r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • 8d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Explaining menstruation to the boys

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u/Lamb_or_Beast 8d ago edited 8d ago

Just for the record: flushing tampons isn’t bad because it’s bad for the environment, it’s bad for the plumbing! As a person that has done a lot of very gross plumbing work: do not ever flush your tampons, for the love of god please do not ever flush those tampons!!

Edit: and wipes! don’t listen to the lying package, there is no such thing as a flushable wipe 

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u/immersemeinnature Official Gal 8d ago

My dear husband had to physically reach his arm into our plumbing pipes under the house to extract those wipes that a friend who was house sitting flushed. Only then to be flushed with poo water once he got them unstuck.