Ok, this is gross to me.

beatlesgirl25

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[QUOTE]I'm reading the comments, and a lot of people are saying they keep paper TP for the guests, thank goodness.  One lady in the comments is talking about reusable pads and her flow getting lighter and shorter and less crampy, and in such a way that it makes it sound like she's saying the flow changes are a direct effect from switching to reusable pads.  Really, lady?
Posted by JK10910[/QUOTE]

I think that lady's confused. It's weird, my mom actually used these kinds of cloths for menstruation when she was younger. But she also grew up in the poverty-stricken South Korean countryside. She would <em>never</em> use these nowadays, and she is one frugal lady.

JK10910

Ok, I take it back.  I'm glad I posted this, you guys are cracking me up.  I'm picturing a southern belle mommy seeing a poo stained special guest towel on the floor in the bathroom.  Love it. 

You guys are totally ungrounded. 

ricksang

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[QUOTE]I'm reading the comments, and a lot of people are saying they keep paper TP for the guests, thank goodness.  One lady in the comments is talking about reusable pads and her flow getting lighter and shorter and less crampy, and in such a way that it makes it sound like she's saying the flow changes are a direct effect from switching to reusable pads.  Really, lady?
Posted by JK10910[/QUOTE]

Yeah, well I bet she thinks Kinoki pads cure the flu then!

BecW2be

That's just silly, JK. I'd have hung it back on the hook above the sink! Jeeeeeez.

I sometimes wonder how my mother ever survived raising me and my little sister. My GOD we were hellions.

JK10910

Alright, who wants to try the reusable pads experiment?  Anyone, anyone?

JK10910

I'm sorry Bec.  Obviously a poopy towel on the floor would be even more horrifying than a poopy towel hung back up where it's supposed to go.  YOu're not an animal, after all.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

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[QUOTE]Alright, who wants to try the reusable pads experiment?  Anyone, anyone?
Posted by JK10910[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't mind. Big surprise, I know. I mean, you'd get to sit on flannel all day. Must be nicer than the plasticky stuff Always uses.

Anyone ever talk about menstrual cups on here? Or is that a new topic?

beatlesgirl25

You guys are totally ungrounded.

Yaaay! Back to the poo fort.

Bec, if anything it probably prepared you for raising your own two little darlings.

Ricks, are Kinoki pads like those foot pads that allegedly suck out all the toxins in your body (as seen on TV)?

[Deleted User]

Is this thread my Christmas present? I hope so.

mocha beans

I'm concerned, due to the nature of my job of cleaning up after incontinent adults, that I'm not more grossed out by this concept.  I need help.

JK10910

I think it's been discussed before, Mery.  DivaCups, right?  That grosses me out too, actually.

[Deleted User]

What the helll are DivaCups? I know I'm going to regret asking, but I have to know.

betrothed123

I've seen many a discussion on the Diva Cup, but I couldn't say for sure that any on them were on this board.  I couldn't do it.  The thought grosses me out.

JK10910

Reusable menstrual cups that you shove up there.

BecW2be

Let me wipe the poo off my left hand and I'll answer, Cew.

betrothed123

Cew,  They are gross.  you insert them and they are supposed to catch your flow.  You remove, wash, reinsert.

[Deleted User]

What the hell? Why would anyone want to do that?

mocha beans

How are you supposed to clean that thing?  In the sink, the same sink where I brush my teeth?  Yuck, now that does gross me out.

[Deleted User]

And Bec, I bet your keyboard is brown. Gross.

Bubbalub

I'm alternately laughing and thinking of horfing reading this thread. I've heard of the cups and they always sounded way too gross for me. I do, however, try to get organic cotton, non-bleached feminine products just because I like the idea.

mocha beans

Their site says you're supposed to boil it for 20 minutes after Aunt Flo has left for the month.  I can just see this happening, "No Scott, not that pot for rice, I used it to boil my blood catcher!"

JK10910

OMG Mocha.  Gross.

betrothed123

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[QUOTE]How are you supposed to clean that thing?  In the sink, the same sink where I brush my teeth?  Yuck, now that does gross me out.
Posted by mocha beans[/QUOTE]

When I googled it to figure out what everyone was talking about I came across some reviews.  One of the reviewers said she uses the sink at work.

[Deleted User]

That's just crazy. Betrothed, can I borrow your sink?

betrothed123

Haha!  Hell no!

missy68

WHYYYYYY did I choose tonight to have Chicken Parmesan??????????

I tried the tossable cups. Once. Mainly, so "relations" wouldn't be interfered with (pre-DH). Let's just say that it was knocked out of place, and it made a really big mess. The evening still turned out rather well, but I was awfully embarrassed.

PS - I've heard Chocolate Rain in my head over and over starting about halfway through this thread. Thanks for that.

Bubbalub

OMG how horrifying would it be to walk into the restroom at work to see one of your coworkers washing one of those things in the sink? I think I wouldn't be able to use that bathroom EVER AGAIN.

BioGirl21

This was a bad thread to read while eating dinner. Gag

JK10910

Oh god, Missy.  That's....terrible.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

At work?!

You can also just soak it in bleach water. They're made of rubber or silicon, so it's not like they're porous. The disposible ones are supposed to fit very differently than the normal ones, too.

I've heard of some wonen hanging their cloth pads on the clothesline to dry because the sub helps blood stains disappear. Um, I don't even want my underwear hanging there let alone something ever MORE personal than underwear.

All this stuff (well, not cloth toilet paper) seems like a better idea the more you think about it. I think. Like a neti pot. At first I though, "ew" but then I thought, "You know, that's an idea..."

I still don't get menstrual blood art though. I don't want to PLAY in it when it's something my body wants to get rid of. Ewwww.