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I've been unable to find my preferred dental floss in the store anymore, and it isn't even available on Amazon. I need to find a new dental floss. If only I'd sampled various flosses, I'd have been more prepared for this moment. Please, everyone reading this, consider my life to be a warning of sorts, a lighthouse on sharp rocks that lie between strong currents.

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Oct 10Author

you are going to lose that job at the mutant herding facility on account of your gum health

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Years of academy training, wasted!

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I have reached the point in middle-age where I must have a "strategic reserve" of all products I like at all times, including deodorant, bar soap (which I now buy in 24-packs) and slippers.

(Kirk's Castile, Fragrance Free)

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Oct 9Author

a good soap brother

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The Amazon footnote is funny, I genuinely don't know how to shop on there anymore. I was looking for heating pads and my brain like short circuits trying to figure out which of them is "real" and then I close the tab

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Oct 9·edited Oct 9Liked by BDM

I don't know how widely known this is but you literally can't figure it out because Amazon is throwing different sellers' inventory in the same bin and then pulling it out at random, so when you buy from one of those sellers you could get something from any of the others. If any of them is not "real," none of them are.

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Oct 9Author

I do know this! I always try to buy through a brand’s website but then some of them sell through Amazon :/

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Oct 9Author

I have to replace my heating pad and it’s like… even if I order the right brand what the hell will arrive lol

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Firefox has a review checker feature that pops up on the sidebar that gives an adjusted review rating and I'm like.... please no more data points I don't want more data

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And you can always buy freeze dried donkeys milk (for when you want to bathe in donkeys milk)

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Oct 9Author

that's your Product clare… i have to walk my own path

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aint that the truth

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My problem with finding the Right Product is that half the time I come to the conclusion that no one on the market is doing it how I want it which is how you end up trying to make collagen powder from deer hides. A product best left to the industrialists.

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