I am a really fairly relaxed housekeeper, but every single night I scrub my bathroom sink, faucet, shelf, and surrounding walls. Because every single night they are covered with dried-up drops of toothpaste. I’m unclear on how this keeps happening. Does my family stand three feet away from the drain when they spit? Do they actually aim at the walls, instead of the inside of the sink? Do they spit into their hands, then shake them like a wet dog? Do they spit onto the dog herself, prompting her to perform the shake-n-spray maneuver?
You can buy tooth-whitening toothpaste, organic toothpaste, enamel-shielding toothpaste, tartar-protecting toothpaste, and mouthwash-infused toothpaste. You can buy toothpaste in flavors from watermelon to bubble gum to vanilla mint (um, gross).
What you cannot buy is toothpaste that dries clear when it ends up on your dark green walls. Somebody needs to get on that.
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I think you’re onto something there.
Ditto. Our bathroom mirrors are clean for the 5 hours no one is home. Once the toothbrushes come out, we need a Costco-sized Windex. You’ve got yourself a fine idea here.
My dad has a sheet of plexiglass that he puts behind the sink in front of the mirror to keep it from getting splattered. And I wonder why I’m a little weird sometimes . . .
Oh! Is *that* why it’s there?! I had no idea. Always thought he didn’t have a better place to put the plexiglass.
The only place with its very own sponge and Fantastik is the kids’ bathroom sink. Criminy, who knew you had to teach kids how to aim spit? Pee in a toilet, yeah, but how to spit into a sink? Who knew?
TESTIFY, sista!
This is why Tacy and CJ take turns scrubbing their bathroom sinks, counter, and mirror. This is also why I may siphon funds from their piggy banks to pay for toothpaste – giant globs of it smeared everywhere except on their teeth.
So here’s the sad thing about our house. The kids’ toothpaste? I don’t find it in the sink. It’s the grown up toothpaste that I find, and I rinse the sink when I’m done brushing. So.
I will say that as much as I miss my daughters now that they are away (I do…I really do) I don’t miss this! Why is it universal and why don’t they outgrow it?