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 just use the bathroom bin with a bag in it - I just wrap them up (in a bit of loo roll) and empty the bin every day or so when it's full. My husband saw me shit myself in labour, i doubt he's worried about some blood. I'm not sure why my FIL would be rooting through my bin in the first place.

Empty loo roll tubes come straight downstairs to the recycling bin as do toothpaste boxes etc.

@MsStillwell

I'm curious as to how she knows you do this.

(I don't have a bin in the bathroom. I use washable pads and so they go in the laundry basket. I have a very light bleed though, I guess if it were heavier I'd probably have a tub for soaking them).

I use washables too. I have a heavy flow. I rinse them under the tap/in the shower when I take them off then button them up back-to-front, and they go into the laundry basket almost clean ready for the washing machine.

I just stick mine to the back of the door and when when enough build up, put them in a bag and empty in the outside bin.

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

Kind of at odds with the MN position of it being a polite thing to do to have guest san pro....

As long as it's wrapped then it should go in the bathroom bin. Had a friend stay over who would leave unwrapped san pro (eek) which was definitely not good.

Ask your mum why your DH would feel it necessary to rifle through the bathroom bin to look at your bloody pads 🙄

YANBU

As long as it has a lid and is emptied often it’s fine! That’s what it’s there for! As long as you wrap it up as I don’t think anyone wants to see anyone else’s bloody pads (or anything else with blood on for that matter).

I was so proud of my DH back when we lived in a shared house that he politely asked our female housemates if they could empty the bin more often when they had their periods (we had a cleaning rota so sometimes he had to do it and people sometimes left it until it was really full if it wasn’t their turn). It was so mature of him. And it didn’t scar him.

I would never leave a wrapped pad in someone's bathroom bin. It is a bit gross surely. And as for those just wrapped in the next wrapper - no way does this hide all the blood surely?!

@Wroxie

Has anyone else's dog helpfully carried a used pad into the living room when guests were around, just so everyone could enjoy looking at it? Or is that just mine?

I went out the next day and bought a pedal bin that weighs slightly more than the dog in question so he can't knock it over.

Nope, but my DS once did when he was at that "finding his feet" age and exploring everything that wasn't nailed down hence the switch to resueables.

Where would you put it though? Handbag, coat pocket?

@gypsywater

Where would you put it?

@Eckhart I would wrap it up really well and put in a small bag I have in my handbag that has all my tampons and paracetamol and what not. I would likely use tampons tho when out and about for this reason. I have never left a used pad at someone else's house. Personal preference.

I'd think you were bonkers if you marched into a kitchen shoved your hand in the kitchen bin covered your arm in last night's spag bol and hid it under the cat litter newspaper at the bottom...

Just put it in the bin ffs

Is it a throwback to when this sort of thing was chucked down the loo? I'm in my 30s and I remember my now very environmentally conscious mum teaching me to tear pads in half and then flush them! It was what she had been told to do
Obviously don't do that now.

As long as they're wrapped up of course I'd put in the bin

What are these "wrappers on the next one" of which people speak?

I just used to roll them & t paper round if necessary.

I suspect your husband knows you bleed and is more concerned about you than the used pad. As others say as long as its wrapped and the bin emptied regularly, fine.

What are these "wrappers on the next one" of which people speak?

You use the outside wrapper of the new pad - assuming they are individually wrapped - to wrap the old one up in a roll. Obviously there comes a point at the end when you cannot do this because you are not going to use a new one.

Gosh how times have moved on. I have two girls who are at the puberty stage, we share stories, chat to one another while the other showers, have no body hang ups and just get on with it cos we’re all girls and have nothing to fear or hide! Totally different to my upbringing where periods were discussed at school in sex Ed ONLY, sex was never mentioned EVER, and no one was allowed in parents bedroom - god forbid! Nothing wrong with putting sanitary pads in a bathroom bin. It’s a natural part of life!!!

Wrap in loo roll and chuck in bin.

Congrats on new baby! You have more important things to think about than older generation projecting male squeamishness.

For what it's worth my MIL was really shocked that DH was hanging out my clean washed knickers on the radiators when she came to stay once.

@GhostsUpMePosts

What are these "wrappers on the next one" of which people speak?

You use the outside wrapper of the new pad - assuming they are individually wrapped - to wrap the old one up in a roll. Obviously there comes a point at the end when you cannot do this because you are not going to use a new one.

I just keep the wrapper of the first one in the pack.

@MysweetAudrina

I just stick mine to the back of the door and when when enough build up, put them in a bag and empty in the outside bin.

It’s nice to have a feature in the bathroom.

Surely that's what a bin is for

What is the bin for then?

It can’t do anything!
Presumably it is actually your house, not hers (then it would different)

If it is your house then you do what you want girl!!! :)

For some it would appear the bin is merely decorative.

Bit like the stunt apple in the lunch box

Probably glued shut or something

Wrapped and in the bathroom bin. Bin is emptied either by me or DH.

DD has left home now so it’s only my stuff and that’s getting less frequent.

No way would I come down two flights of stairs and put used san pro in the kitchen bin! Especially as my non food kitchen bin sometimes doesn’t get emptied for a week (only has “dry” stuff in it so doesn’t smell and non food waste is only collected fortnightly).

I get really annoyed by the way some people think the “delicate” menfolk should be shielded from menstruation!