You Know You Are Old When

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You’re getting old when you realize time has passed and your old favorite 25 cent shaving soap has become rare , and $56 dollars.

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You’re getting old when you realize time has passed and your old favorite 25 cent shaving soap has become rare , and $56 dollars.
I started shaving in the mid 60s, and even then I mostly associated that with old men or barbershops. Even my father used regular aerosol shaving cream.
 
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You’re getting old when you realize time has passed and your old favorite 25 cent shaving soap has become rare , and $56 dollars.

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Prices always skyrocket like this on anything that's been discontinued, or is experiencing an interruption in supply.

I guess I'm not old enough to remember it ever costing 25 cents, but since a single bar lasts a year and a half of daily shaving or closer to 3 years with my present "every other day" schedule... I never worried too much about the cost. Here's the brand I've been using the last five or six years, under $15:

 
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Cigarettes were $0.30 in the bowling alley vending machine when I started.
 
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Remember the creaky noises the ice would make as it started to crack?
Remember how any house with teenagers always had mostly-empty trays, from kids who would steal individual cubes, to avoid having to empty and refill the whole tray?

Age 15, I was damn near expert at popping a single cube out, with a fingernail or butterknife.
 

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