I am not going to be the one to toss the tooth paste this time!

[JOERM]

I am always the one who makes the bathroom executive decision when to toss the empty tooth paste tube. My wife will always manage to squeez out just enough to apply to her tooth brush. I hate having to constaintly work the paste in the tube up to the outlet to get that last bit and save hundereds of dollors over the years. So this time I am going to just hang out and see how long it will take my wife to give in and call it good and toss the damn thing in the trash. However, I may have my own new tooth paste stashed to avoid testing my decision.

I just got through an audit here at work so this is where I came afterwards to vent. Strange huh?

Joe

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Hear good tooth paste joke.
The maufacture execs where having a meeting and CEO depanded that sales increase 10% and wanted to know how the team was going to accomplish his goals.

The junior engineer from back of the room said. Increase the size of the hole 10% everyone just fills the brush with paste makes no diffenence how thick

Great idea

 

[Wheelgunner840]

Keeping a secret stash is a good idea!

WG840

 

[Jack Flash]

If you can't vent here, where can you vent?

Same thing with my wife. Toothpaste fumes are all I can get, and she still will not toss it.

As a side issue: does your wife put the cap back on the toothpaste crooked, if at all? How hard is it to replace a <span class="ev_code_RED">@#%*&^@!</span> cap the right way?

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Originally posted by Wheelgunner840:
Keeping a secret stash is a good idea!

WG840

Yes indeed!!!!!!!!!!

I've solved that little problem-separate toothpaste. My wife uses Crest and I use Arm&Hammer-She buys hers and I buy mine.
This works out well with drawers too-stops a lot of fighting

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Women toothpast caps, toilet seats we all know

But whats with the little bars of soap you can't use. I am told "They are for company" What the heck can't win

 

[Clayton]

If it gets low enough, go in with a knife and slice open the tube and scoop out what you need. I bet she'll figure it out.

I did this out of necessity in college.

 

[Wayne02]

Originally posted by Jack Flash:
As a side issue: does your wife put the cap back on the toothpaste crooked, if at all? How hard is it to replace a <span class="ev_code_RED">@#%*&^@!</span> cap the right way?

This thread has great potential...

Yes, both my wife and my son have, 'can't put the cap back on-itis'.
Coffee creamer container
Peanut butter container
Protein powder container

Anything with threads you can just about be sure that the lid is all jacked-up on it when they get through with it. Either the lid is cross threaded or it is just set on top of the contain with no threads engaged at all. Nothing like picking up one of those huge containers of protein powder by the lid only to have it disengage and spill powder all over everything.

 

[OFT]

Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:
[I've solved that little problem-separate toothpaste. My wife uses Crest and I use Arm&Hammer-She buys hers and I buy mine.
This works out well with drawers too-stops a lot of fighting

Yes, my wife gets angry when I try to wear her drawers too.

 

[JOERM]

Originally posted by OFT:

Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:
[I've solved that little problem-separate toothpaste. My wife uses Crest and I use Arm&Hammer-She buys hers and I buy mine.
This works out well with drawers too-stops a lot of fighting

Yes, my wife gets angry when I try to wear her drawers too.

That's funny, so does mine!

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by Wayne02:
Anything with threads you can just about be sure that the lid is all jacked-up on it when they get through with it. Either the lid is cross threaded or it is just set on top of the contain with no threads engaged at all. Nothing like picking up one of those huge containers of protein powder by the lid only to have it disengage and spill powder all over everything.

That has happened to me!

She will not change, no matter how much I rant and rave, so I have had to teach myself to never, ever pick anything up by the lid.

 

[scoutsdad]

Heck, my wife won't even share a bathroom with me. I don't know why I shower once a week

 

[Bullet Bob]

Now is the time to have fun with your wife. Find a small food baster, buy a spare tube of the same brand of toothpaste, and add a little every day to the old tube.

Once she's befuddled by that, let that tube go empty, and start drawing out a little every day when you get a do get a new tube. Make sure she sees you brush so she doesn't accuse you of wasting it.

Just because you love em' doesn't mean you can't amuse yourself.

 

[JOERM]

Originally posted by Bullet Bob:
Now is the time to have fun with your wife. Find a small food baster, buy a spare tube of the same brand of toothpaste, and add a little every day to the old tube.

Once she's befuddled by that, let that tube go empty, and start drawing out a little every day when you get a do get a new tube. Make sure she sees you brush so she doesn't accuse you of wasting it.

Just because you love em' doesn't mean you can't amuse yourself.

never thought of that but I just might consider it. Maybe too much work though.

 

[Sven]

I found out a few years ago that my wife was having a "war" against me. It started off with the "hanger" war. It was getting harder and harder for me to find an empty hanger on my side of the closet. I left an empty one there when I got a clean shirt this morning, where is it??? When I started to find shirts not on hangers and held in place by the shirts next to it, I finally figured it out. She then admitted to the hanger war. The toothpaste war I soon figured out after that. It was a game to her, so I just played along, but that was one war I always won. She accused me of not brushing my teeth! That graduated to the bath soap war. I hate using slivers of soap, so I gave in quickly on that one. I'm quick to get a fresh bar and "weld" the old bar to it. We have recently started using the same hair shampoo. I noticed today she got out a new bottle -- I knew she wasn't going to be able to get another drop out of the old one

!

We just keep having fun!

 

[ChinaSeaSailor]

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[K.38]

Oldie but a goodie. I heard this the other day at work.

Lady talking to a guy from KY. I hear the toothbrush was invented in KY. The guy from KY says why yes it was. The lady said yeah and if it would have invented anywhere else it would have been called a teethbrush.

 

[Jack Flash]

I'm quick to get a fresh bar and "weld" the old bar to it.

I do that too. It's much easier than saving up the slivers and then trying to re-mold them into a "new" bar.

 

[truckemup97]

Originally posted by CAJUNLAWYER:

I've solved that little problem-separate toothpaste. My wife uses Crest and I use Arm&Hammer-She buys hers and I buy mine.

It took a year of marriage and many fights for us to figure out the idea of separate toothpaste/shampoo/soap, etc.

I would buy Colgate, she would holler. She would buy Crest, I would holler. She didn't replace the cap sometimes, and was a "middle squeezer".

If only the fights were so simple now.

 

[Memphis]

.....and I don't like it when my wife wets her toothbrush FIRST and then applys the paste. Then when I am ready to use the tube..it's all wet on the end. I like to apply the paste, then wet it.
Now..I feel better (even though I burned some bandwidth on Lee's site for such a trivial matter

)

Roger