For us Ladies : anyone hear about this?
Posted by yogaferret on May 23, 2007 · Member since Nov 2006 · 460 posts
And, are you excited about it as much as I am? ;)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/22/health/main2838834.shtml
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OK, the ummm... bloody heart earrings are hilarious if not completely disturbing:
"Wear your heart…on your ears. These tampon heart earrings display both your romantic sentiments and your menstrual pride."
I don't suppose a women's shelter would accept a donation of them, since the box is opened :-\
That's a good idea! I bet they probably would take them because they are individually wrapped--it's like buying them from a machine in a public restroom. Or, you could always "donate" them to your favorite public restroom (if such a thing exists...)--$0.50 for a tampon is ridiculous, and when you need one, you likely don't have $0.50 in quarters (that's been my experience anyway...).
I'm loving that toupee, personally.
Also:
http://www.centripedus.com/tamponart/
The stuff on this one cracks me up!
Liberace's shower. ;D
I don't suppose a women's shelter would accept a donation of them, since the box is opened :-\
That's a good idea! I bet they probably would take them because they are individually wrapped--it's like buying them from a machine in a public restroom. Or, you could always "donate" them to your favorite public restroom (if such a thing exists...)--$0.50 for a tampon is ridiculous, and when you need one, you likely don't have $0.50 in quarters (that's been my experience anyway...).
I was actually thinking about donating to a public restroom, but I wasn't sure if that was too bizarre. If I was still in So. CA, I would donate them to my old college. They had a machine in every ladies' room, that was always empty--ALWAYS! Needless to say, I got really pissed off one unfortunate day...
But I like this idea. Maybe I will fill my purse up each day and leave them in whichever restroom I happen to be. That way, I can distribute the wealth.
Oh those d*mn tampon dispensers. I have only needed them desperately twice in my life and each time it didn't work out and I was pissed: machine empty, machine broken, machine swallows my last quarter but won't give me anything, no real person anywhere near to ask about the machine, and the same scenario in the next two bathrooms I checked in despair. God, these things are so pointless and so angering.
Yeah, and the last thing you need to do in a situation like that is to go walking from bathroom to bathroom in a futile search... arrrr.
Maybe you could bring them to work and put them in the women's bathroom with a sign or something?
i've never tried to use one of those machines but i always just imagine they're empty because i carry a couple with me at all times.
plus in the employee bathroom at my work there's always a bunch on the counter for us. i think all companies should do that. it would just be nice.
I was a broke college student for about a decade so I like the idea of donating them to a college. If you donate them in a large public restroom they may all go home with the same person (which is okay, I guess). If you donate them to a smaller restroom then they may stick around for a while. At the HSU Marine Laboratory there were free tampons in the ladies restroom. I always thought that made the marine lab even more cool. I never used them, but liked to know they were there just in case.
I just ran across this old ad, and I immediately thought of this thread, with all our talk about women and society. Kind of reminds me of Bloussant...
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/26/kelp-o-malt-skinny-girls/
I just ran across this old ad, and I immediately thought of this thread, with all our talk about women and society. Kind of reminds me of Bloussant...
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/05/26/kelp-o-malt-skinny-girls/
"5 pounds of solid flesh in 1 week!" Haha, that cracked me up! I love old ads!
Tampon party favors!
My diva cup is on it's way (I don't even know when I'm going to get my period back) and I have a huge box too (opened, LOL) I have no idea what to do with them! I suppose having a few on hand for guest emergencies wouldn't hurt... or something...
I like CYETS idea, take them to work and just leave them on the sink with a sign saying "Free Tampons"
:D
they'll be gone in 5 minutes.
Maybe the sign should say "I don't need them anymore" and leave some diva cup pamphlets out with them!
Okay so I was thinking....
there are what... 10 of us that switched to diva cups now?
Think of how many tampons/pads that is over our lifetime!!!
Say at 5 a day... average cycle 5 days... that's 25 a cycle... x12 months... that's 300 tampons a year... x10 (the ones who switched) that's 3000 tampons A YEAR!!! that we aren't wasting! gawd... let alone in a lifetime!!!!!
let alone all the bleach and crap used to MAKE the tampons...whoohoo for saving the environment!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!
holy crap say a woman goes from 15-45 having a period (30 years... a conservative estimate i think...) that's 9000 tampons in a lifetime!
even if we take into account that many of us are in our 20's we just saved at least 60,000 tampons in this thread alone! can you imagine what a pile of 60,000 used tampons would look like?!?!?!?!??!?!? :o
Yikes, what a thought ...
btw, Jenniferhughes, what a great id picture, I'm guessing that's stonehenge in the background from when you were recently over in the UK? In my id pic I'm doing the "hills are alive ... " thing during a trip to Giant's Causeway in the north of Ireland last summer, if you ever get the chance to go there, do, it is breathtaking
http://www.tamponcrafts.com/
I'm menopausal. So far I've skipped a couple of months and then I'll have a doozy of a period. When they stop altogether I'll probably still have tampons so I'm bookmarking this site for future reference. I plan on really freaking out the ladies at craft day at our church!
http://www.tamponcrafts.com/
I'm menopausal. So far I've skipped a couple of months and then I'll have a doozy of a period. When they stop altogether I'll probably still have tampons so I'm bookmarking this site for future reference. I plan on really freaking out the ladies at craft day at our church!
I made the tampon angel ornaments--about 7 or 8 for me and gave the rest away to friends and family. Everyone likes them and they are actually very pretty. That pretty much used up what was left in my box--can't believe I forgot about that!
Elizabeth
I like CYETS idea, take them to work and just leave them on the sink with a sign saying "Free Tampons"
:D
they'll be gone in 5 minutes.
Maybe the sign should say "I don't need them anymore" and leave some diva cup pamphlets out with them!
That is really a GREAT idea! I think I am going to do that. The website has a presskit that might be a good printout to leave on the counter.
Honestly, I have been wanting a diva cup for quite a while, but for some reason, I never got around to it. But hearing all of you rave about it really convinced me to try it.
I have one concern about the whole possible "plunging" thing... Does anybody here use a diva cup and have an IUD? I read a post on a menstrual cup forum about someone accidentally removing their IUD when she removed the cup. Ick. Someone please reassure me that this won't happen to me!
I have one concern about the whole possible "plunging" thing... Does anybody here use a diva cup and have an IUD? I read a post on a menstrual cup forum about someone accidentally removing their IUD when she removed the cup. Ick. Someone please reassure me that this won't happen to me!
My understanding is that an IUD is in the uterus with a small string that hangs into the upper part of the vagina. The Diva Cup is supposed to sit at the lower part of the vagina. Unless you shove the cup way up into the upper part of the vaginal canal, I don't anticipate that you'd have a problem. But I might call Diva Cup and ask to be sure (I've heard their customer service is really great!)
Elizabeth
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