Too many saitary pads

[PrettyCandles]

Trying to make space to fit more stuff in, the back of the airing cupboard saw daylight for the first time in years, and I came across 9 unopened packs of Always sanitary towels, plus a couple of opened packs (but they're all the individually wrapped sort). They must have been stockpiled before I had ds, and afterwards I wasn't able to use that make anymore. Now I don't need them (Mooncup - [insert smug icon]) so what do I do with them? Any suggestions?

if they have wings u can tel lyou ds they are aweroplanes lol.

give them to a hospital?

Hospital, or put them on the selling threads - free to a good home, buyer pays postage.

I gave all mine to my sister (also smug icon with mooncup )

Use them for dusters, polishing shoes, cleaning the car, mopping up spills in the kitchen ?!!!!

cut in half they make handy emergency breastpads.

Stick in the bottom of a nappy bag and save on those refills for the Tommy Portable Potty....

is the mooncup that good..it just seems a messy idea to me..lol

Stick them to the bottom of your shoes and hey-presto - multi task....polish your laminate floor whilst doing the dusting !

use to mop up spills.

Nappies (and I guess by default towels) are supposed to make excellent mopper uppers of red wine.

You could try a women's refuge or school?

Ooh yes I can just see myself whipping out a Bodyform at a dinner party when hubby's boss spills his Burgundy ...

Actually, I did try using them to mop up spills ages ago, but surprisingly they aren't so good at that. OTOH, I wonder whether they would work for disaster recovery on the carpets when we try toilet-training dd again? Face-down on the rug with a couple of heavy books on top.

Hospital's a good idea - I might ask my HV if she would give them to any of her mums.

If they were the old-fashioned thick sort, then I'd just use them to paper the inside of a very large box, and create my own little padded cell retreat.

At dinner parties I talk about mooncups!

If they are the thin sort then the HV's may not take them- a lot don't reccomend the thin ones for past birth bleeding.

Another thing I tried with them was to stick the lightest ones under the sleeves of a good shirt, to try and prevent 'embarassing stains'. It was far more embarassing when the wings came away and stuck to my underarm hair - ow ow ow!

Do you get many return invites, Pootlepod? Or converts for that matter!

Not nec for after-birth bleeding (I found them far to harsh-textured for that), but I'm sure she has mums on her list who have financial difficulties, and sanipads really are not cheap. They should be zero-rated for VAT - defo not a luxury item.

So that's what I'm doing wrong!!

Very useful strategy when it's gone 1am and you want everyone to leave though

I bet if you plonked it on the table the men would flee but the women wouldn't!

Prettycandles "try toilet-training dd again? Face-down on the rug with a couple of heavy books on top"

Is that the sanitary pads face down on the rug or your dd ??

I tell you, after six knicker-changes including two 'Why is there a poo in my knickers, Mummy?' in one morning, she may well end up "Face-down on the rug with a couple of heavy books on top"!

I think a womans refuge may be grateful for them not the kind of thing you think to pack when you are fleeing domestic abuse.