The original post: /r/travel by /u/dudeguy409 on 2024-11-14 20:39:07.

For all of my trips, I keep my electric toothbrush in a gallon freezer ziploc bag. I rinse it thoroughly and pack it away in the bag before I check out of each hotel, or if I’m staying at a hostel, I rinse it and pack it away after every single use. But it gets so gross in that ziploc bag after a week or two that I sometimes rinse out the bag too. I bring extra heads, but I have to change them out pretty often because the bag itself gets so gross so quickly. Is there a better way to manage this?

My electric toothbrush didn’t come with a case, that’s why I keep it in a ziploc bag, but even if I did have a case, I’m not convinced that it would do that much better of a job at preventing the toothbrush from becoming gross. Even the cases with holes don’t seem to help the toothbrush dry, and they also let the grossness of your toothbrush ooze out onto your luggage, right? And cases without holes are essentially rigid ziploc bags, right?

I’m especially concerned about my next trip; I’ll be staying in hostels every day for a couple of months and changing cities every couple of days. For example, a good chunk of my trip will be spent checking out Christmas markets in different European cities. I already gave up on bringing my wall-charging electric toothbrush, since I would have no easy way of charging it. I opted for the Oral B Pro 100 with two AA batteries, but I still don’t know how I would keep it clean. It doesn’t come with a case btw. Should I get one?

It’s not ideal for the environment, sure, but my current plan is just to buy a roll of paper towels and dry off my toothbrush before putting it back in a case.

I am curious if anyone else has any ideas! Surely someone has figured this out by now, right?!?!