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 ??!!

@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.

I agree with this apart from the bit about flushing!

I actually think it's a bit grim to put such things in the kitchen bin, let alone have guests feel they need to hide use sanitary products and get them into the kitchen bin or outside or take them home!

I thought everyone had a bathroom bin.

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

My thinking exactly. It's like it's shameful to have periods, so you have to hide/take home all the evidence of your dirty 'habit' instead of using an appropriate disposal facility in the appropriate room.

This just seems like the other side of the coin to the number of people who will not poo in a toilet outside of their own home for fear that somebody will hear them, smell it or otherwise realise that they are a normal human being.

The whole idea of toilets/bathrooms is to eliminate the normal unpleasant/smelly/private dirt/stinks/waste that is a natural part of being a human.

It's like people who get squeamish if the wheelie bin that lives outside their house gets a bit dirty or pongy - that's the whole point of having it rather than just chucking all your manky, sloppy rubbish straight on to the living room carpet.

We have an open-topped basket for recyclables - toilet roll tubes, empty shampoo bottles, boxes from contact lenses etc - to be thrown into and also a (closed lidded) bin for everything else. The latter contains a variety of less-than-pleasant items, but that's exactly what its job is - it's a bathroom bin, not the inside of your fridge.

I use reusable cotton pads in place of cotton wool for my face, and a menstrual cup, but we still need a bathroom bin - hair from the plug hole for a start, floss, used LFTs at the moment, snotty tissues… there’s always something in there.

My parents don’t have one though, and I was caught short by my period last time I stayed and had left my cup at home (they’re far enough away for it to always be an overnight visit). I had to get some emergency tampons and then smuggle the used ones into the kitchen bin in a nappy sack. It felt really minging and uncomfortable to do, tbh.

So I’m definitely Team Bathroom Bin.

I don’t understand why the kitchen bin would be a better option than having a bathroom bin. I can only assume some people empty their kitchen bins much more frequently than mine which gets emptied once a week or so when it gets full so I can’t imagine having used san pro sitting smelling in it for that time 🤮

@Sparklingbrook most of our guests generally only pop in for a cuppa! We don't have anyone visiting overnight or for meals/hours at a time!

DS is a teenager now so no sleepovers anymore either 🤷🏻‍♀️

Any female friends/relatives who "pop in" are either post menopausal or use re-usable sanpro

I'm maybe just not very hospitable 😂😂

So many people on here worried about the guests. My home is my home, it's not a hotel. It's designed for me and my comfort, not that of someone who might pop in for a coffee from time to time.
I have no need for a bin. And those who are saying it fills daily are clearly not thinking of their environmental impact. Use menstrual cups, reusable make up remover wipes, you definitely shouldn't be sticking cotton buds down your ears anyway, and toilet roll middles need to be recycled. That literally leaves empty shampoo bottles and dental floss. Given I have short hair and so a bottle of shampoo will last me a good 3-4 months, I would literally have a dental floss bin 🙄.

No,no bathroom bin. Cardboard goes in recycling. Don't use cotton buds,hot washcloth for make up. Nearly 30 years post periods. I did actually get a teeny tiny one for paper towels,at the start of Covid,stop folk using same towel. My DGD pinched it to use for storage. Don't have room for one on the floor.

@CheesecakeAddict

So many people on here worried about the guests. My home is my home, it's not a hotel. It's designed for me and my comfort, not that of someone who might pop in for a coffee from time to time. I have no need for a bin. And those who are saying it fills daily are clearly not thinking of their environmental impact. Use menstrual cups, reusable make up remover wipes, you definitely shouldn't be sticking cotton buds down your ears anyway, and toilet roll middles need to be recycled. That literally leaves empty shampoo bottles and dental floss. Given I have short hair and so a bottle of shampoo will last me a good 3-4 months, I would literally have a dental floss bin 🙄.

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Lots of people have no loo bins in guest bathrooms - particularly if they have brought boys. Take nappy sacks and pop in outside bin.

I use foamie shampoo conditioner bars,no waste there

@CheesecakeAddict what if a ten year old girl visited? Is your attitude genuinely 'who gives a fuck if she feels awkward- she should be using a mooncup from her first period anyway so I won't try and make her life easier'?

How humiliating for your guests to have to carry used tampons/ towels through the house to go into the kitchen bin. Yes, it can leak and seep. Why would you want your kitchen bin to smell of used tampons? As a ten year old in someone else’s house I would have been mortified by this.

Recycling is easy to solve- 2 labelled bins, one for waste and one for recycling. It’s not rocket science.

Genuinely intrigued about what the non bathroom people expect female period age guests to do? Stroll into the kitchen with a tissue paper wrapped tampon and say “excuse me just need to pop this in the bin”

@Sparklingbrook

I assume people that don't have a bathroom bin flush their cotton buds/ make up pads and dental floss etc Plus they're quite happy to let visitors carry used tampons etc around in their handbag til they get home. Nice.

I don’t have a bathroom bin. I don’t have periods but when I did my sanitary protection was reusable anyway. I don’t use make up pads, cotton wool or dental floss. My bathroom is very very small. There is nowhere to put a bin. I don’t have guests often, certainly not often enough for me to put a bin in there.

I would never want to put a heavily soiled tampon or sanitary towel in someone else's bathroom bin anyway. They are usually only smallish - like twice the size of a shoebox, and would really show up. The smell would show up too. I would take my own small plastic bag to put it in, and take it to their outside bin.

This is just ME before anyone comes out with the pearl-clutching 'what's so disgusting about periods' rant. Wouldn't bother me if MY visitors wanted to pop their used sanpro in my bin. But I would not do it in someone else's house.

We do have a little bin in the bathroom btw. Seems a bit odd to not have one in the bathroom.

[quote FrangipaniBlue]@Sparklingbrook most of our guests generally only pop in for a cuppa! We don't have anyone visiting overnight or for meals/hours at a time!

DS is a teenager now so no sleepovers anymore either 🤷🏻‍♀️

Any female friends/relatives who "pop in" are either post menopausal or use re-usable sanpro

I'm maybe just not very hospitable 😂😂[/quote]
Well if you have a cuppa you might just need a wee. I do like that you know exactly which guest uses what as sanpro and where they are in the menopause though-handy!

@RosieGuacamosie

Genuinely intrigued about what the non bathroom people expect female period age guests to do? Stroll into the kitchen with a tissue paper wrapped tampon and say “excuse me just need to pop this in the bin”

Apparently so, because for some reason putting it in the kitchen bin is ok but not in a bathroom bin. I think ideally they want the visitor to take it outside to the wheelie/dustbin though?

I love the way some people think you should cater for all eventualities in your own home. We don’t all live in guest houses with a constant stream of overnight guests. It’s been over 2 years since I had someone stay over, I can guarantee that no teenage girl is going to come visiting asking to use my bathroom. Just goes to show, we’re all different!

Last time this conversation came up I had people who would not believe that there was no room in my bathroom for a bin and saying I was some kind of weirdo for not having hoards of female friends.

Urgh if you have guests you absolutely need a bathroom bin . How mortifying to worry what to do with San pro . People saying wrap it and put in kitchen bin you can’t expect visitors to do that . Just leave a bathroom bin then throw rubbish in bin outside .

@gettingolderandgrumpy

Urgh if you have guests you absolutely need a bathroom bin . How mortifying to worry what to do with San pro . People saying wrap it and put in kitchen bin you can’t expect visitors to do that . Just leave a bathroom bin then throw rubbish in bin outside .

All but one of the guests who ever comes to my house is male. Why would they need a bin?

I don’t have a bathroom bin, don’t need another bin to empty. I have reusable sanitary pads. I use interdental brushes not floss so they get picked up and taken to the bin, snotty tissue? Surely they can go in the loo as tissues are paper. Razors? Picked up and taken to the bin. Ditto empty bottles and loo roll tubes-picked up and to bin. We also never have guests more than one night a year and they gave not complained yet.

Apparently so, because for some reason putting it in the kitchen bin is ok but not in a bathroom bin.
I think ideally they want the visitor to take it outside to the wheelie/dustbin though?

I've also not quite understood why using a bin in a bathroom for bathroom-related waste is grim, but a bin in a room used for preparing food is just fine.

Flinging it in an outside wheelie bin would actually be worse, as it would make its way to the bottom and could stick and languish there for ages. Our wheelie bins only contain a couple of big, full, heavy, tied up black bags of the sort that will definitely fall out into the bin lorry when the bin is upturned, rather than small oddments that might well not.

Well if you have a cuppa you might just need a wee. I do like that you know exactly which guest uses what as sanpro and where they are in the menopause though-handy!

That's what I was thinking

It seems from this thread that the no-bin people very rarely if ever have guests and want to do only what feels good for them personally, and the people who have bins are the ones who have lots of guests and are also considerate about what would make a guest feel happy and welcome.

That kind of works out ok, really.