miscellaneous monday

miscellaneous monday at the whimsey project! our day to share all the stuff we don't share the rest of the week.  bring on your miscellaneous!

there's an age old adage to always put the cap back on the tube of toothpaste. besides the mess of having the cap one place and the tube in another, what's the big deal? i decided to find out if there was a big deal. about ten days ago i started leaving the cap off the tube of toothpaste. toward the end of that time, i tried to squeeze toothpaste out of the tube and nothing happened! i squeezed harder. still nothing. another go at it had the toothpaste flying out of the tube and all over me and the sink but none in the toothbrush! lesson learned? put the cap back on the toothpaste tube after use because if the toothpaste is exposed to air long enough, it dries out and plugs the tube.  that appears to be a big deal!