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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Omg. Someone find the long thread we just had on this. Please. [/quote]

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/979800.page

But we do this constantly.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/867543.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/709813.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/538393.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/131636.page

Stop flushing anything but the three Ps: pee, poop, and paper.[/quote]

Yay, I'm so happy you found the thread from 2010 (the last one on your list)!  I have never forgotten one post on that thread that made me laugh so hard -- quite entertaining, and worth requoting in full:

"I use OB tampons which do not come with applicators or plastic wrapping that a used tampon can be placed into. I flush. I have always flushed. I will likely always flush. They are not expensive and they are flushable. I do not want a nasty blood soaked tampon sitting in my trash can for a few days nor am I interested in taking the trash out every couple of hours to get rid of the smell of rancid blood. Gross. Also, there is zero chance that even if I did use cheap tampax tampons that come with a flimsy paper wrapper that I would take a blood soaked inflated tampon and try (in futility) to jam it back inside that paper wraper which is going to tear from the wetness. Not only that but then your hands are covered in blood and when you come out of the restroom stall you're going to touch a faucet that other people have to touch in order to wash their hands. That's disgusting on so many levels! Come one people...seriously...flush your damn tampons! Anything else is just flat out disgusting. Also, I think all the anti-flushers on this thread are the same 1-2 people. There's no way there are so many people tossing bloody tampons into the trash."

True then and true now.  I am a flusher.  I will admit that I feel sort of bad about it, but I'm a very heavy bleeder and I just can't bear to put something so disgusting in my wastebasket and let it fester.

I was taught in health class in 1988 that you could flush tampons in a house with regular plumbing, but not one with a septic system, and if we didn't know, we should toss in the trash.  Tampax most definitely did advertise that both the applicator and the tampon were flushable.

There are posts from that 2010 thread that quote from what the Tampax website said at the time: that it was fine to flush a tampon.  Just not a plastic applicator.

Today the website says you shouldn't flush any of it, and obviously that is the "correct" answer.  [b]I do fear that some giant red ball of tampons is forming under my home .... but I still flush.  I am living dangerously.[/b][/quote]

This just made me laugh so hard. [b]I too fear what is lurking under my 100 year old house.[/b] I swear I thought it was fine. I just got a Mirena inserted and I’m hoping to ride off into menopause with this thing, so I hope to not have to even think about this much longer myself. I’ll teach my daughter to do better. At this point, she wants nothing to do with tampons anyway, so we might be ok for the time being . *knock on wood*[/quote]

What was lurking under our 100 year old house was a rock-solid mass that the plumber had to snake with a thing that looked like a massive corkscrew. (This was after the sewage started coming up through the shower drains).

He showed me what they pulled from the pipes. It was probably 99% tampons.

I have a photo if you'd like to see it.

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