“Does everyone who wears deodorant have their own, or do they use the family’s?” That’s the question one mom posed to her 90,000 TikTok followers this week. Australian-born mom Ellie begins her explanation like this: “Last night I was in the shower and my husband came in to get ready for work. He said to me: “I can’t find my deodorant” and I said, “It’s in the drawer, where it always is.” Her husband then suggested that their son might be the culprit and that he had moved “their” deodorant out of the bathroom. Eventually, her husband, growing increasingly frustrated at not being able to find the deodorant, asked Ellie why they couldn’t each have one. As you can see, the family uses the same deodorant. The mother replied: “Why should we have our own deodorants? I’m not going to buy more than one, it’s ridiculous” she assures him
“You know it’s disgusting, right?” insists her boyfriend. But the mother assures him that sharing deodorant is not disgusting. “The girls and I also share deodorant, and it’s not disgusting,” she argues. The man then notes that it is “different for men”because they have hair under their armpits. “I don’t buy five to eight sticks of deodorant a month because that would blow our budget. Because…
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