Do you flush tampons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been using tampons for 22 years and only ever flushed, until last month. I only learned that you weren't supposed to about five years ago, but I had only ever rented and never had plumbing issues in my life. So, i didn't change my routine until a month ago when I bought my first home. Now, it's my house and it will be my mega problem if there is a problem so the one period I've had since moving in, I wrapped in TP and walked them right to the kitchen trash to discard.

I'm kind of grossed out at the thought of leaving them in my small bathroom trash and besides that, my toddlers are too curious to leave anything I wouldn't want in their hands or mouth in that trash.

We found the awful person. Wow. Let me guess - you are also the woman who hovers and makes a mess of the public toilet?

I have a specific clause in my leases that no tampons, pads, condoms, wipe, etc are to be placed in the toilet. If there is a clog, it’s on my tenants to pay for it. Most landlords in DC have wised up and added this to their lease.

[Anonymous]

Clogged our pipes with a football sized mass of tampons (accrued over a few years). Trash

[Anonymous]

I stopped flushing them after an incident of weak flushing. It wasn't a clog, but the damn thing wouldn't go down. Do you want to know what's grosser than wrapping a used tampon in tp and tossing it in the trash? Fishing a water logged used tampon out of the toilet and THEN trying to get tp around the soaking wet cotton log.

So yeah, I put them in the trash. I have a really heavy flow for 2 days, so for those days I keep paper towels in the bathroom. Otherwise my trash can would look like a serious crime scene.

I gotta get the diva cup.

[Anonymous]

We have the trash cans that use plastic grocery bags as liners. TP would not be dry if i wrapped it. We just take the whole trash bag out and its not gross rather than getting all over the trashcan. Trash all the way.
Also on a related note - don't flush the moist wipes. Even if they say they are flushable.

[Anonymous]

Every workplace restroom I've been in has signs asking not to flush tampons, pads or paper towels. I'd assume the same applied to home bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never, and every time this topic comes up (which it has about a million times here before) I am confused all over again by those who do.

Well when I was a teenager that’s what my mom told me to do! It wasnt until I was in college living in an old house with plumbing issues that I learned it was a bad idea. FWIW, I could swear Tampax used to market tampons as flushable, or maybe it was just the applicators (cardboard)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We visited a sewage processing plant. Unless your home plumbing is bad, your tampons find their home just fine at the plant. They get bowling balls and limbs there.

? wtf? I flush them. I live in the 'burbs, house was built in the 70's.

[Anonymous]

Diva Cup for the last 15 years or so. Will never go back to tampons! Before that, I did flush, because that is what I was told to do.

[Anonymous]

Have people never heard of small bathroom trash cans with lids and bag liners? There's zero reason for your inquistive spawn or pets to get into your dirty tampons and drag them around the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been using tampons for 22 years and only ever flushed, until last month. I only learned that you weren't supposed to about five years ago, but I had only ever rented and never had plumbing issues in my life. So, i didn't change my routine until a month ago when I bought my first home. Now, it's my house and it will be my mega problem if there is a problem so the one period I've had since moving in, I wrapped in TP and walked them right to the kitchen trash to discard.

I'm kind of grossed out at the thought of leaving them in my small bathroom trash and besides that, my toddlers are too curious to leave anything I wouldn't want in their hands or mouth in that trash.

We found the awful person. Wow. Let me guess - you are also the woman who hovers and makes a mess of the public toilet?

I have a specific clause in my leases that no tampons, pads, condoms, wipe, etc are to be placed in the toilet. If there is a clog, it’s on my tenants to pay for it. Most landlords in DC have wised up and added this to their lease.

Wow, I never seen such clause in CA. I will remember to look when renting a new place to make sure it doesn't have this (screams bad sewage system to me).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every workplace restroom I've been in has signs asking not to flush tampons, pads or paper towels. I'd assume the same applied to home bathrooms.

Never been to one with a sign. I only seen the signs in some old buildings that say: "our system is old, please don't flush pads".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every workplace restroom I've been in has signs asking not to flush tampons, pads or paper towels. I'd assume the same applied to home bathrooms.

Never been to one with a sign. I only seen the signs in some old buildings that say: "our system is old, please don't flush pads".

Sorry, I find it hard to believe that an adult American woman has never seen a sign saying not to flush tampons. You are being willfully ignorant to avoid shame for doing something wrong.

[Anonymous]

I flush them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've been using tampons for 22 years and only ever flushed, until last month. I only learned that you weren't supposed to about five years ago, but I had only ever rented and never had plumbing issues in my life. So, i didn't change my routine until a month ago when I bought my first home. Now, it's my house and it will be my mega problem if there is a problem so the one period I've had since moving in, I wrapped in TP and walked them right to the kitchen trash to discard.

I'm kind of grossed out at the thought of leaving them in my small bathroom trash and besides that, my toddlers are too curious to leave anything I wouldn't want in their hands or mouth in that trash.

We found the awful person. Wow. Let me guess - you are also the woman who hovers and makes a mess of the public toilet?

I have a specific clause in my leases that no tampons, pads, condoms, wipe, etc are to be placed in the toilet. If there is a clog, it’s on my tenants to pay for it. Most landlords in DC have wised up and added this to their lease.

Not PP but I also flush tampons unless there is a sign specifically asking me not too and I hover over public toilets as well, though if I make a mess (which is rare) I'll wipe the seat. I grew up in an apartment and never heard that it's bad for some plumbing systems to flush tampons until well into adulthood. So I guess you've found another "awful" person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every workplace restroom I've been in has signs asking not to flush tampons, pads or paper towels. I'd assume the same applied to home bathrooms.

Never been to one with a sign. I only seen the signs in some old buildings that say: "our system is old, please don't flush pads".

Sorry, I find it hard to believe that an adult American woman has never seen a sign saying not to flush tampons. You are being willfully ignorant to avoid shame for doing something wrong.

I don't feel any shame I don't see it as wrong. It gets to the landfills anyway. The only signs I see in the bathrooms is about washing hands in food establishments. My work buildings have no signs. I am thinking it's regional, just like seat covers in the bathrooms.