This is an article I wrote because someone asked me to write something on this topic. I was paid upfront for this article...I was paid 3.04 for this article upfront.
http://voices.yahoo.com/cloth-menstrual-pads-enviromentally-5245275.html?cat=52
Cloth Menstrual Pads: An Enviromentally Friendly Alternative
Cloth pads, that's the topic tonight.
Have you ever wondered what women used before someone invented of disposable menstrual pads?
Or have you never really thought about that, or maybe you have even purposely avoided that subject. Thinking that to be something that was just a not a pleasant topic to discuss.
Although some have tried to convince young ladies that this was something good, that it meant they were turning into young ladies. For most of us, this monthly visitor was very soon an unwelcome guest.
Add to that the embarrassment of having to actually go to the store and buy needed products. Such as pads, or tampons or maybe even both, most young ladies have dedicated the purchase of these items to someone else. Who will preferably not purchase these items when we are with them, at least this was my experience, and I've noticed this same behavior in other young ladies at different times.
Then add to this a young lady who is newly married to a darling husband who has not yet been given the "privilege" of purchasing these items. Now finding his brand new darling wife asking him to please run to the store and buy these unmentionables, because she has unexpectedly ran out at a bad time.
So the dutiful young husband goes to the store and hopes no one see's his confusion as he looks at a row of items specially made for women only. As no man truly has a need for these items ever.
So for the dutiful new young husband who never ventured into this part of the store to purchase these items, this may actually be painfully embarrassing, especially if his darling wife forgot to mentioned exactly what to buy. (Brand name, style length, etc. it can become very confusing even to someone who buys these necessities regularly.)This is especially true for some individuals who are by nature a little on the bashful side.
Well you may be wondering just what does this have to do with this day and age, where practically anything can be ordered online, at any time.
Well it is true you can order many products online over and over again. You can find some advantages to that.
But it is not always wise to buy a product that you must continually purchase month after month, or in some cases week after week. Especially if it is a product that you could possibly purchase only once every few years. Saving you a lot of time, money and aggravation, as a bonus buying reusable is healthier for the environment.
Finally the main benefit to having cloth pads readily available, it this, you never have to worry about running out when you least expect it. Because you will already have what you need on hand at any given time. This by itself is a huge stress reliever, especially if your budget is a little or a lot tight.
Now you may be wondering just how you might obtain a stash of reusable cloth pads. Well there are a couple of ways to do this, if you are handy with a sewing machine, you could possibly design a few pads and then when you have found the style you like most, you could make up enough to last through one cycle. Or you could go online and do a search for cloth pads.
If you do a search one site you may find is http://www.rightspot.webs.com/ the name of this site is "Cloth Creations" this is a small home-based business. That offers a variety of cloth pads and even burp clothes for new born babies, some people find these very helpful, especially if they have a baby that spits up often. Having a burp cloth prevents a lot of staining.
You may also find other sites that sell cloth pads, cloth diapers, burp clothes, etc. This one just happened to be at the top of the Google search engines today.
"Search Engines' sounds sort of like something that is working, well that just struck me as sort of funny just now.
Anyway,this is relevant to this article, how, you might ask? Well think about it, how many centuries passed by with women using cloth materials for this "monthly visitor" before someone started making and selling disposable pads and disposable diapers even.
Cloth pads are no messier than regular pads really, except the fact you must wash these. But if you will place these cloth pads in a small bucket of cold water with a lid, you can place this out of site until you are ready to wash them. Then just dump the dirty water outside on or around your flowerbeds. Then just toss the pads into the washer.
With more and more people looking towards environmentally friendly products, cloth pads such as sold on websites like "Cloth Creations" may be something to seriously consider in the very near future.
Also cloth diapers for newborns at least, would be of some benefit to the environment. Because once your baby is too big for diapers the old cloth diapers can be recycled into dust rags.
In my opinion it would be neat if products like flour were to be sold in cloth bags once again, because a lot of times the paper bags will rip open, creating a huge mess. I doubt the cloth bags did that.
I think that perhaps people were in some ways more conservative and friendlier towards the environment we live in before so many regulations were made.
Today, much of what we buy is sold in such a way as to encourage waste. Being wasteful is never good for the environment. Neither is being wasteful good for our pocketbooks.
If you've never tried cloth pads, perhaps this is something you may want to try sometime soon.
I've already provided a link for one online store that sells these, to get you started at least thinking about the idea of cloth pads.
Just try to remember these are environmentally friendly, and also may help you save money in the long run. Every penny saved is a penny earned right?
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