Do you flush tampons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Now I’m wondering how many women are walking around with bloody tampons in their purses in a “clean disposable pouch”. So gross.

It entirely and completely depends on whether I am walking out the front door of a peculiar, nasty germaphobe that spends all her snotty time harping on how disgusting other women are.

If not, then not.

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From 2001, last bullet

Oh dang, 21st century!

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

Yes, this is what I meant. It was in response to the poster I was responding to who says she would flush the tampon in someone else's home if she thought the dog might get it.

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

Yes, this is what I meant. It was in response to the poster I was responding to who says she would flush the tampon in someone else's home if she thought the dog might get it.

Yes another reason I glad to not have a dog.

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

Yes, this is what I meant. It was in response to the poster I was responding to who says she would flush the tampon in someone else's home if she thought the dog might get it.

Yes another reason I glad to not have a dog.

Better the dog drag it out then have sewage overflow and my yard and bathroom torn apart. Anyone with a dog that has this tendency should have a lidded trash can in the bathroom. If they don’t, their own fault.

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

Yes, this is what I meant. It was in response to the poster I was responding to who says she would flush the tampon in someone else's home if she thought the dog might get it.

Yes another reason I glad to not have a dog.

Better the dog drag it out then have sewage overflow and my yard and bathroom torn apart. Anyone with a dog that has this tendency should have a lidded trash can in the bathroom. If they don’t, their own fault.

This will not happen from a guest's occaissional flush.

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

Yes, this is what I meant. It was in response to the poster I was responding to who says she would flush the tampon in someone else's home if she thought the dog might get it.

Yes another reason I glad to not have a dog.

Better the dog drag it out then have sewage overflow and my yard and bathroom torn apart. Anyone with a dog that has this tendency should have a lidded trash can in the bathroom. If they don’t, their own fault.

This will not happen from a guest's occaissional flush.

You have no idea. One tampon could absolutely stop things up.

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This is the wrong forum. Moderator, delete this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the wrong forum. Moderator, delete this thread.

I’m the OP. Where should this go?

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Anonymous wrote:This is the wrong forum. Moderator, delete this thread.

I’m the OP. Where should this go?

Maybe health forum

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I flush tampons in public bathrooms onl

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Anonymous wrote:I flush tampons in public bathrooms onl

Why? Why would you do this? The fact that you only do it in public restrooms indicates that you KNOW it is harmful/problematic, which is why you don't do it in your own home. How do you justify doing it other places, then?

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Anonymous wrote:The instructions on the tampon box state don’t flush them. It’s not that hard.

No, but it's inconvenient. As we can see from this thread, there is a significant faction of women who know they shouldn't flush, but do it anyway in other people's homes or public places.

There is a special spot in hell reserved for the lady who flushes tampons in her friends' homes, but thinks flushing twice makes it all better. God.

You are bizarre and someone who struggles with nuance.

Someone can wrap and trash in 99% of circumstances and have the social skills to understand that occasionally it is necessary to flush because there is a host who doesn't provide a lidded, lined receptacle to wrap & trash. Occasionally you are somewhere with a non-lidded trash can and you can't control if other people leave the door to the bathroom open, there are dogs in the house, many of which will sniff out a bloody tampon and eat it, causing major medical harm.

If you can't understand circumstances where reasonable people take the risk of flushing, you are alarmingly rigid in your thinking.

YOU are bizarre and gross. Nobody wants you to flush a tampon down their toilet. Just have a quiet word with your host that you have disposed of it and have thus closed the bathroom door, or put it in a clean, disposable pouch in your purse (which you should be carrying anyway when you are having your period and are going to a friend's home, in preparation for a situation like this).

Nobody thinks it is OK for you to selfishly flush a tampon down the toilet in someone's house.

Please don’t have this conversation with me if you are a guest in my house.

+2...Wrap it and toss it. I will empty the trash. I will not examine it. I will just assume it is a used tissue.

I think the PP saying they would have a word with host if they threw out the tampon but had reason to think a dog could/would get it

Yes, this is what I meant. It was in response to the poster I was responding to who says she would flush the tampon in someone else's home if she thought the dog might get it.

Yes another reason I glad to not have a dog.

Better the dog drag it out then have sewage overflow and my yard and bathroom torn apart. Anyone with a dog that has this tendency should have a lidded trash can in the bathroom. If they don’t, their own fault.

This will not happen from a guest's occaissional flush.

You have no idea. One tampon could absolutely stop things up.

How big are your tampons?

[Anonymous]

I flushed tampons for 30 years. That’s what I was taught. And it’s what was on the instructions throughout my teens and 20s, after which I was done reading tampon instructions. My very environmental college taught me to recycle and bring my own bag to the grocery store, but never taught me to toss tampons. I only stopped flushing them in my early 40s, and after only a couple of years or so switched to a menstrual cup. I’m almost 50.