Do you flush tampons?

[Anonymous]

Even though they might seem similar in some ways, toilet paper is very different than facial tissues, tampons, pads, etc. Toilet paper is designed to break down rapidly in water. All the others are designed to absorb as much liquid as possible without disintegrating. Even if it makes it through your "modern" plumbing, materials that don't break down in water are horrible for sewage treatment plants and the environment. Please never flush anything but toilet paper.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Where you raised in a barn?

Those with menses in the 80s/90s were told to flush.

No, not all parents were uneducated clods.

I got my period in 1994 and was told from the day my mother first had "the talk" with me that I should never, ever, EVER flush a tampon.

DP. Why so rude?! If you really want this message spread for the greater good, maybe don’t be such a jerk? There are clearly lots of people didn’t know. (Myself included.)

OK, I apologize. I suspect this is a social class issue, and it isn't your fault if you weren't taught the right thing. Sort of the way some people were not taught healthy eating habits.

Now you know, and you can avoid flushing tampons and damaging plumbing.

Social class issue?! Oh my. No. Apology not accepted.

I think it is a social class issue. Girls who grew up in nice homes that their parents owned and proudly cared for and maintained were taught early about this basic hygiene/health issue. You can see on this thread that people who live(d) in homes they don't own or care about much tend to flush and not care, or to not be aware.

It's trashy to flush tampons.

Agree. Not knowing and having parents that did this is definitely a social class/socioeconomic status issue

I grew up in a poor immigrant household where my Mom was a cleaning lady, I can tell you educated women in nice neighborhoods do flush tampons down the toilet.

Trashy people can come from all class and socioeconomic backgrounds

[Anonymous]

You all are wild. I grew up in a four bedroom house in the suburbs with a stay at home mom and a father with a high paying job. I was taught to flush....pretty sure the boxes also say to flush. Why would you want all that nasty blood sitting in your trashcan. Flush it away down the toilet and you won't have to deal with it. Who are you disgusting slobs that want decaying blood festering in your bathroom?! Putting tampons in the bathroom trash is gross. Do you also wipe you butt when you poop and put the toilet paper in the trashcan rather than flushing it down the toilet like a civilized person? Nasty nasty nasty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are wild. I grew up in a four bedroom house in the suburbs with a stay at home mom and a father with a high paying job. I was taught to flush....pretty sure the boxes also say to flush. Why would you want all that nasty blood sitting in your trashcan. Flush it away down the toilet and you won't have to deal with it. Who are you disgusting slobs that want decaying blood festering in your bathroom?! Putting tampons in the bathroom trash is gross. Do you also wipe you butt when you poop and put the toilet paper in the trashcan rather than flushing it down the toilet like a civilized person? Nasty nasty nasty.

Wow. You were raised by idiots. Sorry. And the cycle continues.

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Anonymous wrote:You all are wild. I grew up in a four bedroom house in the suburbs with a stay at home mom and a father with a high paying job. I was taught to flush....pretty sure the boxes also say to flush. Why would you want all that nasty blood sitting in your trashcan. Flush it away down the toilet and you won't have to deal with it. Who are you disgusting slobs that want decaying blood festering in your bathroom?! Putting tampons in the bathroom trash is gross. Do you also wipe you butt when you poop and put the toilet paper in the trashcan rather than flushing it down the toilet like a civilized person? Nasty nasty nasty.

You must already know you aren't very bright.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are wild. I grew up in a four bedroom house in the suburbs with a stay at home mom and a father with a high paying job. I was taught to flush....pretty sure the boxes also say to flush. Why would you want all that nasty blood sitting in your trashcan. Flush it away down the toilet and you won't have to deal with it. Who are you disgusting slobs that want decaying blood festering in your bathroom?! Putting tampons in the bathroom trash is gross. Do you also wipe you butt when you poop and put the toilet paper in the trashcan rather than flushing it down the toilet like a civilized person? Nasty nasty nasty.

Yeah, sure.

You sound like someone who just moved to civilization from a trailer park in Appalachia.

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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.

Gosh, I wish I knew everything about everything just like you. Guess I’ll always be someone’s moron!

This isn’t deep knowledge, it is just basic life common sense. Like don’t leave your purse in the car, don’t put a can of soda in the freezer, empty the lint collector of your dyer after loads..

Except that many people on here have told you otherwise. Go ahead and put that sign on your bathroom.

I would laugh so hard if I went into a friend's bathroom and there was a sign on the wall that said "HEY MORONS, I THOUGHT THIS WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE BUT APPARENTLY SOME VERY STUPID PEOPLE DON'T KNOW YOU SHOULDN'T FLUSH TAMPONS. SO THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL WARNING NOT TO FLUSH TAMPONS OR I WILL UNFRIEND YOU FOREEEEEEVVVVVVEEEERRRR."

I have not flushed a tampon since I learned, at the ripe old age of 33, that you are not supposed to (no one told me! I'm glad I eventually found out!). But if I saw such a sign, I'd flush my tampon, let her know, and enjoy the peace and quiet of no longer being friends with this person. In fact, even if I was not on my period, I'd fish my emergency tampon out of my purse and throw it in the toilet just to flush it. Hahahahahahahahahaha.

So how did you find out this info at 33 that you should have figured out in your teens at the latest unless the wolves raised you (No offense intended toward the wolves who may have raised you. I think it is damned decent of them to take on the task)? I would have laughed about the message your host posted that was a funny, quippy, effective way to make the point while giving ignorant folks a way to do better.) if you flouted that? It’s because you are the moron your host referred to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:PP 8:01 and I was curious! Found an eBay listing for a Tampax box (80s) and sure enough it’s what I remember-a flushable applicator!

Vintage Tampax Tampons 40 Super Flushable Applicator

I remember that the cardboard applicators were marketed as flushable, but it seems to me that there was caveat not to flush the tampon itself.

I started menses in 1979.

I thought the messaging was that you could flush them back in the 90's. To me, that was a benefit of the cardboard applicators bc those were supposedly flushable, too. I haven't checked back since and have been flushing them all of these years!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You all are wild. I grew up in a four bedroom house in the suburbs with a stay at home mom and a father with a high paying job. I was taught to flush....pretty sure the boxes also say to flush. Why would you want all that nasty blood sitting in your trashcan. Flush it away down the toilet and you won't have to deal with it. Who are you disgusting slobs that want decaying blood festering in your bathroom?! Putting tampons in the bathroom trash is gross. Do you also wipe you butt when you poop and put the toilet paper in the trashcan rather than flushing it down the toilet like a civilized person? Nasty nasty nasty.

Yeah, sure.

You sound like someone who just moved to civilization from a (rented)trailer park in Appalachia.

I fixed it for you! Even someone who owned their own trailer would know NOT to flush tampons.

[Anonymous]

Really shocked at how many stupid women there are among us. I was surprised to even see this was a question, but clearly common sense has been totally lost. Wow, just wow.

[Anonymous]

I was taught never to pour grease down the drain, never to use Drano for a clog, but nothing about flushing tampons. My mother handed me a box of pads and a box of tampons and everything else I know came from the back of the box or Seventeen magazine. I wish we could stop resorting to name calling and class shaming over this. We can do better.

Incidentally, I was in a public restroom this morning and there was a stack of tiny paper bags with a sign about using them for feminine products and a small garbage can. That seems like a good way to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:I was taught never to pour grease down the drain, never to use Drano for a clog, but nothing about flushing tampons. My mother handed me a box of pads and a box of tampons and everything else I know came from the back of the box or Seventeen magazine. I wish we could stop resorting to name calling and class shaming over this. We can do better.

Incidentally, I was in a public restroom this morning and there was a stack of tiny paper bags with a sign about using them for feminine products and a small garbage can. That seems like a good way to do it.

Even if no one ever specifically told you not to do it, hello...it is a tampon, that is designed to expand several times its size and NOT break down. Why in the world would you think that is supposed to be flushed? It would be like flushing the empty toilet paper roll, qtips, cotton makeup rounds, etc. Do you flush other random stuff that is not TP?

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Anonymous wrote:I was taught never to pour grease down the drain, never to use Drano for a clog, but nothing about flushing tampons. My mother handed me a box of pads and a box of tampons and everything else I know came from the back of the box or Seventeen magazine. I wish we could stop resorting to name calling and class shaming over this. We can do better.

Incidentally, I was in a public restroom this morning and there was a stack of tiny paper bags with a sign about using them for feminine products and a small garbage can. That seems like a good way to do it.

Even if no one ever specifically told you not to do it, hello...it is a tampon, that is designed to expand several times its size and NOT break down. Why in the world would you think that is supposed to be flushed?[b] It would be like flushing the empty toilet paper roll, qtips, cotton makeup rounds, etc. Do you flush other random stuff that is not TP?

Because the box said to! Believe me, the average 12 year old in the 80s wasn’t thinking this through.

Here, this is going way back to the 1930’s, but obviously up to some point in time, the standard instructions were to flush them. See “To Remove”: “...simply flush away.” (From the Museum of Menstruation!)

http://www.mum.org/tamins36.htm

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Anonymous wrote:I was taught never to pour grease down the drain, never to use Drano for a clog, but nothing about flushing tampons. My mother handed me a box of pads and a box of tampons and everything else I know came from the back of the box or Seventeen magazine. I wish we could stop resorting to name calling and class shaming over this. We can do better.

Incidentally, I was in a public restroom this morning and there was a stack of tiny paper bags with a sign about using them for feminine products and a small garbage can. That seems like a good way to do it.

Even if no one ever specifically told you not to do it, hello...it is a tampon, that is designed to expand several times its size and NOT break down. Why in the world would you think that is supposed to be flushed?[b] It would be like flushing the empty toilet paper roll, qtips, cotton makeup rounds, etc. Do you flush other random stuff that is not TP?

Because the box said to! Believe me, the average 12 year old in the 80s wasn’t thinking this through.

Here, this is going way back to the 1930’s, but obviously up to some point in time, the standard instructions were to flush them. See “To Remove”: “...simply flush away.” (From the Museum of Menstruation!)

http://www.mum.org/tamins36.htm

Sorry no, the box of tampons never said to flush the actual tampon for anyone that is alive posting here.

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Anonymous wrote:I was taught never to pour grease down the drain, never to use Drano for a clog, but nothing about flushing tampons. My mother handed me a box of pads and a box of tampons and everything else I know came from the back of the box or Seventeen magazine. I wish we could stop resorting to name calling and class shaming over this. We can do better.

Incidentally, I was in a public restroom this morning and there was a stack of tiny paper bags with a sign about using them for feminine products and a small garbage can. That seems like a good way to do it.

Even if no one ever specifically told you not to do it, hello...it is a tampon, that is designed to expand several times its size and NOT break down. Why in the world would you think that is supposed to be flushed?[b] It would be like flushing the empty toilet paper roll, qtips, cotton makeup rounds, etc. Do you flush other random stuff that is not TP?

Because the box said to! Believe me, the average 12 year old in the 80s wasn’t thinking this through.

Here, this is going way back to the 1930’s, but obviously up to some point in time, the standard instructions were to flush them. See “To Remove”: “...simply flush away.” (From the Museum of Menstruation!)

http://www.mum.org/tamins36.htm

Didn't you have a sex ed class in 5/6th grade? Where they talk about periods and what to do? I specifically remember of gym teacher teaching it and showing us how to wrap pads in their wrapper and dispose and how to wrap a tampon very well in TP and throw in waste box