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what do you call it when you pull out a tampon (from your vjayjay) and it ricochets on the inner part of the toilet seat and leaves a mark? we just moved to a new house, and apparently, the new toilet seat is smaller than what i'm used to. i swear i'm not pulling with a lot of force.

also, guess how many times all of the tampons flew all over the bathroom yesterday? i feel like i'm new at this or something...

xo
kittee

This thread might spawn a new controversial poll, unless I am alone in my pre-sitting removal of tampon?

woh! you don't sit? do you put a foot up on the seat?

I just do sort of a mini plié, I guess. No major body contortions or anything.

I dont have a name for it but my bf does "forking gross" hahaha apparently when I empty my diva cup I get it everywhere (a little splatter under the seat that they flip up and have to look at). But really what is proper etiquette? I don't think I need to clean the toilet everyone I empty? Do you clean the toilet everyone your tampon hits the side? Its inside the toilet, am I just completely gross? Haha

My diva cup contents splatter when it's really full too. It doesn't happen all the time and I don't see it even when it does, so I forget to check! but everyone thinks I'm so nasty because of it.

I have a friend who is grossed out that I use the applicator-less style tampons...what the fork?? It's my own vahina, I think there shouldn't be a problem touching it... :(

I swear by applicatorless tampons. They're so much more convenient to stash in a pocket. And they're not wrapped in that super thin plastic that tears open with a sneeze, so I can have one rolling around in the bottom of my purse for 6 months until that fateful day when I'm desperate.

applicator-free forever! but yeah, I've had the same issue w/tampon backswing. I have method wipes and just use one to clean up the streak! after I laugh hysterically.

yea, i wipe the blood off the seat, but i don't disinfect. sometimes i spit in some toilet paper to do it! ha ha!
i once got blood on the seat at my parents' and didn't realize it, and my dad sent me in to clean it up.

xo
kittee

This has never happened to me! But I mostly don't rock the tampons, so that's probably why.

The other day I dropped a full DivaCup on the bathroom floor though. There's a phrase for that: INSTANT CRIME SCENE.

In a few places I've worked people have left their own blood on the seat.

Ick.

Yeah I used to do it every so often at home and mum would always tell me off because 'it wasn't very nice for my brother'. Well - he occasionally left things in the toilet that I didn't want to see either!

I might have just done this today.
What? Bathroom cleaning day isn't until Saturday and it was just a drop.

This made me giggle probably more than it should have; probably because I do pliés a lot and didn't think of them as something typically associated with tampon removal... but now I will!

Sigged!

OMG yes. I will only use the thing if I can time it so I can remove it in the shower. I am not graceful about removing it and it can become a missile. Why can't there be a better way!!!!

This has made me never want to try the Diva Cup

It's a wonderful thing if you are more coordinated than I! Promise!

Haha, usually flushing gets any droplets but if there were still some left I would clean the toilet so as not to gross out my bf.


I never understood why tampons even came with applicators, I always used them on their own.


I feel like sigging this!

ETA: J Dub beat me to it!

How is this thread not 5 pages long yet? I'm disappointed in you, PPK.

Me too. Exactly. Mel and I are tampon buddies!

Except that I'm not really having periods right now thanks to my Mirena. But otherwise! When I used tampons, I would plie!

I have no problem with you touching your vagina, but I'm not a fan of the applicator-less tampon, even though they cut down on waste. I hate having to root around up there to put it in (a logical person might say you only need a finger or two to insert it, but that person would be wrong).

I can't believe people stand to remove tampons. I must be ultra lazy. I sit for everything.

I never thought of standing to remove them, but I'm gonna try from now on because I've had one too many episodes where I've peed and then thought about removing my tampon and then I'm just grabbing onto a peas string and that's even grosser than everything else going on.

You know what's even grosser? When the pee-string gets caught in your butt crack while wiping and then you have to root around your crack for a wet string. I haven't used a tampon in years and I still have nightmares about that.

Add me to the list of squatters(though thankfully I haven't had a period in over a year). I don't think I'll ever use another tampon though; they used to fall out when I used the bathroom, and I imagine the problem would be even worse now that I've had a kid.