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Tubby Buddies are
personal,
decorative drain stoppers.
We fit any kind of bathtub drain.
Even if you have a permanent,
clickable drain, using a Tubby Buddy is simple and FUN!
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The Tubby Buddy Story
One morning in the Spring of 1995, Deb got up to take her usual Saturday morning bath.
She made a pot of coffee and got the morning paper. As she made her way back into the
house, she could smell the aroma of the coffee brewing. Pulling her favorite mug out of
the cabinet, she poured it to the brim, added some non-dairy creamer, and headed toward
the bathroom. Nothing unusual.
Deb turned the water on and held her hand under the tap until it reached the perfect
temperature. When she looked to the side of the tub where the drain stopper was kept, it
wasn’t there. Now this plug wasn’t anything to write home about. As a matter of
fact, it was so old and worn out she really needed a new one. It was missing the chain
that had once been attached to it, the metal ring that attached it to the chain, and even
the part the ring attached to. It was a pain to use anyway, and when used, she had to use
a butter knife just to remove the stopper from the drain.
Deb looked under the cabinet in the bathroom, she looked in the kitchen … she looked
everywhere and couldn’t find it. She was bummed. This was her time; her Saturday
morning and she couldn’t find the stopper.
Sitting on the side of her tub was a little rubber duck she had gotten from a local
pool company. It was really cute -- with sunglasses, a baseball cap and the company’s
name printed on its breast. Still intent on taking a bath, Deb picked up the duck and set
him over the drain. To her amazement, the drain’s suction pulled the duck down and it
held the water in! It did leak a little, but not enough to matter. So she thought to
herself, if she took this duck and glued it to the top of the stopper then she’d have
a way to pull the stopper out of the drain. She finished her bath and she went on a
mission to find that plug.
While cleaning the bathroom, she found the stopper behind the toilet. She quickly
picked up the stopper went to the kitchen and got the hot glue gun. She glued the duck to
the plug let it dry and took it back into the bathroom. She placed the stopper, with the
duck now attached, into the drain and turned on the water. She watched the water get
deeper and deeper until it covered the duck. Amazed, she reached down and tapped the duck
and he doesn’t budge. She tapped him again a little harder and the duck popped up out
of the drain and floated.
A few weeks later Deb showed some friends her creation. They loved the duck , the idea
and needed a new stopper themselves so they asked Deb if she would make one for their
bathtub. The only problem was she had no ducks. She then
contacted a friend who was an executive secretary for a local exposition company who had
seen the ducks in one of her catalogs. The Friend called the sales rep and asked her the
manufacture was but she was hesitant to give the manufactures name. She told the sales rep
Deb would buy 100 from her if she would give Deb his name. Deb ordered the 100 ducks, she
gave her the manufactures name and that's when Tubby Buddies were born and Deb was then
able to make some for her friends, now they are not glued with a hot glue gun they are
actually manufactured in Fremont California, by the manufacturer.
Tubby Buddy Staff
We're not a huge corporation. We're just a couple of folks trying to
clean up America through our message: PLEASE TAKE A
BATH! And Please take a Tubby Buddy with you!
Deb - President / Inventress
Deb was born in Albuquerque New Mexico September 12, 1953. She graduated from
Huntsville High School in 1972 and attended the University of Montevallo in Alabama.
During this time, she went to work in Chattanooga Tennessee for a major communications
company l as a cable helper, one of the first women to be hired in an all male dominated
career field. She was a helper for 5 years then got promoted to cable splicer. Laid off in
1982, Deb joined the Air National Guard and fulfilled her service time at basic training
then onto cable splicing school at Sheppard Air force Base.
She then went back to Chattanooga, and worked for the Air National Guard as a splicer.
She applied for a job in Las Vegas Nevada shortly after getting home. On July 1, 1983,
another major communications company in Las Vegas called to interview Deb for a cable
splicing position. Three weeks later she was on the road to Vegas. She sold most
everything she owned, put her house up for rent and headed to Vegas in a 63 VW. She took
it slowly and made it out there in 4 and a half days.
One of her former co-workers from the Bell System was already working out
there so she stayed with him and his family until she got her own place.
She is currently an Inspector/Fiber Tech overseeing contractors in the
new state-of-the-art technology known as Fiber to the Curb.
Jeffrey A. Cleary - Business Manager
Owner of his own internet business, NVDomains.com, web
hosting since 1997, and network consulting firm, JeffreyCo, Inc.,
Jeffrey brings a vast amount of business management combined with technical
expertise with a flair for marketing. Jeffrey is also an avid T.V.
fan. "T.V. was my babysitter! I'm almost as trivia savvy
as Rosie O'Donnell."
Jeffrey met Deb and her Tubby Buddies in 1999, and was so smitten with those adorable
little ducks, he joined Deb in her vision, "A Tubby Buddy in every bathroom."
Quack! Quack!
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