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When I walked into the bathroom yesterday, I noticed that YA’s toothbrush is wearing a space helmet.  I asked her about it and she said it’s to keep the toothbrush clean if it falls on the floor.  Apparently when she plugs in her hairdryer to dry her hair, she often knocks the toothbrush over.  Another one of those items you never knew you needed.

Occasionally I see lists of these kind of “needed” items, usually on Amazon.  Things like:  Dill Pickle Lip Balm, a 12-pack of Flying Rubber Chickens, 101 Pooping Puppies Jigsaw Puzzle (1000 pieces no less), Fridge Jar Fork Caddy (this is a holder with a plastic fork/grabber that attaches to a jar in your fridge like olives or pickles) and my favorite – the Light-Up St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Headband. 

It’s amazing to me what people can get a production loan for; I’ve always wanted to be a fly on the wall listening to whoever first pitched “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”.

My first thought about the toothbrush helmet was how silly it was.  Now I’m wondering whether MY toothbrush ends up on the floor when YA dries her hair. 

Do you think I should get a toothbrush space helmet?  What color should it be?

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  2. Rise and Shine, Baboons,

    A family with three daughters lives near us. At the edge of their lawn are two bike helmuts: one is a unicorn helmut and the other is a pink “Hello Kitty.” Either design would make a wonderful toothbrush helmut, but I favor the unicorn. You could have an automatic toothpick with unicorn horn.

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  3. Maybe it’s too on -the-nose, but I would opt for a toothbrush helmet that looked like a set of those wind-up clacking false teeth.

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  5. I think if you’ve survived this long without the toothbrush helmet, you could probably do without it.

    This isn’t SO bad, at least there’s a use for it! But it is sometimes disturbing sometimes the things that factories are taking up space for – will try to find an example later.

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  6. Walking through just about any store, I can’t believe the amount of cheap plastic crap people think they need.

    There are two places around us now that buy up all the surplus and damaged and returned cases and pallets of things from various stores and then they sell them as bargains. I admit, I went once, I bought some air line tubing, I bought some casters, and some big chain hooks. And probably spent more money than I needed to, and to be honest, I haven’t used any of these things. But, “they’ll be good for something”!

    Skip the toothbrush helmet. A little dirt is good for you.

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  8. Tomorrow is Global Big Day. It’s a celebration of birds. eBird.org out of Cornell University has details on how to participate in the identification and count.

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  9. I’m wondering whether any of our more rural, far flung band of baboons will be able to see the Northern Lights tonight? I’m seeing some spectacular photos from friends in Denmark and other states.

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  11. I remember an essay by humorist Dave Barry in which he relates the outcome of a study that revealed toilet flushing fills the air of the bathroom with a septic mist. Ever since, I’ve been keeping my toothbrush as far away from the commode as possible. The idea of a sanitizing barrier might not be so unreasonable.

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