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)

I'm amazed at all the people who go walking about carrying used sanitary wear. Why would you want to do that?

It's just misogyny which was much more rampant when DM was young than it is now.
Shameful periods, evidence must be hidden. Also shameful pregnant belly, we know what you've been up to.
If DM hasn't been around younger females with more modern views she won't know the world has changed.

I have only read half the thread but would like to point out that 1) the OP is an adult woman and can do what she linkes. 2) the OP is a woman and women bleed 3) this is t even a period. She just gave birth, this is postpartum normal bleeding. I could barely walk comfortably with stitches post partum. I couldn’t go traipsing out of the house everytime i peed as i was breastfeeding most of the time and was exhausted and in pain 4) what a horrid thing to teach boys, that women are dirty and need to be hidden. Would they prefer you endure your bleeding in a hut OP, or the garden shed out of the main house 5) my father is indian and would flip out if there were period paper wrappers in the floor. The pads were wrapped up in loo roll and in the bin. 6) this is very medieval 7) MoT importantly, surely it is more sanitary to have the pads in the bathroom bin,Where they belong, rather than in the kitchen were you prepare food and store food and eat it.
Very unreasonable and medieval attitude.

I also wonder, for the OPs who are happy to take their pads and tampons (Because you shouldn’t be flushing them into fatbergs) outside to the main bin, aren’t you worried they are just loose in the bins and will be churned up by the dustbin van and will be seen by the Binmen/ pedestrians who will have to avert their eyes or turn to stone 🤣 ?

I also wonder what your DHs/DPs do with used condoms or excessive loo roll. Do they also go straight out to the front bin? Or is that what the bathroom bin is for, male waste, and only women have to bear the shame of bodily functions .

I also wonder if this refusal to use bathroom bins lead to all tampons etc being flushed down the loo, leading to sewage problems. Also does it cause an aversion to reusuables meaning we are not able to move towards environmentally friendly period choices.

Perhaps we need to change our attitudes. It is 2020.

Totally agree, and this is reminding me exactly why we don’t have bins in the bathroom

Just out of interest what do you do with used dental floss, empty toothpaste tubes, used sachets, recycling etc if you have no bathroom bin?

I think some issues are being confused here.

I don't like blood soaked sanitary items lying in bathroom bins. I have a husband and an adult son and I have no shame or need to hide evidence of menstruation.
I don't like any vomit/blood/shit soaked material in upstairs bins.
If a cat threw up and I wiped up the mess with tissue, cleaned it up, bagged the mess, I wouldn't dream of chucking it in the bathroom bin. It is gross, smelly and grim.
Same with sanitary towels. Not something I want hanging around. Same goes for shaved body hair, messy hair dye stuff and other crap that goes on in the bathroom.
I like a zen bath without a binfull of smelly crap a few feet away.

Same with sanitary towels. Not something I want hanging around. Same goes for shaved body hair, messy hair dye stuff and other crap that goes on in the bathroom.
I like a zen bath without a binfull of smelly crap a few feet away

I understand the zen bath thing.

And yes vomit (especially cat vomit!) would go straight in a bag and into the wheelie bin here.

Shaved body hair doesn’t smell though? Or hair dye or dental floss?

We have a lined lidded bin in every bathroom, including in the en-suite for guests. Most actually tie the bag and put it in the wheelie bin before they leave but I’ve no problem doing it myself if they don’t, I just see it as part of cleaning the bathroom?

Whats your mother doing going thru your bin? Eurgh! Your bathroom bin is for stuff like that. But not for someone to rummage thru!

So where do the no bin people put things like dental floss

There's a hell of a lot of internalised misogy and period shaming in this thread.

How sad.

It makes me laugh thinking of seeing my neighbour outside while I'm carrying my tampon to the bin. If you have a bathroom bin with a liner, what's wrong with just emptying it every day?

If you have a bathroom bin with a liner, what's wrong with just emptying it every day?

Because I dont want to empty my bathroom bin every day.
Far easier to put smelly stuff in the kitchen bin.
I have eight bins bins in the upstairs rooms.
They get emptied once a week.

@eloquent my lodger left two blobs of periods blood on the floor and the bin is overflowing with her sanctuary towels. Bit gross don’t you think?!

@speakout yes I’m starting to think people on this thread would leave skid marks in the toilet.

sanctuary towels

Lol lol lol

I find them gross and stopped using them asap.

I use moist wipes after going to the loo which go in a nappy sack and in the bin. When I did have periods I did the same with tampons. I put pantyliners in the bin too. I don’t see why anyone would have an issue with it.

@RattleOfBars

Totally agree, and this is reminding me exactly why we don’t have bins in the bathroom

Just out of interest what do you do with used dental floss, empty toothpaste tubes, used sachets, recycling etc if you have no bathroom bin?

Yes I was wondering exactly the same.🤔 Personally I wouldn't want the faff of carrying this stuff downstairs to the next nearest bin, especially used sanpro. Yuk!😟 Oh well, each to their own.

In 32 years I have never once entered someone’s bathroom and smelt a period and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t just roll, wrap and stick in the bin. Well maybe you haven't been in a bathroom with used loo paper and sanitary pads left in a bin for a week. Obviously that smells, well lets be honest it must absolutely stink.

Just out of interest what do you do with used dental floss, empty toothpaste tubes, used sachets, recycling etc if you have no bathroom bin?

Assuming this is genuinely confounding you, we put them in the kitchen bin, which gets emptied every 1-2 days.

Items that need recycling, go straight into the recycling bin (the receptacle is right next to the bin the kitchen).

In fact, ew. If you put items that need to be recycled into your bathroom bin, does that then mean you need to rifle through the bathroom bin to appropriately sort them...?

@ancientgran

In 32 years I have never once entered someone’s bathroom and smelt a period and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t just roll, wrap and stick in the bin. Well maybe you haven't been in a bathroom with used loo paper and sanitary pads left in a bin for a week. Obviously that smells, well lets be honest it must absolutely stink.

It’s gross when you go to Thailand/turkey etc and have to leave used toilet roll in the bin.

I cannot believe what I am reading in 2020. People horrified by (in some cases ANY) WASTE in BINS. 'Smelly' shaved hair in a bin messing up your bathroom zen? The idea of having to shield men from seeing or knowing about period products?

Talk about needing to get some fricking perspective. I despair, I really do.

And if wrapped properly in a lidded bathroom bin that it changed frequently, how smelly are your period products?! Agree with the PP who said she'd never in 32 years smelt period products in the bathroom of anyone she knows - and by sheer probability at least a few of them will be wrapping and putting in the bathroom bin.

All the people scared of bathroom bins must flip out every time they stay in a hotel.

@CurlyhairedAssassin

All the people scared of bathroom bins must flip out every time they stay in a hotel.

Bins are cleaned between guests?

I cannot believe what I am reading in 2020. People horrified by (in some cases ANY) WASTE in BINS. 'Smelly' shaved hair in a bin messing up your bathroom zen? The idea of having to shield men from seeing or knowing about period products?

Talk about needing to get some fricking perspective. I despair, I really do.

Calm down.

You do realise that people do have bins? They do deal with waste and rubbish? But just elect not to gave a bin in the bathroom/s?