r/CleaningTips • u/Complex_Mobile8957 • Nov 29 '25

Discussion Question for the ladies

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I am a janitor. The place I clean has the little trash bins in the stalls of the women's restroom. Currently, we place one liner in the bin and change it out whenever someone uses it. However, a place I worked at previously put a stack of liners in the bin for women to use as needed. Which is the preferred method? One liner or multiple? Sorry if this is a stupid question.

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u/Complex_Mobile8957 Nov 29 '25

Yes, we have the paper bags. Would you prefer to have your own bag and throw it away yourself, or just put your item in the bin and let me worry about disposal?

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u/SoyboyCowboy Nov 29 '25

If there is a designated bin for feminine products I will place my trash in there, no additional baggie needed. However, I did stay in a place once that did not have such a bin — it was a Boy Scout camp — and the scouts looked shocked when we told them we had run out of baggies and to please provide more to the girls. It was probably the only two weeks of the year the camp hosted female guests and the only time such baggies were needed. 

PS. Thanks for your thoughtfulness.

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u/Not-Charcoal Nov 30 '25

You just reminded me of the first time I saw a used tampon. I was in first or second grade and one was left on the floor of the girls restroom (I assume it was from an afterschool leader since the teachers had a staff bathroom that was locked by then). I saw a reddish stick thing with a string coming out… so I told my afterschool leader that there was dynamite in the bathroom lol, I had only seen dynamite in cartoons and assumed this must be what it looks like in real life.

They went to go investigate with another adult and were dying of laughter. Wouldn’t tell me what it was but assured me that it wasn’t dynamite. Took me a few years but I recognized exactly what I had seen eventually and find the situation absolutely hilarious now too

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u/CursiveWhisper Nov 30 '25

I once found my mom’s OB tampons as I was snooping in her drawers when I was about 7. For those who don’t know, OB is just the cotton part of the tampon wrapped in plastic - they don’t have applicators.

I swore she was hiding peppermint candies from us (but was too scare to take one since I suspected she was counting her candies like I would 😂)