Isn't it great how much more choice there is, and how much more discreet products are now?
I hit Meno before mooncups and period pants were a thing, so they are totally next generation. I'd have loved them.
My mum gave me a ghastly belt with enormous cotton wool hammocks ('bunnies') and safety pins when I started, which I didn't realise were already obsolete - she'd had an early hysterectomy so wasn't aware of the stick on variety! 😂
My grandmother muttered about 'rags' having to be washed every month
Then I discovered Dr White's bricks with the sticky strips.
Then I went over to the Vespre brand which came ready bunched into that weird curvy shape towels take on after a bit of wear - I liked those.
It wasn't til I was 18 that I first tried tampons - I was already at uni and for some reason a bit nervous of them. All those toxic shock syndrome warnings in Jackie magazine. But there was a sense of 'If I can't use these am ever going to lose my virginity??'
I remember reading an article about an ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl who'd been buried with a supply of what were quite clearly tampons ready to take into the next world. They're nothing new.
These days, done with all that, it's just the slimmiest slim little liners I can find.
But what's with the PERFUME??