Greetings internet!
I posted something on twitter this morning which apparently has people wondering. I posted the simple fact that when I see my mother after Christmas I will be asking her to bring me tampons from Australia.
Yes, I know they make and sell such things here in the USA. Yes, I am aware of the fact that the Walgreens is down the street and my mother is 13,000 miles away and thus a tad more convenient.
But I just don't like them. Why not? I don't really know they just aren't the same. Its not a brand thing, the same brands are available in both countries. My personal brand only just became available over here and I was excited until I found they come with an applicator and further saddened when I tried them and found them to be not the same. I'm not crazy, many expats feel the same way. The Aussie Products Store in San Jose has had requests to stock tampons, others get family to send them and others just shut up and deal with it.
(Picture from http://www.tamponcrafts.com/halloween.html)
2 comments:
My sister just spent 3 months in Europe and brought American tampons because the European ones didn't have applicators, so I've got to ask...do you just not use applicators in Australia? Are they just not available or is that just how you were raised? We have non-applicator tampons in the US but if your mother didn't use them, you wouldn't grow up using them.
Interesting post!
There are some with applicators but they are in the vast minority. Weirdly enough my mother used the applicator ones but I could never get them to work.
Aside from the applicators they still aren't the same. I got a sample of my brand (U by Kotex if you're curious) that had the applicator when they just came out and even when I'd pulled them out of the thing they still weren't the same.
So instead my mother just gets laughed at at the post office when she sends me packages.
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