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)

Would people really leave used tampons in someone’s bathroom bin? And expect said hosts to empty the bin? That is grim, even if wrapped.

@OriginalPedant what do you expect them to do with them otherwise?

No, it isn't. A bin is for rubbish. If you don't want your guests to feel comfortable, don't invite guests.

It is much less hygenic for someone to carry wrapped sanitary products through your home, multiple times, to your outdoor bin. Let alone to wrap them and leave them festering for days before they go home.

Do you expect a visitor to go to the outside bin at night when they change their tampon before going to bed if you don’t have a bathroom bin or if you do have a bin but it isn’t for products like that?

How would some of these posters cope in countries where you have to put used toilet paper in the bin?

I’d expect them to put them in the outside bin.

You wouldn’t put a dirty nappy in an indoor bin, ever. Used tampons are the same, especially when you’re a guest. I be mortified at the thought of my hosts dealing with my bloody tampons.

We have guests staying here at least one weekend a month. Our guest bathroom doesn’t have a bin. It’s really never occurred to us. I’m pretty sure my friends’ guest bathrooms don’t have bins. I’d not use them if they did. The only rubbish I create is contact lenses and I just pop them in my toiletry bag.

Don't be ridiculous. If I'm staying in someone's house for 3 days, I'll put whatever needs to be disposed of in the outside bin. If it's a short visit, will bring home with me. In the same way I disposed of nappies when my kids were small - I would not expect my hosts to have to deal with them either.

Zero bins inside.

The kitchen has bag normal Carrie brag sized bag that’s taken out daily.

Recycling goes in a box by the door to be taken out.

Parents had bins everywhere always full and just gross so I have no bins. Mil has no bins. Thinking of my friend’s house also no bins that I’ve seen.

I think this thread is a wind up.

What do you mean by "deal with them"? You just pull the bag out and tie it, surely?? Hardly a hardship.

And I always put nappies in the bin at my friends houses and they do the same at mine! Never crossed my mind that it was an issue.

So is the carrier bag hung somewhere in the kitchen like an ornament? And where do you get 365 carrier bags a year???

It’s inside the pantry and I just buy rolls of small bags that are roughly carrier bag sized.

Only start a bag when we actually start to have rubbish and it goes out every night.

So many people adding to rubbish by having to take a bin bag/carrier bag outside every day. I assume there will be a correlation to people not having bins inside to the amount of times they wash bedding, towels etc

I really don't think I'm the ridiculous one 😂
So just to check, if you're round at a friend's for a few hours and change tampon/sanitary towel you'll take the used one home with you?
And expect friends to do the same at yours?

Bedding once a week. My towel gets air dried and washed either twice a week or when it smells musty which ever comes first.

If we go whole hog. I don’t drive. I grow my own fruit and veg. I also don’t take holidays aboard, I caravan or camp 😇 for my eco credentials. Oh and I don’t own a tumble dryer.

@Tableforjoan I wasn’t thinking eco I was thinking if people can’t cope with, god forbid a lidded bin in the house, they probably aren’t going to cope with a towel that has been used twice

Ah no that’s no issue for me 😅 it’s just bins give me the ick.

Bit like toilet brushes we don’t have those either. That’s one of dh’s jobs cleaning the toilet.

Though I will let tradies use my toilet unlike a lot of mumsnetters. lol

I don’t understand how people just don’t have a bin 😅
We’ve a kitchen bin with a clicky lid, which gets emptied out to the wheelie bin outside when it’s full (alarming frequency given we recycle as much as we can!), plus a little bin in each bathroom and each bedroom. Plastic, metal and glass recycling are all outside the back door.
Having said all that, our wheelie bins are for us rather than the bin men if that makes sense, we have to take the bin bags out ‘loose’ so to speak. So carrying out a million wee carrier bags would be bonkers 😂
I am a bit surprised at all the hoo-hah over people using bathroom bins.. they’ve got little bin bags in and are emptied very regularly, I’ve never once paid any attention to what’s actually in them but I certainly hope guests would use them as needed and as intended!

We have a food waste caddy with a biodegradable liner in the kitchen, and it sits next to the ordinary kitchen rubbish bin. We also have a recycling bin in the cupboard under the stairs, for newspapers, cans, plastic, bottles and the like. Small bin in the bathroom for dental floss, toilet roll tubes etc, and a waste paper basket in our bedroom.

All of them are emptied daily by DH, who looks on it as a sort of hobby.😂

Yes, they do. I've hosted international teens and it's a regular occurrence.

I’m surprised people don’t have bathroom bins. I don’t want guests having to walk through my house with tampons/pads/nappies. Most people want to dispose of their tampons and wash their hands not walk past everyone holding it and touching all the doors etc on the way and then have to go back to bathroom to wash their hands.

What do you want them to do with them?

If someone were wandering through my house carrying used tampons several times a day, I would find them a bit grim.

😄

I am so confused that there are people who would prefer we all walked around with used tampons in our handbags than disposed of them in a lined bin.

Surely you would have a bag in the bathroom bin or anybin

and just tie handles and chuck outside in main bin