What else can you do with a tampon besides what it was created for?

[exitseven]

Vice presidential candidate Walz signed a bill that required public schools to have tampon dispensers in all bathrooms first kids both male and female over 14 years of age. I wonder what 14 year old boys will do with tampons?

[bolverk]

Unusual Uses for Tampons and Sanitary Pads
Many of us have been there: the protective covering on the tampons in our purse or stuffed under the bathroom sink have torn and the contents have begun to unravel. The sanitary napkins we’ve carried around for months or jammed into a suitcase or the glove compartment have been compromised. Perhaps we bought the wrong size or type and we don’t want them to go to waste, or we got some free samples that don’t quite work for us.

Maybe-just maybe-each and every one of these wayward, forgotten, or slightly battered tampons or sanitary pads can be put to work-by doing something else other than what they were designed to do. Tampons and sanitary pads are expensive; they required resources to manufacture them; they deserve to be utilized in some fashion.

How to re-purpose tampons and sanitary pads

If you have a full or nearly full box of unused and unwanted tampons or sanitary pads, you may want to donate them to a women’s shelter. Call the facilities in your area to inquire about their needs.

As for the remaining sanitary items, there are dozens of ways you can put them to good use. Here are just 19 of them; we would love to hear your ideas as well.

Emergency bandage. For a cut or abrasion, pull apart a sanitary napkin and use it to absorb blood and hold on the wound.
Nosebleed stoppers. Gently insert a tampon into the bleeding nostril.
Tinder. Both tampons and sanitary napkins can be pulled apart and used as tinder when building a fire when camping or even in your own back yard BBQ.
Nail polish remover. If you are out of cotton balls, pull apart a sanitary pad or tampon.
Toe separators. You can use individual tampons between your toes when you paint them.
Spill cleanup. A sanitary pad can be an effective tool for absorbing spills.
Painting tool. Use a sanitary pad for sponge painting.
Pest deterrents. Hang tampons from tomato stakes to scare away deer and other pests from your garden.
Head cooler. Does your child have a fever or are you feeling hot? Dampen a sanitary pad, place it in the freezer for a short time, and place on your forehead.
Ear cleaner. Tampons can be dampened and used to clean out your dog’s ears.
Test tube cleaners. Tampons are the perfect size for cleaning out test tubes.
Eye soother. Cut a sanitary pad in half, soak in witch hazel or green tea, squeeze it out, and place over your puffy eyes to reduce swelling.
Essential oil diffuser. Soak a tampon in your favorite essential oil and then suspend it in the area you want to treat.
Cat toy. Roll a tampon in catnip and let your kitty have fun!
Packing material. Sanitary pads can be helpful when packing up glassware for moving.
Ice pack. Soak a sanitary pad in water, freeze, and place in a plastic baggy to use as an ice pack.
Potty training accessory. For those who keep a training potty in the car, also keep a sanitary pad for soaking up the liquid until you find a place to properly dispose of your trash.
Pipe protector. If you have pipes that form condensation, wrap a sanitary pad around them to collect the water.
Hair curlers. Use both tampons and rolled up sanitary pads for hair curlers.

[exitseven]

I like the cat toy idea.

[FunkyMonkee]

Stick it up your nose to stop a nose bleed.
Cut them up and stick the bits between your toes while applying polish.
Soak it in some kind of flavouring and then use it as a tea bag.
The dentist could use them if they run out of those cotton rolls they stuff into your mouth.
You can use it as wadding when loading a musket.
If you're really creative, use a whole box to make a chess set out of.
Drop one in the ocean and watch it dry up.
It can be used instead of a Dutch boy's finger to plug a hole in a dyke (In a way, sometimes, they already do that).
It can be used by a painter to kinda smear some pain in a very specific manner.
It can be used as a record preener.
Decorate them, and wear them as dangle earrings... or use them as Christmas tree ornaments... or fishing lures.
They could be used as ear plugs in a very noisy work environment or as name places at a really fancy huge dinner.
Apply the right kind of make-up and pretend you have a 6th finger or, you can pretend to cut your finger off and let everyone think the tampon was your finger.
Load it with red ink and use it as a Bingo dauber. THAT'LL make grandma drop her teeth!!
Slice it really thin and use it as a book marker.
Use it as birth control: stick it up there where it normally goes and soak up all that sperm. Or, just stick one up there and pretend it's that time of the month.
Soak it in kerosene, use the string to tie it to a stick, light it and use it as a torch.
Soak them in nitroglycerine and use them as hand grenades. They already come with launchers.
Tie the string around the other end to make a loop, write your new baby's name on it and put it on their wrist.

[Tamera952]

You might wanna fact check that buddy, cause you’re wrong & look silly just regurgitating lame ass right wing desperation trying to dig up dirt on squeaky clean Tim Walz. What a stupid assertion.
That aside, tampons are good for plugging bullet holes in people temporarily.

[DishLady]

1. Bottle stopper...

2. Hair curlers...

3. Pedicure prop...

4. Gauze alternative (for nosebleeds or tooth injuries)...

5. Absorb spilled liquids in a purse/makeup bag...

[exitseven]

I asked my wife if that loop thing on a tampon was an elastic because I could picture kids shooting them t each other during English class. She said it is just a cord/

[DishLady]

It's not but you can hook the cover of the tampons on rubber bands and slingshot them across the room... My kids did when they were little and got into mine (sigh). Had to learn to keep the jar up high after that.

[exitseven]

I cannot wait to see what these horny teenagers will come up with.

[DishLady]

Hahaha.

[Apple1996]

I shoved them in my mouth after my wisdom teeth surgery to stop bleeding cuz I ran out of the fancy gauze. They looked almost identical

[Daniela1982]

Wow, they probably thought you were on your period and took it out to suck on it. 🤢

[Apple1996]

@Daniela1982 I was at home but what they gave out at the dentist looked exactly like tampons

[Daniela1982]

Nurse grabbed cotton from the wrong box. 😯😄😂🤣

[OlderAndWiser]

The epitome of "lights on but nobody home!"

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Tampons are vampires teabags & I’m sure they love that shit. On the flip side I’m sure if you look it up you will find other uses for tampons. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is if you are ever shot hopefully someone has a tampon because putting one in the wound might actually save your life.

As for the story in your post about the requirement for tampons on both bathrooms makes sense especially nowadays where boys are girls & girls are boys, chicks have dicks & dudes have boobs.

[exitseven]

teabags for vampires.😊😊😊😊

[lightbulb27]

free too... they play a lot of hockey, boys use them to stop the nose bleeds? Good grief, buy your own freaking stuff...

why would legislature write that law like that?

why would he sign it... like other states...

what's the world coming to...

... Twenty-one states, not including Wisconsin, require that K-12 schools provide students free pads and tampons or offer funding for schools to purchase period products, Education Week reported.

yes, he's very liberal thinking on the trans gender issue...

[dustybiker2]

How could you find an issue with this? Menstrual bleeding is health issue. Kids should not have to go to a school nurse to declare what time of the month it is, and that they forgot. Mind you this will end there anyway. The reason they did that in the first place (my time in school) was because the dispensers were always empty. Kids won't use them accordingly.

[lightbulb27]

@dustybiker2 to me that's a personal issue and a school nurse issue. there's always female teachers in a pinch and friends. put one in nurses office and that's that. putting dispensers for free in every bathroom in the USA? expensive. waste.
lets teach responsibility... bring your own stuff.
what about employers... should they be required too?
we could alternately, ask every school kid to pack a tampon in their backpack.

I'd say the same to our kid. their lack of responsibility is costing me how much in real estate taxes? be responsible and stop wasting my $. and believe me, they'd be happy to see that machine in every bathroom... until I make them pay for it. then they wouldn't want it.

this is THE problem with government. Waste has become normalized and in fact, blessed. This one... is minor compared to others.
it's what happens when ya have a printing press and debt is money, and waste is money growth.

Canada does this too?

[dustybiker2]

I do consider the same. Keeping in mind a young female reproductive system is often erratic, it was often catching me off guard. Going to the nurse was embarrassing during those times it always happened the "one time" you forgot to restock your bag. So I like the concept, but kids themselves would cause the waste I agree there. If they didn't it would be great.

[The_Confusion]

I mean, what if I end up clicking more report buttons than usual? The JSS circuit could bring me over the edge. I'd rather have a tampon to prevent a mess than nothing.

[on_my_knees]

Wait, is that @wilmareportu? She was a legend, man. Too bad her vagina was deactivated by illuminati inverts.

[CrazyGirl2]

They are actually great for stab and bullet wounds! Other than that… Absolutely nothing!

[exitseven]

@CrazyGirl2 I dont want to know how you know that.

[CrazyGirl2]

My mom is a trauma surgeon! Pads also are great for putting pressure on a bleeding wound!

[DrPepper12]

It's the best option for soldering copper pipes that had held water and are still wet! There is nothing better than a tampon for that purpose!!

Apparently you can also use them to bring dead markers back to life by dipping them in I forget which hazel or hydrogen peroxide and then squeezing the marker into them and keep repeating that process

[coxoabean]

First aid, craft projects, in litter boxes, fire starter, pest control, for cleaning, soaking up spills.

[AviatorTom]

That faucet in the boys' restroom sink that's always drippin... a tampon will stop the dripping.

[IslaTheWitch]

my friend uses them for nose bleeding... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Daniela1982]

Soak them in oil and make torches out of them?

[dustybiker2]

They'll flick them at each other.

[Daniela1982]

@dustybiker2 All the more fun. See who can catch the other's hair on fire.

[dustybiker2]

I remember many a flicked match in my time. Arses didn't do it twice.😁

[Daniela1982]

@dustybiker2 Good thing you didn't use hair spray or it would go up in a puff of smoke in one second.

[dustybiker2]

Yikes. There would have been a memorable display for the yearbook.

[NathanDavis]

you can start a fire...

if soaked, a burner...

[NathanDavis]

and I mean, a bit of alcohol...

[bannacookies]

That is so dumb. They're going to go to waste in the boys bathroom. They're gonna use it to throw it at others. Ha. Can make a great toy. A new sport: Tampon Ball!😆

[Guacamole409]

Timmy used them during Desert Shield to help the wounded.

FYI Steve Martin was asked to play Timmy on SLS. He declined. I hope he declined for the right reasons.

[convo_king89]

tampons in the guys room is probably a transgender thing..

[Wiredone]

Soak them in water and throw them at people like we used to with spit balls

[Anonymous]

hm yeah i don't agree with that at all, especially in public schools... i'm sure a lot of pranks will be played and eventually no one will have access to those things, especially not the girls that actually need them.

[dustybiker2]

The dispensers will not stay full... kids are kids. The ones who will actually need them will still have to go to the nurse for stock.

[KimmyKimchi]

They're great for bullet wounds, very useful at an American school

[Lynx122]

You can block the plumbing

[exitseven]

hjahahaha flush a bunch of them down the toilet.

[Lynx122]

They actually have to put signs up at some schools because some girls do that.

[exitseven]

@Lynx122 In Minnesota the boys can do it too.

[strateguy632]

It is for those boys assigned female at birth n need tampons.

[RavVid]

I am thinking soaking them in a flammable liquid and lighting could be fun.

[Dargil]

Hearing protection at the firing range, perhaps.
Stops bad nose bleeds.

[genericname85]

it's a great firestarter for bushcrafters xD

[msc545]

You can stop bleeding from wounds.

[exitseven]

I suppose the way schools are today with all the shooting s and stabbings they would come in handy. Maybe Tampon Tim is onto something.

[jjj101010]

I believe they r good for lighting a fire if you can’t find kindling

[dazzafromoz]

After you done with it use it as a tea bag.

[sage2021]

Probably anal.

[RyanR03]

Um ….

[noohair]

Molotov Cocktail