How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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Tube mountain!About 10 years ago I rented a 2 bedroom house in Milton Keynes. The house can have only been 10 years old at most and the bathroom had been quite nicely done, this was about the nicest decorating in the whole house.
One day while sat on the bog curiousity got the better of me and I opened the airing cupboard door which was next to the throne.
I spied something I hadn't before at the bottom of the cupboard (the door didn't go all the way to the floor), it was a pile of white things. I picked up one and looked at it. It was a small white cardboard tube. I'd not seen anything like it before so thought nothing of it but there were literally HUNDREDS of them in there. A mini mountain of them around the bottom of the hot water tank.
About 6 months later I got my first "live in" girlfriend and duly discovered what those little white tubes were. That's right, they're the packaging/insertion tube from a tampon.
Now what still blows my mind today is how on earth in a 2 bed house no more than 10 years old does a previous occupant get through about 500 tampons??? The house was a rental so it seems unlikely someone had been putting them in there every month for 10 years!
Needless to say I left them there for a future treasure hunter to find!
(, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 12:18, 4 replies)
Quick maths...I'm no expert on these matters, but one person would get through that amount in about 2.5-3 years?
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snee held his breath since, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 12:30,
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Women tend to use more than 1 Tampon per Period...
(, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 12:35, closed)
At least you only got the tubesnot the used article :(
www.b3ta.com/questions/housemates/post378689
(, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 12:47, closed)
Well you are meant to change them at least every eight hoursso that's 3 a day.
Assuming that your period is 5 days that's 15 a period.
12 periods in a year means 180 tampons a year.
So it would only take 3 years or so to get to 500. That's assuming this is the work of just one woman.
What the mucky bitch is doing sticking them in the sodding airing cupboard is quite another matter!
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 26 Mar 2010, 23:10,
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