To sterilise new toothbrushes?

[Petsinmypudenda]

Actually i know i an not being unreasonable. I don't know what's been done to it before it goes into its box.

Husband says its weird but no its not, he is just a filthy minge

I am going to buy some this weekend and give a go. Tampons drive me mad as well. Thanks for advice madhouse

kveta I just gave a loud snort in the office at the thought of the toothbrush being used to make offensive religious imagery prior to packing. Comedy gold.

YABU. Do you sterilize everything you put in your mouth? I was thinking about fruits, but yeah, that too

Toothbrush thing: Anything could of touched it - thats the point. Chemicals,people, the floor, ghosts,Wrackspurt, who knows. so every three month when i swap my toothbrush i boil it a bit first to make sure its clean.
LeQueen: My dentist is very funny and gives out drugs like smarties, the equipment could be wiped across the road first as long as i get drugs.

You need to buy an autoclave. Boiling it in water will br doing fuck all against the really nasty stuff.

And storing your damp (slightly wiped on an unclean towel) is minging. Bacteria will fester in that lovely damp, warm environment. THAT is minge.

This whole thread I'd hilarious -but I think Haberdashery's SIL wins the prize for being most bonkers with the slippers thing - insania indeed although I do feel bad if I go outside in my slippers then go sit on the sofa with them on .

"I'm absolutely astonished that it would even occur to someone not to do this."

I'm absolutely astonished that it would even occur to someone to do this.

What Bunbaker said.

Have only read the OP's posts, but I don't believe her. Boiling a new toothbrush for five minutes would melt the bristles. don't ask me how I know this

The thought never occured to me until I had a half full steriliser and wondered what else I could put in (it had bath toys in to see if it shifted/stopped the black mould).

and did it cure the mould?

Only read the first few messages but you realise you're bloody mad?

If it had been anywhere that bad it would have stuff on it. That you could see. Or at least taste.

And anyway don't you spit out the water afterwards? that means you're probably not ingesting much of what was on it, anyway.

,Yabu never would I even consider sterilising a new toothbrush you must have way too much time on your hands

This thread is hysterical!

I have been known to run toothbrushes that have fallen into the sink or on the side under the hot tap for a few minutes.

I would throw away mine if I suspected anyone of using it. In fact, I used to store mine away from my family 'just in case' when I was a teenager, but I trust DH and DS enough to share a toothbrush mug with them! When DS was younger and had a friend over, if I remembered, I would hide the toothbrushes or put them out of reach, 'just in case' the friend might mess about with them!
Ditto if it falls on the floor. Oh and I use sandwich bags to wrap each toothbrush separately when travelling. But sterilising a brand new boxed toothbrush? That's a step too far, even for me! It's probably the only time your toothbrush is ever truly clean, OP. But, if it makes you feel better, YANBU to carry on.

I was thinking if boiling didn't melt the toothbrush it would definitely leach lots of nasty chemicals out of the plastics. Dioxins, anyone?

I forgot about this thread!

It doesn't melt if you boil it.

In true AIBU i am refusing to believe i am BU

All you minges are wrong!

Is it wrong I now want to go and boil a toothbrush just to test what happens to it?

Its not knowing what has been done to my toothbrush before it get put in its box and sent to the shop.

I now have a mental picture of everyday life in the Toothbrush Factory:

Thousands of toothbrushes (or should that be teethbrushes?) wend their way along the factory conveyor belt. They all appear cleaner than the mouths that they will eventually encounter. But to ensure a decent level of paranoia can be spread throughout the nation, each brush has already been used to clean under the rim in the works lavatories. And before they are boxed up ready for sale, each brush is passed to Typhoid Fred who gleefully gives them a good gobbing on. Only then is the production line concluded...

Go do it

dont put it on high though, i do it as More as a bubbly simmer
(toothbrush jacuzzi) for about 4-5 minsish

YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS!

(you might want to boil those hands too)

I think the OP is just winding us up. No sane person would really do this.

The OP can carry on winding us up as long as she likes, it is hilarious!