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 also have a range of period products in the main bathroom cabinet, in case visitors need them, so no ‘shielding men from knowing about, or seeing them’.

But yes, I do prefer not to have rubbish and waste products (read: used sanpro) sitting in multiple places around the house for longer than is necessary. I’m odd like that...

A bathroom is more than a functional space- it is a place to relax, to cleanse, to restore, to chill and pamper.
I have a bin, but I don;t want to see clutter.
I don't have sanpro on display, it is kept in a cupboard with all the other items I don't want to look at when I am relaxing in the bath.

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...?

Thanks for clearing up the issue. Do you mean it’s a downstairs bathroom or you have to carry rubbish and recycling down the stairs each time? Or do you have a recycling basket or something?
I’m genuinely curious as have an image in my head of my DH carrying his hair clippings down 2 flights of stairs without dropping them!

We have a recycling bin downstairs in the kitchen, so any bathroom recycling gets left on the bathroom floors next to the lidded bins upstairs (I’m talking empty bottles/loo roll tubes/boxes from soap so nothing messy or smelly). When that person leaves the bathroom they (hopefully) take the recycling downstairs. If not the next person takes it (usually me 🙄).

We just take whatever needs going in the bin out of the bathroom with us, and put it straight in the kitchen bin. That’s the extent of the logistics required.

DH shaves in the basin, and washes the teeny tiny hairs down the drain. He doesn’t transport them anywhere. Is this not an entirely normal means of disposing of beard hair? We’re talking about sub 1mm hair shavings here.

It’s gross when you go to Thailand/turkey etc and have to leave used toilet roll in the bin. Yes it is and for someone to claim they can leave used toilet roll and sanitary pads in a bin for a week and it magically doesn't smell would be hilarious if it wasn't disgusting.