Do you share hosts toothpaste?

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Hi.

Prompted by another thread a few days ago.

DH and I have been discussing, we're so sad.
I'd never heard of guests using toothpaste or brushes while staying (vom!!) So we were wondering how common it is. Could guests have been using ours from the family bathroom?!

(Fwiw happy to share lots with guests but not intimate tools or stuff where saliva is mixed up like this. Are we odd or is some bits of MN just batshit?)

I don’t share toothpaste with anyone, but then I scrape the blob off the end of the tube with the brush.

The only toiletry related thing I would expect to share/have provided in anyone else’s home is hand wash (eg if I pop to the loo during a day visit with family I wouldn’t have brought my own soap). I bring my own of everything else for overnight stays.

Yeuch. No way.
As to sharing toothbrushes - who in their right minds would ever do this?!

I take my own toiletries. I have spares, so if we had a guest I’d ask if they needed anything…

Sharing toothbrushes/anything that touches your body is grim!

Never toothbrush. But quite often toothpaste. I rinse my toothbrush afterwards. I mean most people spray saliva on you just by talking to you. And their skin cells will be in your house.

The only toiletry related thing I would expect to share/have provided in anyone else’s home is hand wash (eg if I pop to the loo during a day visit with family I wouldn’t have brought my own soap). I bring my own of everything else for overnight stays.

Same. I always pack toothpaste, shampoo and bodywash.

Now that you know that some people use the brush to stop the flow of toothpaste (and in my case to tidy up the opening) does that make a difference as to whether you'd want to share it?

For what it's worth you won't be sharing mine but if you need some when you come to stay I can get you a new tube which you can take home with you - ditto the toothbrush.

Not really. I presume most don’t clean the toothpaste with the brush so that wouldn’t bug me. But then I let people eat with forks and spoons I’ve had (and will have again) in my mouth. I’m happy to allow them to drink from cups I also drink from. They can touch the toilet paper with their hands after using the toilet and between wipes, and I then use that same paper.

Sometimes my friend will even prepare and hand me food with their hands that I then eat.

Now that you know that some people use the brush to stop the flow of toothpaste (and in my case to tidy up the opening) does that make a difference as to whether you'd want to share it?

No.

Shower gel and toothpaste I tend to use. Everything else i bring. I don't mind what my guests use except for toothbrush. I can't imagine anyone sharing their host's toothbrush! I have used my boyfriend's a couple of times when I've forgotten but I figure we kiss etc so..

I would offer a guest an unopened toothpaste if they forgot theirs.

Ok, so I've used someone's toothbrush in the past on a couple of occasions and once someone asked if they could borrow mine. In all cases they were someone I'd just slept with. I'd had my tongue down their throat and their nob in my mouth. If said toothbrushes looked old and manky I'd have probably passed on it but they weren't and I'd rather have clean teeth 😁

well I certainly give my toothbrush a good rinse after I've used it, and then it sits for 8-12 hours to dry off and any remaining germs dissipate/dry off?
I'd normally take my own toothpaste, but would use whatever was there if I'd forgotten.

"Sometimes my friend will even prepare and hand me food with their hands that I then eat."
eating your hosts hands is a bit much

Clean (hopefully) hands is also a bit different to saliva (except that of significant other as noted above where anything goes clearly).

I cannot for the life of me see how anyone could give a shiny shit about someone else using their toothpaste.

I don't even share a bathroom with guests but if they arrived without toothpaste then I'd happily share, although I've usually got an unopened one and some spare new toothbrushes in the bathroom cabinet which I would give to anyone who'd forgotten theirs. Wouldn't want to share a toothbrush though.

Yes. I use my sisters toothpaste and anything worse that's in the shower. Unless it's luxury stuff.

I always take my own tooth paste tooth brush and shower gel I wouldn’t be using someone else’s.

When I have guests they bring there own tooth paste ... I mean you have to touch your tooth paste on your brush ewwwww

I squeeze the tube slightly, then I put a tiny blob of toothpaste on the brush (so the toothpaste touches the brush, not the tube), and then flick the tube up so the toothpaste breaks off. The last thing to touch the top of the toothpaste in the tube is the top of the toothpaste which hasn't touched the toothbrush. There's no touching.

Anyway, as previous posters have said, I'd only invite very close friends and family into my home, so I'm not unduly bothered. Don't know about all of you, but I don't share my stuff with strangers, only with people I really like.

Regarding soap, I'm not sure I'd share bar soap. But I use liquid hand soap and shower gel, so it's not an issue.

I think everything is up for grabs if you're visiting unless maybe there's normal stuff and fancy stuff out. In which case, you'd use some of the normal stuff unless the host had specifically invited you to share. But again, as I'd only have my nearest and dearest in my home, it wouldn't bother me.

I provide toiletries including toothbrushes and toothpaste for family and friends so there’s no need to share or for them to bring their own unless they want to.

Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "finger food"

It wouldn’t bother me that much if they licked the top of the toothpaste. Some people are so weird about germs. I happily share bottles with people too.

I would borrow toothpaste and wouldn't mind if guests used ours. Would never share a toothbrush though, that's rank!

Yeah. I won’t even share toothpaste with DH after I saw him dragging the end of the tube over his bristles. I’m aware we share lots of bodily fluid but just seeing that made me feel queer. No way would I use anyone else’s toothpaste now either.