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Mooncups evangelists thread

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 07:55

I was asked to start this, honest.

Come and share a sisterly cup of organic carrot juice and tell us why you love yours.

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 20/10/2006 07:55

(have not had need for such a thing for ooooh 4 years now but still...you never know...)

Trinityrhino · 20/10/2006 07:57

can I join in even though I won't be able to use one for about a yesr?? pleae, I think they are great and I want one

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:00

I think you two have just come on to brag at me about your amenorrheoa

just because I have the painters in right now

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CarolinaMooncup · 20/10/2006 08:01

I love my mooncup - it is quite the most fabby contraption.

Makes you wonder why anyone bothered inventing tampons .

shazdisembodiedronnie · 20/10/2006 08:01

can you do a link?

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:03

mooncups

I will be starting another thread selling them for cheap quite soon, watch this space

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sassy · 20/10/2006 08:04

Love mine.

On cycle 3 with it at the mo and have only 2 issues..

  1. Some leakage overnight (wear pad too on heavy days)
  1. Schluuuurrrrps make it a bit - ahem embarrassing - to use in a public loo.

Otherwise, fabbo. Clean, healthy, comfortable (better than tampax imo).

Converting my sisters at the mo.

FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 20/10/2006 08:05

why are they cheap?

are they preloved?

lulumama · 20/10/2006 08:06

thank you franny---- have to go and do school run...back later...

CarolinaMooncup · 20/10/2006 08:06

what's this all about Franny?

shazdisembodiedronnie · 20/10/2006 08:10

I think I might give it a go - I know £18 is cheaper than a life of tampons, but i don't want to buy it and not like it. Is there anyone who didn't love it?

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:13

Carolina someone asked me to point them to the nearest Mooncup thread so I thought I would start a new one for them (it was on the soggy tampon thread)

Filly they are cheap because I can get them at wholesale prices from my Suma collective. They will be about £15.28 or something inc postage to Mumsnetter. They are brand new

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Spagblog · 20/10/2006 08:13

Oh yes, I am a mooncup evangelist.
They are wonderful, life-transforming devices.
You get to learn so much more about your period!

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:14

Ooh, sorry - "someone" - it was lulumama. Glad you found your way here lulumama

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CastsSpellsWitchySpells · 20/10/2006 08:15

I'll take one Franny. How soon do you expect to have them? Just got my first period since having DD, so perfect timing .

CarolinaMooncup · 20/10/2006 08:17

que es Suma??

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:19

Suma are a co-operative selling wholefoods and other lentilly things

Castsspells I'll have the next ones before another lunar cycle has passed. Can't remember the date but we order once a month, quite fittingly.

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harpsichordcarrion · 20/10/2006 08:20

hey! shall I write a song? after all, I only have three gazillion other things to do?
I love my mooncup. It's so much more comfrotable and cleaner. I like the fact I don't have to wrap up tampons and put them in the bin.

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:21

That doesn't rhyme, HC. In fact it just generally lacks poetic sentiment.

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harpsichordcarrion · 20/10/2006 08:25

it's free style, modern stuff.
don't be so hidebound by tradition.
you square.

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:28

I don't care. It scans all wrong.

If it was

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sur ely?

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FrannyandZooey · 20/10/2006 08:29

ooh that was much more interesting looking the way I typed it

MN has tidied it all up for me

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hatwoman · 20/10/2006 08:59

I love mine. I love changing it in the shower in the morning - feels so much cleaner than tampons

IvortheEngine · 20/10/2006 09:01

Hi FandZ, I'd be interested in having one too, please. Also, I'm right in thinking that ideally mooncup users want a toilet cubicle with its own sink am I? That's what I told dh anyway and he said he'd mention it to the chap who designs the loos in the organisation he works in, mentioning no names.

LemonTart · 20/10/2006 09:10

ivortheengine - it would be good if more public/out of the home loos had a sink in the cubicle but not essential. I take a sports squirty style bottle of water in with me and tbh it is just as easy as fiddling with a packet of tampax in a cubicle.
I love mine. It has been the best buy for myself for years. I am irregular and heavy. This means everytime i go away I used to worry about having to pack endless boxes of tampax just in case..- esp if abroad. Now I just pack one plastic mooncup and I am sorted. Much easier, no shopping required. Also, I have never had a leak whereas almost every other month I would have a little accident at heaviest flow at night. It is comfy, stays put when cycling, rock climbing, you name it.
I think that schools should hand one out to every 13 yr old!! Bid to help the environment and make life easier for all