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shiftythrifting · 2 years
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Big tiddy anime gf keyboard pad (of course squeezed into the plush section)
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Himiko Toga shirt. That’s not my phone, it’s just that blurry irl.
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A shirt that hit me with psychic damage (I’m autistic and also the rhinestones were a deadly combo here)
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What can only be described as a knock-off Tooth Tunes set to legendary LMFAO. A beautiful relic of the late 2000s - early 2010s in box.
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And what came home with me and really the find of the century: A working My Neighborhood Totoro music box. Looked it up after the fact and it’s a diy kit from the official Studio Ghibli store. The song is I believe Path of the Wind?
All found on one trip to a Goodwill in Central Texas.
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sea-sick-fish · 5 months
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How do I explain that owning 5 toothbrushes isn't actually that weird without sounding insane
asking for a friend
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trashyswitch · 9 months
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Luigi's Secret
Chapter 16: Lee-uigi And The Tickle Tools
Luigi is just trying to get through a morning (and a day) without a lee mood plaguing him. But Mario is unintentionally making it SUPER difficult! And it doesn't help that Mario has an electric toothbrush...
This fanfic was suggested by an anonymous user who used a <3 in their name! So I'll just call them <3 anon. I hope you enjoy!
Monday Morning: 
Luigi woke up to Mario’s alarm clock going off. He groaned and covered his face with the blanket, refusing to get up. He was too tired to get up…he didn’t want to get up. Screw work. He wanted to sleep the morning away. But…He knew he had to get up at some point. Otherwise Mario’s gonna get angry with him. 
Luigi finally pushed the blanket off himself and grabbed his phone off the nightstand table. As he made a pot of coffee, Luigi opened up his phone and looked at the notifications. But a couple notifications down, something specific caught his eye:
[1:53am] 
[trashyswitch answered your ask “I HATE being In a lee mood. I wanna be wrecked SO BADLY! PLEASE…”]
Luigi widened his eyes as he stared at the notification. She did not…SHE DID NOT…
Without thinking, Luigi clicked the notification, and opened his phone. CRAP! CLOSE CLOSE CLOSE! He closed his phone and attempted to hide the growing blush on his face before Mario noticed. Great…He knew this was going to be the only thing on his mind for the next hour, maybe even the rest of the day. And he could already feel the lee mood turning on like a simple light switch…
“Luigi?” Mario said to him, holding out a cup of coffee. 
Luigi smiled and took the coffee. “Thank you.” Luigi replied. 
“You okay? You’re a little red.” Mario asked. 
Luigi nodded his head and sipped some coffee. “I’m fine.” Luigi told him with an attempted smile as he sat on the bed. ‘I’m not fine…I’m super flustered…HELP…’ Luigi thought to himself. 
Mario smirked. “Okay…” Mario sat down beside him on the bed. “What is it?” He asked. 
Luigi could feel the blush filling his cheeks all over again. Damn…he felt like he was doing so good hiding it too…why did Mario have to mention something?! Luigi finally sighed. “A…couple days ago, I sent my favorite author an anonymous message online. And…” Luigi opened his phone and opened the post before giving Mario the phone. 
Mario read the post bit by bit, reading Luigi’s message before reading this person’s response. Mario looked at Luigi, before looking at the sign off emoji. 
“Hat anon? That’s what you named yourself?” Mario asked, pointing to the blue ball cap emoji that was on the bottom of the message. 
Luigi groaned and covered his face for a moment. “I was in a hurry when I wrote it...” Luigi admitted. “And my hat was the first thing I saw.” 
Mario chuckled. “So…you were in such a bad lee mood…that you messaged a complete stranger about said lee mood…before telling me, your twin brother about it?” Mario clarified. 
Luigi bit his lip. “Well…sometimes telling strangers who understand, is much less scary than telling someone you’ve known your whole life.” Luigi admitted. 
Mario shook his head. “Nope…not for me. With other people, it’s a lot harder to predict their responses.” Mario told him. 
Luigi hugged one of his knees to his chest. “It’s different if you know they’re part of the community…” Luigi muttered. 
Mario softened his expression. “And…I’m guessing this was before I found out about it?” Mario clarified next. 
Luigi nodded his head. “Yeah…” 
Mario nodded his head and got up. “Well…looks like you kinda got what you were looking for. Some understanding, and a little tease.” Mario told him with a small smile, handing Luigi his phone back. 
Luigi tilted his head as he took the phone, before looking at the phone for Pocket’s response. 
[Awwww! Hi 🧢 Anon!! Wonderful to meet you! And goodness…this looks like a really bad lee mood…You need a little help with that? 😉 I don’t know when I’ll respond next, but I’ll try to help as best I can. 💜
~Pocket]
Luigi could feel the stupid blush getting darker and darker. Oh gosh…She wanted to help him?! 
Luigi shook his head and quickly closed his phone. He got off the bed and started to get himself ready for work. He made and ate a quick breakfast, gelled up his hair, shaved and pulled out his toothbrush. But at the same time, Mario walked in and grabbed his own toothbrush and toothpaste from the closet. 
Luigi paused his brushing as he stared at Mario and watched him load his toothbrush with toothpaste and turn it on. The dreaded vibration sounds filled his ears as he widened his eyes in horror. Luigi quickly went back to brushing as he tried not to lose his mind as he accidentally started imagining the toothbrush against his navel. NO, NOO, NOOOO. BAD TIMING, FINISH UP AND LEEEAVE! 
“Luigi?” Mario called, his toothbrush out of his mouth and staring at Luigi with worry. “Hello?” 
Luigi backed himself up rapidly in an attempt to leave the room as quickly as possible. But he accidentally backed himself into the closed door. “OW-” Luigi opened the door and sprinted out, not even taking the time to close it while he went to the kitchen sink to finish brushing his teeth. 
Mario stared at the door with worry…and confusion. 
What……just happened? 
Mario finished up with his teeth, cleaned up his toothbrush and left the room with his toothbrush in hand. Luigi had always had a strange thing about toothbrushes, and he was now determined to find out why. “Luigi?” Mario asked, walking to the kitchen. 
Luigi was just finishing up cleaning the sink, before turning around. “Yea-” Luigi widened his eyes and froze when he saw Mario holding his toothbrush. 
Mario narrowed his eyes, confused. He looked at his own toothbrush, before looking back at Luigi as he turned the toothbrush on.
Luigi’s reaction was immediate. His face lit up in a dark red color as he whimpered and covered his mouth. “Whatareyoudoing?” Luigi attempted to ask. 
Mario turned off the toothbrush. He noted the similarities between Luigi’s reaction to his wiggling fingers from Friday night, and Luigi’s current reaction to the toothbrush. “You…are in a lee mood…” Mario said, turning the toothbrush on again and walking slightly closer. “From this…” Mario added, raising the toothbrush higher. 
Luigi whined and held out his hands in defense. “M-Mario DON’T!” Luigi begged. “You-YOUDON’TKNOW-” Luigi could feel his knees getting weaker and weaker the closer Mario got to him. 
“Know…what?” Mario asked, walking closer to Luigi. 
Luigi shook his head and backed up more. “What…toothbrushes are capable of doing to a lee…” Luigi admitted. 
Mario looked at the electric toothbrush. Then, he widened his eyes and smiled brightly. Something had finally clicked in his brain. “Wait, is the toothbrush used as a tool…the same way a feather is used?” Mario asked him. Quickly, he turned off the toothbrush and pulled out his phone. “Hold on…” Mario opened Google and put the words ‘Tickle Tools’ into his search bar before clicking the enter button. A couple seconds later, pictures of different things began to show up in Google images. 
Mario chose a specific picture and looked at them. “Hmmm…” Mario chuckled. “Feather dusters.” Mario told him. 
Luigi squeaked and shook his head. “NOOOoo!” Luigi whined. 
“Makeup brushes.” Mario added. 
Luigi whimpered and covered his face, starting to curl up his body. He was imagining those stupid makeup brushes against his ears. “Noooohohohoooo.” Luigi whined, growing more and more red by the second. 
Mario clicked onto another picture. “Hair brush.” Mario said. 
Luigi started shaking his head left and right as he giggled helplessly. He had started imagining hairbrushes on his feet, unintentionally causing his socked toes to curl up. 
“....Hairbrushes on the feet?” Mario asked with a little smile, watching Luigi’s feet curl up.
Luigi growled and tapped his feet. “Staaaaahahahahahaaap.” Luigi whined. 
Mario looked at a picture of an electric item on Google Images. “What…is this?” Mario asked, showing Luigi the picture. 
The moment Luigi looked at the picture, he squeaked and covered his eyes, curling his toes even more than before. NOT THAT TOOL! He could just imagine the thin thread piece in between his stupid toes. And it was making him giggle to the point of snorting now. 
Mario rolled his eyes with a laugh. “What is it?!” Mario asked. 
“YOUDON’TNEEDTOKNOW!” Luigi screamed. “Just tehehell mehehe!” Mario laughed. 
“ELECTRIHIC FLOHOHOSSER!” Luigi yelled through his laughter. 
Mario chuckled. “An electric flosser?” Mario typed ‘electric flosser’ into his search bar, and widened his eyes. “Huh…Okay. That’s a thing.” Mario reacted. 
With that decided, Mario turned off his phone and walked up. “So the reason you react like that…is because you want the toothbrush to be used on you?” Mario asked. 
Luigi pointed and flexed his feet, eventually nodding his head. “Yeheheheah…Ihihi *snort* Ihihihi kihihinda dohoho.” Luigi admitted. 
Mario smiled brightly and turned off the toothbrush. “Okay.” Mario replied. 
Luigi uncovered his eye, and looked at Mario with a small bit of confusion. “Wh-Whaha-” Luigi mumbled. 
Mario took Luigi’s toothbrush from his hand, and walked back to the bathroom to put the toothbrushes away. “That’s it.” Mario repeated. “We can talk about this later.” Mario told him, putting the toothbrushes into the cups. 
Luigi just about lost his mind the moment he heard that. Excuse mE- TALK ABOUT IT LATER?! “Then-” Luigi started, before throwing his hands to his sides. “What was thE POINT OF THAT?!” Luigi yelled, growing angry. 
Mario bursted out in cackles. “Ihihi needed to know why you’re so scared of toothbrushes!” Mario told him. “And now I have my answer. So no need to worry…we can drop the conversation now.” Mario decided. 
Luigi growled and slammed his hands on the ground, mumbling curses to himself as he got up onto his feet. OH MY GOSH… What a load of horseshit. The least Mario could’ve done is tickle him for at least 2 minutes before dropping the conversation. You can’t just tease the hell out of someone, and then completely drop the freaking subject! 
THAT IS SO RUDE! 
“It’s 8:03 now…We have a bit less than 35 minutes till we have to go.” Mario said, picking up their bag of tools and placing it beside the door. Mario added the tape measure to the bag and turned around. But Mario yelped and jumped when he saw his brother standing right there in his way. “WAAH- Mamma mia…” Mario mumbled, holding his chest. “I need to get you a bell or something.” Mario told him. 
He tried to walk by Luigi, but paused when Luigi mirrored his movements, blocking his way again. 
Mario looked at Luigi. “Uhhh…” 
Luigi suddenly picked up Mario, and held him up to his own head height. “LUIGI! PUT ME DOWN!” Mario shouted, kicking his feet and grabbing at Luigi’s arms. “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!” Mario yelled, super confused. 
Luigi stayed silent as he carried Mario over to the couch. Then, he raised Mario up a slight bit higher, and threw Mario against the couch. Mario flopped into their couch and attempted to get himself up. But by the time he DID manage to get up, Luigi had flopped himself onto the couch beside him and pushed him back down. “Teasing the hell out of me?” Luigi held Mario’s hands above his head with one hand, while poking every inch of his belly with the other hand. 
“WaitwaiTWAHAIT-” Mario shouted, throwing his head back with strong, jumpy laughter. 
“Making me confess to wanting to be tickled?” Luigi continued, moving to scratch his fingers all over his belly. Mario pulled on his arms as he shook his head, laughing absolutely hysterically. “HAHAHAHA- LUUUHUHUHUHUUUU!” Mario shouted. 
“And then DROPPING THE SUBJECT…” Luigi yelled, squeezing his side. “AND LEAVING ME TO SUFFER IN THIS STRONG, UNBEARABLE LEE MOOD?!” Luigi yelled next, poking at the belly button region. 
“LUIHIHIGIII MEHEHERDAHAHA-” Mario shouted. 
Luigi stopped tickling and let go of his brother’s hands. “And then only giving me 35 minutes to try and pull myself together in time for work?! To make sure I don’t act like a flustered fool in front of our potential future customers?!” Luigi added. “It…” Luigi growled and rubbed the bridge of his nose. “It’s one of the worst things you can do to a person in the community.” Luigi told him. “It’s like pissing off a person…and then forcing them to shove all that anger down and pull themself back together in less than 20 minutes. It…” Luigi sighed and got off of Mario. 
Mario was breathing somewhat heavily while holding his stomach. He took another moment to breathe before sitting himself up and fixing his hat. “God…” Mario muttered, scratching his stomach to try and rid himself of the funny tickly feelings. But scratching his own stomach only tickled himself more. He quickly wiped his stomach off in an attempt to stop the stupid feelings. And…it worked?
Wait…
He looked at his own stomach. “Luigi…” Mario said. 
Luigi looked at Mario and softened his expression. “Hm?” 
“...You described something as a…after tickles or something…” Mario attempted to explain. 
Luigi raised his eyebrows slightly. “...Phantom tickles?” Luigi asked. 
“Yeah…” Mario said. “...Is that…when you feel ticklish feelings despite not…” Mario struggled to explain it, wiggling his fingers to show Luigi. 
For some strange reason, Luigi didn’t grow flustered from Mario’s fingers…not this time. If anything, he only treated it as a hand sign. 
“Mhm…” Luigi finally replied. 
Mario looked at his stomach, before hugging his stomach tightly. “Ihi think I know what you mean…” Mario admitted, looking up at Luigi with slight embarrassment. 
Luigi uncrossed his arms. “About phantom tickles?” 
Mario chuckled. “Yeah…but also the other thing…” Mario said. He paused for a moment and looked down at his stomach. “...The…feeling of being flustered and then having to cover that up immediately…” Mario tried to say. “The…” Mario gave up his words, and shook his head. “...I’m sorry, Luigi.” Mario told him flat out. 
Luigi huffed and smiled a bit. “It’s fine.” He said, getting up. “But for future reference…” Luigi pointed to the side, before looking at Mario. “A couple of pokes. That is all you need to do in order to calm me down from a flustering lee mood.” Luigi told him. 
Mario tilted his head. “R…Really? You don’t even need a full tickle…fight? Just a couple pokes?” Mario clarified. 
Luigi nodded. “Most of the time, that’s all I need.” Luigi clarified. 
Mario narrowed his eyes as he got up off the couch. “...And what happens if that’s not enough?” Mario asked. 
“If it doesn’t fully work, then I’ll take what I can get. Then I’ll calm myself down the rest of the way.” Luigi replied. 
Mario nodded his head and looked at his watch. 
[8:36am] 
“We gotta go.” Mario told him. 
Luigi grabbed the bag of plumbing tools and opened the door. “After you.” Luigi told him. 
“Thanks, lee.” Mario teased. 
Luigi’s face changed from casual, to shocked and slightly impressed. “E-Excuse me?” Luigi reacted. 
Mario chuckled. “You really shouldn’t fall asleep with your phone open, Lu.” Mario teased. 
Luigi widened his eyes. “H-How much did you see?” he asked. 
“Oh boy… Uh…” Mario started to quote a couple of the sentences. “You saying ‘Help I’m dying’...then this Jin person saying ‘Ha suffer, lee’...and then you denying it…then Jin saying ‘Lee-uigi’...” Mario kept going. 
Luigi groaned and covered his face. Fucking wonderful…Mario now knows about one of his online friends… “mmmmmmmm great…” Luigi mumbled. 
“So, is the word ‘lee’ considered an embarrassing nickname?” Mario asked. 
Luigi sighed. “Kinda…People don’t like admitting they’re in a lee mood most of the time…” Luigi admitted. 
“Okay…So if you’re in a lee mood…then can I start calling you Lee-uigi?” Mario asked with the most innocent look on his face. 
Luigi grabbed Mario’s hat and slapped it into Mario’s face. “Eat it, moron.” Luigi told him, before jumping onto the floating bricks. 
Mario fell back a bit and put his hat back onto his own head, before catching up with Luigi. He hopped onto the bricks and jumped headfirst into the pipe, following after his brother. When they both popped out from the other side of the pipe, Mario and Luigi hopped into their car, and started to drive to their first location. 
“So…Jin sounds like a teasy stronzo.” Mario said. 
Luigi chuckled. “Yup…But despite his evil ler side…he is a pretty hilarious lee. But he’s got a huge, strong shell that you have to strategically crack open to get him to admit it.” Luigi explained. 
Mario wheezed. “Wooow.” He reacted. “How long have you known each other?” Mario asked. 
“Well…I don’t know…A while.” Luigi replied. 
Mario turned the van to the left. “Are there more friends of yours that I should know about?” Mario asked. 
Luigi smiled a bit. “Ummm…” He scratched the back of his head. “Yeah, actually…but…How about I show you their profiles on break. Alright?” Luigi offered. 
“Okay.” Mario replied. “Lee-uigi.” Mario teased with a few laughs. 
Luigi tensed his lips and poked Mario’s side in retaliation. 
“WAHA!” Mario guffawed, slapping Luigi’s hand as he continued to drive the van. “Don’t be trying to turn the tables, signore. I’m too ler for you to handle.” Mario joked. 
Luigi groaned and covered his eyes. “That’s…No.” Luigi complained. 
“You see? I’m ler-ning how to properly tease you.” Mario joked next. 
“Shut up.” Luigi complained with an embarrassed smile, covering his face. 
“What? I’m just taking advantage of a good ler-pportunity.” Mario teased. 
Luigi turned the music on blast. “Sorry, WHAT?” Luigi yelled with a smirk. “I CAN’T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF GREEN DAY!” Luigi yelled before screaming the lyrics to ‘American Idiot’ as they drove down the main roads of Brooklyn. 
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bryan360 · 2 months
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No “On This Day” posting for today.
I’d been saving this from last week where we went on a store trip at the program. Could’ve save some my own money I’ll be bringing, but at least they lend some few bucks. 🙂👍
I’d only be picking two items that I needed, so here I am with my new toothbrush set and a usb wall tap.
It’s good thing that cost less about $1 and cents to buy from Dollar Tree; instead of other stores as if we can go there.
Tagged: @murumokirby360 @carmenramcat @alexander1301 @rafacaz4lisam2k4 @paektu
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robcryptx · 1 year
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it's nigh on impossible to make toothbrushes sound exciting but i'll tell you what, they're a joy to take pictures of
these are made with sustainably grown bamboo and biodegradable nylon bristles, designed by me and laser engraved by the wonderful clear cut creation
instagram | twitch | store
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redrcs · 11 months
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The Inquisitive Toothbrushes
Coolgardie museum of the goldfields
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bacchicly · 1 year
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I bought myself bamboo toothbrushes with rainbow bristles.
They make me very very happy.
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slack-wise · 1 year
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Dress for the job you want
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mynameisleata · 2 years
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I feel like reusable toothbrushes should be a thing. Like, plastic pollution is a horrible problem, but a lot of it comes down to things we use daily, at home. Toothbrushes, straws, packaging of food and hygienic products, things like that. There's toothbrushes where the part you hold is biodegradable, there's the ones that are rechargeable, you just have to switch the head every so often.
But there has to be someone who's found a way to make a toothbrush that's fully reusable. A toothbrush that you just have to like,, pop in the dishwasher every 2 weeks (maybe not the dishwasher, for obvious reasons, but something alike).
Especially because of the huge amount of toothbrushes that end up in waterways and on beaches, there has to be someone who's at least thought about this before me.
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aaronpullinteeth · 2 years
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William "You ever eaten arse? Are you sure?" Regal
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grimini · 1 month
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mr-malumm · 2 months
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Morning routine of local TV star
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gwydionmisha · 3 months
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Stephen Colbert’s Cyborgasm: Anti-Snoring Pillow | Talking Toothbrushes | AI Girlfriend Bots
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kitttttchaos · 4 months
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Yk it’s Virginia when the Lululemon girl is brushing her teeth in the McDonald’s bathroom
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caustic-ogre · 4 months
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New couples product concept:
Double sided toothbrush. The Darth Maul lightsaber of toothbrushes, allows for a lady and the tramp style dental experience. (Romantic?)
Both sides are identical.
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frabjousdei · 7 months
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Fuck you, Oral-B
I needed a new toothbrush. My gums are a bit screwed up and my wife’s cousin (who is a dentist) recommended I get one of the new Oral B “iO” models, because it would be good for the specific problem I have. But they’re expensive and so was the old Oral B I already had, so I couldn’t justify it until my existing one broke. Which it did quite suddenly, so yay! And I started researching.
The only two features I wanted were the vibration action intrinsic to the “iO” line and a travel case that charged via USB. A battery that lasted longer than about three days (as the old one did) would be good, but if I could charge via USB I already take an elaborate USB charging setup with me when I travel, so who cares.
There are seven current models in the line, the iO 3 through 10, ranging in price from about €40 to over €300 (!!!) for essentially the same device with extra features layered on at each price point. But the thing is, almost all of those features are useless. More “brushing modes”, colour screen, Bluetooth connectivity—all pointless for 95% of people, but they deliberately segment the market so if you want an actually useful feature like a travel case, or a travel charging case (different price points!), you have to spend a whole lot of money on “pretend value” you don’t want or need to get the one feature you do. And once you put an nRF52 (or whatever) microcontroller in these things it’s just a matter of software anyway and the marginal hardware BOM cost for most of these extra “features” is approximately €0.
The Oral B marketing websites deliberately obfuscate all of this, of course. None of them explain in real English words what the differences between the models are and on top of that it’s one of those horrible product categories that’s SEO’d out the wazoo so nobody else will explain it to you either. I found exactly one third-party website which went into any useful detail what the actual differences between the models were. And only from that one was I finally convinced I’d have to shell out €200 to get the one feature over the base model that I wanted, a USB travel charging case.
So with great reluctance, because I detest being scammed like this (especially when I can see the exact nature of the scam), I bit the bullet and paid €200 for an Oral B iO 9 “Special Edition”, which came with a travel charging case and a little bag that goes in which somehow made it “special”.
It arrived, I opened the box and found… what I assumed to be a USB-C travel case had a proprietary connector and cable with a hard-wired wall-wart. I was fucking livid. I had made the assumption that the only reasonable way this could possibly be designed would be for the case to have a USB-C socket—but no, because the product development team at Oral B are maliciously insane, they had implemented a proprietary connector hard wired to a two-pin Europlug wall-wart. This entirely defeats the fucking purpose. Have none of these people ever gone anywhere? Instead of a small USB cable which literally everyone in 2023 takes a charger for with them every time they travel, they expect me to take a separate cable, with its own wall-wart, plus a power socket pin-adapter for whatever country I was going to. Utterly user-hostile product design.
I contacted the retailer wanting to return this €200 piece of useless garbage under the statutory European 14 day purchase cooling-off period. But then I was told there was an exception for “hygiene articles” like toothbrushes and since I had broken the “safety seal” (the only way to collapse the marketing bullshit wave function and determine the deficient reality of the product) it didn’t apply, and I was stuck with it.
Then I got really fucking mad.
I looked closer at the wall-wart. In 3-point regulation-mandated flyspeck, it detailed an input voltage of 110-220V AC and an output of 12V DC at 0.4A. Hm. USB-C trigger cables are a thing… but on closer inspection, 12V isn’t actually an official part of the USB-C PD spec, so it might not work on all USB-C charging ports. But you can buy USB-A cables with 12V boost converters built in and 12V @ 0.4A is 4.8W which is within the USB-A spec. Two days and nine whole Euros later (for two!) I had the offending part in my hand. I snipped the proprietary Oral B connector off and, carefully having tested the polarity with a multimeter, wired it to the USB-A 12V boost cable (“solderless” butt connectors are cool.) Then I plugged it in to the charging case.
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Fuck me, it worked first time. Perfectly.
So now I have an obviously useful thing Oral-B refused to sell me because they’d prefer to soak me for useless features rather than doing the pitifully simple engineering—I didn’t even need to use a god damned soldering iron—to build something actually useful that met their customers’ obvious needs.
(As a side-note, the rest of the product design is fucking awful too. There’s an accelerometer in there which makes it wait until you set it on its end before it plays a 20 second animation before showing you the current charge level. Pointless and annoying. And that end is really small on such a top-heavy device, so you have to make sure you balance it well on its normal charger to stop it toppling over onto the tiled floor literally everyone has in their bathroom. I hope you don’t have kids who think that colour screen is cool and knock your €200 device onto that tiled floor as they go to grab it! And hey, I’ve got a good idea, let’s take an item that you use when your hands are wet and make it out of smooth plastic so it’s really slippery. That’s a fucking brilliant product design decision that’s totally not a regression from the rubberised handle of the previous version. The smooth featureless membrane buttons you can’t find just by feel, that’s an improvement too! You morons.)
Fuck you, Oral B. And fuck your marketing-over-customer-needs focussed attitude and the horse it rode in on.
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