AIBU to re-purpose my sanitary towels?

[MrsBobDylan]

I solved a life-long problem today.

Wanted to show off my new DM boots on a socially distanced walk with best friend today.

It is 20 years since I last wore in new DM boots - I'd forgotten they are an absolute bugger.

Torn between bleeding heels and showing off, I tried sticking sanitary towels to my heels.

Well, beat that Scholl. Turns out I am a fucking genius!

You're welcome.

@LochJessMonster we have nearly enough ideas for a spin-off book - 101 ways to re-purpose sanitary wear.

Bonjela is also a key weapon in the fight against rubbing shoes

My bloke injured his foot. I manufactured dressings from sanitary towels (ends cut off). He was extremely grateful then the silly nurse at the emergency centre asked him about them laughing. The penny dropped and my macho man came home less than pleased with my attempts to help.

My ds has nosebleeds. One started on the school run so he walked to school with a fanny pad on his nose. He was 10 at the time and horrified. I carry emergency tissues now

Had this epiphany a few years ago but only shared it with A Man a few weeks ago. Am I a Traitor?

@Butterbeeeen my DD has nosebleeds and on one trip we only had a tampon and I told her to use that. She did and then put it on the dashboard to take inside. We stopped at the shops and saw my neighbour and gave him a lift home without thinking...to this day I wonder what he thought.

I’ve done this on a long hike before!

Also the thin liners stuck under your armpits (sticky bit on your clothes!) can stop sweat patches eg for important job interview. I got this idea after seeing underarm patches for sale in Asia that were basically sanitary liners. Don’t know why they haven’t caught on over here.

@Magicmonster

You need to write in to the magazine Love It (if it’s still going). Their tips pages always used to be full of inventive uses for sanitary towels.

YES!! My favourites included sticking them to your hips to give you a more ‘shapely’ figure, and sticking them to your hands and cleaning the bathroom.

Just to add, use the scented pant liners in your pumps in the summer and it stops smelly feet. Replace as necessary. Life hack gold.

My DS fell over on gravel when we were abroad one year and cheese-grated his knees. He was about 15.
He had to wear long pants to the evening meal so I put Savlon cream on his knees and then taped a ST over to protect his knees from the trousers. He was mortified 🤣🤣

@modgepodge :-)

My favourite one was where a woman said she wanted to dress as a bunny but had no ears, she folded two sanitary towels over a headband

Dh split the top of his scalp open on a door handle. Off we went to a&e with a super flow sanitary towel on his head .

Much more absorbent than kitchen towel and the triage nurse was very impressed with our quick thinking .

@JoyIsCounterfeit you were very wrong not to share it on MN - you deprived womankind of this marvellous solution. Until I came along and saved everyone yippee!

@SaveMyGrass my dh is of a nervous disposition and still struggling with the sight of two sanitary towels on the coffee table with a bit of blood on.

We might have to end our marriage as he is very jealous that he's not a genius like me. When we met 18 years ago I was just an ordinary woman so it is a big adjustment

@LochJessMonster

My mum taught me to stick them to my tshirt sleeves as sweat absorbers when going through that sweaty puberty phase

To be fair they did work and stopped me getting embarrassing sweat patches.

But imagine if they’d fallen out in the middle of a party! 😱 Wonder how good they’d be at providing cushioning in wellys?

I have a pair of DM boots soft leather so no breaking in I think they are called Pascal Virginia l love them

Alright @Mintyt that's enough trying to eclipse my genius with another solution. Just steady on with the suggestions please.

@OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow fab for wellies I reckon - stick the sticky bit to your heel then put on two pairs of socks. I'm fast becoming a sanitary towel guru.

I need to know, are we talking horizontal, vertical so it goes up your heel? We’re due a dog walk this afternoon, can’t wait to show my other half my fancy invention

*your fancy invention

I give you:

I did this in 1989 with my DMs. Heels are still scarred to this day from before a friend recommended it tho.

I am post menopausal and my huge stash of liners and sanpro is in a bathroom drawer, for use by visitors.
I'd also planned a vague secret campaign in some of my nearest towns, come the nice weather (see pic)

Now I am going to take the dogs out for a long walk today, wearing my heel lacerating wellies for the first time in ages. 😀

In Orange is the New Black (the book, not the series) they use sanitary towels to clean with.

I had no cotton wool once to remove nail varnish. So applied nail varnish remover to an unused pad instead! It worked just as well!

When I first went skiing a loooong time ago with school we were told to take a box of sanitary towels with us, they were like mattresses then. We stuck them on our shins underneath ski socks and they made the torturous ski boots so much more comfortable.

Thankfully both ski boots and sanitary towels have moved on since those days!