Depends on the height of your bucket. Imagine a little kid sitting in bed. They need something low and lightweight. Our bucket was too high to be practical
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boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 23 hours ago
I cannot comprehend why you would puke in a bowl, especially not a plastic one used for food etc.
Even if we ignore the gross aspects, a bowl is so impractical and such a high risk of spillage.
Why not use a bucket, like the mop bucket? I have never heard of this bowl thing outside of online memery.
SorryImLate@piefed.social 19 hours ago
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
Fair point. As a kid, and adult I would just lean over the side of the bed and do it though.
tetris11@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
But you can hug a bucket with your knees and use its base rim to press into your stomach as you heave. As a kid, the proportions line up perfectly.
I’m with bobo on this
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
We just took the bag of garbage out and used the bathroom trashcan for stomach bugs. It’s small, can be moved right next to the bed, and wont ever hold anything not gross (unless you move – and then it’ll probably hold your sponges, brushes and cleaners). Also, in our house, everybody was expected to try to make it to the toilet, including kids. You start puking, you get ushered to the toilet with the trashcan held below you.
All of this makes sense because norovirus is super contagious.
snooggums@piefed.world 22 hours ago
Used metal mixing bowels the few times I threw up as a kid. Wife used metal mixing bowels while we were married, I never threw up as am adult.
They hold a lot of liquid and can be cleaned with bleach.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Just FYI - “bowls” are the things you puke into, “bowels” are the things food never reached and therefore became puke.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I was perfectly happy letting this error continue, it makes for unintentionally funny comments all the time. And you had to go and ruin it
snooggums@piefed.world 16 hours ago
I had just gotten home from 24 hours of conferences and delayed flights and spellcheck was no help at all.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
My parents always gave me cooking pots. Small to medium sized ones with two handles are easy to grab and easy to clean. If you need to “use” it repeatedly, you can just put boiling water in it in between uses
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Well. I can personally vouch for it being a thing when I was a kid. Beats the hell out of a grocery bag.
boboliosisjones@feddit.nu 6 hours ago
I accept that it happens, but I still think the mop bucket seems like a much better place. Grocery bag I would probably avoid, unless its an emergency and nothing else is on hand.
What part of the world are you from if you don’t mind me asking?
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I just went to the toilet. A couple of times, it hit me too fast so I used a trash can.