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.

@Yorkshiremummyof1 Horizonal did the job for me - they didn't slide or move at all and lasted the two hour walk. Report back to sanitary towel HQ please!

@Giggorata yes to that campaign. What brilliant women we are.

I am still laughing about Love magazine's st's for shapely hips. I used to read Take a Break because they had a section which dealt purely with re-purposing and it was hilarious. That and the 'Arn't men daft' feature, which was so sexist and back at ya to the men's.

Sorry, I meant 'menz'. A/C doesn't know it's spelt that way when I'm on MN.

@torquewench love your username!

OP you're a genius - definitely going to try this under my skates when the ice rinks re-open. Did you have to use extra reinforcement to keep them stuck down or did they stay in place on their own?

Back when my DC were young, we were rather poor and I only owned one pair of shoes, a pair of pumps. I used to walk for 2 hours a day taking the kids to school and nursery so when I got holes in the soles of my pumps it was not good walking in the rain.

Until I put sanitary towels in them!

The plastic backing stopped the wet getting through to my socks, and the cushioned tops made my worn out soles comfy again 👍🏻

A friend once used a tampon (clean) to stem the bleeding in her mouth when she had a tooth out !

I keep a couple of sanitary pads in my hiking first aid kit and my horse first aid kit. They are brilliant for wound dressings as they are absorbent but unlike cotton wool they don't leave fibres in wounds. Plus they are adhesive.

Nappies are also a staple item at any stables for dressing hoof abscesses.

Double layered walking socks from mountain warehouse are the best thing for this.

Back in the 80s I got a job as a sales person selling Kotex. Parked outside a building site near Cambridge in the summer, and a large, make labourer was digging away, using a couple of Dr Whites, the ones that needed a belt, round his head as a sweat band. Even then, some shops used to keep sanitary towels in Brown paper bags, under the counter. My job was to persuade them, to put them out on the shelves. I remember showing an old CoOp manager the new, innovative, stick on towels. He scratched his head and said 'Doesn't it hurt when you take them off?' We have come a long way

@KewAnon I stuck the sticky side to my heels to avoid them moving and joining in the general chafage. I might get my roller boots out again and embarrass the kids, pain free!

@SingleHandSue bless you, I wish you all the riches and fancy shoes in the world, you have earned them.

I use reusable ones (sorry!) and had a x-section recently and used an extra-massive one to stick over the would to stop the stitches catching ~(on f*cking everything)~

Obviously not an x-section... a C-section was bad enough.

@JugsAndSoap that is a really good way to use them. I looked like Simon Cowell post c-section. My boobs were lower than my waist bands to avoid anything touching my stitches!

@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 first thoughts were a Take a Break magazine

Thank you! I was given money for new DMs for my birthday last year and have been putting off getting them because of the pain of breaking them in. I think I love you.

I had an infected wound on my stomach from where I had surgery, every time I stood up it poured with foul smelling discharge. The only thing suitable for containing the leakage was two maternity pads taped to my stomach and changed on the hour every hour. When I went to the walk in centre to get the packing changed (every day!) they were most amused with my ingenuity