TMI, I know, but what do you do with...

[BigTillyMint]

used ST's?

I have just bought some for (not used ones, LOL) for DD who is looking more and more like she might start sometime soon, and then I started wondering, do you flush them or throw them in the bin?

(I have only used tampons for so long, I'm not sure if it's OK to flush them!)

[forkhandles]

I roll them up and put them in small bin by loo, our loo blocks so easily I can't flush anything other than paper!

[msrisotto]

You can't flush them, bin em.

[nickschick]

put them in a nappy sack and then the bin.

[30andMerkin]

No no no no no. Don't flush. It will jam your loo in about 10 minutes, and it will never ever biodegrade.

In the bathroom bin, with a plastic bag that you can tie up to seal, and some spare bags under the sink.

[cocolepew]

I used to put them in a nappy bag and bin them.

[ProfYaffle]

Throw them away. I used to use Always that came with those little plastic wrappers you could wrap them up neatly in.

[BigTillyMint]

I was afraid you would say that - eeeuuuwwww!!!!

[thisisyesterday]

don't flush them, put them in the bin.
you shouldn't flush tampons either btw

[smallishsheep]

What a healthy attitude to pass on to your teenage daughter

[BigTillyMint]

Do I have to teach DD how to do this?

double eeeeeeuuuuuuwwwwww!!!!!!!

The nappy sack option sounds the one. Bet I get some funny looks in the chemist, though, with no baby......

[smallishsheep]

Seriously, you're presumably old enough to have a teenage daughter.
Grow up

[thisisyesterday]

if you feel this strongly about it ten why not just buy her tampons?

[BigTillyMint]

I'm not really that worried about showing her how to bin them.

I have talked to her about tampons, but there's no way I would make her use them - they must sound quite scary to a pre-teen.

[FiaGrace]

You don't need nappy sacks though, you can buy small scented bags from Boots/Superdrug. I guess they're the same as nappy bags but much smaller.

[cocolepew]

The supermarket bags are much cheaper.

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

There are some special purple sacks like nappy sacks for pads, buy a small bathroom bin with alid, put the little box of bags in the bathroom, and show her what to do.

She will want her mum to help her, not wind her up!

There will be no funny looks in the chemist/Tesco/wherever

[nickschick]

buy nappy sacks in tesco or sainsburys the value ones are about 25p for 100 - there isnt any need for them just that it might be more 'private' for your dd.

[BigTillyMint]

I didn't know you could buy special bags - will look out for them. Are they on the ST's aisle?

[AuntieMaggie]

SANITARY ITEMS GO IN THE BIN!!!



sorry, but it pisses me off when people talk about flushing things that shouldn't go down the toilet as it ends up in our rivers and on our beaches as our sewage systems aren't designed to cope with them!

[RatherBeOnThePiste]

Here you are
58p for 50 from tesco, somewhere in the sanitary department, if in doubt - ask someone!

[zandy]

Why use a plastic bag? Presumably there is a plastic bag lining the bin in the bathroom. Roll/wrap used towel in the case in which it arrived and pop in the bin.

[snowkitten]

dd and I roll ours up on the little wrapper they come with. The adhesive bit on it keeps it closed and then pop in bathroom bin. More ofthen than not i end up having to retrieve them from her knicks anyway! Lazy mare

[BertieBotts]

Just buy the Always in the green packet - they come with a wrapper to wrap them in and then dispose of them. All her friends will do this, she will be teased if she goes into school with a supply of nappy sacks. She's probably had a lady from Always come to do a talk at school and mentioned the special wrapper anyway.

Snowkitten, that is disgusting! My mum was not that hot on housework by any means but if I'd done that I think she'd have made me do my own washing!

[AnyFucker]

why do you need "special bags" ?

don't be so precious

just roll 'em up in a few layers of toilet roll, put in bin

empty bin every day

fanny's your aunt...dunno what the drama is here, tbh