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 ??!!

@RedHot22

Surely, if you know someone well enough to stay with them, you would say something or ask where they would like you to dispose of it.

Exactly.

This thread explains alot to me. I always wondered why people didn't have a bin in the bathroom. Now I know! They flush sanitary items or just don't give a damn about guests. Both are grim.

Inhospitable.

@tigger1001 You are constantly ignoring the question I asked which is what do you think you might do if in the future you find yourself a MIL and have a DIL who needs a bin in your house?

Do you ever buy food or drink for guests that you would not usually eat?

Do you even have guests?

And no, it's bonkers to say that if someone is staying with you, they should make you aware of their personal hygience needs.

I can just imagine my elderly Mum saying to someone 'Oh I need a bin for my Tena lady pad.'

Or my cousin in her 70s, telling me she has thrush or some other gynae issue and needs to bin a panty liner before she sets off home.

Or a colleague who I've invited for coffee, telling me she is having a period and needs to bin something.

FYI some people do not want to share this kind of stuff. They expect your home to be equipped with basic items like bins in loos. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT NEED ONE.

Just as they are in shops, cafes, hotels, schools, colleges, and even people HOMES!

So many utterly selfish and thoughtless people on this thread.

Those of you that leave used san pro in other people's bin please tell me you bring along those little bags to put it in and you don't just dump your bloody tampons / towels wrapped in tissue for someone else to deal with. It stinks like school toilets by the way if it's left. I know if me / my daughter are on so can take the bin out daily (and we use the bags) but if it wasn't our week it would be the smell the next day that would alert me.

Tigger, you'd think everyone would let you know they have an issue

[quote ChristmasyFairy]@tigger1001 You are constantly ignoring the question I asked which is what do you think you might do if in the future you find yourself a MIL and have a DIL who needs a bin in your house?

Do you ever buy food or drink for guests that you would not usually eat?

Do you even have guests?

And no, it's bonkers to say that if someone is staying with you, they should make you aware of their personal hygience needs.

I can just imagine my elderly Mum saying to someone 'Oh I need a bin for my Tena lady pad.'

Or my cousin in her 70s, telling me she has thrush or some other gynae issue and needs to bin a panty liner before she sets off home.

Or a colleague who I've invited for coffee, telling me she is having a period and needs to bin something.

FYI some people do not want to share this kind of stuff. They expect your home to be equipped with basic items like bins in loos. EVEN IF YOU DO NOT NEED ONE.

Just as they are in shops, cafes, hotels, schools, colleges, and even people HOMES!

So many utterly selfish and thoughtless people on this thread.[/quote]
I've not ignored it. Have answered multiple times. There are bins people can use. Just not one in the bathroom. If someone asked where the bin was I would answer and crack on with the conversation, wouldn't ask why they needed a bin. Any future dil etc would hopefully know both me and my house well enough that they would just crack on.

But also any visitor would appreciate the lack of space in my bathroom so would be unlikely to give it any further thought. Short of plonking a bin on the toilet seat that's the way it is. It's seriously not a lack of empathy but a lack of space. Building an extension just to fit a bathroom bin, which would largely be unused, seems excessive. And if I was extending, it would be to get a bigger kitchen, a bigger bathroom is way down the list.

Buying food for a visitor is not the same thing. But equally if I was visiting someone who didn't drink, I wouldn't expect them to get something just for me.

A bathroom bin is only a big deal on here, like toilet brushes etc. in real life people understand that some will have them, and some won't. Some would be ok with visitors using the bathroom bin for their used sanpro and some won't be.

It really is ok not to have a bathroom bin. I've never lived anywhere that has one. My parents don't. My mil doesn't. And she is incredibly sociable and has people of all ages visiting. Certainly doesn't seem to stop visitors. They are not recoiling in horror at the lack of a bathroom bin. Can't think of friends who have them either, but then I'm not raking around their bathroom looking for one.

I've never not went anywhere due to the worry of the lack of a bathroom bin. I have in the past had horrendous periods but never worried about the lack of bin.

It really just isn't a big deal in real life.

But you have a little plastic bag as a bin liner. Whole thing goes in the bin. How is that not acceptable?
Who doesn't empty the bins each week?

They're not just for used sanitary towels or tampons, what about the cardboard roll from loo rolls and empty containers for other things you use in the bathroom?

I live in a flat so no going up and downstairs but recycling is taken into the kitchen and taken out to the bin when one of us goes. Even if it went into a bathroom bin there is no way on earth I'd be sorting it if there was used san pro in with it, especially someone else's!

what about the cardboard roll from loo rolls and empty containers for other things you use in the bathroom?

Does everyone take them down to the kitchen bin every time you have something bathroom related to throw away.

Yes, or put non recyclables in the bin in our bedroom.

My bathrooms are bloody beautiful
I’m not having some white plastic bag hanging out of a bin in there!

Bring your own bag, dispose of it yourself.

Tigger, I would imagine a visitor having to traipse through someone's house with a a sodden, bloodied parcel of used sanpro wrapped up in tissue, is not going to be the first person to draw attention to lack of bathroom bin - do you think their silence on the subject might be for other reasons?

Because I put my recycling in my
bathroom bin and then sort it. I don't expect to find other people's bodily fluids in there and deffo not unbagged. Gross. And sanitary towels / tampons literally stink after a few hours.

I wouldn't put my baby's nappy in the bathroom bin either.

I wouldn't leave san pro in someone else's bin full stop.

Surely, if you know someone well enough to stay with them, you would say something or ask where they would like you to dispose of it.

Agree. Do people really put so much thought into if someone has a bathroom bin and if they don’t, why not?

Even when I had disposable sanpro, never considered it or put so much angst over it. I’m visiting someone’s home, I don’t expect them to have xyz to accommodate me especially for something they would completely be unaware of in the first place.

Saying that, I choose not to visit people when I’m on my period and stay home unless I have to be somewhere like work.

@Mofomo

Tigger, I would imagine a visitor having to traipse through someone's house with a a sodden, bloodied parcel of used sanpro wrapped up in tissue, is not going to be the first person to draw attention to lack of bathroom bin - do you think their silence on the subject might be for other reasons?

Why don’t they bring bags with them then? It’s no different than a dirty nappy surely, I wouldn’t expect anyone to put that in my bathroom bin

I wouldn't expect a visitor to take away a used nappy either

@Mofomo

Tigger, I would imagine a visitor having to traipse through someone's house with a a sodden, bloodied parcel of used sanpro wrapped up in tissue, is not going to be the first person to draw attention to lack of bathroom bin - do you think their silence on the subject might be for other reasons?

Yeah, they don't care. Like the majority of people in real life. It goes in a bin. Then they move on.

People generally understand that different people have different needs and may choose to do things differently. And they also tend to grasp that someone may not have space for a bin, especially if they have actually been in the bathroom.

Seriously this doesn't cause this angst in real life.

I wouldn't expect a visitor to take away a used nappy either

I'd expect them to put it in my outside bin though, properly wrapped!

"Why don’t they bring bags with them then?
It’s no different than a dirty nappy surely, I wouldn’t expect anyone to put that in my bathroom bin"

It's a good point. I would never put a used nappy in someone else's indoor bin. And it was always in a nappy bag. Always popped out to the outside bin. Never put them in my own indoor bins unless it was about to get emptied shortly.

Tigger, you don't know that

I'd empty my kitchen bin as soon as the person was gone if it had a wet disposable nappy in it. A dirty nappy would go in the kitchen bin bag with whatever was in there then straight outside. Disposable sanpro isn't any different, it must be the chemicals or something because it smells like something died within hours.

I have literally never left a stinking nappy in someone else's bin. Always bagged and taken outside straightaway (or first thing in the morning if overnight). Same as at home. Surely everyone does this. I have never had a friend leave a stinking nappy in my bin either. I would only put the bagged nappy in a relative or friend with young children's outside bin too. Some people really object to stinking bins.

@Mofomo

Tigger, you don't know that

Pretty much know the people who come into my house very well. So yes I think I do. And my family are in my house often so know full well where things are. Oh family are incredibly vocal so if it was an issue, I would know 😂 the conversation would go something like "fuck sake where's the bathroom bin?" But given they don't have one themselves, it's really not an issue.

Periods isn't something we hide in my friendship circle.

reading this, you'd think that no one responding lives in an apartment.

I have a bathroom bin, but never use it - the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen open on to the same hall space, warehouse apartment, so the only one with a door is the bathroom. Main bins (waste and recycling) is in the hall, why would I put stuff in an "intermediate" bathroom bin?

Stayed at a relatives over the christmas period, with bathroom and bedroom bins - didn't use either, small plastic bag (recycled, I'd put my toothbrush inside it in a cosmetic bag) that I placed waste in over a few days.
I don't expect my relatives to sort through/dispose of used panty liners.

I've never had kids, so I've never owned nappy bags. Are you saying women should buy packs of nappy bags to put their San Pro in if they stay at someone's house? They should buy them just for that? A whole pack? Just for that?
Isn't it more sensible if people, I dunno, have a hygienic collection point for rubbish near where the pad is changed? You could maybe call it "a bathroom bin".

Also, nappies is totally different. A) people with babies are generally prepared, with nappy sacks, tissues, wipes etc; B) nappies don't only get changed in bathrooms; C) people are less embarrassed by nappies from babies than they are by period accoutrements; D) nappies are pretty big, one wouldn't even fit in my bathroom bin, so there's not much choice but to take it to another bin. I would not thank someone for putting that in my kitchen bin though, it would have to go outside, the kitchen bin isn't very big either.

The idea that people put nappies in bags and take them home rather than contaminating someone else's bin is ludicrous. If someone stayed with you two days they might have eight nappies - so you'd be happy with a smelly festering, seeping carrier bag in the bedroom for a few days rather than have them put in a bin?

@nomoneytreehere

I have literally never left a stinking nappy in someone else's bin. Always bagged and taken outside straightaway (or first thing in the morning if overnight). Same as at home. Surely everyone does this. I have never had a friend leave a stinking nappy in my bin either. I would only put the bagged nappy in a relative or friend with young children's outside bin too. Some people really object to stinking bins.

This!

There was someone on the thread who said they needed a bathroom bin to dispose of moist toilet paper after they did a poo. The thought of someone leaving that in my bathroom bin (if I had one) is just grim (to use a mn favourite)