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I’m sitting in Logan airport (Boston) on route to San Francisco this afternoon. This morning I packed, making sure to follow the TSA guidelines for liquids and gels….

Which brings me to my rant of the day: why oh why don’t the toothpaste companies offer a bigger sized travel toothpaste? The “standard” travel toothpaste is 0.85 ounces. You know, the kind you get for free at the dentist:

Now I don’t know about you, but I like to brush my teeth a few times a day — at least twice, and often three times. A 0.85 ounce toothpaste lasts about 2 days (maybe 3 if I ration carefully). In the past, I used to bring my larger toothpaste from home — one of those 4.6oz ones. However, the maximum I can bring through TSA is 3 ounces. What to do?

Yesterday I stopped at CVS to see if I could solve my dilemmna. But CVS only sells large sized toothpaste and the small travel size. So I purchased two of the smaller ones (which raises an interesting question for TSA: can I bring an unlimited number of travel sized toothpastes as long as they are in seperate containers? Oh, the danger!).

I really hope that the toothpaste manufacturers realize that anyone who travels for more than a few days at a time needs more than 0.85 ounces of toothpaste — to maximize the amount of toothpaste without going over the TSA limit. I’ll be a lifelong supporter of whichever company puts it out first.

I ranted about this to my wife as I was getting ready for the trip, and she (in her amusing sarcasm) reminded me that you can’t buy toothpaste in San Francisco. Yeah, well I guess I could do that. But that wouldn’t be efficient.

End rant.

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