A few weeks ago I had to go to London on a business trip. I had no travel-sized toothpaste but I did have an empty travel-sized toothpaste tube. Not wanting to carry a huge tube of toothpaste for a short trip and without even thinking about it, my mind hatched a plan.

By opening both the the full tube and smaller empty tube and placing their tube-openings end to end I was able to slowly squeeze and transfer toothpaste from one tube to the other with almost no waste.

Even more impressive, this resourcefulness went from having the need, to idea, to implementation to completion in less than 60 seconds.

I set a mental note at the time to blog about this universal wisdom and hence this post.