I always keep my old toothbrushes since they really come in handy when cleaning. The other day I dropped some chocolate onto a white t-shirt. When treating it before the laundry, I thought of another purpose for my old toothbrush. I use Oral B Pulsar toothbrushes that vibrate and thought treating this stain might be a good use for this toothbrush. I have seen in the stores what looks to be a large vibrating toothbrush for sale in the laundry aisle. Instead of forking over the $10 for it, I will just use my old toothbrush that still has some battery life left.
It worked well enough. The stain is gone and that’s all the really matters - plus I get to re-purpose a toothbrush. Now I’m no longer tempted to buy yet another gizmo since I have something at home that probably works just as well.
July 8th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Yeah I keep old toothbrushes as well. Good for cleaning around taps etc lol
July 8th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Thanks for the tip. I never thought of that!
July 13th, 2009 at 4:03 am
toothbrushes are very useful. joe uses an old one to clean the bottles from his fuel belt.
July 14th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I think that toothbrushes are great for all kinds of cleaning, but I hadn’t thought about doing exactly what you did in this one… Great story!
I like how you basically stuck it to the man by not buying a new product, and went a wee bit green by re-appropriating something you were going to throw away
July 19th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Great Idea! Why buy new when you can reuse?
August 16th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Oh ya. toothbrushes r real useful. can b used even after its no more good for cleaning tooth. I use the toothbrush for cleaning things sometimes. its very effective.
August 20th, 2009 at 9:01 am
I keep old toothbrushes too. They come in handy for cleaning tight spots.
October 14th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Much useful tips, keep on sharing more informative post like this.
October 23rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm
Haha I thought I’m the only one that keeps old toothbrush for cleaning purpose. When I was a school kid, I used it to brush the inner part of my sneakers
November 9th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Great idea! You can still use your old toothbrush for cleaning stain. I hope your other readers will take note of that.
November 12th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Great post, keep on sharing more posts like this, eagerly waiting for your next post.