The lengths we ladies will go for our blood

[scarsnsouvenirs.livejournal.com]

I'm moving out of my apartment on Saturday, and I was packing up my linen closet this evening.

Six types of menstrual products. Am I preparing for a nuclear war? How the hell did I accumulate all of this? ...But you will notice in front there is a solitary blue pouch that houses my Keeper--I've got enough feminine hygiene products to last me a few years, but my dear Keeper is all I use.

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[laurafreak.livejournal.com]

haha, i packing up my dorm room and i have about the same :P
2 packages of pads
1 big box of tampons, and about 12 3-count boxes
a box of insteads
a pack of pantiliners
and my diva cup

[scarsnsouvenirs.livejournal.com]

Damn, we match! I want to sell them, or something. I can just picture the eBay possibilities...

(Actually, I once spotted an opened package of Depends taped back together with duct tape for sale at Goodwill, so who knows.)

[emmieslost.livejournal.com]

you could take them to a womans shelter?

[lonestaryella03.livejournal.com]

lol, despite the different brands, it looks like a store display...all neat and precise

[scarsnsouvenirs.livejournal.com]

Heeheehee... I have to admit that I was careful to pose them in somewhat of an aesthetically pleasing manner for the photo shoot.

[lonestaryella03.livejournal.com]

lmao @ photo shoot. pads with a photo shoot. that's awesome

[kattlady.livejournal.com]

Ok, good, cause that was making me feel really disorganized, thinking of my "feminine hygene (har har!)" scattered around my bathroom...

[twirly.livejournal.com]

I have A LOT, too. I've got a Keeper, too but I can't get it in, I've got Insteads, boxes and BOXES of tampons and packages of pads EVERYWHERE. And the sad thing is -- it's at BOTH mom's and dad's. It's crazy. >__

[punk-is-so-dead.livejournal.com]

You've got quite the variety ;)

[inkydragon.livejournal.com]

Oh man. I have the same problem. Two or three boxes of tampons, two boxes of pads, and a diva cup. I can't remember the last time I USED pads! I keep trying to remind myself to go donate them, except I'm not sure any women's shelters will take the packs if they're already open (the individual wrapping isn't, just the boxes). Someday...

[djrosiex.livejournal.com]

I keep a few pads/tampons in the house incase a friend comes over with an emergency, but I loveee my keeper. I'd donate your unused items to a women's shelter they really need them.

[kaonamai.livejournal.com]

yeah, i donated all my boxes of tampons to a women's shelter when i got the divacup.

[partyupgal4ever.livejournal.com]

I have about the same pile of pads. Some opened, some sealed. My mom just keeps buying them when they're on sale.

[xpressingmyself.livejournal.com]

I had tons of female stuff and I ended up having female cancer last July and had to have a Hysto. So I didn't know what to do with open boxes and bags of this stuff. So the night before my hysto my girlfriends and I lined my car with panty liners like a racing stripe. Then we took the tampons and tied them to the car.....My husband(ex) had to be at work early in the morning and always walked out the car half asleep. So he had to go to work with this all over his car. It was going out with a bang that is for sure. It was my way of keeping my spirits up during this rough time. Plus he was just being an ass about everything anyway so he deserved it! =)

[inkydragon.livejournal.com]

That is SUPER awesome. Hope you took some pictures!

[mynameismaryjo.livejournal.com]

hahah that sounds like a great idea. should do that for my wedding day, decorate the car like that. spell out in blood "just married". we would get some weird looks.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___starla/]

eeeh we have a bunch of different stuff, too. i use tampons at the beginning of my period. a regular one and a slightly heavier one (i use OB). we also have panty liners for the last couple of days, huge night-time ones, and thin ones for the middle days.

[smolderingstars.livejournal.com]

I have a box just filled with supplies. At least I know I'll never be caught running to the local grocery store/drugstore with toliet paper shoved in my pants.

[thisxabovexall.livejournal.com]

The linen closet in my bathroom looks much the same. Two different sizes of Beyond tampons, Stayfree pads, Kotex Overnights, Carefree liners, Carefree liners To-Go packs and a package of Always my mom bought me because she had a coupon. I don't even live with her.

It doesn't stop there, though. I have no less than 5 bottles of shampoo/conditioner in my shower, two razors and two kinds of scrub. In the closet there are at least 5 cans of shave gel and two waxing kits.

[morbidelirium.livejournal.com]

Do those ever expire? O_o

[ginnski.livejournal.com]

I have the same issue. I moved out of my dorm and found loads of things of pads (different sizes), tampons (even different brands), and pantyliners. And all I use now is my Diva Cup

[pahoan.livejournal.com]

I can't stop staring at your icon!

[jitteryladybug.livejournal.com]

I <3 Harold & Maude!

[dial-zero.livejournal.com]

I've heard about this thing... it's linked on the Lunapads site... called Dignify a Zister. You can send your unwanted pads to Zimbabwe to help out women there who have no disposable products and limited water to wash out reuseable ones. Here's a link:

http://www.lunapads.com/zimbabwe.php

[ricepaper.livejournal.com]

thank you for sharing this! i, too, have a collection of tampons not touched since i got my keeper, and i've been saving them in the back of my linen closet for years. now i have a place to send them! wonderful!

[shallowgothgirl.livejournal.com]

LOL! I've been trying to find a new home for the tampons and pads I haven't used. My assistant reminded me I could put them in my set kit for work. (Models/actresses always ask wardrobe for these things!)

Gotta love homemade pads and my Mooncup.

[perverted-cat.livejournal.com]

the picture comes in as really big and long long time to load. Photobucket tends to do that, I've had lil sized pictures come out to be a huge page high, You have to watch that with pb, I usualy just reduse them to 25 to 50 percent even tho they were not that huge to begin with, and it works ok.

[scarsnsouvenirs.livejournal.com]

Sorry 'bout that...I reduced it to 400x600 pixels, as I always do, so I'm not sure why it's showing up larger on your screen--is it more effective to reduce it by percentages rather than actual measurements? (This is the first time I've had this problem.)

[perverted-cat.livejournal.com]

it's ok. I just notice sometimes on my own pics PB makes them really giagantically large. I contacted support to complain and ask why once and I got a really dumb ass answer so I figured it out on my own lol.

[thekat03.livejournal.com]

i was about to say "wow, that's a lot!" until i mentally counted how many varieties i have.... super heavy pads that i no longer need since my hormonally regulated periods are lighter, normal pads that i currently use, pantiliners for when i spot, insteads from when i tried them and decided they made me cramp too much, and a few tampons from when i was curious about those.... and i want to get a divacup soon. i am officially disconcerted by my massive stocks of menstrual products. and i think i need to find a nice women's shelter or send the ones i don't use anymore to zimbabwe or something. sheesh d:

[perverted-cat.livejournal.com]

I have not had my period for about 2 years I am on depo shot and it completely stoped it almost right away* yay depo* Every once in a while I spot and actually bleed a lil bit but other than that I have some stuff from years ago somewhere around here lool.

[trufflepig.livejournal.com]

_{i have the opposite problem :X i'm always out of tampons when the red one rolls around, and i have to make emergency trips to the corner store to buy some. :X}

[lookintomyeyes.livejournal.com]

Heh, I think our house always has 2-3 boxes of 'safeties' just lying around in case......we cant go to the store for 5 months? lol.