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Post by Blackswan on Apr 10, 2010 21:45:09 GMT -5
This is probably pretty common sense, but I honestly have no clue what to do. Its a little bit gross too. But, when I am at my new house, where i am renting a room, and I am having my period, what do I do with the pads? I feel like it would be rude and kind of gross to just put them in the bathroom trash. There are two other men living there, and the lady I am renting from has surely gone through menopause. I have to use pads cause I get toxic shock syndrome. So I can't switch to something that's easier to hide. I am assuming that the one that empties the trash is the lady. She is a housekeeper for a living, and the other renter pays her to clean his room. Her son is unemployed, so he probably doesn't take out the trash... I was thinking I would just either change the pads in my room and throw them away in my room, and take that trash out myself, or change them in the bathroom, shove the evidence in my bra, and then throw it away in my room. Yes, I am 28 years old!!!!!!!!  When I rented rooms before, I always had my own bathroom, or when I didn't, my son was still in diapers, and I would just stick the pad inside the diapers. Thank you to anyone who helps. The solution is probably just to throw it away in the bathroom, right? I just feel so *** awkward!  I dedicate that hug to me and all my awkward ways. |
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Post by Blackswan on Apr 10, 2010 21:46:48 GMT -5
oops, I didn't know you couldn't say d-a-r-n. Unless i accidentally put the other word.   |
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Post by bluefrog on Apr 10, 2010 22:23:26 GMT -5
Maybe you could slip the used pads into a separate plastic bag and tie the top loosely when you put it in the bathroom trash can, untying the bag when you need to discard other pads, until someone takes out the trash?
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Post by CrimsonKat on Apr 10, 2010 23:53:15 GMT -5
i would just wrap the done ones in a bit of toilet paper and put it in the trash. as long as no body substances are showing. i mean, they know you are a female. it's gonna happen. if that makes you feel too weird, you could always wrap them and put them in the main house garbage (where people are less likely to notice what's in there). if you are really, super uncomfy, you can always wrap them and put them out in the garbage can. it depends on your comfort level.
not to be weird, but i feel like sharing a bathroom with men means all bets are off. i've rarely seen a man-used bathroom that wasn't icky to me because of their sanitary issues.
i know it's weird if you think about it too much, but we are all human and our bodies need to do certain things. it's funny. for me, i would feel weird about leaving used kleenex in the bathroom trash more than my woman stuff. can you ask the female in the house what her opinion is?
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Post by success19 on Apr 11, 2010 0:01:32 GMT -5
Okay it all depends on heavy your time of the month is - for me - I had to basically take them and put them in a bag - tie it up and take it to the trash right away. These things tend to get smelly and noticable very fast. You could take a zip loc bag in your pocket to the bathroom - put the pad in there - then zip it and take back to your room and then toss them each day into the trash yourself. By the way most people can't flush tampons either - that would be even more embarassing when the toilet stops up. Glad I finally got through that part of my life and it is over - I don't miss it a bit!
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Post by hopehope on Apr 11, 2010 1:29:49 GMT -5
small white plastic bags. and yes, a quick wrap in toilet paper first. tie the bag well.
I wouldn't just put it in the trash. You don't need the grief -- from whatever direction, including yourself. [that is to say -- without doing the above recommended method.]
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Post by lizzie on Apr 11, 2010 5:36:53 GMT -5
As you are renting from the woman, I suggest you ask her - it is a very reasonable question - if she has a preference on how you dispose of sanitary products. You can always tell her you would feel shy of putting them in the bathroom wastebasket. Do you have a toiletries bag that you take to the bathroom with you? If so, carry your supplies back and forth in that. If I am away from home, I usually carry a couple of (individually wrapped) pads in a ziploc bag in my handbag. I just wrap the used pad in a bit of toilet paper and put it into the little packet I have taken the new one out of. Then back into the ziploc bag. In my own bathroom I have a small rubbish bin with a lid, for all bathroom rubbish like cotton wool etc that I line with a plastic bag, you could keep a little bin like that in your room. I remember at school there used to be a small incinerator in the girls toilets, which smouldered rather than burned, gee they were unpleasant, AND it was embarrassing to put those bulky 'surfboard' pads in there! That was in the days when 'nice' girls didn't use tampons, |
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Post by 60isolderthanithot on Apr 11, 2010 15:55:59 GMT -5
Wrap them in an opaque wrapper, whether it's a paper towel or the plastic bag from the next pad - and toss them into the large waste receptacle, inside or outside. It's not really a big deal these days.
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Post by DJ on Apr 11, 2010 20:36:36 GMT -5
i don't like the smell, i'm a woman and it's not some antifemalemenstruating thing  i just don't like the smell of body fluids outside the body at room temp... and uhm. forgive the visual but with all the animals something with blood sitting in a garbage can is begging for trouble. i'll bag and tie off and take the trash out daily, or if i have an empty plastic container like a yogurt container tie off in a plastic bag and then put them in there... if it makes you uncomfortable do what you need to do.. but if you're worried about making someone else uncomfortable while discreetly taking care of normal and healthy bodily functions in a respectful manner. aka disposing of a pad in a tied of bag in a garbage can... i'd figure you're doing them a disservice because i figure most grownups need to get over shaming behavior or being revolted by normal human functions.. or at least learn to deal with it in a respectful manner... ... you're uhm not talking about sticking them to a wall and saying COPE WITH IT. |
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Post by eagle on Apr 11, 2010 20:49:49 GMT -5
Because of the odor, which can be offensive to some people (and you don't know who they are going to be), it is best to wrap them up securely then double bag in plastic baggies. Keep them in your room (well wrapped) until you take out the trash to the outside bin. I would recommend taking out your trash daily during that time of the month.
You can get a step-on-to-open type of trash can, keep it lined with a plastic bag & this will contain the odors in your room.
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Post by dtesposito on Apr 11, 2010 21:13:19 GMT -5
An incinerator? Really???
I would probably keep a supply of small, plastic non-see-through bags that were just big enough to put the pad in and tie the top closed, then put it in the regular bathroom wastebasket. If it's in a tied plastic bag it shouldn't smell, and if you notice that no one has emptied the trash after a few days you could always empty it yourself.
Although it's true, if there are any dogs in the household, you're better off not leaving them available--that would be embarassing.
Diane
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Post by Blackswan on Apr 11, 2010 21:39:34 GMT -5
Oh gosh I know! In my old house, I have my own bathroom, but the dog would get in there and take bloody pads to its owner, my roommate! So embarrassing and it happened many times when I would forget to close the door. Ick!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by eagle on Apr 11, 2010 23:06:38 GMT -5
Diane, you mentioned incinerator and I had to read back and find who and in what context the word was used. Amazing. I haven't seen and incinerator since I was a child in a logging community! And it wasn't used for the purpose mentioned above.
I can only imagine the responses of the fire marshalls and insurance carriers over that one.
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Post by lizzie on Apr 12, 2010 5:04:42 GMT -5
yep, it was me who mentioned the incinerators in the girls' toilets - they used to smoulder, it was AWFUL, they were small units about a foot square as I recall, wall mounted, and you pulled out a drawer at the bottom and put the pad in amongst the smouldering ashes... there must be other Aussies on the board who remember them!
Mind you, this was in the seventies, and just about every house had a backyard incinerator too - about four feet high and two feet square, for burning household rubbish in, made of besserblock bricks. 'Lighting the incinerator' was a weekly event.
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Post by StuffNoMore on Apr 12, 2010 7:32:46 GMT -5
My Mom use to have a can with a lid such as a coffee can. She would place them in there until trash day then toss them in the trash after she put them in a large plastic bag tied off. If you don;t drink coffee to save the cans you can always get a plastic food container and save it just for that.
SNM
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