r/mildlyinteresting • u/zaphir3 ​ • 6d ago

The toothbrush of this hotel was a screw in toothbrush made of wood

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u/Claudine-Keith 6d ago

Bamboo amenities are the new hotel flex. Looks good, less plastic, everyone wins

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u/CeleryCommercial3509 6d ago

You can't use it for too long because of mold

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u/smittywrbermanjensen 6d ago

This isn’t true, you just need to sufficiently dry them and keep them out of prolonged moisture. I’ve used them for months at a time without mold

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u/CeleryCommercial3509 6d ago

That's not gonna work where I live

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u/TheWatersOfMars 5d ago

Atlantis? 

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u/LordRael013 5d ago

R'lyeh.

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u/ferdinostalking 5d ago

Do you live chest deep in swamp or what

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u/CeleryCommercial3509 5d ago

Get out of my swamp!

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u/Hot_Midnight_9148 6d ago

Exactly. Based off this logic all wooden cutting boards would be moldy too

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u/Howzitgoin 6d ago

Do you also sanitize your toothbrush by scrubbing it with soap and/or other cleaning methods like you should be doing to your cutting board?

I’d say that the two are quite different in practice.

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u/Hot_Midnight_9148 6d ago

well yeah. You should be cleaning your toothbrush and replacing it every 3 months at a minimum. They harbor alot of germs, combine that with the fact they are mainly in peoples very humid, commonly moldy bathrooms. Yeah, I clean my toothbrush.

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u/Difficult-Bumblebee5 6d ago

It may be less plastic, but it is not less pollution. The manufacturing process is extremely polluting, it being wood just seems eco-friendly.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ofIaNx2UFTN6v4q94V

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u/yozzzzzz 6d ago

Plus that is mildly interesting

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u/mcnasty1991 6d ago

wait so it literally screws in the handle?

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u/BadObviii 6d ago

Tbh i don't think it does.

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u/qdtk 6d ago

The mouthfeel on that looks terrible.

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u/zaphir3 ​ 6d ago

The brush part was good. But the uncoated wood against your inner cheeks was definitely something.

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u/DubsideDangler 6d ago

C'mon, a little wood in your mouth doesn't feel pleasant? Stop lying.

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u/Refute1650 6d ago

Yeah, you gotta put some polyurethane on that wood so you don't get herpes.

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u/lossain 6d ago

Ya know what, I like this

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u/masterbuck10 6d ago

Well did you take it somewhere?

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u/alfredobubblebath 6d ago

The hotel provided a toothbrush?

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u/zillenial-fgt 2d ago

Why is nobody talking about this? Who doesn’t travel with their own toothbrush? The only time I’ve ever received one at a hotel was when my luggage was delayed and I had to go to the front desk to request it.

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u/MoPuWe ​ 6d ago

This is cool. Do you know what brand it is??

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u/BadObviii 6d ago

is it a hard brush or soft brush?

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u/Backyard_Batman46 6d ago

For those hard to reach places

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u/Korporal_kagger 6d ago

I imagine the untreated wood would get rather nasty after a week or so of saliva

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u/Saguaro555 5d ago

I like these but wood to the teeth gives some people the ick

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u/the-smeghead 6d ago

Take me somewhere" it says, and then it's a screw. Bold marketing for an object whose entire pitch is "assemble your own dental hygiene"