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Back when I was in a long term relationship I had all these extra toothbrushes because I bought some giant pack from Costco.

And every time my girlfriend got angry at me and ran off (which happened fairly regularly) she'd throw out her toothbrush.

Then a few hours or days later or whatever she'd come back and go into the giant Costco pack of toothbrushes and have a new toothbrush.

A few months after she had left for good, I accidentally dropped my toothbrush into the toilet and went to the closet to get a new one, but the package (of 25) was empty.

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A few months later I was seeing a girl and she established a toothbrush presence in my bathroom.

This made her uneasy since she wasn't my girlfriend.

"I just don't want you looking at two during the week."

She was probably right.

Pretty soon things were over and I had to throw out her toothbrush for her.

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With the most recent toothbrush from a different non-girlfriend I just made sure that when she wasn't around the toothbrush went into the medicine cabinet. This seemed like a reasonable compromise.

(I had to throw that one out too.)

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"You know I had a similar issue once."

"How did you deal with it?"

"Same basic idea. The difference is I just made the next girl use the same toothbrush."

"That's gross, making them share a toothbrush."

"Any more disgusting than making them share my cock?"