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 ??!!

I use reusables nowadays and haven't used a tampon in almost ten years now but I honestly never had any idea you weren't meant to flush them!!!

We were given them at school during PE one day and I just started using them and did so for every period until I realised it was damaging my vaginal ph balance and interfering with my fertility.

Anyway I currently don't have a bathroom bin and it's fucking annoying as I have to carry the toilet roll cardboard and cotton buds etc downstairs. Having thought about it I now Ive read this thread I now think everyone should have one and it's irresponsible not to!

Hope it wasn't my house you were at lol

I think it's normal to have a bathroom bin. What about cotton pads/buds, cardboard from toilet rolls, and sanitary things. I find it very awkward when I have to go to someone's toilet and change a tampon then have to wrap it in tissue and wLk through the house to a kitchen bin.

Seems bizarre to me and it's awkward especially when there are people in there. Why not just have a bathroom bin ?!

@NichyNoo

Wrap it in loo roll and walk through to the kitchen and put in kitchen bin. Not a big deal.

That’s so wrong, there is no way I am ever going to make my female friends do that. Why would anyone ever think this is ok.

Get a bathroom bin, put a bin liner in it. Remove the bin liner and put it out with the rest of the trash without picking through it,

Do not make women come out of the loo clutching used sanitary protection wrapped in loo roll or to hide it in their bags.

I can't imagine making friends wrap up used tampax and towels in toilet paper and take it home in their handbag or coat pockets.

@nicetwin if the smell made you heave, why would you want that in your kitchen bin?!

And to give them dog poo bags, it’s like the bad old days when periods were perceived as dirty.

I have a bin in every toilet in the house. Man alive, why wouldn’t you? Although I put my own sanpro in the kitchen bin (it’s my house so no biggie), I wouldn’t want guests to feel uncomfortable about where to put stuff.

Although if I’m staying away, I wouldn’t use a bathroom bin for my own used stuff and would find the main bin. And tuck it down under other rubbish if I could 😂

We’ve never had a bathroom bin, didn’t have one growing up either. Recyclables get taken straight to recycling bin. Don’t have many non recyclables in our bathroom that I can think of, razor blades are the only thing I can think of and I wouldn’t put them unsecured where kids could reach.

How do tampons interfere with fertility?

MN is weird sometimes.

No bathroom bin?! Making guests take used san pro home or smuggle it into the kitchen bin is grim I've been that guest who felt they had to flush tampons as there was nowhere else. No way would i have walked through the house with it!

I buy little bin liners for the bathroom bin and it just gets tied up and put in the outside bin twice a week or whatever. No issue.

@RebeccaCloud9 they are tied up in a bag, no smell.
They weren't wrapped in toilet roll, popped in bags, they were just dropped in the bin.
I asked, asked again, told them not to do it. They carried on as they were, so I removed the bin.

Every hotel I have ever stayed in has had a bathroom bin, and another in the bedroom, they expect you to use it and everything.

"I’m assuming the sanpro isn’t dripping with blood, seeping through the woman’s fingers as she trails it through the house! So it’s fine to roll it up in loo roll and pop it in the kitchen bin."

You assume incorrectly. My sanpro drips with blood and seeps through. I have this issue when I visit my inlaws. I have to take nappy sacks and a bin bag and then take it out to the outside bin when we leave. I would hate to walk through the house, be waylaid by a family member whilst clutching a soaking pad. Then having to go back to the loo again to wash my hands after depositing in the kitchen bin.

@Angel2702 so where do sanitary towels and tampax go?

I'm flabbergasted by this thread. The concept of people NOT having a bathroom bin has never occurred to me. Learn something new every day!

As someone who's had a gazillion periods. If you can carry sanpro, you can carry a plastic bag, zip lock or one you can put a knot in the end. You can put several changes in a single bag as they're air tight.

We have a bathroom bin, if we didn't I dread to think where DH's hair trimmings would end up

YY @bestbeforedateexpired I suffer from really heavy periods and wrapping tampons in loo roll wouldn't really cut it for me for a stroll through the house downstairs to the bin either.

I guess if you don't have heavy periods, you don't really understand why not everyone can just "wrap it in loo roll and put it in your bag". If I tried that, my bag would be destroyed. I carry nappy bags though, for the baby. So I could stick the massive wad of blood-soaked loo roll in one of those and hope for the best.

@dudsville so you stuff this ziplock bag with used sanitary towels and tampax in your coat pockets or handbag?

I don't have one. Downstairs bathroom next to kitchen and close to back door also.

@Sparklingbrook

How do tampons interfere with fertility?

They were drying me out and blocking my flow.

I know it sounds crazy but of the natural cycle involves menstrual blood passing through the canal. It balances our ph and what not. So that was one issue. The other is that not all clots etc were coming out.

I was using them every day of my period for ten years when I stopped I saw massive changes over the course of a year.

No proof or anything and most will say it's all in my own head but it really did happen! Also scented pads (most are these days and don't even put it on the packaging) also cause harm.

What about your contact lens boxes , cotton pads etc ? Can't live without a bin !

Wow, I thought I was too acclimatised to MN to get so drawn into a thread like this but I am surprised by the anti-bin brigade. I have always had them for sanpro and would never think to put it in the kitchen bin. I also have a stash of scented san bags (like mini nappy bags) for disposing of sanpro in the bin and the bin has to have a lid.

🤮🤮🤮🤮 ergh sorry am seriously disgusted with the people who are saying they don't have bathroom bin and instead chuck sanitary stuff in the kitchen bin!! Carrying all sorts of germs around your house, sanitary pad I assume is wrapped and on the bathroom floor, then taken down to your kitchen? Depending on your house layout the bathroom could be quite far. That's just vile. Is no one questioning what is that thing you carry from the bathroom? Especially a women on her period, would be quite regularly throughout the day changing pads. That's horrible for guests too, it's embarrassing for them to ask if they can't see a bin in the bathroom.