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!!

Trick or treat bucket at our house. It has toys in when it’s not being used for vomit 🤢

An old large saucepan that's never used for cooking is our vomit bowl

Mine lives in the bath and doubles as a bath toy holder. I'm in Northern Ireland though so we call it the boke bowl 😂

This thread is disturbing in several different ways.
I am an emetophobe and was darkly drawn to it, god I wish I hadn't read it!!!

'Side hustle' 🤣🤣

We recently splashed out something like £3 on a collapsible silicone bowl at Ikea that lives under the bathroom sink for this very purpose and no other. Aspirational living here.

Dh thought it was OK to be sick in my soup pot 😭

Honestly forgot the meaning of 'leak' for a second and thought you had misspelled 'leeks'. Catching leeks.

Ours too was the cake mixing bowl. But I'd say it was more the 'feeling queasy' bowl, only to be used if you can't make it to the loo.

We use a saucepan 😂

My husband has a long term medical condition. It’s in a better phase now but when our children were small he would have intense vertigo and nausea ( with vomiting) as a regular occurrence.

I only realised quite how regular when I found myself wondering if I should invest in a blue bowl to match our bedroom decor.

I never did buy a blue bowl but had the criss cross of loo roll in the bottom of an old brown mixing bowl, use, discard tissue in loo, rinse and repeat process down to a fine art. It was not a good time in our lives.

The Pyrex bowl! Always goes in the dishwasher twice though!

Same, except I knew. I remember how nice and cold it felt. (We had that standard issue 70’s/80’s mixing bowl)

For years ours was the everything bowl, vomit, cakes, soaking feet, raw meat, housing fish while their tank was cleaned, catching the filthy gunge blocking the kitchen sink, bathing guinea pigs, holding snacks, soaking poo pants...everything.
One day I had some sort of horrified epiphany and bought more bowls!

It is a thing. But our vomit bowl is just that, a vomit bowl.
We have bowls for soaking laundry in the laundry room, sweet bowls for crisps/sweets/popcorn. We have a Halloween bowl too.
Plastic fantastic in our house!

We have a dolls bath that was grabbed when the kids were small. I still have it tucked away in the bathroom for emergencies and the kids are 19 & 22

Same in this house!

We have a double handed saucepan that is used as the sick bowl.

No one cooks with it. But it still lives in the saucepan cupboard!

I have a couple of good sized plastic buckets with carry handles that came from the garden centre with 50 bird feeding “fat balls” in each. Once all the balls had been transferred to the bird feeders, the buckets made excellent sick bowls. They are kept upstairs and aren’t used for anything else, as I have a separate mop bucket and a cleaning bucket in the kitchen.

No one cooks with it. But it still lives in the saucepan cupboard!

I have a cupboard dedicated to pans we don't use which are too knackered for the charity shop although it feels wrong to bin them.

I agree. Though it’s reassuring some people have children who aren’t ever sick- so that reminds me sickness bugs aren’t inevitable and I shouldn’t panic every since season… for weeks and weeks.

Yes ours too is the leak bowl. Or the radiator draining bowl. It’s obviously gets cleaned in between but I wouldn’t eat anything out of it.

At my parents’ the sick bowl has always doubled up as the foot soaking bowl. Last time we were there 2 of my DC came down with a big so the very lovely Habitat plant pot had to jump into emergency action as the foot bowl was in use!

Ours is a large Jacobs Cracker tub too! Now doubles as a leak catcher.

We have a pack of those cardboard bowls, like you get when in hospital. They have been fantastic.

My parents used to have a sick bowl for us all, disgusting!!