TMI Question Regarding Tampons

[Anonymous]

count me as another dummy that flushes them. I've been doing it for 10 years in my current house and never clogged a toilet. Honestly, I don't see the difference between a tampon and a big ol' wad of toilet paper...or hello, a GIANT POOP!

[Anonymous]

Burgundy washcloth... need I say more?

Are you sure you didn't mean to say crocheted mouse cat toy in a vague tampon shape?

[Anonymous]

OMG. I can't believe all these people flush their tampons. No wonder there are signs everywhere begging people not to.

To all you flushers . . . what do you think happens to them after you flush? They dissolve in the water? Someone, whether it is the plumber or the sewage treatment workers, have to fish them out and throw them in the trash.

[Anonymous]

that's why they get paid the big bucks!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OMG. I can't believe all these people flush their tampons. No wonder there are signs everywhere begging people not to.

To all you flushers . . . what do you think happens to them after you flush? They dissolve in the water? Someone, whether it is the plumber or the sewage treatment workers, have to fish them out and throw them in the trash.

Well, I figure they have to fish out the toilet paper, and all the coins my kid swallows so what's a few tampons a month??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Burgundy washcloth... need I say more?

Are you sure you didn't mean to say crocheted mouse cat toy in a vague tampon shape?

Hmmm... several green options to choose from

Re-usable cloth pads



reusable tampons



diva cup

[Anonymous]

what the HELL is that last picture? Am I that naive?
Does anybody really use these options?

[Anonymous]

what the HELL is that last picture? Am I that naive?
Does anybody really use these options?

[Anonymous]

I have used a diva cup. More comfortable and lasts longer than a tampon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what the HELL is that last picture? Am I that naive?
Does anybody really use these options?

Umm, googe diva cup. Lots of people use them. Beats stuffing pesticide-treated cotton fibers up your cooch every month, but hey, guess I'm strange.

Also, if you can't tell the difference between a tampon and a "BIG POOP" then I cannot help you.

Here's an experiment for all the flushers: Unwrap a new tampon and place it in a glass of water. Report back on what happens. Go on, I'll wait. Now imagine dozens and dozens of those doing that in your plumbing pipes and in the city pipes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've never had a problem flushing them. I feel like it's kind of gross to do anything but that. Who wants one sitting in the bathroom garbage? How much TP does it take to wrap that up anyway so that someone else wouldn't be totally grossed out looking in the trash?

Who's looking in the trash? Place the used one in the plastic for the new one, wrap it a few times with tp, place in trash. Not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

No really. What is a diva cup and why have I never heard of it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:20:17 - by the time you're done using your tampon it no longer has the ability to expand.

completely false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought tampons were biodegradable.

I mean if a huge piece of crap can go down . . .

your crap is water soluble. tampons are not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It never dawned on me to toss them. I have been flushing them for 30 years!!!

is this even serious? you never read the signs beggin women to dispose of them in the garbage and not fluhing?

I always read the signs as saying not to flush the applicators. But, that it was fine to flush the tampons. I'd never flush the plastic applicators, but thought nothing of flushing the tampons.

Read them more carefully next time. They say not to flush hygienic products meaning tampons and pads. I can't believe I'm reading this!!!