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Inspired by kangoo's thread I was having a look at the Mooncup website and it says the Mooncup costs £18.99 and "You will probably spend this in six months on disposable feminine hygiene products." Seriously? There's no way I spend anything like that. So I started wondering whether I just have a really light flow... my period lasts 4 days, during which time I'll use about 10 pads. What about the rest of you? Does £18.99 in six months sound about right or way over? (I know this thread is a bit odd, but if you can't ask here, where can you?!)
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Mine used to be extremely heavy in that it lasted at least 7 days (sometimes up to 10) and heavy for 4 days. I would have to buy at least one pack of towels and another of tampons. So that would be about £4 a month for me.
Sometimes if they don't have my multi pack of that style though, I'll get a different one that has 18 for the same price, but then I use more than a box.
Damn, in 6 months I probably spend at least $40 just in tampons
I'm with you saz, mine lasts usually 7 days, day after the pill ends and the 2nd day I start back up
i bought a different brand of tampons the other month and they had plastic applicators and were quite snazzy actually. much better than tampax for inserting!
What else do they make applicators out of? :eek2:
And when i was pregnant i bled all the way through my pregnancy soo heavy it was awfull every month i dreaded it!!
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By my maths I spend way less than that. I buy big boxes of supermarket's own brand applicator tampons (about 30 in a box), they work out about 5p per tampon and I use approx half a box a month. I think that's about £9 per six months.
:yes:
But without the nutritional info.
I get about 4/5 pretty light days, so am well in the money. Probably spend about £1.50 a month, all considered.
I can't use non applicator ones, annoyingly.
I find the Cardboard applicators are better, They aren't as cold :nervous:
For all you girls who don't use pads, what do you use at night then? Tampons aren't recommended for more than about 5 hours...
pads at night isn't bad, i just think they're gross to wear during the day.
Pretty much, except day 1 and 2, where i use 2 pads each day...