Safety Razor

[Kyle]

I tried to find the thread where we've talked about this before, but couldn't. But this always amazes me.

In August of 2019, I paid $12.66 for a basic safety razor (now selling for $15.66- thanks, Obama). It looks like this:



I also paid $7.29 for 200 razor blades (now selling for $8.54- Bidenomics, amiright?).

So I've paid a total of $19.95 over five years ago. And I still have about twenty or so razors left.

Two things that strike me: (1) I've saved a butt-ton of money over the last five years- even if I was buying cheap, disposable razors that only last a week, I'd be in for a lot more money; and (2) this has to be FAR superior for the environment, right? My waste can be fit in a ring box. Think of all the disposable razors, or "mega hawk five blades" that would fill up the trash over five years.

[Tahlvin]

How do you safely dispose of your used blades?

[Kyle]

I put the used ones back in the paper wrapper that the new one came from and put it in the trash. I should probably keep an empty, clean coke can in there to put them into. Maybe I’ll start doing that. And when it fills up after a couple of years I’ll throw it away.

[Akiva]

Any thoughts on how that razor would work for shaving one's head?

[Kyle]

I've heard that it takes some getting used to on the curves of your jaw- and I'm guessing that's true for the scalp. But I found it really easy from the get go. But for a $20 experiment, I'd guess it's worth trying.

[Phoebe]

I like this plan. In our house the blades just go on into the trash. I use disposables because they last SO long for my slight purposes - much less duress for them. We discussed it here in the car while waiting for something and decided the rank ordering of quantity from low to high is:
Butt-load.
Shitload
Shit-ton (not sure how many buttloads one s-load or s-ton represents but it's some multiple)
Fuckload
Fuckton
(F is higher than S and ton higher than load.)
So by this logic I'd put a butt ton between a butt-load and shit-load.
I wonder if we are missing other key standards.

[Tahlvin]

I've seen pictures where old houses used to have a slot in the wall where you could dispose of your used, dull razor blades, but there wasn't actually a container for them, they would just fall into the gap between the plaster/sheet rock of the wall. Makes remodeling old houses a bit hazardous.