To wonder why Tampax bother including the purple ones in their selection boxes?

[Nancy66]

Does anyone ever use them? I always end up with dozens of them...

Personally i could do with a couple more green ones, a few less yellows and none of the purple.

[Rockbird]

Which one is purple?

LOL @ a tampax selection box

[Nancy66]

the weeny thin ones....

[HappySlapper]

I've always wondered the same thing!! The ones for 'lighter flow'

I'd need about 8 of those

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Selection boxes sound like something you get at christmas. FWIW, i often use mini towards the end of my period.
Could you save them for your dd to use or donate them to a friend with a young teenager.

[bran]

Are the purple ones the very light flow? I used to mostly use them and hardly ever they heavier ones because of my PCOS. Then I started taking Metformin and started to have normal periods, which was a bit of a shock to the system, but I still used the purple ones for the last day or so.

Now I use a Mooncup which is fab. I left it at home once when travelling and had to buy and use tampons instead, it was awful.

[tethersend]

Like waving a pencil in the Albert Hall.

[staranise]

If you're on Mirena, purple ones suffice.

[SloanyPony]

They are for your daughters Barbie, you are not meant to use them yourself...

[melpomene]

I agree, get a Mooncup - problem solved and you'll save loads of money.

[YouMightKnowMe]

Buy a box of yellow and a box of green and sod the selection boxes.

That way you will use up all tht you buy and can top up on Yellow or green as necesasary.

I bet it works out cheaper too.

[Jasonthunderpants]

Are the purple ones like the purple Quality streets (the cornish pastie shaped ones with a big nut inside)
They are my favourite

[Nancy66]

Can't do the Mooncup thing...too squeamish.

My ideal box would include a few orange ones too..

[GeneHuntsMistress]

i use Lil-lets (non-applicator) as opposed to Tampax, but i always used the Mini ones right up until i had DC, and now i use Regular. Just looking at the Supersize ones makes my fanny wince

[Jasonthunderpants]

Oh something makes me think you are not talking about chocolates

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

Genehunt, when we were on holiday in Australia some years ago, I asked my DH to get me some super plus, he came home with a box of regular and a box of super . When I asked him to explain this extraordinary choice he said they hadn't had SP on the shelves and he didn't like to ask teh assistants as they were all female.
I asked what I was supposed to do with them, his answer floored me. Use one of each.

[scrab806ble]

Need the super plus extra these days, and often a nappy(st) as well. Sigh. Being on the pill was great...

[ChateauRouge]

I always need the purple ones- go from green to purple in 36 hours usually

[dorie]

Awww GeneHunts Mistress. Is your OH not very well endowed then?

[plonker]

@ Jason

[SoLongAsItsHealthy]

Tampax selection box . Now there's a treat for that hard-to-buy-for relative at Christmas...

[Carbonated]

Yeah but there's always the hard caramel one that no one likes (for very good reasons in the case of tampax. Very low absorbancy).

[tethersend]

The coffee cream of the sanitary protection world.

[MaryAnnSingleton]

I do quite like the thin purple ones

[Daffydilly]

Am I the only person who doesn't know what a "mooncup" is? Please enlighten me!

[ILovePlayingDarts]

I want the purple ones, but I can't find any in my local shops! As Staranise wrote, if you're on Mirena, that's all you need. (and it's a helluva lot better that my eight days of super-heavy flow pre-dcs)

Never tried a mooncup, but might look into it (figuratively speaking...).