AIBU to have sanitary products on display?

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And by on display I don’t mean on a golden stand under a spotlight but on a shelf in my bathroom.
We have had friends and there DC (dd 8 and ds 6) to stay this weekend.
I have a box of tampons and packet of sanitary towels on a shelf in the bathroom. I went in and noticed they weren’t there, after hunting found them in the cupboard under the sink with the cleaning products, I put them back on the shelf. Just assumed it was DH who has form for throwing things in the nearest cupboard when ‘tidying’. Went back to the loo later that day and noticed again they had been put in the cupboard.
I went back in the lounge and said to DH, can you stop putting my stuff away in the cleaning cupboard. That’s when friend pipes up ‘oh I moved them I don’t think it is appropriate for them to be out especially where the DC can see them’. I was quite perplexed by this, but carried on the rest of the weekend, sanitary products hidden away as to not scar the children.

AIBU to think this is a totally bizarre way of thinking??? Firstly it’s my bathroom, can have things out if I want and find it rude that someone would put them away but secondly to think it is inappropate for children to see them, especially as she has a DD who is 8!
It’s a silly thing but the more I think about it the more flabbergasted I am!!

In our ensuite bathroom there is sometimes a box on the window sill if they won't fit in the (small) bathroom cabinet. In our main bathroom, there is a big cupboard so they are in there. DD was probably about 8 anyway when I told her about protection. (she had had a tummy upset, and I gave her a panty liner to save her knickers and she asked what it was) Now she is in high school I have given her a container of sanpro to keep in her bag so she is prepared if/when she starts at school, rather than have to ask.
You get dispenser machines of sanpro in the ladies toilets in supermarkets, pubs and service stations...so its feasible they might have been corrupted already!

Well mine are in a drawer in the bathroom because the dog is a theiving, half kangaroo little shit and can jump up as high as the shelf in the bathroom.
I think it's the wrappers that have attracted her attention and she thinks they're food. But that's the only reason, everything remotely edible is either at the back of work tops or in cupboards - even bins. We're working on it
Until she took a shine to them they were on the shelf.
Your friend is wierd and rude moving stuff in your house.

TBH I am in the 'put them away' camp - not least because they are more clutter that you don't need out and can attract germs.

I wonder how you cope buying all the germ ridden boxes/packets left on shelves in shops and supermarkets?

Goes without saying that YANBU! When I was 17 I was a live-in nanny for a French family with 4 DC over the summer. They were very traditional, strict Catholics. I had a bathroom to myself but they asked me not to have my contraceptive pill packet ‘on display’ in the event that they had visitors. A few days later I spotted a pill pack in the bin. It was not mine. Clearly a guilty conscience and a desire not to have a 5th DC (can’t blame them as theirs were pretty bratty!)

I don't have mine out for the same reason I don't have bottles of bleach out, or Persil boxes out - they're not attractive/ornamental and I don't need them every day. They're in a cupboard by the loo.

But I certainly don't feel ashamed of them. I just don't like clutter.

She is BU for re-arra ging YOUR bathroom. However, i can't understand people who leave theirs out on display

Mine are in the cupboard (along with spare toilet roll and cleaning products).

Seems like some people on MN just said to make a point and shove their period in peoples face. Obviously not saying hide it or be ashamed, but equally it doesn't need to be in peoples face.

can attract germs

Wtf?!?!?

Do you have nothing sitting out in your house then? How do you cope?

“Older people (50+) can be embarrassed IMO”

Really?

After a lifetime of her own periods, prolly knowing of her mother’s & sister’s periods, probably her daughters’s, girlfriends’ & female colleagues, a woman aged 50+ is going to be embarrassed about menstruation and some Sanpro?

Likewise a man aged 50+ will have no experience whatsoever of living alongside menstruating woman & sanpro around the house.

Now if you’d said older people say from my grandmother’s generation (100+), that’d have seemed reasonable comment to me 😉.

Enough of the aged based generalisations please.

it doesn't need to be in peoples face

How is putting it on a shelf equate to being 'in people's face

Can you bear to have loo roll visible? How is San pro any different?

Older people (50+) can be embarrassed IMO

😂 So that's why my boyfriend spends so long in the bathroom! Being over 50 he's clearly mortified by the sight of my (woah) bodyform and needs time to compose himself.

Odd behaviour to move yours. Jolly rude, actually.

I have no problem with anyone leaving Sanpro in sight in a bathroom, but I choose not to do it. Just like my dad chooses not to leave his haemorrhoid cream in sight in his bathroom. I keep everything in cupboards apart from soap, hand cream and towels. I remember being a little surprised when I first visited dh’s Parents’ house and his teenage sister’s sanpro was on the window sill. It was the first and only me I’ve seen sanpro in sight in a bathroom. But I wouldn’t have commented on it or moved it.

She is very rude to move them TWICE. My ds used to come into the bathroom Willy nilly when young so would actually see me using san pro. I keep them in a box with a lid on top of the cistern now though, so a bit more discrete. When I’m bleeding heavily who wants to get off the loo to root around in a cupboard and make a mess everywhere. She’s mad

Mine were never on display simply because I never had shelves in the bathroom. I always kept them in the bathroom cabinet though. Everyone knew where they were if they needed them.
Your friend sounds like she wears a wincyette nightie that gets pulled up to her waist once a week on a Sunday at 22.00 precisely with the lights out. 😂
I remember a time when my husband was packing his kitbag to go away on exercise and he asked me if I had enough tampax to spare him a couple. My friend who was here at the time asked what he needed tampax for. The look of disgust she gave him when he explained that if he or one of the group sustained a deep gash or similar, then a tampon is ideal to use on it and they also make excellent fire lighters. She started giving him a lecture about how they're private women's things and looked even more disgusted when she was told to fucking grow up.

I’d never have them on display. It’s personal, and I don’t want other people seeing my stuff. I want to keep those items private.

Those who have no issues with leaving their sanpro out on display - do you leave condoms on display to? Or lube etc.? Sex is nothing to be ashamed of either, totally natural act, but would you leave the above items out for anyone to see?

Put your Anusol in pride of place.

Wow. I started my periods when I was 8.

I now collect donations of san pro for local schools and women's refuge. I have a tower of storage boxes tall than my DS7, filled with san pro. He helps me sort it out and enjoys stamping paper bags with a wise words stamp pack I have.

He's totally oblivious to what they are but I'm ready for the questions!

When I’m bleeding heavily who wants to get off the loo to root around in a cupboard and make a mess everywhere.

Top tip-get everything out of the cupboard before sitting on the loo.

You're friend is in the wrong. You are totally reasonable..

Not like they were drugs or condoms...o_O

Hmm, I keep mine out in our en suite when I need them. Not in the family bathroom, though...

Good point about the loo roll.

Her dd may well need them soon.

Dh tidied mine away when mil came to stay one time... I told him not to.

do you leave condoms on display to? Or lube etc

Those things are in the bedroom as that's where they are used. My bedroom isn't a public space for visitors.

Do you have loo roll 'on display'? If so, I don't know why you hide away some personal hygiene items and not others.

*I don't have mine out for the same reason I don't have bottles of bleach out, or Persil boxes out - they're not attractive/ornamental and I don't need them every day. They're in a cupboard by the loo.

But I certainly don't feel ashamed of them. I just don't like clutter*

Same here.

My bathroom is a sanctuary, I have sanpro in a cupboard out of sight.
But there are other things I don't want to look at either when I relax in the bath-fungal nail treatment, bottles of bleach, medication etc,
all that stuff is in a cupboard.

Only the on on the actual loo roll holder. All others in cupboards. Also not sure why you have decided sex related items are only to be kept in the bedroom? My point is neither periods nor sex are something to be ashamed of, but you don't leave your condoms around in plain view.

Oh! Doesn't everyone have one of these in their lounge?

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