recylcling Pads and Pons

DH and I were sitting around discussing what I could do with my left over Pads and Pons. This is what we came up with. Looking for some more Options and Opinions!

Pads; wash/wax car, dusting and polishing,decorative painting/staining woodwork,pot holder,window sqeegy,insulation for waterpipes,emergency bandaging,oil spills,childproof corners,coaster,door stops, eraser,wet/dry mop, insoles.

Pons; fish lure,boat plug,cork/bobber,sink stopper,light pulls,key chain, clean your ears, decorate Hyster-tree, cat toy,pin cushion, wine cork!

any more

i totally understand, i was planning on burning them , but they are so expensive that i think i am going to give them to a friend with a note that says, good luck for the next 30 years of your life

I'm thinking maybe to donate them to charity? Maybe some of the Ladies in Waiting? Not that they are charity, I know from experience , I felt like I impacted the stock exchange just from my purchases. Hmmmmmm, would that be tax deductible?

Hi,

Donated mine to my poor, suffering, menstruating friends. I will give them pitying sympathetic looks when they have their periods and chuckle quietly to myself.

xxx

I like all of the answers so far, however, I am planning on being WAY too practical. I am going to donate my pads and pons to the local Woman Care Shelter. I received information in the mail the other day about different things they could use and pads and pons were on there.

I think they will appreciate them more than my friends would!

How funny! I think it is sad not 2 months before all of my toubles started I had stocked up!! Oh well GREAT ideas! Thanks

how's about using the tampons between your toes when painting them? (I presented mine to my sister made up in a bouquet after my last period - had a surprise visit a week later - had to run out and buy more!

My sister told me the soldiers use pads inside their helmets so the sweat doesn't drip into their eyes.

Pons: LOL. We called them "corks". I remember as a teen sticking one in my cleavage and walking to the bathroom when we were camping....

I had my last period before surgery and still have 3 boxes of super plus pons. Yes, 3 boxes. I didn't bleed heavy at all this last time. I usually use 2 or 3 supers at a time, I bleed so heavy.

Never thought of donating them to the shelter. Will they take them if they are open boxes?

You crack me up..... PONS.

Ever have a self stick pad flip over on you and stick to your hair? Now THAT is an experience.

CHEAP Christmas ornament:
1. Dip into water until tampon expands.
2. Remove and tie at the top to create the angel's head.
3. Let hang (by handy dandy string) for several days until dry.
4. Paint face with peach or skin tone color, and draw small
black dots for eyes.
5. Add blush or pink paint to cheeks.
6. Paint "dress" with glimmer paint.
7. Criss-cross thin gold ribbon across chest (around neck) .
8. Add yellow doll hair to top of head as well as a gold
pipe cleaner for a halo.
9. For the grand finale...glue small gold angel wings to back.

Ta da!!! You would never know she belonged anywhere other than your tree!!!! People have to look long and hard to figure out where that little darlin really is from!!!

(I didnt write this, got it as an email from a friend the day before my surgery...but it did make me laugh.)

Dont mean to be a posting hog, but additional uses just keep popping into my head...

Okay, now stay with me on this one (I'm ready to bust it is such a great idea). Take one of those multi-size packs of Tampax, the ones that come in junior, medium, super, and bleedinlikeasonofa super plus sizes mixed in the same box. Unwrap them all and throw out the wrapper and the cotton-string parts. Sort by size, then use them to give your mother a hair perm! Skinny ones in the front for those tight curls, medium on top for that bouffant look, and the supers on the back for a nice even flow of tress! Bobby pins work great on the cardboard! No stinkie curlers to wash when you are done, just toss them!

Instead of throwing out the cotton tampon part, hold by the string and soak in gasoline...throw them in your grill to start your charcoal grill............................

OR the deoderant kind (gave me infections) can be hung by your bathroom light as an airfreshner!

Am I HOT or what? Gotta go, my mother's timer just went off which means it is time to take the curlers out...utt ohhhh, her hair was WET when I rolled it, cardboard has unglued and she now has swirlies all over her head.

Speakin' of hair...JABD I love your pink hair. Didn't you not know that you were supposed to use CLEAN tampon cardboards when you roll them in your hair? Only joking...you calling them "corks" has me bustin up laughing.