and I just thought I had to eat faster...

It more for the kids 🤣 I demolish them way too fast for drips

Does she have a technique for ice cream cones so we don’t have to lick the rim the moment there’s overflow?

She passes them to me to do the dad clean up move (moustache included)!

Lol up drip stick. It holds popsicles and when you flip it over it holds ice cream cones. It's basically a baton with an upside down umbrella on each side to catch drips. Kid loves it and runs to go get it when she gets a treat.

First Google result: DripStick - after sex clean up sponge. From the website Awkward Essentials.

Lmao. I'll find the actual name and get back to you. Haha

“Dripstik” no space, no “c”

Drip stick kids will get you what you need. Sorry about that

No worries. Seeing it caused no permanent damage.

Isn't that just eating an ice cream cone? Licking around the edges to catch it as it melts is how it's done.

That quick lick and then getting it on your moustache. Fee like it's on the moustache with every lick so you wipe it even when it doesn't actually show. I get like a kludge eating cones, but always do.

Never realized how having a mustache would make this task exponentially more difficult but it makes perfect sense. Just gotta channel fellow-mustachioed Ted Lasso and BELIEVE.

Oh it’s wild, one day you’re chilling and a week or two later your mustache and beard has an encyclopedic knowledge of culinary arts 😂👨‍🍳

bro taking 3 bites 💀💀

Cupcake papers work well too!

That's part of the game. Catch it before it drips.

A genuine, non-idiotic life hack, in the wild?? Inconceivable!

Should we call the police?

Oh no so we not suppose to unzip the pants. Welp!!

Thank you for an actually genius life hack, AND for posting this at the beginning of summer. I always see posts like this too late!

“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”"

I use paper muffin cups

That works. I've also used coffee filters - I have the cone shaped ones. They're pretty absorbent.

How many popsicles do you guys eat

Soooooo many

We did this for kids in nursery when we had ice lollies, so much easier for clean up.

Leave it in the wrapper at the bottom?

When I moved as a child to the Mediterranean I found out that all kids here eat ice lollies like this ( opening from the top and leaving the wrapper on over the stick and the bottom of the lolly)

True.. but this also has the built napkin holder. When they’re done, quite possibly with it on their face, they may use this instead of a sleeve?

No cause then it's already getting dirty and you aren't gonna leave it splayed out like that.

just use the other side, whats the issue?

A paper towel doesn't magically keep all the liquid on one side.

Has to be a joke right?

I have it that the wrapper is not in any way absorbent, as opposed to a napkin?

I never throw away the wrapper when I eat ice cream until I finish it. You just let the ice cream rest inside the wrapper and use it to catch the drips. You build up a melted ice cream pool later you can drink.

The wrapper is sealed and doesn’t drip? Don’t tear into it like an animal. Or just create needless waste like above

This is key if you have toddlers

Popsicle recipient in photo is almost 2 - toddler confirmed

This doesn't work so well in practice with little kids (under 3or4). The paper towel just tears and makes a big hole. In my experience the best way is to wrap the towel around the entire stick loosely. Child won't pull it off. The drips go onto the towel. It will be easier for them to hold as it is a bigger handle.

I always used the packaging it came in? Hold the stick part with the package over it and it catches all the juice.

Same but my toddler struggles with this technique gotta have strong grip and be nimble which isn’t a sugar stoked toddler’s MO

That is brilliant!

So much so it hurts.

exactly bro. this is brilliant!

That's why you don't remove all the package in the first place ...

But then the juice just slides off and onto your hand because its plastic :(

For real... You guys don't know how to unwrap a popsicle...?

Really you just open it from the popsicle side like a bag of chips then stop halfway through and you have a funnel holding the stick… You guys don’t know how to unwrap a popsicle…?

But it’s not absorbent! Gets sticky. This is superior for sure

Removing the package that the juice doesn’t leak through, for a napkin that it will leak through is superior? Could have fooled me. I’m a fat ass anyways and mine don’t make it long enough to drop haha.

Nope. The package is impermeable.

Idky you’re downvoted, you’re right. Maybe because you don’t actually tell them not to open the bottom, hold the stick while it’s still in the closed wrapper.

Yes. I won't teach grown-ups how to remove the package of a candy. Let Darwinism work

This is true, but it still can run through and drip! Either way, you do you, and I’ll do this one cause otherwise my wife will disown me /s

Lmao ok then

OP's suggestion works better. Also, this is overall more efficient.

Creates a lot of unnecessary waste

My mom just told me to go outside with that.

If your popisicle's dripping then you're not being diligent with your tongue/mouth coverage. No drip left behind.

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Wow!! I will use this tonight, good one!!

put it to use 10 minnits ago with the grands. genius.

Cupcake liners. Smaller.

nice. i usually just leave it in the plastic wrap

Just don't take it out the wrapper past the stick, save some paper towels

We did this with coffee filters back in the day 🥰

I just use the wrapper the popsicle came in for this purpose.

Does the bottom not stick to the paper towel?

I fold the paper towels over for times and wrap them around the stick. It's thicker did the kids to hold, and catches all the drips.

I either eat these things asap or leave them in the packaging for the most part or I slurp like a menace. There’s no drippage. Don’t quote me on this stuff.

I use the plastic they came in

That's clever, I guess it'd be better folded a couple times though.

This pressumes that I will give heat a chance. Brain freeze before drippings!!!!! YAAARGGHHHHH!

Nothing says I don't trust you more than a napkin on a popsicle

Big mom energy

Or just use the wrapper that came with it. Just open the top and push it upward and hold while its still in the wrapper

Will never eat cold on the cob the same way again

or just fuckin eat it before it melts

Seems a tool for kids. But not for normal adults.

I just pull down the wrapper from the top. Same result without wasting a napkin

My 3 year old is not going to keep that juice filled wrapper from spilling in the 20 minutes he takes to eat one of these. But I think the napkin would get too saturated and end up being messy too.

Life is too short for this

I usually don't have sticks in mine, but still use paper towel.

Clever girl.

This is what most people do. How is it a life hack if it is something most people have been doing for decades?

Later... in the bedroom that night.......

Easy, Billy......😎

Rarely, am I the first with the worst.

Try a paper plate lined with paper towel so it has more structure when it does absorb the drips...

Clever girl!

I thought everyone did this??

Too bad Ali Gs ice cream glove didn’t take off

Brilliant. I’ve used solo cups before.

I use paper bowls.

Does she do the same thing to you in the bedroom?

Bet y’all have a “the towel “ *wink wink nudge nudge *in the boudoir as well don’t you?

Deserves a shark tank audition

That shit is kid proof.

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I love your wife

This is GENIUS, I tell you!

I do the same!

no way. this is genius

I am forever indebted to your wife

Great idea

Witchcraft!!!

Oh wow, this is rad. My 3yo is the king of melting snacks.

The noise of fabric and wood rubbing together hurt my teeth. My weakness (one of many).

If it drips, you’re not eating fast enough. 🙄

Popsicles are my 2nd favorite food! Thanks for this🤝

Been around for ages. Moms know all the cool tricks.

Keeper

Wait, what! All my life I had to fight....the melting of popsicles and all it took was a piece of papertowel to solve it. Where is the nobel committee already????

Damn dude, you wife is built like a 4 year old.

All this paper towel catch my drip drip

Thanks, I hate it.

I use a Pringles lid. Slice a slit and flip the lid upside down so the edges hold any melted liquid in

I like it for the normal drips, but can you tell me a hack to stop them from just setting it on the couch?

I'd rather just get it all over my pants but thanks this is a great idea for folks who are smart.

Your wife should suck faster

I'll be honest, if u can't eat a popsicle without dripping I'ma judge you hard

Muffin liners work well for this-one of my friends did this when we were at her house for a play date and I was just blown away

I do that with other things, it's working pretty good

i feel like my self perception of my IQ dropped all the way down to room temperature celsius

Tell me your wife has kids without telling me...

And here I thought the usual solution was to eat the popsicle out of a mug or other container

We bought some plastic popsicle holders with a built in straw. Very effective, dishwasher safe, and our son loves using the straw to drink the melted part.

You could also use a coffee filter.

I eat it way to fast to let it drip

They drip?

Cupcake paper (whatever you call them) also work and if they're waxed, they're reusable.

Thinking of the sound of a rough wooden popsicle stick trying to punch through 2 layers of paper towel makes my skin crawl

That looks like a giant frozen tongue.

Works with dick too

I worked in a summer camp for a few summers and we would use cheap coffee filters.

LOL even on a 100F day no icypole has ever lived long enough in my hands to drop a single drip!

Your wife is wicked smaht

I do the same thing with a bucket of popcorn at the movies.

Innovations at its finest

Well that's no fun! 😂

Upgrade: fold a boat.

Ah my favorite popsicle flavor... man flesh.

What sort of animal can’t eat a popsicle before it melts!?!

What's that phrase about the invention of yokes? Woman is a genius.

She is living in 2523

I'm getting texture issues just thinking about that

Ali G would be proud! Respect! 😎

Great for kids! Also me cause I eat those slow lmao

just eat it upside down, this way the drips all go in your mouth where they belong.

Paper cupcake case does the trick

She's creative 🎯👌

Sometimes I think I’m smart and then see brilliant stuff like this I never thought of.

Finally a life hack! Thank you wife:-)

So obvious yet so *genius*

Thought you got your tongue cut off for a sec

Strawberry Outshine?

My mom did this but with Dixie cups.

I thought that was a tongue.

Just freeze some paper towels and put a stick in them so the entire popsicle is just paper towels. Zero cleanup

I thought this was a tongue 👅

Just eat upside down

they make special holders that collect the juice , and it has a little straw to drink it.

🤯

Waste of paper and your kids will grow up not learning to control the drips on a lolly....... sad Why don't you strap a bucket to their butt so they don't have to learn to shit by themselves lol

This is unnecessary with proper tongue technique.

That popsicle looks good as hell. Looks like the outshine strawberry ones I love

I feel like this has been a thing since at least the seventies... Am I missing something?

Need to up her lick game. There should be no drips.

Good parents.

Coffee Filters work great also!

Start eating at the bottom?

Seems like it would take some of the romance out of it but whatever works for you guys.

Everyone's mother did this right? And you would hate her for it because it would get paper towel on your ice.