Period pads in bathroom bin

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My mum gets worried and anxious about all sorts of crazy things, courtesy of her mother. I am much more chilled and so we clash a bit...

I gave birth 2 weeks ago and, of course, I'm still bleeding a bit and wear biggish daily pads (the biggest one of the small ones, you know). My mum said to me that I shouldn't put them in the bin in the bathroom because of my DH and FIL. I should take a separate bag (and put it where???!!!).

Let me be straight with you: my answer was "not happening"!!!

Are you team "my mum" or, like me, you think "though"?? (Btw the boys of the house don't usually empty the bathroom bin)

Rolled and wrapped I’d bin them wherever I want in my own house.

My DH does empty bins in our house and has never turned a hair. He also buys Sanpro often coming home with new ones he’s seen when out shopping. In fact DD’s have declared he’s better at buying sanpro than me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Why would anyone give any thoughts to the contents of anyone’s bins anyway? Your mum needs a hobby.

Oh yes, and please don't wrap them in any more single use plastic! Awful.

@Rhine same here re:hiding the sanpro and my brothers were allowed to piss over the seat with no rebuke.

We do a lot so as not to offend the stronger sex don’t we?! Hide anything icky or embarrassing from them, never scold them for their revolting/lazy habits.

I wouldn't put it in he bathroom bin OP- that's just me though. I don't like potentially smelly or stuff soaked in fluid- of any nature hanging about in bathroom or bedroom bins.
Nothing to do with hiding beeding vaginas, just a comfort thing.
So if tissues with semen in the bedroom, or a nosebleed, or other wet stuff like a sheet face mask, wet wipes, stuff from big hair removal, jelly bath bombs gone wrong, or any wet/messy items I like to take downstairs. Otherwise they can leak or smell.
I just take sanitary or damp downstairs as I move about the house- I make the star journey easily 20 times a day, so see no need to store used sanitary items in an upstairs bin

• @BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou used commons in your en-suite, try it at your family members home for a more balanced reaction.*

Well we haven’t always had an ensuite so used to just go in bedroom bin. But san pro goes in a small paper bag in the bathroom bin if I am at my brothers house, my daughters flat, holiday, etc. etc. NEVER a kitchen bin 🤢.

@Spacerader

Everyone seems to be obsessed with lids as well. Lids are not needed. God forbid if a man is offended because he sees something wrapped in a bin.

As long as the bin is emptied often so it doesnt smell who cares.

Lids absolutely are necessary if you have a dog who like to eat the bin contents.

If they're so offended by the natural results of childbirth, maybe you should hide your beautiful baby from them too 😂 😂

I wouldn't want a guest to see them... Also wouldn't want my host to have to deal with pads if I was staying in someone else's home, but in the privacy of my own bathroom? They're in the bin with the other things.

I find it particularly annoying that it's the men in the house she wants to "protect" from the sight of pads. Does she believe men are more fragile or squeamish than women? Seeing someone else's used pads isn't going to be any more pleasant for a woman than for a man.

Men are doctors, hunters, butchers, soldiers seeing blood and death on the battlefield. I suspect that modern man can handle a glimpse of menstrual blood.

How bizarre. Of course you can put used pads in a bathroom bin! You just wrap them up first. Obviously a used tampon without any loo paper/wrapping around it would be grose but a used pad in some tissue or a wrapper is nothing!

My Dad used to buy pads for me when I was a teenager and I openly discuss PMS with family members -there is no reason why these things should be shameful.

I'd be a bit of this was mentioned to me. In what context is she worried about FIL and DH? What exactly is going to happen to them?

But either use little bag or wrap and roll.

What a weird thing for her to be hung up on

YANBU- Team you!

Just wrap up carefully, bin with lid & empty regularly

Line the bin with a bag, make sure it has a lid, then just chuck, no wrapping in extra plastic. What else is the bin for?. They all know you just had a baby I doubt the bin gets used for much else. (loo roll empty toothpaste?)Empty bin every day and you will be fine.

Team you! I wrap in the wrapper of the next pad and then bathroom bin.

Hardly likely they'll be rummaging through the bin anytime soon 😂

...this is pretty much the point of bathroom bins surely?! All that goes in ours usually, with sometimes empty shampoo bottles and such..and loo roll holders (so we dont get an army of them on the windowsill which seems to happen!)

S YANBU at all IMO.

I don't get the issue of the host having to deal with a used pad. They have to empty the bin with or without a guests wrapped pad, where's the extra work?

Roll, wrap, ensure bin has a lid and is emptied daily. I don’t see what the issue is. If they’re still fussing get some brown paper sanitary bags?

Or if you have a nappy bin you could put them in there (the sort that seals each nappy/pad) so there’s no smell.

It’s only a biohazard if you have an infectious blood bourse disease! If that’s the case you could bag them separately in a separate bin.

Don't buy more plastic to put them in! Wrapping in loo roll is fine!

Or if you have a shared family bathroom (no en-suite) maybe use a separate bin? I think guests might be a bit startled to see blood-soaked pads in the bin where they put dental floss/make up wipes/tissues etc.

The issue with a host isn't that it's extra work, just that it can be gross to see used pads, and I wouldn't want them to see them, if they didn't have to. So I'd try to cover them with something or empty the bin myself, if possible. In my own home, I'm not worried about that, though, nor would I expect my husband to freak out at the sight of a used pad in the bin.

To be honest, when I was post partum I was going through so many a day we just kept a bin bag in the bathroom especially for them, the bin is far too small. But I am on your side on this one.

But you wouldn't see it unless you went rooting through the bin. Also you don't see blood on a wrapped pad. Do some people have really strange bin habits?

Those that put them in the kitchen bin. Isn't that rather revolting?

this is pretty much the point of bathroom bins surely?! All that goes in ours usually, with sometimes empty shampoo bottles and such..and loo roll holders

The only things that go in my bathroom bin are used condoms and wrappers, san pro, hair (don’t put it in the toilet ... it contributes to blockages), cotton buds, dental floss (not even cotton wool anymore as I switched to reusable cosmetic pads). Loo roll tubes and empty plastic bottles are kept separate for recycling.

Ask her what bin she thinks the men of the house are using for their cum tissues.

Don't use scented bags, like is too short

@SonjaMorgan

I kind of agree with your mum. Mine go straight in the outdoor bin as I think they can start to smell quickly. I wouldn't do it because of my DH or other male family members.

PROTECT THE MEN ffs