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No bathroom bin

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Veeveeoxox · 25/12/2021 19:54

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 ??!!

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soapboxqueen · 25/12/2021 23:45

All those times doing that, and it never occured to you getting a bathroom bin

Why? How big are your houses where walking to the kitchen is such a big deal?

Svara · 25/12/2021 23:46

@Sparklingbrook

They would actually be used

Why though?

A public loo has many people using it every single day. I would also guess based on this thread, that many more people in the general population still use single use products than in my circle of friends and family.
silentpool · 25/12/2021 23:49

I have a bathroom bin. I don't use disposable san pro or cotton wool pads but anything like earbuds, dental floss goes in there. I don't use bin liners any more but anything that's in there goes straight into the main bin. My parents don't have a bathroom bin and I hate it.

BobLemon · 25/12/2021 23:50

ShockShockShock

5+ years of dodging and ducking through the nest of vipers and THIS is the thread that has me most shocked!

I’m getting an even bigger bathroom bin soon as I can. Huge. Putting it front and centre in my bathroom. Y’all are invited round to proudly pile your sanpro in it.

Chokkiesaurus · 25/12/2021 23:52

@soapboxqueen

All those times doing that, and it never occured to you getting a bathroom bin

Why? How big are your houses where walking to the kitchen is such a big deal?

Quite big actually. Doesn’t matter though, why not just keep a bin in the bathroom.
MamaFirst · 25/12/2021 23:54

@veeveeoxox also a nurse, and I didn't say you had to hide anything, I just said I think guests leaving used sanitary products in a communal bin is gross. You can buy 100 scented nappy sacks for about a £1, so no need for wrapped up toilet roll. Problem solved.

Smorgasborb · 25/12/2021 23:55

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!

We also have a guest apartment and both bathroom bins are full after a 4 people have spend the weekend. Toilet rolll middles, cotton wool pads, face wipes, contact lens packets, pill packets, empty travel shampoos, Sanpro, dental floss.... I don't go through them obviously I just remove the bin bag but as they are clear bags so I see some contents. We have a septic system so if no bathroom bin we'd be risking all that crap being put down the loos or people having to walk upstairs to the kitchen

Cattenberg · 25/12/2021 23:55

I’d hate not to have a bathroom bin. Walking downstairs every time I used a cotton wool pad or a piece of dental floss would drive me nuts.

I don’t put cardboard tubes or cardboard packaging in the bin; they go in the recycling. But they can wait, unlike used sanpro.

deadlanguage · 25/12/2021 23:55

I have a bathroom bin even though I use reusable sanpro. It’s still useful for floss, toothpaste tubes, plasters, hair from drain, etc.
Really surprised so many people expect guests to carry sanpro to a kitchen bin or take it away with them, that’s so rude and inhospitable.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 26/12/2021 00:00

It's so weird not to make guests feel comfortable and relaxed. I don't want anyone stressing about their periods in my house. A little bin and a box of tampons and pads are always there, in case anyone gets caught out.

Summerfun54321 · 26/12/2021 00:01

Kitchens are the the heart of the home and sociable spaces. They aren’t where you should expect guests to discreetly dispose of used sanpro.

avamiah · 26/12/2021 00:03

How can anybody not have a bathroom bin?

Where do you put sanitary products and wipes and cotton buds, floss etc???

I’m sorry but it’s just obscene to not have a bin in your bathroom/toilet

Shodan · 26/12/2021 00:03

Yeah sorry but putting used sanpro in the kitchen bin is gross. I empty my kitchen bin way less often than my bathroom bin, because it's bigger, ergo needs emptying less. The bathroom bin, being smaller, gets emptied far more frequently.

soapboxqueen · 26/12/2021 00:04

Quite big actually. Doesn’t matter though, why not just keep a bin in the bathroom.

Why? Why have an extra bin for one purpose that I won't use it for?

If you like having a bathroom bin fine but I'm really confused as to why you think I really should have a bin in my bathroom that I won't use.

VanGoghsDog · 26/12/2021 00:04

@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 use cotton buds, make up pads (not sure what these are but I have washable cotton pads for toner etc), dental floss or sanpro (used to use reusable but the periods seem to have stopped now) - but I DO have a bin in each loo. I put wrappers and things in them.

The idea that someone would have to wrap a bloody tampon in (how much??) looroll and carry it, seeping through and potentially dripping, downstairs to put in the kitchen bin is vomit inducing. And putting it in their bag, just as bad.
I wouldn't really want it in the kitchen bin anyway, but I guess a bin is a bin.

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 26/12/2021 00:06

Bathroom bins are essential. The cringe factor for guests having to either take their sanitary waste home of putting it in the kitchen bin is just horrible. I've done both. A bathroom bin makes it more acceptable to have a menstrual cycle

bananaboats · 26/12/2021 00:07

I don't have a bathroom bin. Don't use sanitary products and everything else goes in the kitchen bin / recycling.

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 26/12/2021 00:08

Also we have a bin and a recycling bin in the bathroom. It saves a lot of back and forth.

soapboxqueen · 26/12/2021 00:09

@JesusSufferingFuck22

Bathroom bins are essential. The cringe factor for guests having to either take their sanitary waste home of putting it in the kitchen bin is just horrible. I've done both. A bathroom bin makes it more acceptable to have a menstrual cycle
Sorry but I feel the complete opposite.

I have no bother putting something in the kitchen bin.

I really wouldn't want to put my used sanpro into a tiny little bin where everyone could get an eyeful next time the put something in it.

Far less noticeable in a kitchen bin.

ChampagneLassie · 26/12/2021 00:11

I'm at BF family house, there is no bathroom bin... Which I noticed and found odd (I'm preggers so not a big issue got me, but used toilet roll tubes, face wipes ect?) I'm really surprised at the people saying put in kitchen bin. I'm really comfortable here but I can't imagine walking into kitchen full of people in midst of cooking Christmas Dinner to put a sanitary pad in the bin if I were one of the teenage girls of the family.

GiantHaystacks2021 · 26/12/2021 00:17

Yeah, it's mind boggling, isn't it?

My parents have never had a bathroom bin in their house.
I could never throw any soiled sanitary stuff in the one and only indoor bin in the kitchen because my dad likes to go through that bin with this bare hands, to see what has been thrown away.
He also goes through the big bin outside.

When I stay with them, I put my used wrapped up soiled towels etc in plastic bags and then deposit them in any bins I come across around town.
Otherwise my dad will open them up.

Bagadverts · 26/12/2021 00:19

Some of you know a lot more about the sanitary products that your visitors use and whether they have periods than I do about my friends.

If female visitors are staying overnight let them know what to do - “if you have your period you can …”

I started my periods when I was 10. I hated them, was embarrassed, none of my class mates had started. I knew never to flush pads.
If I was there for a few hours no bin I would not have changed even if pad was saturated. I’d have added toilet paper onto current pad. I don’t think I would have realised that it might not just leak to my jeans but then maybe go on their chair.

Longer stay - would have put them in overnight bag or suitcase. Wouldn’t have occurred to me to use kitchen bin or have a separate bag (no siblings/pets so I don’t have the idea of poo bags or nappy bags.
You can’t just put a single item in our wheelie bin (is that what you mean by outside bin?) I don’t think I’d have been brave enough to do the kitchen bin in case someone saw me.

avamiah · 26/12/2021 00:22

I have a daughter who hasn’t long started her period and she has a bin in her bedroom ( with bin liner in) and we have always had small bins in the bathroom/toilets which I have always emptied every single day whether it has 1 cotton bud in or 5 sanitary products.

I personally would not carry my used tampon downstairs( even in a bag) and put it in my kitchen bin.
Who does that?
It’s disgusting

Houseofvelour · 26/12/2021 00:22

Every bathroom in my house has a bin. I'd never want guests to feel uncomfortable, plus it's so much easier for disposing of pads.
If I'm at someone else's house, if they don't have a bathroom bin, it goes in a nappy bag and in my handbag and then I dispose of it at home.