UPDATE - Pic..Popcorn Bowl... was yours also the....

We have two items used to collect PUKE. LOL

My youngest DD got very car sick and we had a 30 minute commute to daycare/work ... I have deep cleaned the car seat SO many times. LOL! We finally made what was called the "BARF BOX" It was a plastic wipe container with a tight sealing lid. We kept it in the seat pocket where she could reach it when she felt sick. Almost as soon as she was forward facing, she could get the box and barf into it, snap it shut and no car seats were harmed!

The second was the "BARF BOWL" I have a melamine Rachel Ray Garbage Bowl. However, no one gets to barf in it UNLESS it double lined with a grocery bag! LOL I don't wanna clean that stuff up!
It also gets used for popcorn and no one blinks an eye about it! LOL

Great thread!

We had an ice cream bucket, just in case. We weren't big pukers.

We tried to use the toilet, but if someone wasn't feeling well but wanted to try to sleep we used a big pasta pot.

Nope. Ugh.

As a child we had a bucket. The puke bucket. I don’t remember it being used for anything else.

When dd was a young child we just used a small trash can lined with a couple plastic grocery bags. Toss the bags, rinse out the can just in case and all good.

Ice cream bucket for us too! Both growing up and currently with my kids.

For everyone who is still using ice-cream buckets etc, you can easily buy these types of vomit bags
That's what we use at work. Small enough to keep close by in a bedside table etc. and you don't have to empty them, you just twist it around a few times at the top, and there's a notch in the plastic ring at the top that you put the twisted part into, and it seals the bag and you can just throw it out.

I don’t think I’ve personally ever used anything but a trash can on the rare occasion it was needed.

I did keep one of those plastic ‘bed bath’ tubs from the hospital when one of my boys was born. I used that when they were little and sick. When they were too young it simply didn’t work to make them stand in front of a toilet.

workingclassdog I’m sure there was quite a thread about this exact thing some years back? Where’s a spread sheet keeper when you need one? 😄

I don't understand how puking in a bowl would work with the relative shallowness and curved sides. Wouldn't it slide up and out? Ew.

DS(16) has puked maybe five times in his life. I can remember one time we put a Home Depot bucket by his bed because he threw up once in the toilet, and then was going to sleep. Just precautionary - he didn't get sick again.

I imagine we had a bucket when I was a kid too but I don't remember. I'm sure we didn't use anything food was used for.

I shouldn’t have opened this thread as there is currently a trash can with a bag next to my bed. It lives there for a couple days after my weekly shot and occasionally when my body just feels like it. I don’t remember a puke bowl or bucket from when I was younger.

I had a small plastic trash can that was used to vomit in.

I was never much of a puker, so I don't think in terms of a particular bowl used. I only remember getting really sick as a kid once, and that particular time there was no time to even get out of the bed. I'm sure there were some other times, but must not have been too many.

Now, with my kids, it just depended on what was handy. Yes, if we just set something beside them "just in case" it was typically the popcorn bowl, because it's lightweight and easy to hold. In an emergency, it was whatever was handy. But both of them were always pretty good about getting to the toilet - DS was almost obsessive about it.

And I am not a germaphobe at all - I mean, I am sanitary, but it's a balance with practicality. Like, I have cats so despite my best efforts, they do get on the counters sometimes. But then I wipe them down with bleach regularly and before I cook. I still keep the cats, I just use practical sense. (Of course they do get chastised if they get up there, and I make them get down! But I don't freak out about it.)