Does your vomit bowl have an alternative use?

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I'm clearing out my mums house, and I've found the glow in the dark Halloween pumpkin bowl that was dragged out every bug to be used as a vom bowl.

I always thought at Halloween the sweets that went in the big glow in the dark pumpkin bowl went into another one that we just didn't see?

Nope. I asked my dad. They just disinfected the vomit bowl a few times and stuck halloween sweets in it. I've eaten popcorn from that bowl!!

What the fuck? I feel so violated!!

It's the red bowl.

It's a proper multitasker as it's also a popcorn bowl, a washing up if I need to take soapy water outside bowl, soaking bowl for stained clothes, and probably loads more things too.

The inside bucket of a mini peddle bin, empty it, disinfect, put a lining bag back in and no one will ever know, no one is ever going to be dished up food from it regardless.

Should anyone wish to acquire new vomit bowls, may I recommend these, which is what we have:

www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/vispad-mixing-bowl-set-of-2-white-50421791/

Not great for mixing as they get all scratched but the extra deep design reduces the risk of splashback.

The mop bucket here. My mum used to give us a washing up bowl which was also used for dirty jobs like cleaning the dog’s stuff. Not sure I’d happily use the cake mixing bowl if I had a choice.

As a kid, I think our vom bowl ( I vommed a lot) was only used for steeping dirty clothes in bleach, and I'm ok with that.

When you think about it, vomit is just food mixed with stomach acid, there's nothing particularly dirty about it because the acid kills the germs. It's not like it's the other end of the body 😄

We have those Ikea bowls for baking now 😁

Our vom bowl is Also a Halloween bucket! But I couldn't find it last night at 2am!! So resorted to an actual bucket from the garden which resulted in lots of baby snails in the bedroom 🤮😱🤣😥

To also add......i actually bought 3 perfect giant plastic mixing bowls for 20p each at car boot specifically for that purpose 😂best value ever!!!!

@StillNotWarm Ofcourse everyone ‘aims’ to make the toilet but sometimes, you cant make it

Never had a vomit bowl, I've always used the toilet.

You guys have sick bowls…. So far fingers crossed we anit needed one.

Yep as others have said..... As a child it doubled as a mixing bowl.

We were talking about car sickness as I passed a box of cakes round at a picnic. Someone chuckled as he took one and said he hoped this wasn't the same Tupperware my son pukes in. I laughed heartily and then realised he was indeed eating cakes out of the Sick Box.

How old are the kids?

I think the Halloween bucket is just the job as everyone gets the vom big from oct 21st to roughly dec 21st if you're lucky! Thank god my lot got it early and not Christmas

Ours doubles up as a toilet. Never been sick in a bowl and trained the kids very early on to go straight to the bathroom when sick.

cleaning puke out of bowls? No thanks!

13, 11 and 6. We are winning this one.

When I was growing up, the sick bowl was a deep Mothercare bucket that was stored in the basin cabinet and used only for vomit.

When I picture it in my head I can still smell smell the vomity-bleachy smell. Feeling a bit queasy now.

Yes! Used to be the salad bowl!!! Poor unsuspecting guests had no idea!! I know it's gross ... But I cleaned it thoroughly!!

It was a lovely bowl, but now sadly broken! So will neither be a vomit or a salad bowl anymore :(

Our sick bowl is a repurposed camping washing up bowl, but that has since been taken oven by DD2 who keeps it in her room, next to her bed "just in case".

When DD1 felt sick a couple of weeks ago I tipped the pegs out the peg bucket and gave her that.

She wasn't sick but I'd have probably washed and bleached it and reused it for the pegs.

Probably need to invest in a new communal sick bowl.

Either the washing up bowl or the large mixing bowl. It gets washed.

My mum used a very 80s pale green tupperware bowl, when I was little. It's still in her cupboard now and I'm sure has been used for cake mixes too... shudder! I'm an emetophobe, so just typing this is making me feel queasy!!

Glow in the dark sick bowl is actually genius.

My mums is the cake bowl also. As the years have gone on. I don't eat from there any more!