh how we laughed. Mind you, hiding st's in a spin drier was quite odd.

Motoko · 05/01/2019 20:46

When I was a teen, I stayed a few days with a boyfriend. He shared a flat with a couple of other blokes, and there was no bin in the bathroom. On my last morning there, my period started. When we left later, I quickly changed my tampon and wrapped it in tissue, and jammed it in a plastic tampon holder I had.

We met up with our friends and were walking along the street, on our way to my house, when a police van went past us, went round the block, screeched to a halt in front of us, and they all piled out, like something from the Sweeney, to stop and search us (we were punks, and this was a regular occurrence). I emptied my pockets, and was asked what was inside the tampon holder. I was mortified having to explain, but luckily they took my word for it and didn't ask me to show them.
I always made sure to never carry used tampons with me after that!

Jiminybikkit · 05/01/2019 21:15

On the subject of sanpro, I once went into a house where there was the Great Hill of Pads
The mum and daughters just chucked their used pads into a corner, and because they were dirty bastards, that pile just grew

Same family had 5 dogs and 10 cats, none housetrained. The dogs shit and pissed so much in the kitchen that the floor was totally destroyed and everyone was then banned from entering except the dogs

They just used to chuck crap on their beds, in search for a pair of jeans or whatever, and not bother moving it, they'd sleep on the sofa for a few nights until the spirit moved them to pull the stuff back off their bed and onto the floor.

The bathroom sink was unusable because it was full of cat shit.

However every room possessed a huge TV that would blare non stop, complete crap too, like 24 hour big brother. Nobody was even watching

You never, ever would have thought this particular family lived like this. House was a very fancy new build bungalow, family very naice, educated, kids at private school, came across as rather snobby to be honest, very judgy of other people. And yet they were living like that. They were dysfunctional in other ways too, a teenage child was once grounded for the whole summer for buying a tin of coke without asking permission,and they were rarely allowed out.
I was, I think, the only non family person to cross the threshold in years

evaperonspoodle · 05/01/2019 21:21

I had a friend whose parents were very controlling in an odd way, wanted to know what was going on at all times and they didn't have a door on the bathroom because 'families shouldn't lock each other out'. They did have a half wooden swing door, the sort that old fashioned American saloons had but it wasn't in any way a screen as there was space between the slats.

I didn't want to stay overnight due to this (friend said that everyone in the house had to have a shower before bed, including guests) and she told her mum who gave me this lecture about in a very annoyed, disgusted tone about privacy equalling mistrust of others Hmm

dottygreen · 05/01/2019 21:38

On the subject of sanitary towels, here's one.
My mum used to store our used sanitary towels (wrapped in newspapers) in the spin drier, and burn them outside when dad and my brother weren't

Wtaf this is bizarre Grin