Responsible Fucking Dopers. How do you dispose condoms?

. Do you leave them in the garbage bin to be discovered by your kids ?

Do you flush them down the toilet to wreak havoc on your municipality’s treatment system?

Or do you recycle and aid the environment by rinsing them out ?

Gah !

Remembering when I was a 7 year old kid on a Lake Ontario beach being told by a life guard that what I found on the beach was a balloon.

How often do your kids go digging through the garbage? Don’t you wrap them in tissue or something? Don’t you have a master bathroom that the kids don’t mostly hang out in? I don’t like/use condoms, but if I did I definitely wouldn’t flush them or rinse and reuse!

They make great kitten toys!

Just chuck it out the window when you’re driving home.

I tie it off and toss it into the trash.

See the condoms prevent me from having the kids who might go mysteriously digging through my trash.

The kids are inside the condom. Or at least they WOULD HAVE BEEN KIDS, if you had not murdered sacred life. That’s not to mention all the kittens.

Tie them and throw them in the trash. I don’t know what I’d do if I had kids - I probably wouldn’t even be using condoms.

I personally go to sleep and let him deal with it. :wink:

I’m pretty sure he ties it off, wraps it in tissue and tosses it in the bathroom trash can though.

If my son dug through our bathroom trash, we’d have bigger problems than “Why’re you two having protected sex?”

Wrap them up and put them in the bin. That’s having learnt the flushing lesson the hard way. Oo-er.

I always threw them in the trash. I have no kids so that’s not an issue.

When you say recycle, do you mean use them again? I certainly hope not because that is not at all a good idea.

Unless you have a hungry and inquisititve dog, as was the case with a former roommate of mine. Nothing says romance like finding shredded condoms and/or contraceptive sponges in a trail from the bathroom wastebasket to the middle of the livingroom floor. The only less romantic place to find shredded condoms and/or contraceptive sponges is in the middle of a pile of dog vomit.

One college ex of mine accidentally left one underneath my roomie’s miniature tabletop Christmas tree. Nearly 2 decades later, I’m still getting crap from my roomie for desecrating her tree.

Tossed into the glovebox of a 1967 Chevy II whose owner never locks the passenger door.

Yeah, 'cause every sperm is sacred! So make sure that before you tie it off and wrap it in a little paper, you sing a song to show you appreciate their sacrifice.

Tie it off, roll it up and stick it in an empty soda can. That is what my ex and I did when we both lived at home with our parents. His dad was really religious and was not the kind of person you wanted to have accidentally find that kind of thing.

Wouldn’t work here. We have can recycling.

Well, the holidays are coming… How about a stocking stuffer?

To Antinor01, recycling can mean several things, turning it inside out and shaking the f**k out of is not a good strategy. But I heard tell via the internet of one guy who saved them and got 365 of them and recycled them into a automobile tire. He called it a Goodyear.
Sorry couldn’t resist.

To pbbth, actually, the condom is not likely to survive the temp those cans are gonna go through to be recycled. One way or another it will be incinerated. Not a bad option.

Myself, I am of sufficient age not a worry, neither me or Mrs Seenidog are capable of producing any more seenidog puppies. And I don’t have to deal with the issue all that often…

I will say GorillaMans advice is sound, the flush option is bad, especially if you have a septic tank.

In the movie Fight Club there is a scene in which Brad Pitt just tosses his condoms in the toilet. I watched this and thought that this was a great idea and much more convineint than the way I had been diposing of them previoulsy. (wrapping in tissues and hiding them at the bottom of a trash can.)

So the next time I need to toss one I just lobbed it in the toilet.

This was a bad idea. It woudn’t flush! I kept trying to flush and flush but it came back up everytime! So then I had to fish a dirty condom out of the toilet with the brush and then wrap it up again.

My girlfriend now is on birth control… so she won’t get pregnant and because she has PCOS… so I haven’t worried about condoms for over 3 years now.

How on earth do you accidentally put a condom under the Christmas tree???

It was a mini artificial tree, maybe 3’ tall, on top of the dresser next to the bed - it was the nearest flat surface other than the floor. He just realized we’d gotten caried away and he was about to miss the last train home, so he was getting dressed in a big hurry and forgot he’d put it down there.