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[DVCLiz]

Green Menstruation?
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Oh my God, when I first saw this I thought, "Wow!!! Someone needs some MAJOR antibiotics!" Then I realized it wasn't an actual description...

I always refer to the kind of very earnest, back to nature woman as a "pad hanger", because I read a description of this in the back of a parenting magazine when I was pregnant. The idea of washing reusable pads grosses me out in a MAJOR way, but this woman loved it. Of course, she also did something with her placenta, but that's another thread....

 

[disneydiva06]

Oh my God, when I first saw this I thought, "Wow!!! Someone needs some MAJOR antibiotics!" Then I realized it wasn't an actual description...

I always refer to the kind of very earnest, back to nature woman as a "pad hanger", because I read a description of this in the back of a parenting magazine when I was pregnant. The idea of washing reusable pads grosses me out in a MAJOR way, but this woman loved it. Of course, she also did something with her placenta, but that's another thread....

Ew, um, I think I just threw up in my mouth a lil.....

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Reusable pads?????? HURL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I like the little cards that Always puts into magazines sometimes....I gave one to my coworker, telling her to have a happy period...she nearly decked me

 

[DVC Sadie]

What a hysterical thread! Thanks for the laughs.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

To quote my husband when he saw this...."Save the enviroment...freak out your friends...."

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Oh! Oh! Look! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN PADS!

Sweet! I won't be doing this!!

 

[disneydiva06]

Oh! Oh! Look! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN PADS!

Sweet! I won't be doing this!!

BLECH! Can you just IMAGINE washing those suckers out after a heavy flow day?

 

[Fan2CSkr]

Great post so funny and so true! Happy period? Yeah right! The only happy period I ever had was the one I got when I thought I was pregnant and wasnt ready to be.

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Once Cosmopolitan Magazine had a spoof issue, and my favorite feature was "What is Your Discharge Trying to Tell You?" They had pictures of various stains in various shapes. My very favorite was a little man's face with a chef's hat on, like a baker. The caption was, "You have a yeast infection!"

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Okay, I looked up "the keeper" that a previous poster says that they use...and it really, really scares me:

It looks like one of those old toys with the ball attached to it, and you try to get it in the cup...


...or a really weird acorn.


At this was taken directly from the website: "The Keeper Cup holds up to an ounce of fluid and should be emptied several times a day; simply rinse and reinsert." EWWWWWWWWWWWWW.....

 

[beckmrk04]

Oh! Oh! Look! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN PADS!

Sweet! I won't be doing this!!

I think I've found my new hobby. Now where'd I put that sewing machine??

 

[sugarpie]

I will put a whole roll of Bounty in my undies before I wash & reuse my feminine hygiene products. That is the last thing I need when I'm on the verge of murdering innocent people for looking at me.

 

[MariDisney]

Well, "green menstruation" is not the best way to put it! Sure sounds gross!

LOL...well I'll give you that!

 

[disneygirlatheart]

So funny! So true! Have a happy period. I get tired of seeing that on my brand! Why don't they Have a Happy Have it yourself!

 

[goofinoff]

My Always pads say in English and French "have a good period" I looked at it and threw it across the bathroom at DH, blamed "his type" for that kind of BS. No woman would tell another one to have a good period. It would be more like "here's a 7 layer all chocolate cake and I brought two forks"

THIS IS THE BEST THREAD EVER!!! This is cracking me up!!!

 

[lovesmurfs]

My Kotex used to have the little quotes (I have to use the maxi maxi pad), but then they switched to these little red flowers on the peel off strip. I wrote to them and griped that the last thing I needed during "my friend" is little red dots making me think I dripped.....

But maybe I wasn't the only one....Now I still have the same flowers, the one on the package is still red, but the peel off strip is powder blue flowers.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

When my Always pads has countdowns like
"This is one less month of this he--" then I'll read those damn quotes!

 

[Scraper]

• • This thread is so funny. My Dh is the best. Once time he offered to go to the store for me said he had to pick something up anyway. He came back with Maxi thins and a very large bottle of Ketchup. I looked at him and ask him if that is all he got. He said yes and thought nothing of it. I had to go outside and laughed till tears came down my face. I have never said a word about it.

 

[Nancy]

Oh! Oh! Look! YOU CAN MAKE YOUR OWN PADS!

Sweet! I won't be doing this!!

Give them a try, make as many as you want - use them!...give them as gifts!..most importantly, have fun!!!

Now I know what to give for Christmas gifts for that hard to buy for person. I always like to try and give a few homemade gifts, this will really be different.

 

[TheGirlin14G]

Best thread ever.

My friend and I watched a movie the other night, both going through our "happy time" of the month - both equipt with Hershey's chocolate bar and chocolate covered rasins.. after we both cried at the movie we watched tv.. that Always commercial came on and we looked at eachother and said "There is no such thing as a happy period!!" Then we went to a diner and ordered chocolate fudge cake and bashed men.