Where was the rectal thermometer kept?

Over the years I have heard and seen the thermometers being stored in a lot of places. Some seemed more popular than others. Where was yours kept as a child and what was the most memorable place you've come across?

Growing up, mine was always kept in the top right-hand drawer of the main bathroom's vanity, it was usually towards the back next to a travel size jar of Vaseline. The most memorable location I saw was in a friend's younger sister's bedroom on her book shelf stuck down in a jar of Vaseline. Almost didn't see it sitting there... It was there somewhere on that shelf for several years and then it disappeared when she was about 7.

My mother kept it on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom with a small jar of Vaseline behind it. That same shelf also had a big jar of glycerin suppositories on it and, when I was in my teens, a package of Dulcolax suppositories. Several packages of laxatives including Ex-Lax, Feen-a-mint and later Dulcolax tablets were on the shelf below. All of these got used on me quite frequently whenever she thought I needed them.

They were usually kept in medicine cabinets, linen closets, or night tables. I've actually seen them on the living room table, next to the Vaseline jar, when visiting friends, even during my early teens, which was a clear signal that they were being used. That's how I discovered that one of my girlfriends in the 7th grade had her temperature taken rectally. She even confessed that she hated it, because it hurt.

Medicine cabnet

My mother kept a rectal thermometer along with a jar of vaseline in her bedside table. It was in the open box, and always ready for use. There was also a black thermometer case, which was used when traveling.

When really small mom kept the rectal thermomter in draw in diaper changer table as we were older medicine cabinet with Vaseline.

When I had my son was the change table then moved them to top dresser drawer.

My mom always kept the rectal thermometer in the cabinet that was in the kitchen along with the oral meds. I did not see any vaseline at all nearby but, my mom always put a sleeve over the thermometer when taking my rectal temperature. When I did not look good, she was off to the kitchen to get the thermometer.

Mom kept the thermometers for my brother and I, in the cabinet over phone table in the kitchen, for many years. Then later on she moved them to a cabinet in the guest bathroom, over the toilet.

In a drawer built below the sink, in the master bathroom. Can't recall it being stored anywhere else, or where it had been in the previous house.

The thermometer was kept in a black case in the medicine cabinet. The vaseline was visibly displayed on the bathroom counter. If I was sick, both would be transported to my room and kept on the night stand. If I had friends over visiting me, when they looked over at the night stand, it would remove any doubt how I got my temperature taken.

It was on the top shelf of a closet in the bathroom near my bedroom, and was stored with the oral thermometer that we had, too.

Ours used to be in the medicine cabinet in the bathroom.. Likewise at friends' houses. Made it easy to snoop for interesting stuff! Kinda old-fashioned really, you never see medicine cabinets anymore. Do you guys still have one?

When it wasn’t in my own puckered ass, it was steeping in some other kids’ butts, or in it’s holder in the doctor’s exam room, soaking in isopropyl alcohol, awaiting it’s next greased rectal high-dive.

Medicine chest along with the Vaseline same shelf if I remember right.

In My house the Medicine Cabinet.

In our house the thermometer was kept in our parents bathroom in a cabinet

In my childhood I remember the rectal thermometer was kept on the top shelf of the medicine cabinet with a jar of vaseline right next to it.

Medicine cabinet for me

Under my pillow or on my night stand table.

In my grandma house it was stored in the second floor bathroom, I’m remember because I would sneaked into the guest room where I was sleeping to take my temp in my butt at night. the floor in that peace would make so much noise! I did it a couple of time the last time I got caught sneaking it out by my grandma and she made me go over her laps for the first reading and in the diaper position for the second one! I was 14 at the time I was so ashamed but it was so nice .

In the medicine cabinet in my parents' sleeping room.

My parents kept the clinical thermometer in the living room cupboard. I have several thermometers. There are some in the medicine cabinet in the bedroom and 2 of them are in my bedside table.

At home it was always kept in the medicine chest. I keep one in my bedroom night stand and one in my bathroom medicine chest and of course in with my medical gear.

I had a friend who used to take my temp and he always kept the thermometers in their respective cases in the drawer on my nightstand so that they were right there whenever he’d sit on the edge of the bed and put me over his knee to take my temperature

My parents kept a couple thermometers (I think they first bought a glass mercury one, then a glass non mercury one; the electronic one did not come until much later) in their sheaths in the medicine cabinet.

When we were little there was I think also Vaseline stored, unsure where exactly. I later searched the medicine cabinet a bit and could not find it. I suspect mom discarded it after she stopped inserting the thermometer herself into my little brother (we were asked to take our rectal temperatures ourselves after I think age 6, and for that we did not use Vaseline).

When I was younger living at home it was in the medicine cabinet. Now it’s in my drawer next to my bed.

I found ours stuck in the top cabinet drawer inside the bathroom. This was after I realized that rectal temperatures, going over Mom's lap and enemas turned me on around 6. I started looking around and found it under the Rexall closed top enema bag, along with the red rubber tubing and black infant, adult, and douche nozzles. The enema equipment is long gone, but still have that triangular shaped rectal thermometer.

Thermometers, oral and rectal, lived in a bathroom drawer when my husband and I got married. However, when I was recovering from reconstructive surgery after the accident and having home care, Angie the visiting nurse kept a few medical supplies on the dresser across from my bed. She placed our rectal thermometer in a glass holder (given to me from my childhood), packets of lubricant, alcohol wipes and tissues, even a covered tray with syringes for giving injections – and they were clearly visible. Anyone who visited could see everything, and I was sure they could tell I was getting my temperature taken in my bottom. For a Self conscious 22-year-old, that was embarrassing. Whenever I was having visitors, including my girlfriends at the time, I asked my husband to cover the tray with a towel. I still think about that time, it was kind of silly doing that.

The rectal thermomters in my house growing up was always kept in my parents bathroom.

It was kept in the bathroom cabinet…