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Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:47:35 +0000

I’m a mom of 5 daughters. Sadly we’ve gone through a LOT of throw away pads and tampons in our years. I have some cloth pads, and have a manstrual cup as well. My oldest has sensative skin and breaks out like diaper rash with disposable pads. She started using cloth pads about a year ago and it has helped a lot. I told her about the menstrual cup but as a youngish girl, it seemed weird and ‘icky’ to her. She’s about to get married and they are both college students and will have very little money. I think she shoud try a cup and see if it works for her. So… I’d love to win a free one to give her to try.
Thanks for a wonderful product!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Tracy

Tracy — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 01:53:17 +0000

I would love to get a chance to try a Moon Cup. A few of my friends have been talking about them but none of us has ever tried them. I hate using tampons and pads. I think pads are just completely uncomfortable. Plus, it would be nice to not have to worry about keeping around a stock of disposable products. I’ve been doing some research and have found so many different brands of cups. I have no idea which one to choose so winning a cup would be wonderful!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 23:15:40 +0000

After years of frustration with disposable menstrual products, I tried a menstrual cup a little over a year ago and was an instant convert! I keep it in its little pouch in my purse and never have to worry about not having enough “supplies” on me during my period. Plus, I had never thought about how much waste a woman can create by using disposables until I didn’t use them anymore and realized how much less trash I made!

What made me really sad was talking to female relatives and friends and having them balk at the thought of menstrual cups. Their mindset is that a period is something to glumly tolerate in discomfort once a month, and that it’s “gross” or “dirty.” How hard it is to explain how much more free I feel with a cup instead of tampons! I would love to have a different menstrual cup (one I haven’t actually used) on hand to demonstrate to other women how it works and what it looks like, and perhaps to give away if they are quite interested!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Meagan

Meagan — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:54:17 +0000

I would like to try a keeper, because with tampons I ALWAYS FORGET ABOUT THEM being inside of me!!! Also tampons are very very expensive, and smell weird!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Judith

Judith — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:04:54 +0000

I would love to have a keeper cup. We recently moved to a very rural location and have no trash pick up. Everything we “throw away” (there really is no “away” but that’s another essay) has to be separated into compost, recycle, burn box or dump. The dump costs money so I try to avoid buying anything that adds to that pile. To reduce dump runs, as well as many other benefits we’ve changed a lot of our practices. Stopped eating animals, smoking cigarettes, eating processed, over-packaged foods, using cosmetics that come in plastic bottles, no more one use paper products, and buying things wrapped in plastic as little as possible. Pads and tampons are individually wrapped in plastic and are MADE of plastic. What a waste! Argh!
A menstrual cup and reusable cloth pads is the next logical step toward my (impossible) goal of zero waste.
Thanks!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by sam

sam — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 16:08:43 +0000

Ohhh, I want to win….I’ve been checking these out for a while & just haven’t got up the nerve to lay down my cash to purchase one, to much money has been spent on “great” things that turn out garbage. So I would really love to try & than spend if it ends up being what I’m HOPING it will

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Rebecca

Rebecca — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 03:34:43 +0000

I leak past tampons. The entire month is a mess because it’s so heavy for so many days. I’m tipped and tilted so tampons are uncomfortable anyway. Pads are so uncomfortable!

Plus, my daughter at 10 1/2yo just started her period. I’d like to try alternatives to pads and tampons and get her started early on using other things. Winning a keeper would be a great start for us!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Brianna

Brianna — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:26:32 +0000

I’ve been wanting to try a menstrual cup for nearly a year now, but haven’t been able to choose the brand I wanted to try. I finally decided on the Keeper, went to their website, and lo and behold — a giveaway! I dern near danced a jig. It isn’t that $30 is hard to come up with, but with 3 kids under 5, the money always has somewhere else to go!

I’ve lived all my menstruating life dealing with disposable pads and tampons and feeling like crap every time I have my period. I have PolyCystic Ovarian Syndrome so my periods are bad to begin with; add in the absorption of toxic crap for 7 days straight and you have a recipe for, well, nothing happy, trust me! I recently got a sewing machine and am planning to make some “mama cloths” to replace my disposable pads, but I have nothing to replace the convenience of mess-free tampons. I don’t want to be banned from swimming just because I have my period, I don’t want to be restricted for a week of every month because tampons are hard on my body. I love the fact that the menstrual cups are in silicone now since I’m also allergic to latex! This would be perfect for me; a special Christmas present to the lady who just wants to feel normal again!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Vicki Bower

Vicki Bower — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:34:34 +0000

I would love to get a chance to try the keeper. I have very heavy periods and always need to use excessive paper products, and would expect that your visual representation of the waste created by disposable products is just the tip of the iceberg in my case.
I am a very active 41 year old college student and new (very surprised and adjusting) grandmother. I have a 19 year old son who works full time at Radio Shack and my 17 year old daughter moved out but still needs me . I am on a college student budget, and after I obtain my Associates degree in May, will go on for my Bachelors and also Masters in Arts Management. I attend classes full-time for Gallery Management and also work in the gallery at my school for 18-25 hours a week. In addition to this, I am an avid participant in the art communities of Albany, and Troy, NY. I help people move and hang their artwork, promote venues, and try to help fellow artists start showing and selling their art. I rarely sit down without a schoolbook in my lap!
We rent an apartment in an old house and just last week had a sewer problem when my “flushable” tampons backed up our line and if something like this happens again, we will be charged. I was in a mental turmoil worrying about putting used tampons in the garbage and how sanitary that would be (and even more wasteful to wrap discretely in toilet paper). This could be a definite solution to my dilemma.
Thanks for coming up with this idea. It seems like a viable alternative to the cloth pads, too!

Comment on Win a Free Keeper or Moon Cup Menstrual Cup! by Gicély

Gicély — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 14:40:19 +0000

I want to try a keeper, because I believe it is a good alternative method to help us to save our planet. It´s also a way to free the animals that are submited to cruel tests only to provide us tampons and pads. And, besides, it´s an excelent choice to help us keeping our feminine health, avoiding the intense exposition to bacteria and the high temperatures provided by pads and tampons, allowing our vagina to breathe. We can be healthy and sure that our option is the best for our world!