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

Mine are very heavy though and even if I roll it up and wrap in the wrapper or tissue it can dirty my hands carrying through the house.

if I use someone’s bathroom bin then when I leave I say I’ve used the bathroom bin can I empty it for you please. Or if they say no I tie up the bag for them then they don’t have to see it. If they have a dog always check if the dog is attracted to the bin too

very grim to expect your hosts to empty a bathroom bin filled with your bloody waste products! 🤢🤮

I have awful flooding periods (in peri)

Agree with PP- double bag them in a small bag (I personally like those biodegradable green dog poop bags- they are small, discreet, you get loads on a roll and dont look remotely like a sanitary product) and tie up tightly then dispose in kitchen bin or the one outside if you feel really self conscious. Double bagged they do not smell- honestly!

Do they not absolutely stink after that time or even go mouldy?

In lots of places you put the bin bags outside and they’re collected you don’t have a bin. So clearly you can’t just wrap up a sanitary pad and put it outside for the bin men.

Most of us sort out the recycling products from the bin when we empty it! If it’s got someone else’s bloody pad in it then that wouldn’t be pleasant at all!

What happens if you're staying for several days? Would you really wrap and bag 5 or 6 days worth of tampons and/or towels, store them in the room you're sleeping in, and then take them home with you?

As a country dweller, with a septic tank, I think( hope ) Im being very polite when inviting women who may be menstruating in my home - this is usually for overnight stays I might add

I explain its a tank and only the three P's can be flushed and then point them to the drawer they may need - which contains sanitary products and poo bags - and the lined bin to dispose

Back in my day (70's) it was much more hidden, protection was dire, and I used to wrap up used towels in newspaper to take to work the following day to use the incinerator that was in the ladies loo

Fab Little Bags are great for this, I then take home with me

I would just wrap them up and put them in the nearest bin. What on earth is wrong with putting rubbish into a rubbish bin? People actually look through their kitchen bins to find things to be grossed out about? Or put bins in the bathroom but expect guests not to use them?
Bonkers

My recycling goes nowhere near the bathroom bin, it goes straight to my recycling container in the kitchen. It seems very strange to me to put stuff that I'm going to recycle into a bathroom bin, with floss, sanitary products, snotty tissues etc, only to then fish it out again. Surely it's easier to separate rubbish from recycling before any of it goes in the bin?

When I first stayed at my now in-laws house 25yrs ago, they too had no bathroom bin, so I put wrapped up tampons and put into the kitchen bin. I then discovered that MIL would meticulously sift through ALL rubbish, on the off chance that someone hadn't put a scrap of paper or a toilet roll in the correct recycling bin! 😬

After that, I'd wrap them up and took a click lock plastic box like the pic. I'd either take home to dispose of, or if I stayed an extended time, would also wrap in dog poo type bags and dispose of when out shopping/public bin/public toilet bin.

I have bathroom bins. I have no problem emptying the bins after a guest has left their products in them, or sometimes the guests tie the bag up and put it out into the wheelie bin themselves before they leave. It’s really no big deal. People have strange hang ups.

It's so odd not to have a bathroom bin. I don't have periods any more, and mostly used a Moon cup when I did, but the bin still houses loo roll innards, dental floss, cotton pads, Q-tips and hair collected from plugs.
I also have guests who I'm sure would need a bin for sanitary stuff. In other times I would wrap tampons or liners in loo roll and put in the bin.

Right or wrong I would feel self-conscious carting my wrapped towels down to the kitchen bin. No need to draw attention to my personal business.

If they are wrapped up securely they shouldn't smell, I suppose it depends how long you're staying. I've had people staying who've asked if they can use the washing machine if they are staying more than a couple of days.

I have no problem leaving them in the bathroom bins in someone else’s home, but the kitchen bin is just wrong. I don’t want to carry a used sanitary product through the house. I think not providing bathroom bins for your guests is rude.

Personally, if I'm comfortable enough to stay over at someone's house, I'd just ask where I should put them BUT I do also carry dog poo bags everywhere (for fear of being caught with out one when with the dog) and would put them in there. I'd also probably just take them to the outside bin in the dog poo bag.

I used to bag them up and sneak them out into a public toilet sanitary bin.

I'm not sorting through a bathroom bin, that's for waste items, snotty tissues, used baby wipes , the little caps on the ear thermometer, dental floss etc regardless of sanitary items. My recycling goes into the recycling bin.

Perfectly happy for a great time use my bathroom bin for sanitary waste. My bin is lined with scented drawstring bin liners, so the lid comes off and I tie it up I don't root through the contents.

I would just be honest with them and ask where they’d like me to dispose of them (in a polite way) nothing embarrassing about a period x

So you keep all your rubbish in the house for a week or two, two weekly collection where I live.

I would bag them up in nappy bag or equivalent and put in my handbag to dispose of the next day in outside bin or public bin or take home with me (put in car boot). When I had really bad flooding periods in Peri (now treated) I came across adult incontinent nappies to sleep in and they are utterly amazing when staying out. No more ruined bedding and nightclothes and they keep you quite dry so nicer on your skin on heaviest days.

I do have a bathroom bin where I did put used pads in during the day and empty each night and spray and clean but if you are in a house where they use it for contact lense cases and cotton buds they may not empty it often so it’s a bit rank to use unexpectedly for that

I buy these sanitary bags called Fab Little Bags which are designed for this purpose. They seal completely tight and are waterproof and odour free. They are brilliant.

I take it no one flushes down the toilet anymore ?

Fling them over the garden fence. Impossible really for the neighbours to tell precisely where they came from, and at worst suspicion will fall upon your friend, not some random visitor the neighbour won't even be aware exists.