How I got into reusable menstrual products

I'd like to talk about my discovery of the world reusable menstrual products and to explain why I decided to give up old plasticky (and smelly I'd say!) pads and tampons switching to menstrual cups and cloth pads.

I've been using disposable pads and tampons basically since ever, I started using pads then after about a year I switched to tampons and I must say that I never had any problem with them (I was still virgin), I know some women do but for me they always worked alright even if frankly I never truly liked them because of their tendency to dry up the vaginal mucoses resulting quite uncomfortable, especially the insertion. 
But we didn't have any other options at that time and surely for me tampons sounds great compared to bulky, plasticky, sweaty pads. 
Then it was about two years ago when I was wandering on Facebook and I came across a picture of an object totally alien to me,

About me and this Blog

Welcome

This is my first post so I'm going to introduce myself and to explain the purpose of this blog, even though the clue is in the title i guess ;) 

I was borned in sunny Italy in 1979 but I've lived in the North East coast of England for the last seven years, please be kind and pardon me if my english is not perfect being not my native language.

I'm passionate about life in general but above all I like reading, web activities, crafting, cross-stitching, ecology and I'm a menstrual cups and cloth pads enthusiast.

I moved in England because of my job and because I really wanted to make a change in my life, I easily get bored.and I like experimenting new things and having new experiences. That's probably one of the few reasons who got me in this blog adventure.