Things that Make You Go Ewww
We recently had to remove the stopper from our bathroom sink because it wouldn’t stay open. Now there is just a hole in the sink. Husband intends to fix it. And I believe he will.
Next year. Or the year after.
So…one of P’s favorite things to do is stand on the toilet seat and lean over to the sink, turn on the water and play in it, turn TQ’s Hello Kitty spinbrush off and on, throw stuff on the floor and other impish things.
Like throwing our toothbrushes down the nasty black hole in the sink.
I know. It’s funny, right?
Have you ever seen what collects in a sink drain? It’s a disgusting blackish gunky goop. And our toothbrushes were down there. In it.
And silly me, I thought I could reach the topmost one with my tweezers. And then those disappeared down the hole, too.
Oops
So we’re now down two toothbrushes and a pair of tweezers.
I got my scissors that were too big to go down the hole (heh…clever, no?) and managed to rescue my toothbrush. And promptly threw it straight in the trash.
Husband had to take the pipes apart to get the other stuff out. And he touched the gunky goop. With his hands. Ewwww! *toes curling*
He scrubbed his hands and scrubbed the tweezers but alas…we were left toothbrushless.
So we’ve been sharing TQ’s barely used Piglet toothbrush that she abandoned for the Hello Kitty spinbrush.
We’re going on day three.
We gross.
***Your generosity is overwhelming me! So many offers of free toothbrushes! But I can afford to buy them myself. What I really need? Is someone to GO GET THEM and bring them to me. Any takers?
Yuck. That’s even worse than cleaning out the hair and junk that collects in the bathtub drain.
Give me your address. I am mailing you 2 toothbrushes RIGHT NOW!!!!
Get ye to a drug store pronto! While you are there go crazy and get new tweezers too.
Ewww, indeed. At least you are extremely dedicated to brushing your teeth.
Yep, you gross.
You know, toothbrushes are cheap. If Caren didn’t already offer to mail you some, I’d mail you the special Canadian kind.
I threw my toothbrush in the bathroom garbage can and went to get another one from the linen closet. Doh! We’re out. Had to fish the dang thing out of the garbage. We gross too.
My hubby recently cleaned out the sinks in our master bath - first time in seven years! Yikes!!! The stuff - ewwwwwww. But now the stopper works again, so hooray! Now he has to do the same to the sinks in the kids’ bathroom…ruh-roh…..
I love how we use such technical terms for the sinky stopper thingy.
Toothbrushes are over-rated.
I could live without a toothbrush.
But no tweezers? People would confuse me for a Yeti.
That is truly scary.
With four kids under the age of 8, I buy toothbrushes for all 6 of us by the case and keep them handy because at least once a week one of them ends up in the toilet or down the drain or worse - the floor behind the toilet. Why is it that area gets slime on the wall filthy despite regular cleaning with Clorox wipes? In FRONT of the toilet, I get, but in back?? Do. not. get. it.
Anyway, you need brushes, I send brushes, as I understand about the inability to get out thing - Peapod is my best friend. Seriously.
Also, is it just me who used to use my finger to brush my teeth on sleepovers and when toothbrushes were scarce for some reason? My mother taught me this once at my grandparents’ when I left my toothbrush at home. Not as good cleaning as the real thing, but works in a pinch….maybe I’m just the only dork with weird parents.
Hey Izzy…if you drop white vinegar (one cup) down your drain and flush it with hot water once a month, you can prevent that and also preserve your pipes and save in expensive plumbing costs.
For me, this hindsight is 20/20 and far too late, but oh well. Good to know going forward.
The plumber said this is better than DrainO and cheaper too.
If it helps to know, my kids like to flush things down the potty.
Last week it was a bag of mini-bagels.
Ewww Gross is an understatement. I gag whenever I take our stopper out of the bathroom sink. I understand the hair thing, but what the heck is all that black junk?? We only brush our teeth there…so I would think all that baking soda mint toothpaste would #1 - help clean it & #2 - make it smell fresh! Not the case.
**I always keep the toothbushes the dentist gives us twice a year @ check-ups in our cabinets as back-ups.
OH AND THANKS FOR THE ADSPACE FOR MY BLOG!!!!!!!!
I’ll bring you some in July when I drive by Tampa on my way to Sarasota for 5 weeks. Can you wait that long?
If I were close, I would be more than happy to bring you a few. I always buy extra because Thing 2 has a horrible habit of dropping them in the toliet, trash, hiding them in places we can’t seem to find them in. Keeps from having to run to the store every other week.
Eeeew.
I buy toothbrushes by the handful due to all the ‘interesting’ things my toddler finds to do with them when he gets his little hands on them.
Yea that gunk is gross. :P
Haha, that sounds exactly like how my family would cope- except my husband would have no idea how to do anything involving pipes.
I vote you go with new, fancier toothbrushes. I won’t leave home without my oralb which is several steps above the spinbrush (and relatively cheap!) and you will love it, I promise. They’re also too big to fall down the drain, which makes them even better. :)
Eww. I am not a toothbrush sharer. I grabbed by husband’s toothbrush by mistake once. He laughed. I gagged and dry heaved. I try to always keep an extra around. Bet you will too from now on. :)
We have that same black hole in our main bathroom sink and the hubs keeps saying he’s going to fix it. Yeah right… maybe after the kids are in college.
drugstore.com delivers
I’ve bought feminine supplies.
Eeek. I shudder to think what’s down those sink drains…
My hubby is the same way about fixing things…
I just threw up on my keyboard.
When you get your toothbrushes out, can I have them to clean between the keys?
it’s amazing, isn’t it..how rat ass a pipe that carries water can get.
i mean, water. man, what’s in the water?
Fine. I’ll go get them for you. I’ll be there in a minute.
You want Ewww?!! From age 11 on I had to wear a partial upper denture with two false front teeth to replace the ones I had knocked out falling on ice. They called this little appliance a “flapper” because it was held in place by suction only, and I could flip it out at will. Or by accident. Like the time I vomited it into the toilet! Ewwwww! I whined until my Dad fished it out for me. Didn’t really want to use it after that, but, damn those things are way more expensive than toothbrushes.
Oh, dude, SQUIDGING here from the very idea of the grossness of the sinkhole. Have faced it myself. Never want to do so again.
Just a comment from a single guy who couldn’t even begin to explain the twisted path on the internet that led me here… umm, try not to think about where that icky black stuff came from. But it had something to do with brushing your teeth in the first place! The vinager and hot water trick works pretty well, by the way. Oh, as a single guy, I gotta tell you that these ads for “essure” are kinda creepy!
Ewwww…reminds me of the time I overheard one of my sons tell the others “we could share the jawbreaker”…Ewwwww!
Dude! Drugstore.com! Overnight!
Oh I could not even count the times we’ve swapped and shared toothbrushes in this house. That’s right, we gross too!
I do the vinegar thing, but I take it a step further and pour some baking soda down first… something about the fizzing makes me feel like it’s all clean and stuff - never actually looked in there so who knows but it definitely takes care of clogs and smells (hoping my kitchen sink is not the only one in the world that occasionally gets a weird smell in the drain)!