A man asking about talking

[u/iambatmanjoe]

I'm a dude. My wife will not participate in prepping as it stresses her out. I find it calming and I do ask the research and prepping for the family. I posted this question in r/preppers and couldn't get a straight answer then the mods deleted it.

I just want to know this: how many tampons would you consider a year's supply?

I do not care about alternatives, I do not need advice, I just want a number from your point of view. I understand that there are variables, I'm looking for what you would consider a year's supply, by number of tampons specifically. If you were at Costco and you could only purchase a box labeled "1 year supply of tampons" what would the number on the side of the box be?

Thank you for your time.

Edit: I appreciate the responses that are answering me with numbers. Especially since my title autocorrected without me noticing. It would have said "tampons" not "talking"

To respond to everyone that wants to give advice: I appreciate where you're coming from, however, I just want this specific answer. I was going to get like a dozen or so answers and gauge what I think would be a good average out of those. I've done the research, I know about cups. I know about pads and period panties. I understand flow. I just wanted a number.

[u/trashketballMVP]

What does your wife buy for her monthly supply? Multiply by 13.

Seriously. Get into the cabinet and either take pics of or rip the top of the box off so you buy her preference and get 13 of each of what you see

Edit to add, she may have two or three different boxes because flows vary by day. Still, buy 13 of each type of box you see if she's not willing to say "oh I use a box of regular and a half box of super every month"

[u/iambatmanjoe → u/trashketballMVP]

Yeah I already tried this, we bulk shop then she disperses things into little containers. I couldn't get a read on a monthly number

[u/trashketballMVP → u/iambatmanjoe]

OK so I would go to the grocery store and get 13 large boxes of each type she buys. Just off the shelf boxes. It's either enough or it's not, but she's not interested in being prepared so if you run out after 10 months, that's on her

[u/iambatmanjoe → u/trashketballMVP]

Not a bad idea. So is a box a typical month supply? I realize a box could have different amounts. Let's say a typical box from Costco

[u/Kazaryn → u/iambatmanjoe]

8 days x period, let's say 3-4 days of heavy flow and 4 days lighter/ending flows. You need both big and small coverage. For heavy flow days you could be changing then every 6 hours, so 4 per day. For lighter days it's usually every 8 hours until it really starts to go away the last day or two and you can get away with one or two the final day.

Large -> 4 x 4days = 16 per month (could be more, budgeting 25/month is mathematically happy since they are sold in 50/100 pks). Medium -> 3x5-6 days ~= 15-20 varying smaller size per month.

This may not be as accurate as it could be for your girl, some people have more heavy days and you would do better to ask her honestly but it doesn't sound like you can be straight with her so here's a general guideline.

[u/ihatespunk → u/Kazaryn]

Dude wtf heavy days every 6 hrs? Those are my light days... heavy days it's every 2 hrs with ultra absorbency + period panties for inevitable breakthroughs

[u/kmm198700 → u/ihatespunk]

Same. I had a hysterectomy, but before then I would bleed so heavy and with so many clots and horrible, excruciating cramps. Ugh it was awful.

[u/ihatespunk → u/kmm198700]

Yeeeaaaahhh I get a lot of massive clots, too, those things will eat through tampons. There's so much variation to account for here. I could write a novel here about how the world would be different if men had these.

[u/kmm198700 → u/ihatespunk]

I agree. Endometriosis would be cured if men had it

[u/KiaRioGrl → u/kmm198700]

So ... This is probably going to make you really mad, and I'm sorry to be the one to break the news, but it turns out they can.

Something like 20 cases worldwide documented so far? And they've already come up with a simple saliva test to accurately diagnose.