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

My comment was a reply to previous comments about leaving an unrolled, open used sanitary towel in someone's bin. I wasn't referring to one that was rolled up in some loo roll or in a bag, obviously I wouldn't see those.

Plenty of nappy bags and dispose of them when you get home.

Crikey despite being post menopausal I have a bin in every bathroom and a supply of different sanitary products for all guests

lol tmi but as someone with heavy periods who also struggled in homes with no sanitary bins, don’t forget you put one in the pocket of your bag, swap hand bags and end up throwing away a completely ruined bag…

Op if you can find Always Platinum secure night 5 (hard to get but on Occado) they can last me closer to 2/3 hours during my heaviest flow.

If you can, use a mooncup.

@mistyeveningponder for the flooding peri periods, have you considered seeing a gynae consult to discuss an endometrial resection (or ablation)? Best thing I did, having suffered with random heavy endo periods for decades then the peri flooding too.

you put your sanitary products in the outside bin each time?

I feel it’s a bit different. Poo goes down the toilet. Vomit is rare. Periods are monthly normal part of being female.

Wrap up and put in outside bin

Not sure why not using tampons changes things as those shouldn't be flushed either.

I've always just used nappy sacks or dog poo bags and then binned (or burned) wherever the opportunity arises.

I was so heavy I had to use period pants and then the massive nappy like Tena night pads, and sleep on a towel, with a folded towel between my legs and set an alarm to get up change in the night. Staying somewhere else is mega stressful!

Luckily I finally found a dr who helped me sort it and now don't have periods!

Not that it’s something I need to worry about as I’m through the menopause and used a moon cup for the best part of 20 years before that!

Same. Who sorts once it’s in there??? That’s gross. Any recycling goes to recycling bin straight away

You could use a mooncup or similar.

Oh I sympathise op.

FIL is obsessed with the bins. He always announces after dinner the night before "Bin Day tomorrow." He seems to take some degree of pride in making sure he is the most judicious in the county about what goes in his. No, that's food waste: it goes in the composting bin. No, that could go on the bonfire. No, that is recycling.

He seems to derive his self esteem from the fact his wheelie bin is the least filled. He honestly wheels it down the drive with one hand ostentatiously in his pocket, which I am sure is just in case anyone is looking to see how heavy (or light) his bin looks. The bins are his hobby.

Unfortunately his other hobby is the drains, and he seems to have plumbed his to choke and splutter on anything larger than a raisin. I was more or less instructed on my first visit never to introduce a tampon to his drains (he didn't actually use the word, but got there in a roundabout way by vetoing anything "like cotton wool" or "with string.")

Tampon disposal is therefore a major issue. I wouldn't dare put it in the bathroom bin as I guarantee he inspects them item by item as they are transferred to his wheelie bin.

I have ended up getting nappy bags and sometimes double bagging them, then smuggling them out in my handbag whenever we go out and finding a public bin, which seems slightly disgusting but there you are.

More recently I have discovered period pants actually work, but then again they can be awkward to rinse out and dry when staying as a guest.

I was absolutely blown away to find that anyone, anywhere, thought that was the done thing, let alone that people still do it now.

There was a discussion on woman's hour a while ago and people were pretending they didn't know you shouldn't flush them. Despite every cistern and door in every public toilet having big signs explaining this, and bins that are labelled as "sanitary bins" with more instructions, and sanpro packaging having a little picture of a crossed-out stick figure dropping something in a toilet, for the people who can't read, and the really bloody obvious fact that toilets are not general-purpose waste disposals for stuff that doesn't turn to mush in a very short amount of time. Some daft woman was wondering why nobody had yet thought to make tampons that dissolve. Water soluble tampons, literally as useful as a chocolate fire guard 🤦

Yes! And whether you like them or not .... 🤣🤣

Can be difficult. The same problem arises with liners etc for incontinence - which most women suffer from if they've had DC. The idea of nappy sacks is good one! Usually, if I put things I don't want found in the bathroom bin I empty it myself, being a 'helpful' guest. I don't understand people without bins in the loo. What about old toothbrushes, nail clippings, hair etc?

They smell, even if the bin is emptied daily.

Take some biodegradable bags, tie up and put in their outdoor bin.

Light sofas are more risky. Maybe sit on a chair or stool. Or wear an extra layer?

Heavy periods are a bummer.

Are you my MIL????
Most of us sort the recycling BEFORE it goes into a main bin! Do you sift through the bathroom bin after having guests? You could find sanitary products, condoms, razors who knows. I find it odd that you feel the need to go through a guests bin to find the odd toilet roll to recycle! 😕

I find it sad that in this day and age, women are still shy about periods, as if it’s something shameful. If it was me, I would simply tell the host that I was on my period and ask them where to put the waste 🤷🏻‍♀️

Same with soiled nappies. Straight into the outside bin especially if visiting.

Is it becuase women are shy about periods or because it's pretty grim to leave your bodily fluids for someone else to deal with?

Interesting. We have a small bin in the bathroom for non-recyclables such as used sanitary products and a multicompartment bin in the kitchen to separate recycling from non-recycling.

I am very happy for guests to use my bathroom bin for used sanirary products, unwrapped (better for the planet) just like I do. When it's full or if there's any odour, I simply tie it off and move it to the non-recycling wheelie bin outside for refuse collection. No need for me to touch or ssparate the contents. No fuss. No drama.

All recyclables from around the house are rinsed, drained and separated into the appropriate section of the kitchen bin which is emptied into the recycling wheelie bin outside for refuse collection.

Soft plastics, I take from the appropriate part of the kitchen bin to the supermarket for recycling.

It's a perfectly adequate system that works just fine for us. I really don't see what the rest of you are fussing about.

Carrier bag. Wrap them up in toilet roll and put in the bag I would try tampons again or a moon cup. The leaking would be my concern sleep on a towel

Nope. I sort them out afterwards