No bathroom bin

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If you are at relatives house with no bathroom bins where do you put your used sanitary stuff? I've been wrapping my tampons putting in handbag and putting them in the outside bin. I would always empty the bathroom bin and my periods are very heavy so need changing frequently., SIL isnt menopausal even my dad who lives alone has bathroom bins ??!!

This is MN land.

Here, everyone has massive bathrooms, houses that are measured in acreage and can accommodate a small army and are always entertaining hordes of overnight guests, and plastic waste just simply doesn't matter, darling. Throw away almost empty bin bags into landfill daily, it's grim not to!

Meanwhile, back in reality, my bedroom bin is 3 steps from my bathroom door (when I'm not hungover I can chuck any rubbish in there whilst standing at the sink), my bathroom is so fecking tiny that if I had a bin in there someone would soon be wearing it on their foot a la any generic window washer comedy sketch, and I generate almost no waste from the bathroom.

I don't use cotton pads, I use flannels. I don't use dental floss, I use a waterpik. I don't use disposable sanitary protection, I have a mooncup. Should the horror arise of an empty toilet roll or I need to open a new box of soap, I physically carry the cardboard to the recycling. Tis an arduous journey but luckily one that doesn't arise every day.

[quote RoyalFamilyFan]@Angel2702 so where do sanitary towels and tampax go?[/quote]
Haven’t used disposables for 15 years, all DD friends that visit use period pants these days so there isn’t anyone that uses them.

I think the idea of a used full condom left in a bathroom bin is revolting,so is some one washing out their menstrual cup or cervix cup in my bathroom basin. Last and only time I had a bin in the bathroom was when my 4 DKs lived at home, before downsizing. It went rusty. The houses we had,had separate loo and bathroom, both weeny,and they never had basins in the bathrooms,80s houses,so after using the toilet,you had to go into the bathroom to wash your hands. Have had a think,I don't actually know anyone who has a bathroom bin,and some have massive 5 bed,4 bathroom housrs

I see there a lot of ‘I don’t use this, I don’t use that’ ‘I’ being the operative word here. Stuff anyone else!

Angel, how can you be sure that all dds friends don't use sanpro, are they surveyed upon entry

I hated it when younger if there was no bins in bathroom stressing about what to do with used sanitary products. As a young teen didn’t have a handbag so would have to wrap and stuff in my pocket until found a bin.

As an adult I use reusable sanitary products so avoid this issue now. However in my own home I ensure that there is a bin in the bathroom and a box of sanitary products in easy reach for those caught out with period starting unexpectedly.

I would hate for any one especially young teens to feel stressed/embarrassed in my home about not being able to access/dispose of sanitary items in the bathroom.

@Bluntness100

I just can’t imagine making my female guests walk through the house with used sanitary protection. The mind boggles. They can flush it or use the bathroom bins, I would never ask. And the bin liner is simply picked up and emptied with the rest of the trash.

I’d prefer to miss a few recyclables rather than make my friends walk through my house carrying their used sanitary protection.

Exactly this. I can't imagine as a teenager ever feeling comfortable walking through someone else's house with a bag of my bloody tampon. No privacy there is there?! Never mind just wrapped in toilet roll

Haven’t used disposables for 15 years, all DD friends that visit use period pants

What do they do with period pants when staying over?

@Sparklingbrook

I see there a lot of ‘I don’t use this, I don’t use that’ ‘I’ being the operative word here. Stuff anyone else!

Given I have such a tiny house(share), realistically how many guests do you think I have that would have cause to floss their teeth? Go on, guess.

Not a clue @Lockheart but why teeth flossing?

@Sparklingbrook

I see there a lot of ‘I don’t use this, I don’t use that’ ‘I’ being the operative word here. Stuff anyone else!

Yes how dare people think of their own personal situation first when choosing what stuff they decide to spend their money on and that will take up (often limited) space inside their home.

Bathroom bins are gross. Do you really want your relatives emptying your sanitary products?

Nobody’s expecting them to rummage through with their bare hands – you just tie up the top of the full bag and fling it in the main bin. Most rubbish is dirty and often a bit whiffy - emptying bins is just part of everyday adult life.

We didn't have a bathroom bin in the guest loo for a while. An acquaintance came from Xmas and she was in the loo for ages. After she came into the kitchen sheepishly and had to ask my DH where the bin was. He said 'oh yes hand it over and I'll put it in' and she had to declare the contents to him! I felt so bad for her and was online that night ordering a bin!

That’s the perfect way of ensuring that she will never ever want to visit again. Has your DH really never heard of the concept of periods before? Did it not occur to him that, emerging from the toilet, it might be something a little more personal than an empty crisp bag?

I grew up with a father who ridiculed periods so I would feel incredibly uncomfortable if my FIL could see my used tampon in the bin. So I’d rather be taking it home in a sanitary bag. It’s a bit gross, I know.

What a nasty, abusive man. But I think the chances of your FIL being the same are very low indeed, aren’t they? I can understand how growing up with such a frightful man would destroy your confidence, though, and make you feel shame where none should ever exist

Eh..try this:where do you want me to put my tampons/sanatary towels?there is no bin in the bathroom.

I belief all women at some point in their life have a period, is it such a big deal to ask where to put tampons. Unbelievable prudishness!

Everybody poos as well, but I don’t think many people would want to ask their hosts as to how they can open a locked window to get rid of the stink or how they should scrub away the skiddies that they’ve left, if there’s no toilet brush.

Anyway, it isn’t just confident, outgoing 30yo women who have periods, but also painfully shy 9/10yo girls – and anybody in between of whatever age.

Assuming that most people on this thread are female, it's very sad to see how much minimising and dismissing of other women's and girl's natural wishes for personal dignity there is going on.

Makes you wonder why some people even bother having doors on bathrooms in the first place.

In my "period supplies" bag I have nappy bags/sanpro bags. So depending on who I'm with and the familiarity I'd either take home or put in their bin.

I'm all about bins in every room myself. Even our bedrooms/living rooms. Easy to whip round and empty then just before I'm about to take the kitchen bin out.

As for if guests have their period I'm maybe OTT but I keep a little period display out in the toilets a guest might use. DD isn't far off puberty either so I think it's nice to normalise.

Figure it makes it very easy for anyone (including myself) and obvious that it's not a house that has issues thinking periods are somehow shameful. After all it's much cleaner changing a tampon than wiping a shitty arse and we don't hide the loo roll away.

Little basket with towels/tampons and the bags. Just on the windowsill/shelf behind the loo.

Can't say I've ever noticed if a guest has used them/binned anything/had their period as I'm not going to inspect my bins or count my tampons. But I like to think if they had then it was a no stress environment.

Yes how dare people think of their own personal situation first when choosing what stuff they decide to spend their money on and that will take up (often limited) space inside their home

First, yes of course, then they might like to think about the comfort of any guests. Or not as some posts on this thread show. I guess if you have no space for a bin then you'll have to tell the guests what they need to do.

Now we've cleared all this bathroom bin AIBU stuff up if someone could start a 'reclining seats or not on an aeroplane' thread my Boxing Day will be sorted and my Christmas complete.

No way would I leave my used sanitary products in someone else's bathroom bin!

I'd probably put them in a napkin sack and then inside a carrier bag and put them in their main outside bin!

What kind of fucking idiot flushes sanitary products down the loo in 2021? Do you not give a shit about what ends up in the sea?

@Sparklingbrook

Haven’t used disposables for 15 years, all DD friends that visit use period pants

What do they do with period pants when staying over?

I assume the same as what you’d do when out or staying elsewhere put them in a zipped wash bag and then in the bag with the rest of their washing.

@Mofomo

Angel, how can you be sure that all dds friends don't use sanpro, are they surveyed upon entry

She has a handful of friends close enough that would come to the house, all of whom are at the stage where periods are new and novel and talk about them amongst themselves and when discussing with DD options for sanitary ware the choices of her friends have been discussed.

We don’t have an endless steam of visitors to our house like some seem to have on here. So it has never been an issue. We don’t have overnight guests unless the kids have a sleepover.

My toilet is separate from the bathroom. Both have small flip top bins which are lined with biodegradable bin liners( the type you buy for your compost caddy). Bathroom recyclables go in a separate bin which is marked for recycling. Each room in the house including bedrooms have bins and the kitchen has a large bin and a large recycling bin both labelled so no confusion. When I empty the rubbish from the kitchen bin i empty the bin into the outside bin lose so not so many plastic bags get used and you can also get more rubbish in the bin that way. I clean the bin with anti bac bin deodoriser and cleaner after I empty it but as I compost food waste it doesn’t get smelly.

I'm probably weird but I don't like the idea of certain waste sitting in my kitchen as we eat in there. So bags of dog poop, bags of cat litter & bathroom bin bags go straight into the wheelie bin.

I assume the same as what you’d do when out or staying elsewhere put them in a zipped wash bag and then in the bag with the rest of their washing

Ah ok so you have to bag those up and carry them around with you anyway, wherever you are? I've never used them

@JingleRattles

I'm probably weird but I don't like the idea of certain waste sitting in my kitchen as we eat in there. So bags of dog poop, bags of cat litter & bathroom bin bags go straight into the wheelie bin.

I never put cat litter and poo in any other bin than straight outside either. That definitely doesn't belong in the house. I used to be the same with nappies when I had babies. I got one of those things that made a long line of sausages out of the nappies. seemed like a good idea but yuk. Anything solid into the loo then nappy in the wheelie.

@Sparklingbrook

I assume the same as what you’d do when out or staying elsewhere put them in a zipped wash bag and then in the bag with the rest of their washing

Ah ok so you have to bag those up and carry them around with you anyway, wherever you are? I've never used them

I do this with my washable pads. They just fold up and are held together with a popper. I have clean ones in one little wash bag and used ones in another. It's no fuss at all.