Welcome to the latest episode of "Buying Random Shit While in Quarantine"! Today's episode features not one, but two of the VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kits.
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kits
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in Black
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in Black
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in Black
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in Black
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in Black — Photocards
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in White
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in White
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in White
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in White
VT x BTS "Think Your Teeth" Jumbo Toothbrush Kit in White
I ordered these three weeks ago because I needed to replace my old toothbrushes and re-stock on toothpaste, so I thought WHY NOT GET THE BTS ONES? I need BTS in every single aspect of my life, including oral hygiene. The toothbrush is actually jumbo, like twice as big as a regular toothbrush, but every single review I've read has said it's really nice to use — it has ultra-soft bristles and the size makes it easier to clean multiple parts of the mouth at a time. Naturally, I couldn't decide between black or white, so I got both. I figured the cost of use would be low, anyway, since I gotta brush my teeth at least twice a day. But, hey, they both come with different photocards!
I ordered these three weeks ago because I needed to replace my old toothbrushes and re-stock on toothpaste, so I thought WHY NOT GET THE BTS ONES? I need BTS in every single aspect of my life, including oral hygiene. The toothbrush is actually jumbo, like twice as big as a regular toothbrush, but every single review I've read has said it's really nice to use — it has ultra-soft bristles and the size makes it easier to clean multiple parts of the mouth at a time. Naturally, I couldn't decide between black or white, so I got both. I figured the cost of use would be low, anyway, since I gotta brush my teeth at least twice a day. But, hey, they both come with different photocards!
Is the black kit with black (charcoal) toothpaste? I have to go to Chicago to buy it.
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More of a Crest girl, actually.
But most of the specialty shops within the store are closed. And I no longer buy cigarettes across the state line. So. I'm deferring my semi-annual Shisheido and grocery / beverage run. It is difficult to find the right kind of rice around here unless I settle for Super Lucky Elephant Jasmine Rice. About two hundred miles round trip.
One time I was driving the roadster and bought the ultra-tera size mega giant Super Lucky Elephant Jasmine Rice and had to put it in the passenger chair. Wouldn't fit in the trunk. And had to crank the stereo all the way home to drown out the seat belt warning chime.
I just peeled open the seal to check if it was charcoal toothpaste -- it's not, just a gel-type toothpaste. However, it does smell somewhat floral? I wonder if it's VT's jasmine-scented toothpaste. You can get the kits (along with tons of other Asian cosmetics) though YesStyle.com - it's free shipping over $5!
DeleteI am also usually a Crest girl. For decades. But I will change toothpastes for BTS.
200 miles for rice?!!! That's insane! I am lucky to live in a city with such a huge Asian population. (Seriously, over 33% is Asian - mostly Chinese, but includes all Asian ethnicities). That means there's an Asian supermarket every few intersections, lol. Lots and lots and lots of rice.
LOL, I would've just put the seatbelt around on the rice. :P
What do you use from Shiseido? One of my girlfriends works for Shiseido Companies (in the D&G/Ferragamo fragrance department) so she gets me tickets to the private sale all the time. Maybe not this year, though.
Yeah, this year is pretty shot. I am very surprised NFL has not cancelled football.
ReplyDeleteI don't go to Chicago just for rice (although in high school my girlfriends and I went to Chicago for hot dogs late on a Sunday night). Nowadays it's a combined trip for other Asian necessities. Such as Dreamy Clouds sparkling sake, pickled plums, Hello Kitty stuff and Lady M mille crêpes.
And real ramen in the food court. Not the junk that passes for ramen around here.
That's why I sometimes have to settle for locally available Super Lucky Elephant from Thailand. Or Calrose from California.
Just checked. Nishiki comes from California. So. Nishiki is sushi-grade polished Calrose?
In the economical fifty pound bag. I let the seat belt chime go. In the little car, I can be three hundred yards down the road before the warning sounds. With the minivan, it is immediate. I couldn't reach over. Not while I was in traffic anyway. It's like the big bag of Purina Cat Chow. Or Cat-san. I wonder if they know that means "Mr (or Ms) Cat"? But now I know to put the seat belt on the cat litter.
Then it is time to put the groceries away. And decant the fifty pound bag of rice to share with family and my friend Spewgie. 'Cause nuthin' says I love you like a few one gallon Ziploc bags of rice.
When does NFL season start? I don't follow any sports, but it's kinda weird that they haven't cancelled since every other sports league has...?
DeleteAll of those are excellent reasons to travel to Chicago. Ugh, I miss eating non-instant ramen... And it's just not the same when you get it delivered.
I am not a rice aficionado so I don't know all the differences between rice brands. For an Asian, I'm not a huge rice fan - I always prefer noodles. As far is it goes, I prefer the stickier, fatter grains of Japanese or Korean rice. Sadly, can't eat a lot of it because it has so much sugar content - very high on the glycemic index - so I basically only eat it in sushi. But my mom and her friends do the same thing - buy a giant bag of jasmine rice and split it, lol. Perhaps it is an Asian thing.
Mitsubishi Lions (Japan) spring season cancelled, British Columbia Lions (CFL) postponed until July, Wisconsin Badgers (NCAA) scheduled for September, Green Bay Packers (NFL) recently completed their draft. Pre-season begins in August.
DeleteThere are two kinds of season tickets to Packers games. Green and Gold. Because for forty years the Packers played half of their home games in Milwaukee and half in Green Bay.
When a baby is born: (1) get birth certificate and (2) put her on the Green Bay Packer waiting list. Maybe by the time the child is seventy years of age, she will have an outside chance at tickets.
Most teams you can walk up to the box office on game day to purchase tickets. At face value. No scalpers. The Packers waiting list is estimated to be over four hundred years.
That is longer than the BTS waiting list.
I inherited my Green AND Gold season tickets. I am one of God's chosen people.
There is a joke that whenever the Packers want to expand stadium seating, they move the numbers on the bleachers closer together.
Point being that how can I be expected to social distance if I am crammed in there like a sardine?
As an alumna, I also have season tickets to Wisconsin games but to tell you the truth I am getting a little too old for Badger football. Received second letter from the dean about drinking and ceasing vulgar chants along with the other 80,000 of my best friends. And underage college guys mistake me for a coed which might sound like fun in theory but it wears pretty thin pretty quick at tailgate parties. When the Badgers and Packers have home games on the same weekend, I drive from the stadium in Madison to my hotel in Green Bay and don't even bother going home.
My friend Hiroko followed her husband to Mineral Point, Wisconsin (middle of nowhere) when he returned after the earthquake and tsunami. She did not serve tonkatsu ramen in her restaurant. Too difficult even at a professional level - and she made her own ramen noodles everyday.
Her husband took her to Tochi in West Bend, Wisconsin for ramen. About two-hundred and forty miles round trip.
She was angry. It should not be called ramen! And she is a gentle, loving person. She equates fusion with the inability to cook either cuisine correctly.
There is no fanatic like a sports fanatic... I suppose the difference is that the people who go to Packers games are from Milkwaukee and Wisconsin, and they have a very intense pride/love for their team. But it's the same people going to all their games.
DeleteCan't really compare BTS in this sense. BTS are global and there are literally millions of people wanting to see them. And there is no waiting list. You either get tickets or you don't. You don't inherit them, you don't put your name on a list. It's by pure probability (perhaps some luck, if you believe in it) through Ticketmaster that you can see them in concert. (Or you pay a lot of money to StubHub.) And even then, they usually only have two stadium shows per city per tour. If there was a waiting list, it would undoubtedly be longer than 400 years. There's people from over 100 countries wanting to see them live, and if we manage to get tickets, we will travel all over the world to see them. The two BTS concerts in Seoul last year brought in more foreigners and had more economic impact for South Korea than the entire 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. So, different intensity.
I don't believe in God, but I felt like I had won the lottery when I got soundcheck packages for BOTH days of the BTS concerts here in Toronto.
I have no idea about Packers or NFL in general (quite frankly, football isn't a really big thing in Canada), but it seems more intense than Torontonians going to a Leafs game. Or a Raptors game. Well, maybe about the same intensity as the Raptors games in the finals last year. The entire country was watching those games. Tickets were going for tens of thousands of dollars. But, I digress.
I love all food. I don't discriminate as long as it tastes good. It's like some people saying that ramen should be thin and firm. I like mine thicker and chewy. Some people say you have to slurp noodles. I do not slurp noodles. (Actually, this comes from more of the inability to slurp because in Chinese culture, it is considered rude, and that is how I was raised, but basically, I can't slurp even if I wanted to. I immediately choke from the steam from my lack of practice from when I was young.) Of course, there's tradition, and it's fundamental to learning how to cook. But there's plenty of traditional foods that I don't like, or don't like more than modern/fusion counterparts. Basically… I would have to humbly disagree with your friend.