At lease some of the package inserts from mid- to late-eighties and on were clear not to flush the tampon itself. I remember.

I've seen one picture from the early 80s. Are you all basing claims about what the boxes stated after that on your memory, or what? I'm relying on memory, and I'm trying to tell if this is differing memories or something more.

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. Where you raised in a barn?

Those with menses in the 80s/90s were told to flush.

Ok. This person needs to stop saying “Menses” 😂

Sorry no. Only the ignorant taught this and even more ignorant never figured out it was wrong once they got out of teen years

It is weird to me to use "ignorant" as an insult when you are literally just talking about people who did not know something because they had been taught incorrectly from a young age. I'm curious about what other people you yell at and criticize for simply not knowing something.

I'm also curious what things you don't know, what things you are currently ignorant of. I am betting a lot, since you are human.

Yep. How many of you indignant posters are peeing out antidepressants, contraceptives and other pharmaceuticals into our waterways?

No one has answered this yet. Personally I think the very fixable problem of clogged pipes is far less problematic than the alteration of endocrine systems and brain chemistry of fish and amphibians. Seems like common sense some of you should be peeing in a bucket.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m just going to start placing them in people’s trash cans unwrapped, right on top. That way, there will be absolutely no doubt about my absolute virtuousness and brilliance. I would hate for anyone to suspect I’m still a flusher.

You're gross.

Stop period shaming.

Period shaming? GTFO. This is nasty, passive-aggressive behavior!

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.

The manufacturer said they were biodegradable and flushable, they no longer do. Something has in fact changed. You can’t fault people for following printed instructions on A product that is classified as a medical device.

Ok but they haven’t been marketed as flushable for the at least 40 yrs now. People used to use asbestos mats for rolling out pie crust, smoke cigarettes in their hospital bed, pass out cocktails to sick patients, give lobotomies to people with various mental illnesses, drain people’s blood to cure them from disease, put babies to sleep on their stomach covered in blankets, eat Snackwell Fat free cookies to lose weight...I could go on and on. It has been common knowledge for a very very long time not to flush them.

Just give up, you were wrong, multiple people have been trying to explain their recollections (not justify anything today) and you’re just on with your miss ‘94 sanctimony.

What a tampon box said in 1970 is a stupid rationale to why someone, in 2021, would flush a tampon down the toilet and claim to not know any better.

1990, the inserts and ads were still saying flush in 1990, and surely later. And again, the people recollecting how they were taught aren't saying they still do it. You're just being obnoxious for no reason.

Have you read the thread? Plenty of women still flush

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.

The manufacturer said they were biodegradable and flushable, they no longer do. Something has in fact changed. You can’t fault people for following printed instructions on A product that is classified as a medical device.

Ok but they haven’t been marketed as flushable for the at least 40 yrs now. People used to use asbestos mats for rolling out pie crust, smoke cigarettes in their hospital bed, pass out cocktails to sick patients, give lobotomies to people with various mental illnesses, drain people’s blood to cure them from disease, put babies to sleep on their stomach covered in blankets, eat Snackwell Fat free cookies to lose weight...I could go on and on. It has been common knowledge for a very very long time not to flush them.

Just give up, you were wrong, multiple people have been trying to explain their recollections (not justify anything today) and you’re just on with your miss ‘94 sanctimony.

What a tampon box said in 1970 is a stupid rationale to why someone, in 2021, would flush a tampon down the toilet and claim to not know any better.

1990, the inserts and ads were still saying flush in 1990, and surely later. And again, the people recollecting how they were taught aren't saying they still do it. You're just being obnoxious for no reason.

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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.

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.

The manufacturer said they were biodegradable and flushable, they no longer do. Something has in fact changed. You can’t fault people for following printed instructions on A product that is classified as a medical device.

Ok but they haven’t been marketed as flushable for the at least 40 yrs now. People used to use asbestos mats for rolling out pie crust, smoke cigarettes in their hospital bed, pass out cocktails to sick patients, give lobotomies to people with various mental illnesses, drain people’s blood to cure them from disease, put babies to sleep on their stomach covered in blankets, eat Snackwell Fat free cookies to lose weight...I could go on and on. It has been common knowledge for a very very long time not to flush them.

Just give up, you were wrong, multiple people have been trying to explain their recollections (not justify anything today) and you’re just on with your miss ‘94 sanctimony.

What a tampon box said in 1970 is a stupid rationale to why someone, in 2021, would flush a tampon down the toilet and claim to not know any better.

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.

The manufacturer said they were biodegradable and flushable, they no longer do. Something has in fact changed. You can’t fault people for following printed instructions on A product that is classified as a medical device.

Ok but they haven’t been marketed as flushable for the at least 40 yrs now. People used to use asbestos mats for rolling out pie crust, smoke cigarettes in their hospital bed, pass out cocktails to sick patients, give lobotomies to people with various mental illnesses, drain people’s blood to cure them from disease, put babies to sleep on their stomach covered in blankets, eat Snackwell Fat free cookies to lose weight...I could go on and on. It has been common knowledge for a very very long time not to flush them.

Just give up, you were wrong, multiple people have been trying to explain their recollections (not justify anything today) and you’re just on with your miss ‘94 sanctimony.

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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.

My mom started talking to me about periods in the early 90s and she knew not to flush them and emphasized this to me. When I got my period in 1994, I knew. Furthermore, all my friends knew, too.

I do think there is a social class component at play here, and it isn't women's faults if they weren't taught the correct thing.

This again? Are you basing this on guesses as to what a bunch of anonymous internet posters’ social classes might possibly be, or do have actual research/evidence to back this up?

58 year old lady here who grew up in Connecticut. Our septic systems couldn’t handle that! Never flushed!

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.

The manufacturer said they were biodegradable and flushable, they no longer do. Something has in fact changed. You can’t fault people for following printed instructions on A product that is classified as a medical device.

Ok but they haven’t been marketed as flushable for the at least 40 yrs now. People used to use asbestos mats for rolling out pie crust, smoke cigarettes in their hospital bed, pass out cocktails to sick patients, give lobotomies to people with various mental illnesses, drain people’s blood to cure them from disease, put babies to sleep on their stomach covered in blankets, eat Snackwell Fat free cookies to lose weight...I could go on and on. It has been common knowledge for a very very long time not to flush them.

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.

The manufacturer said they were biodegradable and flushable, they no longer do. Something has in fact changed. You can’t fault people for following printed instructions on A product that is classified as a medical device.

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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.

My mom started talking to me about periods in the early 90s and she knew not to flush them and emphasized this to me. When I got my period in 1994, I knew. Furthermore, all my friends knew, too.

I do think there is a social class component at play here, and it isn't women's faults if they weren't taught the correct thing.

Agree, except it is there fault for not realizing that it is wrong someone along the way fairly quickly after becoming an adult. My parents from the 80s did a lot of stuff I don’t do as an adult because I know better.

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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.

My mom started talking to me about periods in the early 90s and she knew not to flush them and emphasized this to me. When I got my period in 1994, I knew. Furthermore, all my friends knew, too.

I do think there is a social class component at play here, and it isn't women's faults if they weren't taught the correct thing.

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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.

I got my period in 94 and never flushed. Flushable wipes still say flushable on them too- and most people (with sense) know you don’t really flush them. So stop excusing your tampon ignorance. It was known in the 80s and 90s you shouldn’t really flush them. And now- people STILL doing it and haven’t figured out they shouldn’t despite signs, despite the box saying DO NOT FLUSH in bold are...very simple minded.