To expect guests to bring toothpaste?

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Please settle a debate, all the guests we have from dh side (family and friends it seems) never bring their own toothpaste to use when they visit. Never been an issue with my side of the family. (Geographical thing maybe?)

Me and dh share toothpaste but I find it weird that people don’t bring their own to use when they visit and we have to share ours with the guests?

I have no idea why it irritates me so much, but just seems weird and kinda germy
Do you all take toothpaste when you go and stay somewhere?

I think if they are close enough to be guests in your own house why would you begrudge a bit of toothpaste?

I think I live on a different planet to some people.

It wouldn't occur to me to think sharing toothpaste is gross, any more than sharing door handles or a pack of cornflakes or anything else. It's not like you suck the paste out of the tube. The end of it doesn't touch your toothbrush. Even if it did, you won't drop dead ffs.

We have one tube of toothpaste in our house open at a time, if I go away I won't take it and leave DH without.

We're all a festering mass of bacteria, there's absolutely no point trying to live some kind of sterile life. Unless you have a contagious condition, just stop being so anal.

I always take my own toothpaste, toiletries etc, and assumed everyone did until mn. I would never even think of using my host’s shower gel etc. It somehow feels wrong. It’s not to do with hygiene, i’m a slattern by mn’s standards. It just doesn’t sit right with me.

I have a pump dispenser in each bathroom. I can’t see a problem with people using that.

You should take all your consumable toiletries bar loo roll!

See that's possibly manageable if traveling in the same country (though still a faff) but if someone is flying with hand luggage it's so awkward to have to bring shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste as well as any liquid makeup, moisturizer etc and bear in mind some airports are really strict about all liquids having to fit into one tiny see through bag!

Yes, I know there are shops but I wouldn't want my guests to feel obliged to find a Boots or make a trip to the supermarket as soon as they arrive and I very much appreciate them returning the favour when we visit them. I can't believe people begrudge their guests a few pence worth of toiletries .

I keep a little tube of toothpaste in my wash bag, but that's only for if there isn't a main paste available. It's pretty precious not to share a bit of toothpaste, if you ask me!

What a weird thing to get hung up about. Some guests bring their own, some share ours. Equally if I stay somewhere else and forget my preferred toothpaste I would just use whatever was in the bathroom or ask to borrow some. Same with cleanser/shampoo etc. One friend says she loves staying at our holiday home because there are always different toiletries to try out. I can’t see it’s any germier using the same hand soap or pouring milk from a communal jug.

Toothbrushes I get, but toothpaste

I’m a toothpaste thief when visiting friends and family, I confess everything. I also use their toilet roll.

I’d take my toothbrush but probably not my toothpaste. I’m happy to share my toothpaste.

Guest bathroom has: toothpaste, cheap brushes, hand soap, liquid soap, shpwer gel and shampoo and conditioner, sanitary towels, shaving gel, razors, paracetamol, shower cap.

Sometimes used, sometimes not. It's called looking after your guests.

I use corsodyl so always take my own in a well stocked washbag. But I am fussy.

Why wouldn't people want to share toothpaste? Do you imagine your guests are sucking it out of the tube, after licking the toilet bowl?

Yabu purely because today I found out my daughter has been sharing my toothbrush for god knows how long so count your lucky stars

I don't understand how using your toothpaste is unhygienic, surely they just put it on their toothbrush. If I was going to a hotel I would take my own toothpaste but not staying with family and I wouldn't wcowct anyone staying with me to bring their own toothpaste either.

I would never even think of using my host’s shower gel etc

As a host I provide is especially for guests to use!

Why are you bothered???
And why on earth is it "gross" to open a toothpaste tube for a couple of months?
You really need to get out more op

But you don't rub your toothbrush on the tube In fact I don't actually touch bristles with my toothpaste tube, just with the paste that has been squeezed out. I always take a little tube when I visit people though as I like a particular type of toothpaste!

I take my own, I travel a lot for work so I have a stash of mini tubes.

But anyone I know well enough to stay over in my home is more than welcome to a squirt of my aquafresh.

I always take my own and wouldn't want guests to share mine - the tube can easily touch the toothbrush.

It's not at all like sharing shower gel or shampoo - more like sharing your deodorant with someone!

Omg I am so at the ‘it’s okay to use other people toothpaste’ I can’t even read all comments.

I can’t even share a toothpaste with DH & DC, we all have our own. How do people who claim they don’t pass their toothbrush bristles over the toothpaste tube get the toothpaste onto their brush?-REALISTICALLY

I lived in a family of 5, often stayed over (weekly) with childhood friend, have a family of 4 myself, have nephews&nieces staying, yet I have NEVER seen anyone -outside of a weird toothpaste add- not touch their bristles to the top of a toothbrush tube/pump.EVER. Add a few housemates and friends on over the years, so, having watched multiple people over many (35+ ) years applying toothpaste I can’t think of a single one that didn’t touch the tube with their bristles. Ewwww! I do not want guests using mine.

I would happily put out a rarely, been open too long, tube for them to use because if they cant be bothered to bring one-that’s their tough luck-but they won’t be dragging their slobbery, germ filled bristles over my sensitive toothpaste thank you very much!

Are the people that are all germ phobic and weird about a bit of toothpaste sharing with friends and family the same people that won't have a bathroom bin in case anyone uses it?

I just pack a sponge bag whenever I'm away from home. Toothpaste and toothbrush go in automatically. If I forgot my toothpaste I'd ask the hosts - the only thing that would bother me would be that I don't like the taste or that they have a type of paste I don't like eg:whitening.
If someone was staying here and wanted to use ours then that's fine.

I genuinely did not know that some people wouldn't think to bring toothpaste when staying in someone else's house! I would hate to use someone else's toothpaste and hate it if someone used mine.... I'm going to grab some mini tubes in the dentist for the future!

Good grief, people are absolute loons .

It would never ever occur to me to take toothpaste to someone else’s house. Never in a million years.

Don’t know, have always put a new tube out for guests (and they mostly use it).