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 wonder if they ever get invited back.

Do you empty your kitchen bin every night? If you don't you must have stinking sanitary products festering overnight or maybe for days at a time. Utterly revolting.

I have paper disposal bags in my bathroom for this purpose. If no such thing is available, I’d take some with me and dispose of in the outside bin or take home.

Close friends, I wrap securely and use their bathroom bin.
Less close friends/ without a bin in the bathroom, I wrap securely, and put in a small zippy waterproof cosmetic bag to empty in the outside bin / when I get home, whichever’s easiest.

Yes, it’s a bin, not their bedside table. The clue is in the name.

So put in a little plastic bag like a dog poo bag and keep on you until you go out and put in a public bin outside. This is what I do.

What are the bin rules?!
No menstrual blood.
No tissues from a nose bleed or small cut.
No toe nails or skin.
No scabs.
No cotton buds with ear wax.
No baby wipes.

It's all human fluids and stuff. Are people putting all that straight into the outside bin? If it has a liner and a lid it's fine.

You can wrap them, put them into another bag and take them to the nearest public toilet.

Since hitting peri my periods have been heavy and leaking / flooding has been a regular feature. I’ve stopped using tampons and have started wearing incontinence pants during the day and / or in bed. You can just about roll them up into a nappy bag and then bin. I hate it but it’s about the only thing that makes me feel relatively secure - particularly on MIL’s cream leather sofa!

This thread reminds me how much Mirena changed my life! All that shit is so damn stressful.

Our council won't take black bags in a bin. They said it could have an animal body in it! Don't blame me.

What else is the bin for? How weird!

My mother refused to have a bathroom bin and I grew up smuggling wrapped products in my pockets into a kitchen bin. Cue ‘what’s that?’🙄. I get it!
I use a cup these days which mostly does the trick but I would do what others have suggested and pack a roll of dog poo bags, wrap pads securely and throw them away privately. If I were afraid of leaking I might also pack a towel to sleep in.

I'd... ask the host what they'd prefer I do with it, quietly obviously, not over Sunday dinner..

If I had a guest, I would ask them not to put such things in our bathroom bin because the dogs WILL go in there and raid it if they do - but bag up and stuff in the outside bin is fine, bag up and keep in their room til they feel like going to the outside bin is fine. Even bagged up (we have poo bags) in the kitchen bin is fine as it's not where the dogs can get it and I do not go through our bins, I just pull the top edges of the bag together, lift it out and tie a knot then into the outside bin.

Please do not flush tampons or any sanitary products. Drainage engineer here.

80% of blocked sewers are caused by sewer abuse. This is sewer abuse.

Do you ask your female guests if they are having their period so you can warn them not to use the bathroom bin for fear of the dogs pulling them out? How embarrassing for guests if that happened. Maybe you could put a sign in the loo.
Wouldn’t it be better to train your dog not to rummage down the bins, or use bins dogs can’t get into?

Please don’t flush tampons.

also shampoo bottles etc should go in recycling.

and why are you sticking your hand in to separate rubbish??

Why not? I put nappies in the kitchen bin and they smell far worse!

I'm another one voting for the heavy flow period pants. My period has always been wildly heavy and leaks even when I use a combination of super plus extra tampons and extra large heavy flow pads. Maybe TMI (but this is a thread about periods!) but a coughing or sneezing fit, or suddenly standing up after sitting for a while can cause a flood-like situation that bypasses my tampon or ejects it altogether. The Cheeky pants have protection all the way up the back and front, I have never experienced a leak when using them and if combined with tampons I only have to change twice a day.
If I am at someone's house I always take little bags (nappy bags work), seal up the used period products and pop them in my handbag for disposal at home. If I knew the person well I would probably pop the bag in their kitchen bin - if they don't like it they might get the hint about putting a bin in their bathroom!
I had to have a little chat with my boyfriend about bin provisions when I started staying there

I did exactly the same on a recent visit to the US but for incontinence issues not periods. Fortunately I did not have a need to change them but I did experience a slight problem when going through security. Any each check in, the X-ray machine flagged up a suspicious object on my body and I had to stand there to be checked over with the wand. The second time this happened I ( and everyone else in the queue) could see my x ray image and there was a glowing red patch in my crotch area which I can only assume was due to the bulky pad in my period pants! Very embarrassing!

Please don’t flush tampons. It’s not ok and it hasn’t been ok for years. Absolutely years ago (several decades +) there was some messaging that they were flushable - but that’s been changed for ages now.

No I just ask that its only wrappers etc goes in there, why would I need to ask if they've got their period?

We have the bin we have because I can access it and change it myself, when we had a heavier bin with a lid I couldn't do it (disabled) and that meant leaving it to DP along with a billionty other jobs.

It wasn't an issue when we had a swing door but we have a pocket door now and they can nose the bugger open, it only locks from the inside.

In 30 years of dog training I've yet to find a way to train dogs not to do something highly tempting when a human isn't present - but as you know better do explain how (without the use of aversives). The first step is management, preventing the unwanted behaviour from being practiced... whats next?

Well you did say "If I had a guest, I would ask them not to put such things in our bathroom bin", which is quite an intrusive request and possibly embarrassing for some.

I have never owned a dog and never trained one, so I don't know how that would work. I do know that I've been in many houses with dogs and never been asked not to put used sanitary wear in the bin.

I quite agree and not a bad idea to have some small bags for people to use.

Well no as we have a bathroom bin which doesn't smell anyway