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)

God this really brings back memories of DM and her weirdness around periods. She used to come into my room and whisper "do you need more of your things?" Meaning tampons. Wasn't allowed to keep them in the bathroom. No bathroom bin. Felt like I had to keep periods a massive secret so would try and open the packets without them rustling in case DF or DB heard. So bloody depressing.

YANBU OP. I find putting them in the kitchen bin worse. My kitchen bin is hardly ever emptied!

I also gave birth two weeks ago! Congrats OP.

Wrapped and in the bin is fine. Mine go in our bathroom bin in the en suite not the bathroom visitors use.

@Ihatesandwiches

When I lived abroad we had to put used toilet paper in a bin in the bathroom. I found it gruesome , but did it! No way am I having a bin in my loo. Used San Pro wrapped in loo roll and out in kitchen bin here. Sorry, I'm with your mum!

In the KITCHEN BIN???? 🤢

You just made a human, and pushed it out of your vagina, and someone cares where and how you dispose of your pads?! You're a better woman than me, I'd have bitten their head off. It's 2020 ffs.

Um, whose house are you in? If it is your house, then YOU make the rules not MIL. And if you’re in her house, she should make an exception as you’ve just given birth (but I would make a concession of emptying said bin at least daily).

I don't want to be wandering round the house with used sanpro in my hands, thanks, (even if it is wrapped up) just so I can put it in a different bin to the one in the bathroom. If the bathroom bin has got a lid on it then that's the place it should go, and empty all the little bins (waste paper baskets, bathroom bin etc) in the house into the main kitchen bin bag as you're putting it outside.

I'm sure a house guest wouldn't want to see you coming down the stairs from the toilet carrying a wrapped up sanpro item either. It's pretty obvious what it is. I would think you're odd for not putting it sraight in a perfect good lidded bathroom bin. I'm not prudish about it, there's just a place for used sanpro and that's in the nearest bin, not carried through the house.

i wouldnt put a wipe i'd cleaned my bum in a bathroom bin. It's the same thing, no fear of menfolk seeing, just a distaste for leaving it hanging round longer than necessary.

There are some weird replies on this thread. Where on earth WOULD you put a wipe you'd used to clean your bum? YOu would rather carry that through the house? Touching door handles as you go? There are some grim people here.....

My DH washes my reusable sanitary pads whenever he’s doing the washing. And I’m a very private person and would never do things like use the toilet in front of him. The washing is the washing, though, and it needs doing. I’m not going to make it 100% my job because I happen to menstruate and care about the environment.

The pads I use you can roll them up in the wrapper and it seals so I put them in the bathroom bin. If people just sling them in without wrapping that's not nice.

My mum is just difficult.... she said I needed to hide my post pregnancy belly with flowy clothes when we went out

There are some weird replies on this thread. Where on earth WOULD you put a wipe you'd used to clean your bum? YOu would rather carry that through the house? Touching door handles as you go? There are some grim people here

I'm.wondering if people put all this stuff on the side of the bath/sink or on the floor whilst they finish up then as you say touch everything all over again put it in a kitchen bin while someone is cooking dinner and then go back upstairs to wash hands and clean sink where they placed it all...

If a bin is emptied regularly then its gonna be there a short period of time whether jts the kitchen bin, bathroom bin, or the next door neighbours bin...

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

Does anyone else regularly empty their small bathroom bin into the kitchen bin? Or just me?

If I didn’t put the contents of the bathroom bin into the large kitchen bin, that contains a black bag, I’m not sure where I’d put it?

That's what the bathroom bin if for isn't it??? Is in my house anyway... x

My mum said to me that I shouldn't put them in the bin in the bathroom because of my DH and FIL

Dear lord. Surely these men - fathers both - know the facts of life and aren't going to faint if they see the evidence of post partum bleeding?
And presumably if your DH doesn't like them in the bin for some reason he's perfectly capable of emptying it.

Roll and wrap. I have a small bin with a lid in my bathroom with a little binbag inside. It gets emptied regularly when I've got my period or after I'd had babies. I just assumed every one else was the same?

No way am I carrying them through to the kitchen!

I’ve always just rolled up my sanitary pads in the packaging and put it in the bathroom bin. Never gave it a second thought. Periods aren’t shameful. Grew up with dad and brothers and no one said anything.

You should put them in the bin downstairs... in the kitchen. I agree with your mum that's disgusting my sister allways leaves her daughters shitty nappies in the bathroom bin or leaves them in a carrier bag outside of my bedroom door not even wrapped up and makes the house absolutely riek I am pregnant with a heightened sense of smell so make her take them downstairs as it is so disgusting and disrespectful not even being botherd to dispose of them properly instead putting them in the hallways making the house stink. She takes them out her room cause she doesn't want to smell it well neither do I wtf. Selfish and disrespectful I think as long as you WRAP them up good and there is no smell then keep doing what your doing

@RonaRossi wouldn’t you just empty into your black wheelie bin outside?

@RonaRossi wouldn’t you just empty into your black wheelie bin outside?

Why what is wrong with emptying the kitchen bin then adding the bathroom bin into it then putting the bin bag in the wheels bin.

This bin angst is both puzzling and hilarious.

Throw rubbish in bin ajd sort appropriate recycling.

Panicking a pad might be in it is all getting a bit ridiculous now...

We have biodegradable bags in the bathroom, and during my period I use those, also have bin liners. If we have visitors overnight I usually change the guest bathroom bin before and after the visit, and in any case all the bathroom bins get emptied and washed twice a week. Isn't that what they're for?

Those that put them in the kitchen bin. Isn't that rather revolting
I agree with that, I never put bathroom stuff in the kitchen bin. Just tie up the bathroom bin liners and put them in the outside bin.

I've never heard of men searching through bins and stressing about sanitary waste. Does anyone stare into their bins to inspect them?

@RonaRossi wouldn’t you just empty into your black wheelie bin outside?

We don’t have one. Black bags go directly onto the pavement on bin day here.

*Bathroom bin with a lid and a bag is for disgusting stuff like san pro, tooth floss, earbuds and used tissues.

Open bathroom bin is for recyclables- empty shampoo bottles, toilet roll inners etc.*

This - we use lidded bins for icky stuff and open ones for paper hand towels and loo rolls, etc.

Not read all the comments (13 pages!)
If they're rolled and wrapped I don't see the problem.
That's what I do.
Surely that's what bathroom bins are for?

My mum said to me that I shouldn't put them in the bin in the bathroom because of my DH and FIL
Pffft, screw that lol, why what will they do, faint if they see a pad?!
I'd be telling them to get a grip if they did
Two teenage boys here and a DH, they know what a pad is and periods lol.