$0-5 on tampons (one box will last me a couple of months), plus at least an extra $10.00 on chocolate, $20.00 if it’s a really bad period and I need to splurge for the good stuff…
Does chocolate count as an expense? Ahhh beaten to the punch!
WhyNot, huh. I use thoes, they work great for me. go fig.
My cycle’s so wonky right now, I couldn’t venture a guess as to average expense, but I have recently discovered that cheap muscle rub (the stinky kind) works great at cramp relief. Who knew?
They are like insanely space-age super-crazy absorbent for me. I cannot explain the difference in our experience!
I am getting an IUD placed soon, though, and if my flow decreases like they say it will, I may switch back to the regular (and cheaper) kind.
If so, I need to change my vote. I have an HBC implant (Implanon) so I don’t have regular periods (Hallelujah, hallelujah!) but I still PMS, for whatever reason. About a week out of the month I’m scarfing down java chip ice cream like I’m a starving man at a Chinese buffet.
I spend $25/mo so I can get my period (the pill) then I don’t know how much a month cleaning up after it. For a while there I was able to get a few extra packs a year and spend $30/mo avoiding my period and only getting it once every 4 months but now that I’m losing weight it just comes whenever it wants and stays as long as it wants and I’m about ready to vie for a hysterectomy because I spend a hell of a lot of time and energy looking after a nasty body part that I have no use for.
So yeah…way too much.
Exactly $4.60 CAD per month. This covers enough pads to last me the week, plus a pack of low-grade pantyliners for spotting. I usually end up with an extra pad or two left over lately- my period ends sooner than I expect for some reason.
I never crave chocolate, nor have cramps, so I don’t have to pay for anything except keeping my undies bloodless. Won the uterine lottery, I guess.
No, brand new from the website, but I paid for it years ago and currently spend nothing, on average, on a monthly basis.
Only expenses that come up nowadays are if I get caught somewhere without access to my supplies. Happened last year – out in the woods camping for a couple days, period came early, that sucked. The mini-pack of tampons was maybe… 5 bucks?
I had to buy the Mirena four years ago, cost me about 40 bucks, insertion free at the clinic. And it is good to go for another year. Haven’t had a period since. So that’s 10 bucks a year, less then one dollar a month.
I have the benefit of very weak periods: about 1.50€/month on panty liners (think super-thin pads), which I use daily due to spotting (tiny amounts of bleeding between periods), including in 3 of the 5 days of my period. A 20-pack of pads (2.41€) lasts me five months.
Stopped using tampons because I simply don’t get enough flow for any but the nothing-to-absorb-here kinds, so unless I’m going swimming it’s pads for me.
There was no need to share this, except to threadshit, Leaffan. You are certainly welcome to read threads that don’t interest you, but you are not allowed to disrupt them like this! Don’t do it any more.
Tampons (well, the o.b. that I strongly prefer) can be expensive, and I go through most of a box every cycle, so $10-$15, depending upon how many I need to buy.
I’d also like to point out that I was briefly horrified when I got a checkout coupon at Kroger one month for tampons, about a week before my period and realized how closely they track regularly purchases.
I use a DivaCup, so next to nothing, even amortizing the amount of the cup over the years I’ve owned it.
Spread out over its 5 year life span, my IUD costs $5 a month. But practically speaking, it’s a one-off expense and then I don’t have to think about it for years. No periods! HUZZAH!
Another divacup user here, so I spend practically nothing per cycle. Best menstrual product I ever bought!
With insurance, the Mirena IUD cost me just under seven hundred, and handily stops my periods for five years. So, 12 bucks a month to prevent periods. I used to average about twenty before, wild ass guessing.
Thanks to coupons and sales I’m working my through a stash that was nearly free to begin with.
It’s not really upkeep of a vagina, so much as a uterus et al. Barring visits to a gynecologist, vaginae are pretty much free.
If those work like Dia does here, it’s just a matter of
IF
person buys any soda
THEN
assign coupon for the soda we have in promotion
etc etc
and at the end
IF
not enough specific coupons have been found
THEN
start assigning coupons from the “general list”
They just happened to have tampons on promotion. If they happened to be the same ones you buy it’s because those are the ones that they were promoting; they could have been assigned if you’d bought any “feminine higiene products”.
Possible, but there’s also a lot of technology here working to make onsite marketing quite customer specific. As in, Target sometimes knows when women are pregnant before they tell anyone, based on their purchasing history!
In fact, if you read the article, you’ll note that they’ve had to deliberately make the coupons more “random” than the computers would have them be, so that they don’t creep people out and drive them away. If you print a pregnant woman nothing but pregnancy related coupons, she thinks you’re stalking her. If you intentionally throw in a coupon for a lawnmower and a wineglass, she’ll relax and use your (pregnancy related) coupons.
Wait, you have to pay for your periods? shakes head