I dislike sensory overload when I go shopping. I get particularly overwhelmed by all the bright and shiny choices on the shelves when I try to buy things like toothpaste. With all the dazzling promises and ever changing packaging, I’m never really sure if I’m buying the same brand I previously purchased. All I care about is that whatever dentifrice I choose must sufficiently clean what teeth I have left, not leave a weird aftertaste in my mouth, and not be overly gimmicky. For example, I try to avoid the brands with minature breath strips floating redundantly in oddly flavored, neon colored, glitter laden translucent goo, promising fireworks and ticker tape parades in your mouth while whitening your teeth so fiercely they gain an icy blue tinge. No, my life isn’t yet so dull that I have to squeeze two minutes of oral excitement out of a tube, especially after wasting ten minutes trying to decide what to buy each time I run out. Oh well, I suppose it could be worse… much worse…
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I get overwhelmed with that too. If I don’t know exactly what I’m getting I stare at the shelf like a deer in the headlights. I hope that eventually, while I’m standing there, someone will tell me what to buy. Now I just stick with Tom’s of Maine…. which all of a sudden has four flavors ack!
Yay, a comment! I like being reminded that I’m not blogging in a void. And, I was just reading that other than the fluoride boost (and possibly whitening power), toothpaste isn’t even necessary except for aesthetic purposes!
I tried Tom’s of Maine. My breath smelled like a hippie for a week, so I went back to Colgate Total with Whitening. Because my teeth are black. So black.
By the by; Colgate-Palmolive owns Tom’s of Maine now. Ooops. So much for non-corporate commerce.
What a shame. About your teeth -and- Tom’s! Hehe.
I’m still giggling over the whole “neon colored, glitter laden translucent goo” bit. And really, who wants a ticker tape parade in their mouth?
Exactly! There are so many better things to put in your mouth…
oh crap, have to tell my wife about Colgate owning Toms. Maybe we’ll just start grinding our own toothpaste. I’d like to mix up Guiness and Milky Way bars and … and tooth whitener.
Sounds like a delightful idea! My mother used to just use baking soda and salt.
Coincidetally, I have just discovered that Aquafresh makes a toothpaste “with Micro-Active Foaming Action” called EXTREME CLEAN (”now with More Gel”) in EMPOWERMINT Plus Whitening flavor that promises to leave your “whole mouth energized with an icy cool, sparkling feeling”. The perfect example of what I was bitching about in this post.
How did I come to know of this, you may ask? Apparently my roommate has a pet peeve about me leaving the toothpaste he bought for us to share right side up (based on the label orientation) rather than cap side down, even though the squeeze bottle is fairly full. I hadn’t noticed I was doing this, or that he had a preference. To me something like this is on the same level as which way the toilet paper roll is facing… who cares? Anyway, rather than just asking me to pay attention to how I return the toothpaste to it’s rightful place in the medicine cabinet, he went out and bought me a tube of this Aquafresh mouthparty so I wouldn’t even have to touch the other stuff. Heh.
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Silly Nyomi. It’s common knowledge that toilet paper that hangs so that the paper is rolling down TOWARDS you (instead of rolling down away from you) cleans your bottom better. Yes.
Okay, so I guess I’m not the only whack job when it comes to how the toilet paper should hang! hahaha. I must have the toilet paper rolling towards me. Of course, rarely do i use toilet paper, but that’s the way it must be. My other half is forever refilling the wipies container the wrong way too. They must pull towards me, not away from me — he never seems to get that right. And toothpaste just sucks! I completely understand your annoyance, girl. I use Viadent Advanced Care to kill the germs that are at the gumline and slightly below — expensive stuff, tho. $5 a tube.
Are you sure everyone knows what wipies are? * grin * At first glance, I though, “I can’t believe he wrote that he doesn’t use toilet paper, people will think he wipes his ass with his hands!” Hahaha! It figures that my post with the most comments to date would be about toothpaste, of all things.
Why not just wait till toothpaste goes on sale and then buy six tubes of what you like? That way, you at least delay the irritation of having to deal with
“neon colored, glitter laden translucent goo”.
Thanks Susan, that’s a good suggestion. Unfortunately I have a poor ability to plan ahead when it comes to things of lesser importance.