This one is a little gross.......

[pantshavenames]

to think that guests should wrap or bag or in some way disguise a used sanitary towel before they put in the bin?
Or at least warn me it's there FFS, she came round on Tuesday last, I only empty the bin erractically because I use it for empty toilet rolls etc.

And I already had a hangover.

That is gross, yes??

am ed at cheesesarnie! washable! have never heard the like, though was a novice to mooncups pre-MN

I thought you flushed them too. Haven't used them for about, well, since I was a teenager. They are for teenagers aren't they?

Urgh. YANBU at all. This happened to me once, was emptying the bin after a 'friend' had stayed the weekend, and out came a load of used tampons. She hadn't even bothered to wrap them in loo roll, which there was plenty of.

I nearly threw up, and still feel disgusted now and that was years ago! I wonder what these people are thinking when they put things like that in someone else's bin?

lazyleah-here
at your i had a child in cloth and as i didnt think id get on with a mooncup it seemed silly to use nonwashable sanpro.

I still use towels because I am TTC and am old so don't need anything drying up my already sparse cervical mucus - plus I am too scared to try a mooncup.

Beanie have you tried pre-seed?

And I still use towels because my fanjo doesn't seem to suit tampons and I find them extremely uncomfortable.

Ive never heard of them mooncups, Ithink Ill have to try one of them.Are they any good? Im quite heavy.

ugh, this reminds me of a french pen pal who came to stay with us when we were teenagers.

One day we came upstairs to find our spaniel tearing into a bag of cotton woolly bloody stuff -all over the bedroom floor it was -she had put all her used s -towels in a carrier bag under the bed.

God , it was so embarrassing.

These really are hideous tales. Fancy not wrapping/bagging an ST. How fricking rude. I think they're revolting things at the best of times but, unwrapped in someone else'e bin. Ewwwww.

teamcullen mooncups rock! They revolutionise people's periods and everything

yanbu [boak]

Ewww yuk! Even if my own home, and when it went into a bin specifically for used disposable nappies, I would wrap it in toilet paper first. And I'm not squeamish about blood.

PS Yeah, Mooncups definitely rock!

that is the most disgusting thing! apart from a massive floater perhaps.

what the hell is a mooncup

Certain people in my secondary school used to stick used sanitary towels on the back of the toilet door.

You got a nice surprise if you went in after them

Oh honestly, how can you be so squeamish? I just don't see the big deal- bins are vile to empty, but I don't think wasting your loo roll to preserve your delicate sensibilities is a great use of resources either. I don't use towels or tampons myself , but I would be more pissed off at coming into a loo with no paper left than I would be at emptying the bin. Maybe I have just become inured to grossity after eight years of shitty nappies though!

Fair point from BoF there, wrapping used towels in loo roll is probably not that environmentally friendly.

Btw, apparently it's harder for those of us with retroverted uteruses to use tampons.

Mooncup

Id never heard of them before either. Look good if you forget to take tampons out with you.

www.mooncup.co.uk/

ROFL at spaniel tearing into bag of used towels!!

I could never get on with tampons. Well, the applicator type that is. They went up no problem, but nearly always leaked so I'd end up having to use a thin towel as well, so what's the point. Maybe I just have a channel tunnel fanny, but that was pre-kids, so god knows what it's like now!

Actually, I read of a new design of tampon out recently. Apparently applicator tampons DO have a tendancy to leak because they don't really expand width-ways so well. But a lot of people didn't like the lilets non-applicator type (as I didn't). So the new one hopes to avoid such problems.

Not very useful really as I don't remember who makes them or what they're called!

Mind you, I also am not very keen on the idea of sticking a load of chemically-treated paper fibres up me chuff. A teacher at school used to boak at the thought of "sitting in a pool of your own blood" (i.e. why would anyone want to ever use sanitary towels she would ask us?) And I would want to reply "Well, it's better that than having the blood festering INSIDE you in a man-made sponge."

My 90 year old great aunt was telling me the other day how when she first started her periods, they had to make their own sanitary towels. Sew them out of material and what I assume was a type of wadding. You soaked the used ones in a bucket of salt water before washing them, a bit like kids' nappies. Now, I'd rather see a used one in a bin than have to see a bucket full of sanitary towel soup!

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MIssSunny: "I always used to worry it's come unstuck and fall out of my knickers onto the floor"

That reminds me of the time when I went into the ladies' of a pub with my mum and sister - we were all in adjacent cubicles and having a bit of a natter as you do. And then my mum said "Ohhhh.....uh......um........oo-er!"

Apparently she had been wearing one of those thin every-day knicker-fresh (whatever they're flipping called) pads when she'd left the house that morning. And in the cubicle she discovered it was no longer in her knickers! She had no idea where it could possibly have gone and she had my sister and me looking all over the back of her clothes and coat for it. The 3 of us were HOWLING with laugher. We were in a pub full of blokes with a big footie game on and they were most unimpressed with the cackling so we had to leave. On the way home part of the journey was back the way we'd come so every time we saw a white rectangular object in the distance on the pavement we'd all fall about laughing again. Tsk tsk.....one really shouldn't drink alcohol in the afternoons.

She never found out where it had got to.