bookofjoe MoneyMaker™ — Solid Toothpaste

Last time I took a plane trip I had to put my toothpaste in a little plastic bag of its own, amidst the scrambling at the security checkpoint.

I'd already abandoned my own shampoo before I left home, preferring to use whatever was in the hotel.

Then I got to thinking: as long as hotels seem to be doing their brain-dead imitation, not twigging to the fact that it'd be a heckuva lot better to put a little tube of toothpaste in their sinkside display and bag the little bottle of conditioner and/or hand lotion, why don't Crest and Colgate offer solid toothpaste, much as is the case with deodorant?

No more plastic bag foolishness since that'll eliminate the gel/ointment/liquid state from one's carry-on.

You want a map?

OK.

Stack individual use portions of the solid toothpaste vertically, with an easily breakable, ingestible and differently-colored separation layer between them.

Sheesh, do I have to carry your sacks of money to the bank for you?

At least do a little something, what?

Anyway, it's so very simple — and yet, it's not happened.

So, there it is — big $$$ for whomever plucks this low-hanging fruit off the tree.

Why don't I take advantage of my own thinking instead of giving away the potential riches?

Inquire within.

Note: My crack research team did come up with a solid toothpaste available in the U.S.

It's pictured up top and you can buy it here.

Two problems:

1. You have to buy 24 at a time.

2. I get the distinct impression that it's manufactured in you-know-where. And how they get it to become solid, well — maybe it's best not to go there.

As they say in the dental business, "caveat paste-or."

Or something like that.