Do you flush tampons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg. Someone find the long thread we just had on this. Please.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/979800.page

But we do this constantly.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/867543.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/709813.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/538393.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/131636.page

Stop flushing anything but the three Ps: pee, poop, and paper.

Yay, I'm so happy you found the thread from 2010 (the last one on your list)! I have never forgotten one post on that thread that made me laugh so hard -- quite entertaining, and worth requoting in full:

"I use OB tampons which do not come with applicators or plastic wrapping that a used tampon can be placed into. I flush. I have always flushed. I will likely always flush. They are not expensive and they are flushable. I do not want a nasty blood soaked tampon sitting in my trash can for a few days nor am I interested in taking the trash out every couple of hours to get rid of the smell of rancid blood. Gross. Also, there is zero chance that even if I did use cheap tampax tampons that come with a flimsy paper wrapper that I would take a blood soaked inflated tampon and try (in futility) to jam it back inside that paper wraper which is going to tear from the wetness. Not only that but then your hands are covered in blood and when you come out of the restroom stall you're going to touch a faucet that other people have to touch in order to wash their hands. That's disgusting on so many levels! Come one people...seriously...flush your damn tampons! Anything else is just flat out disgusting. Also, I think all the anti-flushers on this thread are the same 1-2 people. There's no way there are so many people tossing bloody tampons into the trash."

True then and true now. I am a flusher. I will admit that I feel sort of bad about it, but I'm a very heavy bleeder and I just can't bear to put something so disgusting in my wastebasket and let it fester.

I was taught in health class in 1988 that you could flush tampons in a house with regular plumbing, but not one with a septic system, and if we didn't know, we should toss in the trash. Tampax most definitely did advertise that both the applicator and the tampon were flushable.

There are posts from that 2010 thread that quote from what the Tampax website said at the time: that it was fine to flush a tampon. Just not a plastic applicator.

Today the website says you shouldn't flush any of it, and obviously that is the "correct" answer. I do fear that some giant red ball of tampons is forming under my home .... but I still flush. I am living dangerously.

This just made me laugh so hard. I too fear what is lurking under my 100 year old house. I swear I thought it was fine. I just got a Mirena inserted and I’m hoping to ride off into menopause with this thing, so I hope to not have to even think about this much longer myself. I’ll teach my daughter to do better. At this point, she wants nothing to do with tampons anyway, so we might be ok for the time being . *knock on wood*

What was lurking under our 100 year old house was a rock-solid mass that the plumber had to snake with a thing that looked like a massive corkscrew. (This was after the sewage started coming up through the shower drains).

He showed me what they pulled from the pipes. It was probably 99% tampons.

I have a photo if you'd like to see it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone that hasn’t yet realized (or doesn’t care) that you don’t flush tampons, deserves all the literal sh*t coming their way. I hope one of you idiots isn’t ever a guest at my house

Honestly, spending time on DCUM has con me to never be a guest at anyone’s house ever again. I’m either staying in a hotel or staying home. There are just too many ways I might offend without realizing it. So we’re good.

Causing raw sewage backache and thousands of dollars in repairs is high offensive. Please stay in a hotel and ruin their plumbing instead

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone that hasn’t yet realized (or doesn’t care) that you don’t flush tampons, deserves all the literal sh*t coming their way. I hope one of you idiots isn’t ever a guest at my house

Honestly, spending time on DCUM has con me to never be a guest at anyone’s house ever again. I’m either staying in a hotel or staying home. There are just too many ways I might offend without realizing it. So we’re good.

+1

I have become addicted to DCUM during Covid and between the pandemic and all the things people post on this site about reasons they hate people, I may just stop interacting with humans IRL altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg. Someone find the long thread we just had on this. Please.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/979800.page

But we do this constantly.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/867543.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/709813.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/538393.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/131636.page

Stop flushing anything but the three Ps: pee, poop, and paper.

Yay, I'm so happy you found the thread from 2010 (the last one on your list)! I have never forgotten one post on that thread that made me laugh so hard -- quite entertaining, and worth requoting in full:

"I use OB tampons which do not come with applicators or plastic wrapping that a used tampon can be placed into. I flush. I have always flushed. I will likely always flush. They are not expensive and they are flushable. I do not want a nasty blood soaked tampon sitting in my trash can for a few days nor am I interested in taking the trash out every couple of hours to get rid of the smell of rancid blood. Gross. Also, there is zero chance that even if I did use cheap tampax tampons that come with a flimsy paper wrapper that I would take a blood soaked inflated tampon and try (in futility) to jam it back inside that paper wraper which is going to tear from the wetness. Not only that but then your hands are covered in blood and when you come out of the restroom stall you're going to touch a faucet that other people have to touch in order to wash their hands. That's disgusting on so many levels! Come one people...seriously...flush your damn tampons! Anything else is just flat out disgusting. Also, I think all the anti-flushers on this thread are the same 1-2 people. There's no way there are so many people tossing bloody tampons into the trash."

True then and true now. I am a flusher. I will admit that I feel sort of bad about it, but I'm a very heavy bleeder and I just can't bear to put something so disgusting in my wastebasket and let it fester.

I was taught in health class in 1988 that you could flush tampons in a house with regular plumbing, but not one with a septic system, and if we didn't know, we should toss in the trash. Tampax most definitely did advertise that both the applicator and the tampon were flushable.

There are posts from that 2010 thread that quote from what the Tampax website said at the time: that it was fine to flush a tampon. Just not a plastic applicator.

Today the website says you shouldn't flush any of it, and obviously that is the "correct" answer. I do fear that some giant red ball of tampons is forming under my home .... but I still flush. I am living dangerously.

This just made me laugh so hard. I too fear what is lurking under my 100 year old house. I swear I thought it was fine. I just got a Mirena inserted and I’m hoping to ride off into menopause with this thing, so I hope to not have to even think about this much longer myself. I’ll teach my daughter to do better. At this point, she wants nothing to do with tampons anyway, so we might be ok for the time being . *knock on wood*

What was lurking under our 100 year old house was a rock-solid mass that the plumber had to snake with a thing that looked like a massive corkscrew. (This was after the sewage started coming up through the shower drains).

He showed me what they pulled from the pipes. It was probably 99% tampons.

I have a photo if you'd like to see it.

Maybe Big Plumbing has been trying to suppress the message and that’s why many of us are clueless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone that hasn’t yet realized (or doesn’t care) that you don’t flush tampons, deserves all the literal sh*t coming their way. I hope one of you idiots isn’t ever a guest at my house

Honestly, spending time on DCUM has con me to never be a guest at anyone’s house ever again. I’m either staying in a hotel or staying home. There are just too many ways I might offend without realizing it. So we’re good.

+1

I have become addicted to DCUM during Covid and between the pandemic and all the things people post on this site about reasons they hate people, I may just stop interacting with humans IRL altogether.

You are me and I am you.

[Anonymous]

OP again. I’m 35 and yes I’ve seen the signs in public restrooms. I guess I just thought that was because those toilets are seeing a lot more “volume” than the toilet in my house? No idea. I don’t remember this ever being a discussion in my house but also I don’t remember my mom talking to
me about periods in general. Regardless- I’ll be wrapping in toilet paper and not flushing from now on.

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP again. I’m 35 and yes I’ve seen the signs in public restrooms. I guess I just thought that was because those toilets are seeing a lot more “volume” than the toilet in my house? No idea. I don’t remember this ever being a discussion in my house but also I don’t remember my mom talking to
me about periods in general. Regardless- I’ll be wrapping in toilet paper and not flushing from now on.

I always figure the signs are because no one respects a public restroom in any way whatsoever. They have to try, but tampons are probably one of the least horrible things people attempt to flush. All the people who hover above a public seat, or only flush with their feet, you think they would open the little white box? Nope. Ever noticed even in a messy bathroom, the box seems fairly unused? I learned wrong, too, I think the companies did used to say they were flushable. But by commonsense they're not, they don't break down, so as a home owner I definitely don't, and I'm more likely to observe the public pleas, too, but I'm probably in the minority there.

[Anonymous]

Never!

My father was a plumber.

[Anonymous]

I was so offended when a friend told me not to flush tampons. Did she think I was a monster?! (I wasn't even on my period) After reading here how common it is I feel less offended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You nasty people put blood soaked tampons in the trash bin in your bathroom!

🤮

What do you want people to do with blood-soaked pads?

Vampires use it for tea bags?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely without problem.

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg. Someone find the long thread we just had on this. Please.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/979800.page

But we do this constantly.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/867543.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/709813.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/538393.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/131636.page

Stop flushing anything but the three Ps: pee, poop, and paper.

Yay, I'm so happy you found the thread from 2010 (the last one on your list)! I have never forgotten one post on that thread that made me laugh so hard -- quite entertaining, and worth requoting in full:

"I use OB tampons which do not come with applicators or plastic wrapping that a used tampon can be placed into. I flush. I have always flushed. I will likely always flush. They are not expensive and they are flushable. I do not want a nasty blood soaked tampon sitting in my trash can for a few days nor am I interested in taking the trash out every couple of hours to get rid of the smell of rancid blood. Gross. Also, there is zero chance that even if I did use cheap tampax tampons that come with a flimsy paper wrapper that I would take a blood soaked inflated tampon and try (in futility) to jam it back inside that paper wraper which is going to tear from the wetness. Not only that but then your hands are covered in blood and when you come out of the restroom stall you're going to touch a faucet that other people have to touch in order to wash their hands. That's disgusting on so many levels! Come one people...seriously...flush your damn tampons! Anything else is just flat out disgusting. Also, I think all the anti-flushers on this thread are the same 1-2 people. There's no way there are so many people tossing bloody tampons into the trash."

True then and true now. I am a flusher. I will admit that I feel sort of bad about it, but I'm a very heavy bleeder and I just can't bear to put something so disgusting in my wastebasket and let it fester.

I was taught in health class in 1988 that you could flush tampons in a house with regular plumbing, but not one with a septic system, and if we didn't know, we should toss in the trash. Tampax most definitely did advertise that both the applicator and the tampon were flushable.

There are posts from that 2010 thread that quote from what the Tampax website said at the time: that it was fine to flush a tampon. Just not a plastic applicator.

Today the website says you shouldn't flush any of it, and obviously that is the "correct" answer. I do fear that some giant red ball of tampons is forming under my home .... but I still flush. I am living dangerously.

This just made me laugh so hard. I too fear what is lurking under my 100 year old house. I swear I thought it was fine. I just got a Mirena inserted and I’m hoping to ride off into menopause with this thing, so I hope to not have to even think about this much longer myself. I’ll teach my daughter to do better. At this point, she wants nothing to do with tampons anyway, so we might be ok for the time being . *knock on wood*

What was lurking under our 100 year old house was a rock-solid mass that the plumber had to snake with a thing that looked like a massive corkscrew. (This was after the sewage started coming up through the shower drains).

He showed me what they pulled from the pipes. It was probably 99% tampons.

I have a photo if you'd like to see it.

+1 (though I don't have a photo).

All you DC rowhouse-dwellers, beware. You, too, could learn this lesson the hard way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was so offended when a friend told me not to flush tampons. Did she think I was a monster?! (I wasn't even on my period) After reading here how common it is I feel less offended.

I feel like maybe I need to nail a plaque in my bathroom now. Perhaps there are hidden morons among my friends. I truly thought this was common knowledge to every menstruating girl/woman. I never occurred to me someone would not know this, or even worse, know and not care and flush anyway.