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    "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I refuse to pay in silver. I prefer to annoy the clerks at CVS by paying for for my tampons in Dubloons and Pieces of Eight.
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    Image of dirtybee dirtybee
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I really REALLY want to use the Diva cup but I'm scared! How does it go in? How do you get it out? How do you know its time to take it out? Do you get dirty?


    So many questions!!!

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    Image of the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
    06/19/09

    @dirtybee - peanut butter pudding surprise!: I'm scared too. I have read a lot about it, and it seems like there is a steep learning curve. Plus, I can't imagine having to empty it out at work. I always walk by them at Whole Foods, but I have yet to buy one.
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    Image of HuckleberryFriend HuckleberryFriend
    06/19/09

    @dirtybee - peanut butter pudding surprise!: They're actually really easy once you get the hang of it, your vagina does most of the work! Your fingers do get a little bloody, though, which can be awkward when you're in a stall and have to wash your hands in public! But I'd definitely recommend them- I could keep it in all day and not notice it.
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    06/19/09

    @dirtybee - peanut butter pudding surprise!: There's actually a myspace devoted to the folding methods for insertion. You flatten it and fold it over and let it open up inside, or you can tuck in one edge and fold it over and insert and then let it expand again. The second method makes it a little smaller.


    At first just check after 2 hours and empty it out. Then you'll learn soon enough when you need to.


    Just buy one. It's like $35,-. If it's not your thing (try for at least 3 periods) well it's the same as having bought a crappy shirt or movie tickets to a shitty flick.

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    Image of dirtybee dirtybee
    06/19/09

    I think I just may go get one before I start my next cycle. Thanks so much for the advice!
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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    06/19/09

    @HuckleberryFriend: That's the thing; I don't want to get caught red-handed!
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    that ad makes me picture grandma scoring some Tampax in a dark alley from a shady feminine hygiene dealer. Tampax is whack, grandma! Don't do it! Your lady bits will become addicted.
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    Image of Joyce Carol Hall and Oates Joyce Carol Hall and Oates
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    You know I'm actually impressed they came in three sizes even back then.
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    Image of pamplemousse (nee twinpeaks) pamplemousse (nee twinpeaks)
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    My god, I feel like that women is me. I still don't use tampons, and my friends make fun of me mercilessly for it.
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    Image of pamplemousse (nee twinpeaks) pamplemousse (nee twinpeaks)
    06/19/09

    @twinpeaks is quasi-gainfully employed: TMI?
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    06/19/09

    @twinpeaks is quasi-gainfully employed: Hey, whatever flows your boat.
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    Image of Ms. Crankypants Ms. Crankypants
    06/19/09

    @twinpeaks is quasi-gainfully employed: Same here - pads all the way for me!
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    Image of mfnher mfnher
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I recently got an IUD, and the doctor said I couldn't use tampons for that period. She was afraid of infection. I lasted two days. You will pry my tampons my from cold, dead hands. Unless, I finally get around to trying the diva cup or whatever that thing is.
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    Belts? Pins!?


    The next time I want to complain about how OMG horrible us ladies have it, I might think about this and reconsider. Then I'll complain anyway, but still.

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    Image of notheretomakefriends notheretomakefriends
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    "no belts, pins or external pads" You mean I don't have to secure my pads with safety pins and duct tape anymore? Oy, I am really getting too old for these modern gadgets you youngsters use these days.
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    Image of NefariousNewt NefariousNewt
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I want to write something humorous, but I can't stop laughing...
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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    No belts, pins, or external pads.


    Aww, I always wanted the pads with the belt because Margaret had them. Teenage Softies, of course. NOT Private Lady!

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    Image of gked411 gked411
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times: Shoes with open toes will be the death of us.
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    06/19/09

    @gked411: I love shoes with open toes, but still can't determine the etiquette of hose, so I only wear them with pants or at sufficiently informal events that a skirts sans hose is a go. I have spent way too much time thinking about the peeptoe.
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    Image of justfudgey justfudgey
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I was born in 1985 and feel like this about the Diva Cup.
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    Image of the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene the dodo, the cuckoo, and the nene
    06/19/09

    @justfudgey: I was born a few years before you, but I feel the same way. I am afraid to try the Diva Cup. It seems...difficult.
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    Image of PreposterousHypothesis PreposterousHypothesis
    06/19/09

    @justfudgey: I'm kind of naive. I don't even know exactly what the Diva Cup DOES. I was born in 1981, btw, so I'm practically a codger when it comes this here new-fangled technology.
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    Image of inabook inabook
    06/19/09

    @justfudgey: I really want to use the diva cup, but it just looks SO BIG. If I have trouble getting a penis in me when I'm turned on, I can't imagine the difficulty of getting the cup in and twisting it when I'm in the opposite of sexy mood
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I like the word "dainty" in this ad.
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    Image of saintbernadette saintbernadette
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    That's funny. I don't use Tampax because they dislodge when I sneeze.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    06/19/09

    @saintbernadette: Tampax suck, IMHO.
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    Image of kaiwhakamarie kaiwhakamarie
    06/19/09

    In reply to "I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
    I sent off for a free sample of Tampax back when I was 12 and reading SASSY Magazine. They had an offer for a 'starter kit' that had those, pads, etc and I was so excited. I watched the mailbox for months. They never came. I thought for years afterward that it was probably just some gimmick they used whereby they never sent out the tampons, but when the poor adolescent girls who'd been so looking forward to their 'starter kits' finally did get their period, they'd run straight out and get Tampax so as not to be left out.


    *sniff*

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    Image of girl.of.your.dreams girl.of.your.dreams
    06/19/09

    @kaiwhakamarie: I know for a fact that they did send them out, at least to some people. Because my friends had them sent to me. They also signed me up for Miss America mailings. Assholes. :)
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