That would make a good cheaper (much cheaper) alternative to a Reed Geek™
(It’s what I use !)
I don’t see this as a problem with toothpaste, but it certainly is with shaving gel and moisturiser. If I cut the tube in two, I can get several days’ worth of shaving gel and maybe even a couple of weeks more of moisturising cream.
And I too was brought up on “make do and mend” and “keep that, it might come in useful”. Once I needed a bolt of a particular size for something on my bike and found just the thing in my tool chest - it must have been sitting there for 20+ years. My dad would have been so proud.
Via Amazon, I just ordered 3 tubes of the toothpaste recommended by my periodontist, Colgate Whitening Toothpaste for Sensitive Teeth. With tax, the total cost was $13.44. I looked up my order history and discovered that I last ordered 3 tubes in January of 2024. Some quick math shows that I’m spending about 3 cents per day on toothpaste.
At 3 cents per day, I am quite happy in not cutting open the toothpaste tube or using a tube-squeezer to get a couple of more uses from each tube.
(By the way, the cost of said toothpaste is about 25% higher today than it was in January of 2024. I blame the Trump tariffs.)
Fwiw, i recommend my toothpaste tube squeezer not because it saves money, and not because i waste less toothpaste, but because i waste less time. It makes it easier to get the toothpaste out of the tube.
Fair point. I do expend a bit of energy to get the last few squeezes out of the tube.
For regular off the shelf toothpaste, it’s not the cost of it so much as the amount of waste that bothers me. And I’ve been using clips made by this company to secure the cut open tubes; Dad got them at a trade show decades ago, and they’ve held up nicely.