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?

Toothpaste has a use by date
WTAF
This thread could become the weirdest Mumsnet thread ever.

I always take a wash bag with all my toiletries including toothpaste
If I had forgotten anything I would ask my hosts.
When we have guests they have their own bathrooms with toiletries. If they needed toothpaste I would happily provide a squeeze from my own personal toothpaste tube and I would observe them very closely to check that they weren't transferring any germs

This has never even occurred to me...honestly, I wouldn't even know if a guest had used my toothpaste, nor care 🤷‍♀️

Same Sparkling and tbh anyone who simply wouldn't dream of going anywhere without their own everything including towels is probably someone I don't want as a guest as they're likely to be pretty uptight in other ways (I do exclude allergies/dc with sensory issues etc).

It has never ever occurred to me that someone would be bothered about me using their toothpaste. And it has never occurred to me to be bothered about someone using mine.

All i cant think about reading this thread - if people worry about germs from toothbrushes how on earth do they cope with people using the loo?

Everyone in this house has their own toothpaste due to personal preference. The children share a bathroom but have their own pot with an electric toothbrush and toothpaste.

Dh and I share an en-suite and each have our own side of a cupboard again with our own electric toothbrushes and toothpaste.

When we visit people we have sample toothpastes given to us at the dentist. We also put these out on top of a bath towel and hand towel on the bed for guests when they visit. That way they can take the toothpaste with them.

We also all have our own coloured towels, both bath and hand. The only shared towel is the cloakroom towel.

I’d always bring my own toothpaste! And think it odd if guests used ours...

No never. I wouldn't expect guest to bring any unnecessary toiletries, unless they wanted a specific brand of shampoo conditioner body wash, I buy extra use ours. All they need is a toothbrush and deodorant. I always have some new spare toothbrushes if they forgot theirs.

All i cant think about reading this thread - if people worry about germs from toothbrushes how on earth do they cope with people using the loo?

I've read a number of threads on mumsnet bemoaning the fact a guest has done a poo in their toilet.
It's always reminded me of Jim Royle "You'd have something to complain about if I crapped in the Kitchen".

I’ve been on MN for A Very Long Time, these types of threads do the rounds, again and again and again...but I haven’t ever read a Toothpaste one (so, points for that OP!).

It’s another one of those things where you realise YOUR ‘norm’ isn’t necessarily THE norm! other people do it differently 😳

I always take my own toiletries, I’m amazed so many don’t. But even if for some reason I wasn’t taking ‘the full set’ somewhere else I’d take my own deodorant and toothpaste at the very least.

However, I am happy for anyone staying to use shower gel, shampoo, conditioner and anything in the bathroom
cabinet etc...whatever they need.

I prefer them not to use my toothpaste or my bar of soap in the shower, so I put mine away & put new ones for them.

Like a PP, I’ve never seen anyone, not in an advert, put toothpaste on their toothbrush without mushing the end on their brush to ‘end’ it. I don’t want to share thanks. I don’t share drinks either though. Unless it’s someone I’d kiss intimately, I don’t want to share saliva thanks. 🤷🏻‍♀️

*sparklingbrook. Nope, I have a bathroom bin. I don’t lick it though 🤣

Guests usually bring their own toothpaste, but there's a high rate of forgetting so I usually have some spare to hand them. Wouldn't be a problem to share ours from our own bathroom, just a bit inconvenient. Some guests forget toothbrushes, we have spares of those as well.

I have a fully-packed wash bag which has everything in it, so I take everything I need whenever I stay overnight somewhere.

However, it wouldn't bother me if a guest used whatever they needed to in my bathroom. Unless they used a ridiculous amount, I doubt I'd even notice really.

Good god is this a thing are there people who worry about sharing toothpaste? What is it on MN lately with this and the "I can't use hotel towels" thread.

Love that people are specifying “cheap” toothpaste for guests! As opposed to the really expensive stuff they use themselves!

Oh that’s so funny, I missed the bit about cheapness

Always take own toothpaste with us.

Oh I wouldn’t like to share toothpaste, germs from brush touching the tube... oh no, I couldn’t have that. I would let guests use it though and then buy a new one for myself.

I usually always take my own anywhere, however one time I went to stay at a relatives house after we had been out for the night and took a tiny bag with me and could only fit the toothbrush, it didn't even occur to me that it would be any big deal to use the toothpaste, and it wasn't.

When staying in a hotel with three friends I was the only one who packed any toothpaste and we all shared, of course we did, without me even thinking about it.

I find it odd. Toothpaste is just something you can share. It seems strange to make a big thing of it.

Never had a guest who has not brought their own toothpaste/deodorant etc. Only standard products I put in guest bathrooms are soap/shower gels/loo roll and towels. (However if anybody needed any additional toiletries I'd supply them).

If I go anywhere my soap bag is pre packed with all my own toiletries.

I always take my own unless my host's have said not to worry about bringing x,y or z.

I always put out towels (2 per person) and a basket of travel size toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, deodorants, moisturiser, nail scissors, boxed toothbrushes etc in the guest bedroom so that guests know they can help themselves.

We have a thing in the family that we leave a wash bag at each other's homes so that we don't have to pack one every time we go to stay.

I think providing essentials for guests is going to be really valued for teenage sleepovers when guests might be too embarrassed to ask for stuff they've forgotten

One of my friends asked to use my vibrator once

I’m no germaphobe and would never have given sharing toothpaste a thought until the in-laws came to stay once. One got a cold sore and then they all had them because they”re mouth kissers and share everything - straws, drinks, cups, cutlery, toothbrushes - oozing coldsore and all.

Left then to it and got my own tube at that point.

I would generally bring toothpaste if DH and I travelling together unless flying hand luggage only/getting the train and out in the day and trying to keep packing light.

If I’m going away and DH is staying at home I generally leave him the toothpaste and scrounge a bit off whoever I’m staying with and no one has ever seemed to mind!

I have once done the opposite of this though. DH and I brought toothpaste, turned out to be the same as the host’s. He packed the toothpaste on leaving and so did I. So we stole their whole tube ! Managed to make up though and still friends!

I wouldn’t have an issue with a good friend borrowing roll on deodorant either, although I know some of my friends wouldn’t want to.

I always take my toiletries with me when I stay with friends (WHICH I HATE - I PREFER HOTELS) but what's the problem with just buying a tube of toothpaste and put it in the guest bathroom?

And I also have teenagers and I have a lot of spare toothbrushes/toothpaste/soap/loo roll/ etc in the kids' rooms. All part of my master plan to keep them here instead of elsewhere.

Either your house is friendly to guests or its not. I prefer the former.

It wouldn’t occur to me to pack toothpaste unless ds was with us as he only uses Crest.

Dd went on a school trip staying with a host family and they were hand luggage only. The family specifically said don’t bother bringing toothpaste.