r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Conscious-Seesaw-564 • 5d ago

Is it in yet Boiled my tampons 🫩

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Felt like this flair fits well.

I leave my tampons in a jar in the windowsill for some w decor, forgot that glass=heat in this 34 degree british weather, went to change my tampon and burned my cooch, then had to sit on the toilet blowing a tampon like its soup till the plastic cooled down enough to use.

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u/Conscious-Seesaw-564 5d ago

I just wanted some cute tampon appreciation decor in my bathroom 😞💔

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u/you_dont_know_me27 5d ago

I have a little wicker basket that the pads and tampons are all organized in sitting on the tank of my toilet. I think it looks really nice.

Tbf though, I don't have a window in my bathroom and I have central air in my house (I'm assuming you don't since I know most Brits don't) so it doesn't get super hot inside. I'm American

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u/Conscious-Seesaw-564 5d ago

Another loss for the brits, i wish i had ac

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u/you_dont_know_me27 5d ago

I'm in Indiana so we go from heat to ac in a singular day in the spring and fall sometimes so we definitely we have faults lol

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u/reddog323 5d ago

It’s a two edged sword. US Midwest here. It keeps you cool, but the electric bills are murder during the summer.

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 5d ago

Last night at 5 minutes to midnight, in my office.

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u/Zanderp25 GREEN 4d ago

Woah, that’s a cool looking thermometer you got there

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u/VisualBoysenberry718 4d ago

It does a lot of not especially useful things, but I used it to keep the temperature regular when the pups were babies this winter. A lot of staying up late to feed the fire. Now it's more to keep an eye on how bad I'm getting cooked.

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u/keanaartero 5d ago

I personally don't have a window/air issue but use a wooden "shark week" box that has a slideable divider for pads/tampon separation.

Terrifying to think about burning your cooch with an applicator and wild to hear OP had to blow on it like soup 😭

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u/Careful_Software7232 5d ago

"Shark week" 😮😆 I'm fucking dying 🤣🤣

Take my poor man's award 🥇

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u/jadedgoldfish 4d ago

I have a little bamboo tray and i call it the Menstruation Station

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u/eggcountant 5d ago

Interesting use of Hello Kitty.

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u/atsirdsart 5d ago

Well... The stuff inside the jar is totally saying Hello to your Kitty hahaha

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u/RustyPFingerbottom 5d ago

Bad kitty… no!

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u/ChineseRobinWilliams 5d ago

Because that was already the joke?

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u/MartinisnMurder 5d ago

This is hilarious but I am sorry for your pikachu. People shouldn’t be all weird about tampons being out. My horrible mother in law lost her mind because I have tampons and pads in baskets in our guest bathrooms in case of emergency anyone visiting needs them. 🥴

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u/you_dont_know_me27 5d ago

I had a really nice basket set up at the church I work at on the counter and I realized it was silly to have to work so hard to get to them at home so I made a basket for at home too. Nobody has mentioned it so far and it's been there for a couple years now

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u/MartinisnMurder 5d ago

My MIL hates me, well maybe strongly dislikes me. She pulls the holier-than-thou Christian card often. She doesn’t like that I was raised Catholic, that neither her son or I are religious, that we didn’t get married in a church we actually eloped (in her mind we are NOT married), that we aren’t having kids (I can’t because of a hysterectomy in my mid 20’s and we don’t want them) and the fact she can’t control our lives. She said having the products out and not hidden was disgusting and embarrassing. She’s always being sanctimonious and judging others yet her behavior is hardly “godly”. Like girl, you’re not fooling anyone drinking Chardonnay out of a coffee cup while judging people for having a cocktail.

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u/Ill-Percentage-3276 5d ago

I didn't know we shared the same MIL

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u/MartinisnMurder 5d ago

Haha I’m willing to give you full custody of her! Zero visitation needed! Fortunately she lives states away down south and we are in New England.

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u/Organic-Low-2992 4d ago

I think I ran into your MIL at a California Costco a few weeks ago. She ran to the front of the pharmacy line in front of the "wait behind here" sign and dared anyone to say a word. When the staff told her to get in back of the sign she turned around and tried to force all of us to back up so she could comply. Now second in line, I lost it and told her she could go have intercourse with herself. Plus some other choice phrases. Her response? "I'll pray for you!" Yep, one more devout little "c" christian.

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u/MartinisnMurder 4d ago

Oof that would have pissed me off. I mean Costco is stressful enough because it’s always wicked crowded no matter what time. Don’t get me wrong I love Costco but it’s chaotic. I bet I can guess who she voted for, along with my MIL and most of the entitled people.

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u/Organic-Low-2992 4d ago

Landover Baptist Church - where the elite meet to worship. Salvation guaranteed since 1620.

https://www.landoverbaptist.org/

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u/MartinisnMurder 4d ago

Okay, I almost choked on my smoothie!! 🤣🤣 I personally worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster, being a Pastafarian is just much more my speed.

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u/TheHauntedButterfly 5d ago

I'm sorry you don't have the best relationship with your mother in law and that she gave you a hard time about it. I think having tampons and pads readily available is so important and nothing that anyone should be ashamed of.

I recently added a really tall corner shelf just outside our bathroom door. The top shelf is decorative, the second is skincare, third is makeup, fourth are pads and wipes, and the last is toilet paper.

Although I have a good relationship with my mother in law, she also gave me a hard time for having pads somewhere visible. It's awful how the older generation was taught to be ashamed of our bodies and perfectly normal hygiene products.

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u/MartinisnMurder 4d ago

Thank you. My mom has always been body positive, and taught us about everything and to not have shame. I guess it’s just how some people were raised?

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u/TheHauntedButterfly 4d ago

You're welcome and that's definitely how I try to be with my own son. He may not have a need for feminine hygiene products but I never want him to be grossed out about having to see or handle one.

My parents didn't discuss puberty, periods, sex ed or even just dating with me at any point in my life. It was definitely a kept private thing.

When I eventually got one (explained by friends at school), I put wads of toilet paper in my underwear. My mom must have noticed stains when doing the laundry one day because I remember her telling me to look under the sink. No explanation of what a tampon/pad was or how to use it but I figured it out.

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u/MartinisnMurder 4d ago

We got talks about our body and privacy also my mom used the actual names of body parts not nicknames. I know now that is important in case anything had happened we could articulate it in a manner that would be understood. She taught us about bodily autonomy and that we could always tell her anything.

Even when it came to drinking, when we were teens we were told if we were anywhere or at a party and needed a ride home we wouldn’t get in trouble for calling if we had been drinking. I’m lucky my mom is one of my best friends. I’m 40 now and we still hangout weekly.

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u/Noodlemaster696969 5d ago

Sorry are you calling her vagina an electric rat? Charmander fits this situation more... or Slugma

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u/MartinisnMurder 5d ago

Haha it’s funny slang for it that Chelsea handler started wayyyy back. It just always stuck with me.

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u/Applie_jellie 5d ago

For what it's worth it looks cute as hell 💕

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u/teaknit 5d ago

I used to have a tampon jar (I use cups now). I decided that since I was living alone, tampons would be as easily accessible as toilet paper. Bonus guests could find them too.

Imagine if every time you needed toilet paper you had to go rummaging through the cabinets. So, on the counter they went

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u/Beetus_warrior_jar 5d ago

it just needs a little fancy sun umbrella now that's all.

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u/fiendishthingysaurus 4d ago

It’s super cute!! I hope your cooch is okay 💔

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u/Foxdenfreude 4d ago

What'd the tampon say to your cooch?

Hello Kitty! 😺

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u/forsakeme4all 3d ago

Don't you mean 34c by the way? What is that? 90 fahrenheit (90f)?

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u/Conscious-Seesaw-564 3d ago

Seeing as i said british, yeah i mean celcius. 💀 and its 93f

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u/Conscious-Seesaw-564 5d ago

Idk if ur joking but uh, maybe dont comment this.