remember the old metal toothpaste tubes...?
@macdingolinger (10385)
United States
April 19, 2010 7:19am CST
I was squeezing out the last of my toothpaste last night and trying to get all of it by rolling the tube up. I had this flash back about when I was a kid and the tubes were metal. By the time we got down to the last little bit there were all these little holes in the tube with paste squirting out them! Boy.. those were the days huh?
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@phoenix8606 (4942)
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19 Apr 10
yeah, i remember them. it was really hard to take out all the toothpaste from a tube like that!
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
20 Apr 10
seems like it would be more of a waste if it went all over the place, and on your hands! 
@macdingolinger (10385)
• United States
19 Apr 10
Well, actually, it came out easily - all over the place!
It would all be in your hand and all from squeezing the tube! ugh!!
It would all be in your hand and all from squeezing the tube! ugh!!1 person likes this
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
20 Apr 10
Hi, so at the bottom of the metal toothpaste tube, at say the crimp, holes would have formed from rolling the metal and so the toothpaste would get all over your hands, and the counter? Well we've never had toothpaste in those kind of canisters. It seems like it would be a lot of trouble, were they recyclable?
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@macdingolinger (10385)
• United States
20 Apr 10
Actually they were a sort of metal so it was likely if we'd have known they could have been recycled... at some sort of metal place.
@macdingolinger (10385)
• United States
19 Apr 10
No. There wasn't any kind of metal taste or smell in the toothpaste. It was just plain ole toothpaste. All the tubes were metal back then. Then they gradually went from metal to plastic like we have now.
@Dumpertaker (1187)
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19 Apr 10
Whoa, I remember them and many other things coming in metal tubes, you used to get Primula cream cheese in those and they got really messy as they got rolled up, those were the days :cD
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@macdingolinger (10385)
• United States
19 Apr 10
Yeah even preparation H came in metal tubes, along with carmex, neosporin and anything else that used to be in a tube. They were all metal and yucky after a little use is all I remember.
@anneshirley (1516)
• Philippines
19 Apr 10
is the metal tubes for toothpaste so long time ago?! seems like I haven't notice it until I came across to this discussion but yes, I do remember the metal tube. I think we have the same trait of rolling it up and squeezing out the last bit of toothpaste out of it.
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@macdingolinger (10385)
• United States
19 Apr 10
Hey.. a penny is a penny! I want every little bit I paid for!
@macdingolinger (10385)
• United States
19 Apr 10
yeah, because they were made out of real thin metal when you rolled them to get the toothpaste out, it would get little holes in the creases. It would be nasty before it was time to buy another one!
