Toothpaste Poll (lighthearted)

[Olivetree615]

Hi all, couple of drinks in and want to settle a debate between DP and I.
AIBU to think squeezing the toothpaste from the middle of the tube is worse than squeezing from the bottom but leaving the cap open?

Only ever get the pump ones, sorry!

Squeeze from the bottom and put the cap back on. No other option.

Aintnothingbutaheartache - That actually may be something I should look in to! Thanks

I'm with john.
nothing worse than tubes squeezed wrongly, i.e. from the middle.

I am a total toothpaste heathen. Squeeze from the middle AND leave the lid open!

As long as the cap is left on so it doesn't get all gooey if sooner find it squeezed from the middle. I hate gooey dry-ish toothpaste which has to be removed before you can squeeze more out.

Oh goodness! Squeezing from the middle drives me mad! It feels like such a waste of good paste!

Dh and I have always had separate tubes, so the argument has never arisen...

@sprout I think you may have found the secret of a happy marriage

Both are necessary Tbh.

Although if it had to be one or the other, I would rather the cap was on as the dried bits are wasted. I can sort the wrong squeezedness out.

Only because we can't agree on the toothpaste

I’m liking the responses I think we’re both guilty tbh! I like the idea of having different tubes/buying a pump one!!

Leaving the cap off is a thing??? Why would anyone do that on purpose?

The middle squeezing can be easily remedied but I hate dried out toothpaste at the opening.

Dh squeezes the middle and twists it, drives me up the wall. and surely must be considered as unreasonable behaviour

I go from the top and then work down and push more up.

Well I think I do.

I won't even share my tube of toothpaste! Worse is the person who hold their wet dripping toothbrush to the tube getting it all wet and contaminated with germs. I point the tube down to the brush
Ugh sharing.

I have a beaker with MY toothpaste brush, and electric toothbrush, and my husband has his. We both squeeze from the bottom and put the lid on. I don't like the idea of the toothpaste touching his brush and then mine.

I squeeze from the middle.

Doesn't matter now. Tubes are plastic. In the old days, when tubes were metal, squeezing from middle meant when you came to get more toothpaste from the bottom, the tube would crack from all the flexing, and you'd end up with toothpaste leaking everywhere. That was a row really worth having!

I can’t do leaving the cap off anything...!

@ozymandiusking you don't like toothpaste touching both brushes, do you kiss your husband? With tongues and lips touching, seems bizarre to me.

Makes no difference with modern plastic tubes.

Metal tubes had to be squeezed properly.

What MeerHintofPandiculation said, middle squeezing no longer a problem with plastic tubes. Leaving the top off, however is a capital offence.
I not only have my own tube of toothpaste, I have my own bathroom. The secret of a happy marriage

If you both have your own tube of toothpaste, how do you get to play Toothpaste Chicken?!

Last time I conceded I couldn't get another blob out of the annihilated tube, and thus I lost, to DH's glee.

(I got my own back by putting a very cold teaspoon down his neck when he wasn't expecting it, so we're all level now... )

I squeeze from the middle and leave the cap off most of the time. I live alone so I don't have to answer to anybody.