A single tube lasts me a couple of months (firguring two brushings per day, that comes out to 120 “servings” per tube). I don’t run the enormous beads of toothpaste on my brush like they show in the commercials, but I use enough to get a good foaming at the mouth.
I know somebody who buys two tubes of toothpaste every week. I can’t imagine how much toothpaste I’d have to pile up on my brush to go through two tubes per week.
How long does a tube last you?
Me too.
I cannot in any way, shape or form fathom how this is even possible. Is he eating it? Or do they have a really, really, really big family? Or are they buying sample sizes?
Whoa. That seems impossible. I am using less since I switched to an electric toothbrush which doesn’t have room for a large serving. And I brush my teeth once a day. So I guess a tube would last at least a month or two.
I use as little as possible my once or twice a day–really just a pea but just enough to have some foam-- and I’d say, gosh, every six months or something? Two a week? What the hell?
I brush a lot, but a tube lasts me about a month. I cannot image using two a week.
I have no idea how long a tube lasts, but it’s at least a few weeks. I use about a 1 to 1.5 cm long bead of toothpaste, and I brush about 3 times a day. I’ve always assumed I use too much toothpaste, since you’re really only supposed to use a pea-sized portion.
Mine lasts at least three months (I buy a big tube). I can’t imagine how much time you’d have to spend in the bathroom brushing to use up two tubes a week! This person is going to abrade their teeth down to nubs!
I start the tube at one end of the bristles and run a bead of toothpaste to the other end. Not much different than the photo.
Two tubes twice a week? Are you sure you weren’t being had? I use, I guess, one tube for about 3-4 weeks, but it’s a smallish tube.
Maybe the person has OCD. I take 2 months per tube brushing twice a day.
I don’t have a car so we carpool every Sunday for shopping and other stops. It was a few months ago when I noticed two tubes of toothpaste on the checkout counter and I thouht, whoa he’s really stocking up! Then the following week, two more tubes. Week after that, two more.
I suspect that as well, based his constant fiddling with the knobs in the car on the way to and from the store. But I didn’t know that tooth brushing could figure into that.
Does this person have shaded windows? Buy lots of anything else? Have large packages from Rifles R Us delivered to his house regularly? If so, I’d move.
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That foaming is almost certainly caused by Sodum Lauryl Sulfate, which causes canker sores. If you suffer from canker sores, I would recommend switching to Biotene or Rembrandt-Canker Sore, (there’s another one, but I forget.) I got them until I switched.
Sorry for the hijack, but it pisses me off that almost every toothpaste sold in the US (even Tom’s of Maine!) has an unneccesary ingredient which causes canker sores.
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My stepfather goes through toothpaste quickly. It’s certainly not a two tube per week habit but a tube lasts him a lot less than a month.
He brushes three times per day (morning, after work, before bed) and takes at least 5 minutes every time. Halfway through, he reloads his brush. He also goes through a lot of toothbrushes.
Seems a tad obsessive to me but then again, he’s in his late 40s and never had a cavity.
About three months but I don’t buy tubes… I searched for pics of the kind of bottle I get but couldn’t find a direct link to one, sorry. If you go to www.licordelpoloperfect.com (cutie pie stupid flashes all over), it’s the kind of stuff they show with the footer “2 en 1”.
I keep one at work and one at home. Normally I brush after breakfast and after lunch, sometimes right before bed or as needed.
Just a note, too much flouride from frequent tooth brushing with too much toothpaste can lead to Fluoridosis, a brown and white mottling of teeth. The linked-to website says “during development of the teeth”, other sites make less mention of that so I’m not sure on that issue.
Boy, googling “Fluoride” reveals piles of crack-pots in rages. Frothing at the mouth, one might say.
