Disposing of sanitary products when staying at someone else's home.

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Twice this has happened now.
Heavy period whilst staying with friends and relatives.
Tampons don't suit me so I use towels and for the first 24 hours my period is heavy.
Where are you supposed to dispose of them , the two families only have a kitchen bin , no other bins in the house.
Also they have a white sofa and the other has a light pink one , so I was concerned about leaking on the sofa.
I have had a scan , hysterscopy and they were not concerned about my periods, I don't have to change them every hour liked the doctor mentioned.
It's just awkward

I’d put them in a plastic bag in my room and put them in the outside wheelie bin each time I left the house.

re: bins in bathroom - we’ve tried that but guests have left unwrapped pads. Which is gross. And often means need to remember to empty bins, if all house residents use moon cups or similar it’s not second nature to even check the bins.

Imagine opening bin and there is an unwrapped pad, not even rolled up. Yuck.

You can get bio degradable doggy bags..

Dog poo bag knotted, then in kitchen bin. Or if you’re self conscious ab kitchen bin collect in another plastic bag and take away with you.

I think for me it would depend on the people I was with. Assuming there’s a female there I’d probably ask them. If I felt less comfortable I’d bag them in nappy sacks and carrier bag. I’d worry they’d smell though.

it’s a shame we have deal with all this!!

id not use a bathroom bin though - that’s smaller and people emptying would come closer to it?! So if there’s an option then kitchen or wheelie

This and wear secur period pants too.

That’s me too^

I always have nappie bags in my bag.
I dont have a bathroom bin either, i cant deal with emptying it with other peoples used pads or tampons, its normal but not something i dont want to do.

Don't put them in an inside bin in someone else's house. Put them in a bag and walk all the way to the outside bin. If it's night secure bag till morning and then outside bin.

I would never be happy to leave bodily fluids for someone else to dispose of. I get rid of period products in exactly the same way as a bloody dressing, an incontinence pad, or a used condom. By bagging them securely and taking them home with me.

I wrap them up in the wrapping they come in and then they go in a ziploc bag and I take them home with me.
A bigger problem for me is worrying about leaking on sheets etc so I sleep on my own towel.

Of course, that's what I said in my post.

How far away is your wheelie bin? Would it really be that difficult for people to put them in the wheelie bin? Same with nappies, my own kids nappies went outside don't know why I'd want someone else in my kitchen

Erm. Not everyone has an "outside" bin. We don't.

Thank god I am post menopause. I would have never left used sanitary protection in someone’s bathroom bin and always bagged them and taken them home or disposed of in the outside bin if well hidden. Nor would I want a bin for this purpose in my bathroom. I don’t have any bathroom rubbish other than dental floss and toilet roll tubes which I put in the kitchen bin, after use.

each to their own, but used pads left the bathroom is pretty yuk to me.

If people put things in my outside bin that are not in a bin liner the dustbin collectors don’t take them. So I end up having to fish them out and put them into a black bin liner myself. I’d soooo much rather people just put them well wrapped up (probably in a nappy bag type thing) in my own kitchen bin. I second use of period pants as a back up device and something to sleep on (even an old towel will do).

So do the dustmen come in collect your rubbish?

So if you use period pants what do you do about the sodden pants when staying somewhere. Would you bag them up and take them home to wash at home 4-5 days later? Would they not stink?

Yes yuk and double yuk to have them in your kitchen.

Like others I would wrap up and take home . I don’t have periods anymore but use pee pads. I take those home as wouldn’t dream of leaving in someone else’s inside bin to empty, even if wrapped .

I'd wash them in the bathroom, squeeze them out and put them in a waterproof bag. If id got the car with me they'd go in the boot.

what do the refuse collectors collect??

You know periods are natural right?!

might not be ideal but there’s not much of an alternative. Taking them home maybe but more than two nights they’d start to smell.

I don’t get why it would be an issue. It’s exactly where it’s supposed to be and there is no need to touch it so there’s no yuck factor.

Shit and vomit are also natural but I don't want them in my kitchen. Outside in the bin.