Sharing toothbrush - is this weird??

[CassandrasCastle]

OK, it's actually an electric toothbrush with different heads (we've moved to a another country for a few months and one got left behind accidentally). My dp maintains that the little coloured bands at the bottom of the brush distinguish one person's brush head from another,and that it's normal to share the electric handle, making sure your own head is on...

Is this normal?? Do families share electric toothbrushes like that? I am certainly not familiar with the custom 🙈

@ladybee28 probably! It's always the quiet ones!

Not normal here.

[quote ladybee28]@Thatbliddywoman I googled it!

And it's funny you should bring that up... I have an ongoing idle fantasy that the Ick Brigade on Mumsnet (the ones who wash their towels after every use and shudder at the thought of someone else's toothbrush) all have wild sex dungeons in their houses filled with cattle prods and splash sheets...[/quote]
We can but dream 😂

We have our own but if there’s an emergency (ie you find yours out of charge or god forbid it gives up halfway through) we just borrow the other persons handle until the next time we brush our teeth!

We have 2 - one for us, one for the kids. Also handy when one of us goes away.

You should always wash the head separately from the base anyhow. The microbe growing gunk in the gap - yeukkkkkk. Mind you every so often DH uses my toothbrush head - he gets mouth ulcers and my spit has the magic ulcer healing properties... (we do generally share some bodily fluids, so where is the harm?)

I’m holding my hand up to being totally abnormal here. My DH and I have separate ones. He dies t clean orchid brush very well and leaves toothpaste sludge all over the base part. I mind it terribly manky. I prefer mine, I rinse it and wipe the handle part dry after use. I then leave it Upright to ensure the brush part dries. Whereas he’s happy to leave his bristle down on the side of the sink, then shave getting little beard bits and shaving foam all over his brush (and handle).