Listerine Mouthwash

[Disney Doll]

A few hours ago I was In Walgreens and the couple ahead of me bought about 30 bottles of Listerine mouthwash...all different colors.

She was wearing a baseball cap slung very low over her forehead. Made it hard to see her face. He was not.

Do what diabolical use is there for Listerine?

 

[ashley0139]

It has alcohol in it?

 

[Disney Doll]

That's what I originally thought but for what they spent on Listerine they could have bought a couple of bottles of booze.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I looked it up. Listerine has many uses, including: removes fleas from dogs, gets rid of foot odor, kills mold and mildew, helps get rid of blemishes, and works in deodorizing garbage disposals.

Who knew?

 

[bcla]

I remember when original Listerine was labelled for use as a topical antiseptic.

I personally use Cool Mint Listerine myself, but it has no such labeling and to my knowledge never has.

The other thing is that the dried up residue on the cap gets really hard and crusty.

 

[shortbun]

No drug connection that my family knows of. Years, and I mean lots of them, ago my friends combined scotch and Robitussin to get really buzzed. It made me throw up. I hope they're not consuming it for some reason. Yuk!

 

[java]

Extreme couponing?

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I have heard the stuff is pretty versatile. Why somebody would buy so much at one time is kind of a mystery to me too.

 

[Gracie09]

De-skunk a dog

 

[A_Princess'_Daddy]

No drug connection that my family knows of. Years, and I mean lots of them, ago my friends combined scotch and Robitussin to get really buzzed. It made me throw up. I hope they're not consuming it for some reason. Yuk!

This reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. I keep a bottle of Listerine in my desk drawer to rinse my mouth after lunch and took a big swig and started to walk to the restroom to spit it out when two of our largest investors walked into my office and started chatting about a deal on which we were working. So, I swallowed the Listerine so I could talk to them without having to admit what I was spin or spit in front of them and was quite buzzed and extremely queasy for the rest of the day!

 

[GaBelle]

A friend's mom is a recovering alcoholic. After she said she had stopped drinking, she would drink Listerine. She kept bottles of it throughout her house. It was a few weeks before her family caught on.

 

[Colleen27]

Extreme couponing?

That was my first thought too. I just bought a half-dozen bottles myself, because I had coupons which combined with a sale brought it down to about 40% of the usual price. That's just how I buy long shelf-life products and Listerine is one of the few things we're very brand-loyal about. Of course now I won't have to buy it again for a year, but I have a walk-in pantry so storage space isn't an issue and it keeps nearly forever when unopened so I stock up on the good deals when I find them.

I draw the line at roughly a year's supply and only of easily stored items (I would never buy a year's supply of toilet paper, no matter how good the deal!) but I've known people for whom stocking up on sale was almost a version of hording. In fact, I just used up the last roll of tin foil from my grandmother's basement last year and my kids are still getting school supplies out of her stockpiles - she quit doing her own shopping in 1994 and passed away in 2008, but we're still using up that stash.

 

[Disney Doll]

I guess extreme couponing is a possibility but at 10pm with one person with a baseball cap pulled very low over their head it just looked a bit suspicious.

 

[KiKi Mouse]

My vote is they are drinking it.

I used to work in a drugstore and we kept it behind the counter so people had to ask for it.

Hairspray was another thing people consumed and Aqua Velva.

 

[mrsklamc]

Wouldn't need a mass quantity, but a FB friend saw something on pinterest about a foot scrub. The pin said "Any kind will work but I like the blue one best." Friend's feet were dyed blue- so don't do that.

 

[Disney Doll]

But they literally spent like $60 on Listerine. You could buy some nice real
Booze for $60.

 

[goofyintoronto]

Hairspray was another thing people consumed and Aqua Velva.

thats so gross.

This reminds me of something that happened to me a few years ago. I keep a bottle of Listerine in my desk drawer to rinse my mouth after lunch and took a big swig and started to walk to the restroom to spit it out when two of our largest investors walked into my office and started chatting about a deal on which we were working. So, I swallowed the Listerine so I could talk to them without having to admit what I was spin or spit in front of them and was quite buzzed and extremely queasy for the rest of the day!

 

[goofyintoronto]

But they literally spent like $60 on Listerine. You could buy some nice real
Booze for $60.

I honestly jump to the conclusion that they bought it so they could drink it. They probably have a ton of coupons as some one mentioned. I honestly wouldnt think anything of it.

 

[wiigirl]

Extreme couponing?

That was my first thought.

 

[ashley0139]

But they literally spent like $60 on Listerine. You could buy some nice real
Booze for $60.

They might not be 21.