Shaving our expenses.

[alchemysa]

You know when your teenage boys have got their first jobs. A lot of fancy shaving gear starts appearing in the bathroom.

(The Gillette Mach 3 Super Turbo Ultra!.. It cuts through the toughest bumfluff like no other razor!)

Of course, to save money to raise these kids, I always shaved with those orange things that were about 5 for a dollar. (They call them disposables. I'd dispose of them when they got so blunt they'd take a patch of skin out with each hair.)

But then the boys got jobs and I got to see what the modern new-age guy is using to shave with. And lucky me, I got to inherit a fancy shaver every couple of months because, naturally, the boys never buy the right refills, or even use up all the blades that come with their fancy shavers. No, after a month or two they had to buy 'the next generation of precision shaving equipment'. So at the bottom of the bathroom cupboard there's always bits and pieces of shavers that a clever guy like me can put together and use. So I also had fancy shaving gear for a couple of years!

But now the boys have left home and all the leftover blades have been used up. So today I had to buy blades again.
But I thought, Hey I can afford it now. The boys are off our hands. Our expenses are down, and I'm worth it! So I'm going to follow the wife around the supermarket and find myself a pack of Mach 5 refills!.
What??!! $26 for eight blades!!! Are you ******* kidding me?!!

So I'm back to the orange things again. $4.95 for 15, and perfectly good enough.

[milkman]

Good for you. I remember when I was a kid and before we got a TV, we would go visit one of my cousins and watch wrestling on Sat. night that was in black and white. Right after that went off, we watched "Gillette Cavalcade Of Sports" which was boxing sponsored by Gillette. That was fifty five years ago and even then their razors were improved for closer smother shave and every model they've come out with since then has claimed the same. I've had a beard since '78 and I would bet that they are so good by now that if I started shaving again, they'd shave so close that I couldn't feel a stubble for about ten days. Amazing how they can keep improving those little plastic things.

[DIRTROAD]

That kind of price shock could make a guy go all "Grizzly Adams"!!!

[Scooby074]

Buy a Merkur Futur and some Feather blades. Will cost around $100CDN. Cheaper Merkurs are available (like the model 38C ~$40CDN). Youll never go back to that Gillette crap!!!

I've made the change, and am having the best shaves of my life. A pack of blades (10 double edged) is $8. And can be found cheaper on Ebay when bought in bulk!

Theres a great site for everything to do with "wet shaving" here Badger & Blade

[cowboy357]

Originally Posted by DIRTROAD

That kind of price shock could make a guy go all "Grizzly Adams"!!!

I Resemble that remark . I,ve never owned a shaver . Bob

[jimmyj]

[quote=alchemysa;1702395]
What??!! $26 for eight blades!!! Are you ******* kidding me?!!
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Yeah, it's amazing they can stay in business at those prices.

Funny you bring this up as I recently succumbed to the advertising and got one of the Gilette-super-Nasa-military-tech-alloy-space-age-razors called a mach-something-or-other and I gotta say....I really like it. It shaves really good. Maybe I'm a softie but the disposables are too sharp when they are new and I cut myself to ribbons with them. For the price, a refill lasts about a week so I can live with it for now even though they're about as much as pure gold.

[scgargoyle]

I can go a couple months on a refill, so the cost is minimal. I shave 3 times a week, and it's barely noticeable. I do have a small beard and mustache, so there's not that much acreage to mow, but refills last me a long time. I had a chest hair once, but it fell out!

[Frosty2]

Originally Posted by cowboy357

I Resemble that remark . I,ve never owned a shaver . Bob

+2 The only way to go.Warm in the winter,w/out sunburn face in the summer.

[Flatheadyoungin]

Yeah, when I was younger I used electric and just dealt with the lack of closeness. Then I switched to a blade and was shocked at the prices. After a few years, I found my brand of refills- not the little cheapies- at the flea-market. They were priced cheap! I bought every they had and every pack I could get my hands on after that. Well, they lasted me about 7 or 8 years. Well, about a year ago, I ran out of the flea-market blades So, I thought, "How bad could it have been? I make a little more money now, lets go get some. Sam's Club would be cheap." Oh no, they were about double what I had paid for them before striking gold at the flea market. I bought the super sized Sam's Club pack, and I'm about out again.

I don't know what to do!

[alchemysa]

Originally Posted by Flatheadyoungin

Yeah, when I was younger I used electric and just dealt with the lack of closeness.

What about the old line 'Close as a blade or your money back'. (Who said that? Remington?). I wonder how many people actually made them give the money back.