Do you flush tampons?
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Anonymous
You’re seriously insufferable. You’re pipes might be clean as a whistle, but you’re annoying as hell. |
Anonymous
| *Your pipes! |
Anonymous
No, what is insufferable is the people actually defending tampon flushing |
Anonymous
DP. I don't think it is defending tampon flushing, rather not having learned not to. |
Anonymous
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I learned how to use tampons from reading the box and box insert in the 1980s, and I am certain it said not to flush the tampon. The cardboard applicators were supposed to be flushable, but not the plastic applicators or the tampons themselves.
I'm not judging people who didn't read the info and just didn't know. I do think it's pretty bad to flush them knowing they cause problems. I usually have a couple tampons in a small ziploc baggie in my purse, and if I had to use one unexpectedly and could not feel comfortable with putting it in the trashcan, I'd wrap in toilet paper and put in the bag. |
Anonymous
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I got my first period in the early 90s, and definitely was taught by books, my mother, health teacher, etc. that you could flush a tampon. But NEVER pads!!! Heck, my father was an executive for Kimberly-Clark (aka Kotex) and never said anything about not flushing tampons. I really don't understand the vitriol some of ya'll have, lol. I get that it's scummy to flush them once you know it's bad, but if you don't know--why attack? This is apparently not common knowledge.
https://www.scary mommy.com/you-cant-flush-tampons-down-the-toilet-mind-blown/ |
Anonymous
Yes in the 90s and early 2000s I was also instructed to flush. I have switched to more sustainable methods but in honor of all the sanctimonious jerks in this thread I am going back to tampons for my next cycle and the plan to flush them everywhere. |
Anonymous
It is essentially flushing a large sponge down your toilet, several times per day, several days per month. Someone needs to tell you not to do that? |
Anonymous
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Just told DH about this thread and he turned to ask “what? You have been flushing it all this time? Even I know one shouldn’t.” Hahaha, 25+ years of marriage, we are still in the discovery phase.
Seriously, I pledge I shall stop flushing. |
Anonymous
Yeah, PPs who flush clearly are not children of immigrants and haven't ever traveled overseas. There are signs EVERYWHERE in tourist destinations to keep American women from doing this. My parents are from a country where indoor plumbing is a fairly recent (~50 years) thing and if you are fortunate enough to have it, you absolutely know that you don't flush anything that your body does not produce - including toilet paper. |
Anonymous
There are plenty of people on earlier pages who have said they're not going to stop. |
Anonymous
| I’ve thrown a tampon into a the porta potty hole before- and felt terribly guilty after. But in my defense, there is no garbage and I didn’t have a purse with me. |
Anonymous
I agree, for older women the confusion comes from the way they were marketed. You set your habits at thirteen and don't really revisit. I'm 49, I was probably flushing until 30. It's obvious to me now that it makes no sense to do so, but it *is* what we were told to do. See the last paragraph here: 
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Anonymous
It’s funny, people are acting like some of us who got our periods in the 80s and early 90s were a bunch of rubes for not having the common sense to avoid flushing. But if you look at that link, ads at that time were just broaching the topic of whether tampon users were still virgins or not. Common sense changes with the times. Personally, all I remember about my introduction to tampons was the fear of TSS. We definitely covered that in health class and it made an impression. But flushing? This was the least of our tampon concerns. |