Periods.

Okay. Lol. Let’s say that you are an average-ish woman with a period once a month. An average period is about 6 days long. Let’s also say that you change your pad around four times a day. Twice between 1am-1pm and twice between 1pm-1am (6hours between each change. This doesn’t account if you have a heavy flow or your pad decides to move and the blood gates give no mercy to your undergarments.) So, you’re changing 4 times a day for 6 days. 6x4= 24. A package of “Always Ultra Thin Extra Long Pads With Wings” - Size 3 - 38ct is about $7.63 with tax and all. So 38-24= 14. So you’re gonna need a new package the next month. So, 14+38=52-24=28. SO, 2 packages of 38ct of size 3 always pads can cover you for three months. You pay $15.26 on pads for three months. 3/12=4. 4x15.26=$61.04. So, realistically, we’re paying $61.04 a year for pads. HOWEVER, this is completely unrealistic unless this woman has been blessed by mother nature herself. Let’s give this a realistic perspective now. Let’s say that your body HATES YOU. And you gotta wear maxi pads 24/7, because man, you don’t wanna fricken bleach your underwear AGAIN. (Lol, like the maci pad will even protect you!) So let’s also say that you’re on birth control (that costs more than $400, lol but thats for another time) and your hormones are ABSOLUTE CRAP. So you have a cycle of 12 DAYS. You go to CVS, and you get that Always maxi pads 48ct for around $13. And you change your pads 4 times a day again for 12 days. 4x12=48, WOW, WHAT A GREAT DEAL. So your hormonal a** spends $13 a month on pads. 13x12= around $156 (because I don’t have tax added) So you are paying around $156 on pads, a year. I don’t care too much, as I don’t have kids, and $156 a year is about 1/4 of a regular weekly paycheck. But DON’T try to understand a woman’s flow. There are so many other factors that come to having a period; new underwear, new sheets, the money you spend on laundry, migraines, cramps that literally give so much pain to where you can’t move. Women are different. If you’ve never had a period or dealt that kind of pain, don’t try to say anything about it. And you know what the worst part is? Your Viagra and Rogaine aren’t taxed, but my Plan B and hygiene products are. And yet you still say that our complaints are invalid and we should get over it.