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14 March 2011 #11
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14 March 2011 #12
Mike Moderator
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I shave about every other day. It comes in pretty quick, but is patchy. I use a Mach 3, but I've been looking at getting into a straight razor... they just seem to be a pretty big investment if I find out that my hand isn't as steady as I think. And no matter what razor I use (with expection of an electric, which I don't like) I cut myself in the same one or two spots. Just a rough spot in the skin that gets nicked nearly everytime.
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14 March 2011 #13
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- Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
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- 2006 9-3 2.0T SportCombi "Mattie"; On SAABatical: 1993 9000 CSE 2.3T "Matilda"
Once every couple of days, I fire up Old Betsy;
Looks pretty bushy to me, Cincy !
Nah, this is what our dads used:
And I'm talkin' the glass bottles too, not the wimpy modern plastic bottles (which I shamelessly use ..... the OS classic aftershave)"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
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14 March 2011 #14
Matt Saab-Blooded
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I actually have a 6 blade razor.. Yes they do make it... Its actually "hannaford" brand, a grocery store brand... I LOVE it though. All the blades make it great in "sensitive" areas if u know what I mean.....
I tried going back to a three blade razor and got a lot more irritation and cut myself.
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14 March 2011 #15
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hot button rant ..
Yeah, shaving used to be a non-issue almost, it never counted in the budget.
What brought this to a head in the last few years is that they keep changing the refill deals for the blades so the handle becomes obsolete.
Worse, if you are unlucky like I was, your beard will change when you get older from normal to coarse and brittle so you need to change blades more.
Insult to injury ..
The other day I found my old double edged razor. Now to put this into perspective it used to be like $1.29 for a pack of blades or if you went high quality stainless it was a $1.59 for a pack of 6. Guess what? You can't buy them anymore, I did find a pack of single edge (special razor they don't sell anymore), in the drug store today. So then I look around and find my current Shick with three refills for ... $14.99.
And those little bags of cheapo Gillette with the blue handles only drag and inflict pain. Heck I used to do a "military shave" .. a double shave where your DI would use a credit card to test it; any schooooooch noise and you had to shave again and I really like a tight clean shave.
Yeah, my old razor is sitting there waiting.
Look at all the plastic that gets tossed into the landfill too. I am not even a green freak but the waste bothers me. My old faithful razor would still be going strong from 1968, so how is this new stuff progress and yeah I was actually on the hunt today so you hit a raw nerve.Last edited by tunnanxwd; 14 March 2011 at 23:15.
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14 March 2011 #16
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15 March 2011 #17
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- 2006 9-3 2.0T SportCombi "Mattie"; On SAABatical: 1993 9000 CSE 2.3T "Matilda"
Love it !
Never seen that before, I don't watch much TV ('cept Food Network, duh !)"Nulla tenaci invia est via"
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15 March 2011 #18
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- 06 9-3 Aero
Now that I think about it, every razor I've used in the past dozen or so years I got as a free trial in the mail. First the Mach 3, then the 4 blade whatever, now the Fusion 5 blade. They probably think they're onto something by providing the razors for free when the blade refills are so expensive. (kinda like inkjet printers) Too bad for them I can make a 4 blade refill pack last over a year. Or just move on to the next freebie that came in the mail. slickdeals is good for that too.
There's a battery powered Fusion (I think?) that came in the mail at least a year ago that I haven't even opened. I use a cheap walmart Wahl trimmer for the facial hair I do keep. I have the white trash facial hair that grows in every direction, so when it gets long I look like a rube. I always have a buzzcut too (#1 guide on the clippers- cut my own hair) - the modern mullet. Low maintenance. Hey, and a Hugger Orange Camaro. Appearance-wise, I fit almost every white trash stereotype.
I assume anyway. I honestly haven't looked at my full face in the light in like 15 years. Shaving is done with a 2" round mirror in the tub or shower and by feel. My wife tells me what I missed. If it wasn't for occasional pics and looking at myself in the mirror in shadows I'd have no idea what I look like. But I've gone way OT.
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15 March 2011 #19
Jared The young one
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15 March 2011 #20