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!!

Yes but violent bugs and/or small children mean getting to the toilet isn’t always practical.

DH and I both had noro when I was 8 months pregnant. On one occasion I started sprinting to the toilet to be sick, didn’t make it in time and projectile vomited onthe floor, slipped in the puke and promptly pissed myself. Low point in my life!!

Sorry but this made me giggle.

On the “who has a sick bowl” note - DS will make a big song and dance about needing to be sick and will swoon his way to the loo in time.

DD puts up with how she feels then suddenly says “I need to be sick” then does a Linda Blair across the room 0.2 seconds later. We grab what we can and tell her to please next time give more notice

No one in my family has ever had a sick bowl, just do it in the loo and flush.
I guess that's the aim but I'd rather have the bowl for insurance than scrub vomit out of the carpet.
Once we had all children and DH with D&V and only one bathroom, thankfully two were still in nappies or I don't know what we'd have done.
Plus back then two DC had beds with ladders to negotiate.
Unfortunately for me since having DC4 my pelvic floor isn't great and I have to sit on the loo if I'm sick 😔

And wonder why they and theirs are always picking up bugs despite them anti baccing everything.......

Ours doubled as

-salad bowl
-Halloween sweats bowl

• anything that needed bigger than a cereal bowl

My mums reasoning .... it was disinfected in the dishwasher - we now don't eat if that bowl comes out hahaha

Growing up, I'm fairly sure that any bowl would do. Now I use a washing up bowl that lives in my bathroom. I did start using a mixing bowl but decided, as I don't have a dishwasher it would never be truly clean.
If my ds ever threw up, I got towels out because he only ever projectile vomited and I wasn't very good at aiming the bowl right when I was tired.

Why? She is right.

Just use a big tub as a sick bowl. Then washed out and put in dishwasher. We use them to keep cakes and all sorts of other food in! It's clean, what's the problem?

One bowl. Since forever. One bowl ONLY policy. And glass not plastic.
I store this bowl like it’s a gun… hidden away in the attic, bullets removed and kept separately from the firearm. There’s no way it will become the accidental salad bowl. 😁

All these bowls being used! Surely they’re not deep enough!

We have a bucket. DS recently took it out with him to a local pumpkin carving event. Apparently you needed to take a bucket and he took the first one that he found. I hope he didn’t tell anyone.

But....GERMS!!!!!!!

There was a hilarious sketch in a (not very hilarious) failed come back thing Harry Enfield did. They were the Clean Chavs. The daughter insisted that her husband bought a brand new pram every time she took their baby to the shop as now it's "NOT CLEAN!!!!" and her dad (Harry) basically threatened the Son IL until he did.

Every thread like this reminds me of that!

Ours is a cake mixing bowl in everyday life. Its stainless steel and is run through the dishwasher. I don't want puke in anything I can't dishwash (toilet notwithstanding).

Ours is the cake mixing bowl - the bowl is washed after vomm, and the cake mix goes in the oven after it's made so I suppose that's ok!

We don’t have a sick bowl.

2 adults who can make it the loo on time and adult DD with emetophobia who has never vomited in her life. We do have a family popcorn bowl and a few weeks ago all 3 of us came down with horrific stomach bug, 2 toilets was 1 too short and whilst I was hugging 1 loo and DP hugging the other, DD who desperately needed a loo, grabbed the popcorn bowl from the press and shat in it in the garden.

I had to congratulate her on her fast intuition, sadly the family popcorn bowl that we have had for 20 years is now in the bin and I’m on the hunt for a new one.

I don’t have a sick bowl. I can’t remember the last time my kids were sick and I use the toilet if I’m sick.

This reminds me of the motherland/ sick bowl episode 🤦‍♀️🤣😭🤮

Thats a fair point.

You can dishwash, so sterilize via steam, any bowl/tub/bucket etc. But a bit of noro infected sick that you cant see could miss the loo bowl and you wouldnt know. OK so you clean your bog and bathroom but it still wont be as clean as a dishwashed sick bowl or boil washed towels (or do they get binned too?!)

I rather suspect that these germ issues are more about "OH BUT ITS HAD SICK IN IT!!" revulsion rather than common sense "It is clean and no longer carrying any germs".

Wtf? I make my kids vom into the bathroom bin! No one will ever mistakenly eat out of that. Not even the dogs. Why would anyone use a food receptacle?! Grim!

People never fire from both ends? I use the bin which has a bin liner in.

People have an actual vomit bowl?
How much vomiting is going on in your house?!

I've just re-read what I wrote - obviously I'd encourage the loo over the bin if they were actually in the bathroom - the bathroom bin is what I make them carry around the house with them in case they can't make it 😂

Ours is the plastic bowl that I use for floor cleaning. Obviously it’s disinfected after the very rare times it’s been used for sickness. It lives under the bucket in the cupboard under the sink.

As somewhat of a vomit expert, I keep a washing up bowl lined with a bin bag in my bedroom. Puke, wipe mouth with loo roll, drop it on top to soak up the excess liquid, squirt with disinfectant spray to neutralise the smell. Repeat until feeling better enough to tip it into the loo and flush away, then double tie the bag and put it in the bin.

I have a chronic illness that causes regular vomiting, sometimes severe. I also have poor mobility so running to the loo not an option, and chronic pain so I'd rather not spend hours on the cold hard bathroom floor. This is the best method, minimises mess and unpleasant odours during the process, easy clean up, washing up bowl is wide enough to catch exorcist style puke when I'm dizzy and disorientated. Would recommend.
I don't use the bowl for anything else, although really there'd be no reason not to - it's lined and disinfected and my vomiting isn't caused by an infection or virus of any kind.

Not much at all these days but with 6 kids under 14 at one time, then it was quite a lot. Easier to shout "Grab the sick bowl!!" than "Please find a large and cleanable recepticle for an unspecified amount of vomit that may or may not come forcefully out of this 4 year old".

I am actually genuinely happy that some people dont understand the concept!

Cake mix bowl