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!!

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 That was me as a kid! I remember spewing over my DPs carpet more than once in the middle of the night because I didn't like throwing up on my own so would head to their bedroom first. 🙂
Nowadays we have a small plastic bin that doubles as vomit receptacle. Gets bleached after vom use and returned to bin duties afterwards. Thankfully used less frequently now DCs are getting older.

Old washing up bowl. It lives under the sink. It has a pot of paint in it.

😂😂😂😂

I can just picture some OTT MN toilet protecting mum - “No not in the toilet darling, we don’t have a toilet brush, they’re too grim, and I detest bleach, use to bin, the bin child!”

Dedicated plastic bowl with ‘sick bowl’ written on in permanent marker. Lives in the first aid cupboard in the kitchen.

How big is your first aid cupboard ....or....how small is your sick bowl?!

My FA kit is the top shelf of one kitchen cupboard with all the meds Tetris'd into a large tupperware and the lucky dip of plasters and bandages shoved in next to/ on top of it!

Same.

I just want to say that I really appreciate the descriptions of pukey shit disasters on mumsnet. Nobody I know talks about this stuff IRL and you’d honestly think nobody had ever had a little accident.

Yea we use the Halloween pumpkin sweet buckets for vomit bowls too because they're just the right size to tuck underneath the chin. We use the bags from the portable potty inside because they've got an absorbent pad at the bottom. Every year they're brought out for Halloween still.

Ours is also a cake mix bowl. We wash it…..I’ll just get my coat 🙈

It’s only 30cm wide- not one I planned in, one the kitchen planner at ikea changed. Bowl fits in snugly- but quite deep.

First aid cupboard also houses the tablets box and leftover covid tests.

Same x

I didn't realise a separate vomit bowl was a thing.

My washing up bowl gets used for everything.

Yes, same here. I feel lucky that we've never needed one. When I read on MN about whole families having sickness and diarrhoea at the same time I feel so sorry for them and so lucky not to have experienced the horror.

Well, I feel better now.
Only very recently did I decide that the sick bowls having multi use was probably a bit rank. They were the baking bowls. Both now stored in another cupboard so that DD and DH don't use them for cooking 🤣

I will say my dad also used to paint the face of the pumpkin with glow in the dark paint so we could still see it in the dark on the landing. For years. I'm sure its radioactive now.

Looking at the pumpkin face in your room only meant one thing and even now I feel a bit sick looking at them!! 😂 this thread is good though :)

mop bucket was the barf bucket, that or whatever empty ice cream pail was around. In extreme circumstances, we used a old bucket from roof tar

The odd occasion a sick bowl was needed when DC were younger, once the nearest thing to hand & was a Le Creuset casserole dish (contents flushed down the loo, then a quick wash in hot soapy water with a splosh of Zoflora followed by a wash in the dishwasher which also sterilises things)

Once I caught DD's vomit in my hands rather than it go all over the hall carpet whilst she was rushing to the bathroom.

Now pre kids who'd have ever thought that they could cope with being pooed, weeed and vomited on & also pick poo out the bath, out your baby's hand & catch vomit in your own hands 😂

No young children in this house and we all manage to get to the toilet, except for 18yo who occasionally empties his stomach into my garden beds after a big night out

We have a stash of 'em bags' or whatever medics call them, in case anyone's feeling like they wouldn't make a bathroom run. Don't think they've ever been used though, somehow clutching one just makes you feel safer and therefore better!

We've always used an old potty. Does the trick just fine and no danger of ever being used for salad.

People have vomit bowls?

The bin? An non wicker bin with a liner old carrier bag ?

Memories of DD aged 6 saying mummy 'I spitted in the bin' (nearest thing in an emergency) as in was sick.

Otherwise an old bowl for crafts and cookery which goes in the dishwasher.

Think i might buy some of those disposable medical ones better than having a puke bowl under the sink

We've never used a sickbowl, but back when my periods used to make me vomit from pain I'd drag a quilt and pillow into the bathroom and sleep on the floor. It was lovely and cold too which really helped😅

I didn't realise a designated vomit bowl was a thing. If I'm sick I do it in the toilet. To be grossly honest, I vomit with such force I can't imagine not doing it into the toilet without horrific splash back.

I am shocked at both the number of vomit bowls there are AND the fact that I'd totally forgotten we had one when I was a kid. It was a bucket I think.

Anyway, nothing special here: just the toilet.