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CPW: Toothpaste

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edited March 2014 in Getting Pregnant
How do you squeeze your toothpaste?

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CPW: Toothpaste 49 votes

haphazardly from the middle
59% 29 votes
neatly from the bottom up
34% 17 votes
it's a pump, so no squeezing involved
0% 0 votes
I don't use toothpaste (and will explain below)
2% 1 vote
SS
4% 2 votes

Re: CPW: Toothpaste

  • From the middle...but once the tube is "halved", I put one of those crank thingys on the bottom to move all the toothpaste up.
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  • From the middle. Then I fight with the bastard when we get to the end.
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  • A real attempt is made to squeeze from the bottom. But it ends up being in the middle.

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  • Me? Always from the bottom. DH and DSS? Haphazardly from the middle. I don't know why I bother.
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  • I squeeze from the middle then get pissy with myself when I have to force it out of the bottom when the tube runs low.

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  • On a daily basis, I just grab and squeeze wherever. However, I frequently 'clean it up' by pushing everything up from the bottom when I have time.





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  • brij2006 said:

    Don't you dare squeeze my tube of toothpaste in the middle.  I'll kick your ass till you fix that shit.

     

    Simmer down, Killer! It's just toothpaste! ;)

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  • RockABye said:
    brij2006 said:

    Don't you dare squeeze my tube of toothpaste in the middle.  I'll kick your ass till you fix that shit.

     

    Simmer down, Killer! It's just toothpaste! ;)

    Haha.  Ask H about my toothpaste debacle.  He now has his own tube.  My OCD kicks in way too much.

    This is what his looks like. It has to go in a different drawer than mine, because it bothers me so much.  
     (the top one) 

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    He also thinks it's a funny game to take the clip off the end of mine and make it look like this, then put it back in the drawer.

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    brij2006 said:
    RockABye said:
    brij2006 said:

    Don't you dare squeeze my tube of toothpaste in the middle.  I'll kick your ass till you fix that shit.

     

    Simmer down, Killer! It's just toothpaste! ;)

    Haha.  Ask H about my toothpaste debacle.  He now has his own tube.  My OCD kicks in way too much.

    This is what his looks like. It has to go in a different drawer than mine, because it bothers me so much.  
     (the top one) 

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    He also thinks it's a funny game to take the clip off the end of mine and make it look like this, then put it back in the drawer.


    I like your DH. ;) 

    We both have our own tubes too but that's only because I am very picky and only like ONE brand of toothpaste and he likes different ones

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  • I use toothy tabs from Lush. Pop one in my mouth, chew and then brush.
  • Always the end!! I think DH squeezes randomly though. Some mornings the tube will be all jacked up, and I'm like, "how the heck did it get like that? I didn't leave it that way!"
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  • I'm with @LooneyLife. I don't get the logistics of squeezing from the end? I've always gotten a good grip on the middle and then clean up/clip it as I go. 
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  • I used to be a haphazard squeezer but then I realized that it seemed like the tube lasted longer when squeezing from the bottom.

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  • Haphazard squeezer. I only "fix" it a few times before going to buy a new one. We probably throw out an entire tube's worth of toothpaste a year. Meh.
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  • Haphazard, which is funny because I'm very OCD about most other things, and this is one of the only things DH is OCD about. So of course it drives him nuts. ;)

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