What’s your method of dealing with used sanitary towels?

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Teen dd and I are in disagreement. She thinks it’s ok to leave them in the bathroom bin (in a nappy sack) - she and her younger brother share a bathroom. I think that it’s better to put them in the kitchen bin (in a nappy sack so no embarrassment of anyone seeing anything ‘yucky’) which gets changed much more often.

Or are both methods reprehensible ?

Bathroom bin

Bathroom bin

Bathroom bin. Why can't she be responsible for emptying it each day??

Oh I don’t have periods any more and when I did I used tampons which I used to flush (I wouldn’t now!) but this was a decade ago, I know better now .

Bathroom bin and empty it every day or every other day

Bathroom bin. I live with 3 males and not one of them has uttered one word of disgust about having to see a tam tam wrapped in loo roll as of yet!

Bathroom bin ffs. Why should she have to traipse to the kitchen with a fucking nappy bag?

But hey, we can't have a male being offended by seeing anything 'yukky'... that's in a nappy bag anyway.

It's just a period. If he's going to live with females in the future he might as well get used to it.

Brokenflipflop - she’s a piglet with extremely low cleanliness standards. I guess I can add changing the bathroom bin to the list of nagging!

What is the issue with the younger brother? Periods are a fact of life. Bathroom bin.

Bathroom bin. Nappy sack seems super wasteful of plastic too. They’re designed so you can wrap the used one in the wrapper of the new one, at least the always pads are. If they’re still offensive to delicate sensibilities then wrap a small piece of toilet roll around it.

Wow Pipgoespop - assumptions! ‘Yucky’ was her word. She’s very private and would be mortified at ds seeing used sanitary towels.
Not trying to ‘shield’ ds from anything

OP she can't be that much of a piglet if she is putting them in nappy bags and then into the bin each time.

Mine always go in the bathroom bin, i then take the small bag from the bathroom bin, tie it and put it into the larger kitchen bin when I am emptying the kitchen bin, which is usually every other day.

Bathroom bin. just because bodily functions happen in the bathroom so that’s just where I’ve always put sanpro. The bin gets emptied regularly and put straight in the outside bin. It would put me off my lunch thinking about soiled sanpro sat in the kitchen bin but I fully accept others wouldn’t give it a second thought. I’m a bit odd as I do have ocd so am funny about a lot of things.

Bathroom bin, has a lid. Dh is only man so tough on him seeing something natural! 3 females here so plenty of waste

I hardly doubt her younger brother is going to be rifling through the bin.... what would he even put in there anyway? A bathroom bin is surely primarily for sanitary waste? The only other thing I can think that I put in our bathroom bin is old toothpaste tubes and maybe dental floss. Everything else is recyclable or flushable.

Bathroom bin. Seems like a lot more effort to trail through the house with a used sanitary towel in a nappy bag than to just empty the bathroom bin more often. Also nappy bags just add more plastic to waste.

Notispatrick - I didn’t know that about wrappers (or had forgotten! It really is forever since I used sanitary towels) Will tell her no need for nappy sack in that case.

Does your bathroom bin have a lid? If so DS wouldn't see it. If not just get one with a lid

bathroom bin, which i empty each morning when on period as its deliberately small so it has to be done because even in a nappy bag there's that weird smell of sanitary towels.

Bathroom bin. Would never put anything like that in the kitchen bin.

Espresso - exactly the same here! I empty my bathroom bin when it is stuffed. Their bathroom bin can go for weeks without being emptied as it doesn’t need it (dd has only just started her periods). Ok, so if I am being unreasonable about the kitchen bin I will just have to remind her to empty her bathroom bin more often.

Oh so she's concerned about her brother seeing them but doesn't want to put the them in the kitchen bin? You did not make that clear and it reads entirely as if your son has the issue and she's pissed off about it.

Bathroom bin with a lid and a liner. What's her brother putting in it? get them a bin each?

Little me - it does have a pedal lid but it is broken, I will get a new one.

Thanks all! Bathroom it is! Dd will be pleased the might of mumsnet agrees (although clearly I can never tell her because y’know muuuuuuuummmmm).