Going nuts ? sposie user guests putting poo in MY bin!!!

[Epacris]

I HATE it when sposie user guests come over and put sposies in my kitchen bin with poo inside!!!! I hate it even more if they either don't bring a bag to put the sposie in first (before putting it in the bin) or ask me for a bag to put it in! Argh!!!

I am weird? Does this bother anyone else? It drives me insane and makes my blood boil!!! But, I feel totally incapable of saying anything? I am not a shy person, why can't I say to my friends, people I know well, "Actually we are a poo in the toilet house, you'll have to take that home with you and put it in your own bin". Why do I just go along with it and let them do it?

Argh, where do I start, it's disgusting, it's totally illegal and we are a POO IN THE TOILET HOUSE! One of the best things about cloth is that all our bins (kitchen, otto) don't have that horrible pong assault when you open them.

Why don't I say anything? I'm angry at myself too for letting this happen?

Grrr, perhaps I should have put this in the BooHoo room as a vent.

Does anyone else feel like this? How do you deal with it? Any ideas? I guess I'm just going to have to summon up the courage and say something with the best mix of serious tone and humour I can find???

[*charmalea*]

casually enquire if the kid has done a poop when the person is changing it , then say "oh , we put the poo in the toilet here , just shake it in to the loo and i'll get you a bag to put the nappy in "

I then go on to say how its illegal to put poo in the bin , most ppl dont know its illegal and will oblige and probably even feel guilty enough to keep doing it and usually are happy you helped them !!!!

dont be shy , its your house - you live there ...


and labour vibes for you !!

[kelebek]

First of all didn't I didn't realise it was illegal but more importantly I would never put a pooey sposies in someone's kitchen bin. I nearly always have a bag with me to put the sposie in first & then generally put in their otto. I usualy ask the first time I am around at someone's house & would have no worries about taking the nappy with me if they weren't comfortable with me putting it into the bin. It is afterall my rubbish not someone else's & I should have to deal with it.

The first time you speak up will be hard but do it anyway, explain your reasons, you might have to have a few bags ready the first few times for people to take their sposies with them while they get use to the new rules. People don't bat an eyelid when you ask them to take off their shoes so they should do this as well.

GL with it & sending you lot's of good labour vibes

[Peach]

I would simply say .. "Would you mid putting in the wheelie bin for me "? I am certain most people wouldn't mind in the slightest!

[boomba]

Ewww thats so gross! Even if they dont know its illeagal why would you put poo in the bin yuck! I would say something. I know I would find it hard too but sometimes it better to say something than leave it? Surely they dont put it in their bin at home?

The first time you speak up will be hard but do it anyway, explain your reasons, you might have to have a few bags ready the first few times for people to take their sposies with them while they get use to the new rules. People don't bat an eyelid when you ask them to take off their shoes so they should do this as well.

Well said!

There should be a big sign on the disopsable boxes saying all poo should go in the toilet!

Hope you find the courage to say something good luck x

[Arimeh]

I remember when I wasn't using cloth that I didn't know it was illegal to put poop in the bin - I knew that it wasn't recommended, but not that it was actually illegal.

But whenever I changed DS at someone elses house - I would always ask if it was ok to put in in the bin - if it was a wee - and I would take the poopy one home with me. Most people who come to my house, just wrap it up and take it with them.

Now when I'm at someone's house - I ask if I can borrow their toilet to drop the poop into.. lol... I've yet to have someone say no.

Stick to your guns, gather your courage and just say it. You might be surprised at how easy it gets to say it the second time

[Kitt3n]

casually enquire if the kid has done a poop when the person is changing it , then say "oh , we put the poo in the toilet here , just shake it in to the loo and i'll get you a bag to put the nappy in "

I then go on to say how its illegal to put poo in the bin , most ppl dont know its illegal and will oblige and probably even feel guilty enough to keep doing it and usually are happy you helped them !!!!

dont be shy , its your house - you live there ...


and labour vibes for you !!

:yeahthat:

[~Raven~]

I wouldn't be able to not say anything! Especially when it will stink out my kitchen

Do you have any plastic shopping bags? I have a few that I use as bin liners and before or as the nappy gets changed I will offer them one of those to take it home in.
I totally agree about flushing poo down the toilet and do it when we use sposies from time to time but I really don't like getting righteous on my friends. I find that offering the bag to take it home in is enough of a hint

[fionas]

In my house I put pooey nappies into one of those little plastic nappy bag things then put it in the kitchen bin. Sorry, didn't know it was illegal.

There is NO WAY I would put a pooey nappy into someone else's kitchen bin even though I do it myself at home. I would wrap it up and either take it home or put it in their wheelie bin (if I asked).

I would offer them a plastic bag (they can hardly refuse that) and then say "I'll pop that into the wheelie bin for you" until they get the idea and just start doing that themselves.

[boomba]

Sorry i didnt mean to offend anyone, i feel bad now sorry I honestly thought everyone put it in the toilet?

Yeah maybe just have spare bags so they can put it in there, and ask them to out it straight in the wheelie bin?

[fionas]

Complete No Offence Taken Zone here boomba - don't worry. Sorry for the TMI but there are some of DD's poos that I could easily shake into the toilet but most are just way too runny and quite honesty, I don't know how I would get those into the loo without a lot of scraping and faffing around which I'm just not up for.

[Epacris]

Thanks so much girls for your quick and lovely, supportive replies (and especially for the labour vibes too, I'll take as many of them as I can get at the moment).

Just to clarify, putting poo in the wheelie bin is not acceptable either, it is illegal (and disgusting IMO) to put poo in any bin. Poo must be disposed of in the toilet.

Sam - you've absolutely hit the nail on the head for me. The reason why I find it so hard to say anything is because I don't want to come across to my friends as being a holier-than-thou, painfully-self-righteous preacher about it. But, it is really, really important to me. I guess I've just got find the right tone, so I can say what I need to say without coming across as an incredibly annoying d!ckhead.

Fiona - I totally understand about runny soaked in poo, there’s nothing you can do about that. It’s the strip-the-hairs-off-the-inside-of-your-nose toddler poo that I’m most concerned with.

[Visitor7]

It actually does say on the packet/box of disposables that you should flush the poo in the toilet.

If a sposie user has a soiled/wet nappy when they're around my house, I offer them a plastic bag and they take it home with them.

[boomba]

fionas thanks haha I know the ones you mean! I try to get most of it off, but spose its easier with cloth ones? The sposies tend to soak abit of it up hey. The scraping part grosses me out to, actually poo in general grosses me out lol

[Je$$_84]

ops After 2 kids you think i would have found out that it was Ilegal... Had no idea... I do put solid ones in the loo as i hate the smell in the bin but runny stuck to the sposie ones i just roll and put in the smelly bags tie them up and chuck them in the Otto... I NEVER put them in friends bins... I always take them with me.

Most of the women i know use sposies. I guess if i had known this i would have just used MCN's... Will make more of an effort to dispose of poops more carefully in future. I think people need to be more informed... I have never noticed on the sposie box or the nappy sacks that poop needs to be in the toilet...

Please excuse my ignorance...

[SamiH]

I'll just add a little comment ...

with new bubbies and their runny and explosive! b/f poo's - impossible to put into the toilet if using disposables - but I would never put into a friends bin, always bag it and ask where their outside bin is ....

[ShootingStar]

I put ours in plastic bags and run them out to the bin when theres a pooey one. Id be the same.. eew! But i would make a joke of it and say gaawwwwd what did your kid eat! (as a joke) and say might be best to put those types in a bag before it goes in the bin otherwise we're gonna get stunk out.

[{sarah}]

There should be a big sign on the disopsable boxes saying all poo should go in the toilet!

There is It's not huge, but it is definitely there.