Do you have a bin?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Apparently noone in Essex has a bin?! (TOWIE)

Its unhygienic - which actually i do get, but i need my bin. I have one in each room 😭

(Edited quickly, a kitchen bin)

Not having a bathroom bin is disgusting.

I would hate to be a guest at a house like this. If you have someone stay over and use the bathroom in the night, for example, do you expect them to walk through your house to your kitchen to get rid of their used tampon? What if everyone is chatting in the kitchen and they've popped off to use the loo?

I don’t have people staying over so never been an issue. If it’s wrapped up how would anyone know what you were chucking in the bin. I don’t have a kitchen people would be ‘chatting in’

No it isn’t. It’s more disgusting having a bin sitting for a day of two before being emptied.

It so rude not to provide a bathroom bin for guests. Not just because of sanitary items but what if someone uses a bulky incontinence pad? Horrible to make people walk through the house with used hygiene products. And a waste of huge wads of toilet roll, I’d imagine. And do people not wash their hands after touching used pads etc before needing to touch door handles or anything in the kitchen? So grim and unnecessary.

We have a kitchen bin and dh is in charge of cleaning snd emptying it. My dm never had a kitchen bin ss she considered then dirty. She used carrier bags that were thrown out in the eveningz

I don’t know anyone who uses incontinence pads. Also i wouldn’t be wanting them
in my indoor bin, when my dad had pads like that there was a special outdoor white bin that was picked up by a specific company. I wouldn’t want them festering in a bin

Before the days of recycling I just used a plastic bag on the kitchen door handle and that got taken out most days. Probably more hygienic than having a real bin.
Now I have a medium IKEA dustbin in the kitchen with 3 bags meeting in the middle (binder clips) for food waste, plastic and glass/metal. Another for non-recyclable waste and a box for paper.
Small bin in each bathroom that goes straight into the non recyclable waste.
Rubbish is collected daily from roadside bins so I usually take something out on DDog’s first walk.

I would like an answer to this too!

How do you know you don’t know anyone who wears incontinence pads? No female friends who might have had traumatic birth injuries have ever come to your house? Nothing needs to fester, you have a lined bathroom bin that can be tied off and chucked out as soon as there’s anything in it. Or you can even provide small plastic tie up bags as well. It’s just so inhospitable not to give people privacy in disposing of any waste like that. And that aside I do think it’s pretty disgusting carrying a used tampon through the house rather than putting it in a bin and being able to wash your hands before touching doors.

Exactly this. I learned v recently a friend of mine wears them after a 3c tear. I only learned this because I was ranting about obstetric care to her randomly and she decided it was "safe" to tell me. My poor friend has barely told anyone including her own DF and is struggling with managing symptoms every day

Nope no female friends ever visit my home. I don’t use tampons so wouldn’t be carrying one through my house. If I have to dispose of sanitary items I use the downstairs loo wrap it up well and dispose in the kitchen bin.

One of my non-negotiables when I was having a new kitchen was that it absolutely must have an integrated bin (rubbish and recycling). I cannot abide free-standing bins sitting awkwardly in a kitchen, getting moved about because they are in the way. And the smell wafts out from them.

I have a small bin with well-fitting lids in both bathrooms. I've been to blokes' homes where they only have a kitchen bin and, as others have said, what do you do with soiled sanpro? Walk downstairs with it wrapped in loo paper and find a bin downstairs? Unhygienic and uncivilised. And it's inviting you to put stuff you shouldn't down the loo.

But I don't bother with bins for paper, tissues etc in the living room or bedrooms.

How is having a bin used for its purpose disgusting? Honestly that sounds like some kind of germaphobe or ocd type issue. Bins are normal.

My in laws only have a kitchen bin. I think that's odd, we have a little one in all the bathrooms, DS has one in his bedroom, one in the study and one in the living room.
And a kitchen bin obvs.

Tbh I think those posters who never have anyone visit their house are probably in a different position to everyone else.

If no-one ever came to my house I probably wouldn't even wear clothes at home or have doors on the bathroom but obviously when one has guests from time to time it's a little different and it's good to think of others

So empty your bin regularly?

I think we have 7 bins scattered about - kitchen bathrooms x2 office living room & kids rooms. In use constantly

What even if it isn’t full? I have three bathroom and three floors, that’s just adding more work to my plate. I have never suffered by not having a bin in the bathrooms and I don’t need to add more tasks,

I have about six bins in my kitchen for various things and one in the bathroom

(And I live in Essex, if that's relevant 😁)

I have a kitchen bin. Cant be doing with lots of bins. There is a small unused bin in the spare room in case I ever have a guest.

Sorry but is everyone saying 'sanpro' now?

No. Only on mumsnet

I live in Essex and I have bins! Kitchen bin built in pulls out, two bins inside one for recycling one for general waste. Bathroom bin and a waste paper basket in each bedroom. Upstairs bins get emptied weekly, kitchen bin when it gets full which is usually multiple times a week

You don’t ever have any women visit your house? For a cup of tea or before you go out together or for dinner or because they’re babysitting or anything? Fair enough then. Enjoy your bathroom binless existence!