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)

@ChalkDinosaur

Yanbu. Actually if anything I'd find it weirder to put them in the kitchen bin...

If you think about it, putting them in the kitchen bin does sound disgusting, but I guess it's because they usually get emptied daily (or used to before 50 different recycling varieties became part of our lives). When I lived at home they did go in the kitchen bin because it was in a separate cupboard and had an automatic lid that closed as you shut the door. Our dog was a brat for emptying other bins across the floor. 🤮

Mine go in a mini pedal bin in the bathroom after being wrapped in loo roll (or next pads wrapper). Bin has a liner, it gets emptied as & when necessary.

I think it's minging go put them in a bin unwrapped.

@GhostsUpMePosts

Another roller and wrapper in the bathroom bin here.

However, I may be persuaded to adopt this tactic:

My Mum used to put her pads in a paper bag which she burned in the garden at the end of her period!!

I rather like the element of ceremony here and may start doing this whilst dancing naked in the moonlight...

I actually remember once the bonfire my Mum started got out of control and she had to call the fire brigade!!

Sorry, I'm with your Mum. My Son's girlfriend puts her used pads in my bathroom bin and I don't like it. She wraps them and everything like she should, I just don't like the thought of that dried, smelly blood sitting there. I always change the bin liner when I notice she's left one there. I would never embarrass her by saying anything though xx

There's no way I'd put sanitary towels in my bathroom bin, purely for the reason my dog would spend the rest of his life checking it for some gorey fun. Mooncups all the way.

Roll and wrap. Can you imagine the waste of plastic if you binned each one. I wrap each one in the wrapper from the next one -if it's a heavy bleed I wrap again in toilet roll.

Unless your mum wants you to pretend blood doesn't happen? Or wrap it in newspaper etc?

Wrap and roll I do it I have a tiny bin for this.

Man or woman, who wants to open a bin and see a jam rag sat there? Wrap and separate bag it already.

I can’t think of anything a bloke would put in a bathroom bin, tbh. Empty loo rolls and shampoo bottles etc go in the recycling. I was under the impression that men’s loos don’t actually have bins anyway.

Used condoms.

The sock they just discovered had a hole in

Tissues

The hair from the plug hole/hair dryer

Razor blades

Sweet wrappers

Lots of things

I'm with your mum - no one wants to see someone else's blood.

As long as they are wrapped it's fine. Periods are nothing to be ashamed of.

If I'm visiting somewhere I will use the bin, bit. I will always tie up the bag and put it in the main rubbish when I leave so no one else has to deal with it.

Most of those go in the bedroom bin. You sew up sock holes. Hair goes down the loo. Razor blades should go in a sharps box.

Clearly I’m a Binzilla.

Men need to grow up if you live with women you need to accept they have periods. Why should women be forced to tiptoe around the issue and hide/feel shame?

The hair from the plug hole

Oh god. I just found some gelatinous stuff growing in the ensuite (which I rarely use - shower at the gym - so it's all DP) sunken drain's soap and hair soup. Put me off kombucha, I'll tell you that.

Your mum is being so unreasonable. You don't need to hide anything, especially your post baby body. If your DH can't handle your wrapped pads in the bathroom bin (where they belong FFS) I would think that a bit pathetic!

Use nappy bags. Wrap it in the wrapper the new pad comes in and then put it into a nappy bag...

Thats what i do

Binzilla..

Reminds me of Monica in friends hoovering the hoover with a hoover wondering how she will hoover the hoover she hoovered the hoover with...

Its a bin . It contains rubbish. Rubbish you expect in a bathroom. Unless you have a bin fetish and rummage you don't really see what's in it anyway.

My mum was very much of the view that menstruation should be a private thing. There was no bathroom bin when I lived at home. Her attitude was the prevalent one in those days.

There’s a scene of a pad being burnt in stove in a classroom in the 1967 film To Sir, with Love in which the male teacher loses his shit and says ‘There are some things every decent woman keeps to herself”.

I've had my fair share of boyfriends and only one of them never tried to have sex with me on my period, so I don't buy the idea that men are super squeamish about menstrual blood. Your mum would hate me though. I use washable cloth pads and they go in the regular laundry along with everything else.

Why do people use nappy bags? It goes into a bin bag into a bin inside enough plastic already.

I love with teen ds.

My pads fo in bin wrapped in the new one package. He empties all bins as it's his job 🤷‍♀️

If he ever complained I'd remind him that without periods he wouldn't exist!

As long as the bin isnt an open type and their wrapped I dont see the problem.

How does your mum know what you put in the bathroom bin? Does she actually go through it?

I had a flat mate like that once, got angry with me for putting (bagged) sanpro in the (lidded) bathroom bin. Put a huge sign up saying that I had to empty it. She was a stupid bitch with OCD.

Unless she actually rifled through the bin, I’m not sure how she even knew what was in it! Disgusting!!!

I just roll them up securely. My bathroom bin is only for sanpro and dental floss and I use washable pads at home so it's just the one when I come home from work each day. Loo roll tubes go in the cardboard recycling under the stairs.

I feel sad that some people would rather their guests put them in their handbags and take them home, as they’re too disgusting to even go in the host’s bin