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

[Motheroffive999]

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

Period pants are a game changer. Bought some for this month and wondered why I didn't do so years ago.

Oh come on. No-one is touching the contents of the bin. And there's a hot water tap and soap in the room. No need to touch anything, just knot the bin liner and dispose of it.

I agree that is fine, but it was just the way @Princessconsuelabananahammock9 was blithely saying she has no problems "dealing with other women's maxi pads", rather than no problems "emptying the bin." I wasn't sure she wasn't one of the bin sifters and sorters.

You say that you are staying with friends and relatives, not strangers. Can’t you just bag the pads and ask where the best place to dispose of them? I really can’t see that it is any different to anyone needing to dispose of babies nappies. I’m sure no-one we would consider it necessary to keep these to dispose of later at home. Periods are not a shameful secret - just ask.

Ex-PIL's didn't have a bathroom bin and the kitchen bin was small. I took nappy bags and wrapped them up but MIL asked me not to put them in that bin or the wheelie bin in case FIL saw them.

I ended up putting them in my bag and disposing of them in public bins when we were out and about.

It's totally ridiculous thinking about it now!

No I don’t sift through the garbage, but even if I did I wouldn’t be touching blood let alone fresh blood.

I doubt anyone is catching diseases from people leaving pads in bathroom bins.

I work in hospital. All sanitary bins have been removed. Trust has put thick lined paper bags in toilet cubicle. You wrap and place in normal waste bin when you come out of the cubicle.

I agree! Who doesn’t have a bathroom bin?

Even if no women who menstruate live in the house, you’ve got to be aware that visits could need this. And we put other things in the bathroom bin too.

I would ask your hosts outright tbh. as periods are nothing to be ashamed of.

That sounds fine I'm sure. It was just the way you had written "dealing with" I wondered, in the context of others on this thread saying they sort through the bathroom bin.

I agree, I think it's horrible to put them in the kitchen bin, same with nappies. It's no wonder other cultures think we aren't a very hygienic nation.

A bin's a bin, does it matter where it is? You're not chopping veg on it

I have had a scan , hysterscopy and they were not concerned about my periods,

Are your periods being treated @Motheroffive999 ? Are you on the pill or similar?

Wrap it up and put it in the nearest available bin or if not in your bag to dispose of when you can.
I don’t get how people don’t have bins in bathrooms?! We have one in every room of house apart from lounge & they all get used.

I agree - used sanitary products smell. What if you only have a huge kitchen bin for all household rubbish, which doesn’t get emptied until it’s filled? Stuff will stink in there.

I no longer have periods but we have a bin (with a lid) in bathroom & downstairs loo & in spare bedrooms. Our 2 DDs are grown up but occasionally stay over & we have 2 DNieces too. I just think if it were me I’d like discrete access to a bin rather than having to ask of carry it through house to kitchen bin.

Why not? It's a BIN.

If it's huge and used for all household rubbish, and doesn't get emptied for 2 weeks, won't it stink anyway?

(Actually, ours doesn't - no sanitary products, no nappies, we're veggie so there are no bones etc., in fact there's not much in there at all.)

Wrap and put in the outside bin. Or take home. I can’t believe people are suggesting the kitchen bin.

I don't think 'most' people do sort the bin when they empty it. Everyone I know collects recycling separately, so the rubbish bin is only rubbish and just goes straight out for the rubbish collectors. It's frankly weird and disgusting to go through a rubbish bin - what do people in your house do with soiled tissues? Next thing you'll be saying that when you have a cold every time you blow your nose you take the tissue out to the outside bin.

I would not expect someone to clear out my st from their bin, also if she cleans once a week they will smell. I would personally take nappy bags and put them discreetly straight into the wheelie bin.

Personally if I had a guest I would prefer her to ask me what she should do while she is staying at mine. We are living in the 21st C and we are women.

What?!

I have a bathroom bin and a kitchen one - I dig though neither - just put in a bin bag and throw away. Guests are free to use bins for their needs!

Why are people going through their bins?! Recycling gets put aside as used and then put in the recycling wheelie bin when one of us can be bothered 😂😂

Get some of those nappy bags and roll it up (the adhesive will make it stick) then wrap it up in its own wrapper then place it into the nappy bag (2 if you like) then dispose in any bin. Simples. Or you could switch to bamboo reusables which fold up neatly into a little presstud pockets then you take home and wash.

You leave your soiled san pro in someone’s bathroom bin? How lovely!

I wouldn’t feel at all comfortable leaving soiled sanitary wear in someone’s bathroom bin, I think it’s very bad manners to think it’s your hosts responsibility to provide a bin for this!
A hotel yes, but not family member or friend's home-yuk, take your menstrual blood soaked pads and tampons with you and get rid of them yourselves!

OP you coming back???