the eternal razor

[mindstalk]

Some people use cartridge razors to shave. I was once of them.

Some use safety razors, extolling the clean shave and low cost.

Some use a straight razor, proud of their ability to not cut themselves.

I have taken to using disposable razors. Except, for nearly six months now, it has been the same razor. Not the same brand, but the same physical object. Only now is it starting to maybe lose its edge.

To be fair, this is unusual even in my experience, though it's not the first one to last 1-2 months of being used every other day.

I do think that to get such longevity, it's essential to use a single-blade. Multi-blade models invariably gunk up with hairs, despite attempts to rinse them out.

Comments

[mtbc]

Wow, that's impressive. I guess you must store it in quite dry conditions? I don't think I've tried to push a disposable for more than a week.

[mindstalk]

I don't do anything special to store it -- I just leave it in the shower area! But I am in California, and the first long-lived disposable I noticed was in Chile, so perhaps the climate helps. (That one, I think I had used, then gone home, then come back a year later to find it still on the wall of the shower enclosure, above the eye level of the people who would have cleaned the bathroom. I don't remember how long I had used it at first, but I got another 3 weeks out of it.)