Actually I was surprised there were not more but I think the house was built just before people started moving to blade cartridges and even electric razors.
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This might be a weak theory, but I would guess that the justification was at least the construction workers would know to expect them and have a standard procedure for disposing of them, and would already be wearing more protective clothing than the folks taking out the trash.
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It was years ago, but this type of ceramic tile razor slot was also in the bathroom wall of a Sheraton in downtown New York City. Just imagine how many total blades might be found inside that hotel’s walls.
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I have one of these little plastic boxes for me safety razor blades, and boy, it’s lasted me forever.
I think I’ll get another five or eight years out of it. Then again, I shave every two weeks, and use the same blade about three or four times, so I only use 6-10 blades a year.
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It seems pretty clever to me. Cheap, safe, and convenient. The space will never fill up from normal use, and if/when you tear the bathroom up for construction you can throw them out with the rest of the construction waste which is going to be including broken glass and tile, rusty nails, and other sharp objects.
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We’ve discussed the several times on BB; I’m surprised we haven’t had a dedicated thread before now. (I’m sure I’ve seen @MrShiv’s photo before.)
This related thread is interesting:
FWIW, you can still buy razor blade wall slot covers.
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“The museum would be pleased to receive the teeth”
For the love of God, why?
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My last had that. Except the medicine cabinet had already been removed and replaced by a mirror, and the previous owners had just left the razor blades for me to deal with. As in, just a basic mirror hung by some wire on a single nail over an opening in the wall with razor blades resting inside with nothing else containing them. Had I had children, hands would definitely have found their way in.
Lots of things in that house were like that.
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Because . . . You never know when they’ll come in useful.
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Oh! So, it is for a sex thing. Got it,
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Yeah, it was here:
Good memory, since that was 4.5 years ago
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For less than 30 bucks you can get an endoscope that connects wirelessly to your phone and you can go spelunking.
But what if you find the guy living in you wall?
A friend of mine told me about this several years when replacing a medicine cabinet in his house in Chicago. I use double edge razor blades with an old style razor and the little plastic dispenser the blades come in has a slot on the back into which one puts the used blades. Easy peasy lemon squeezey.
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A razor blade placed in a bathroom wastebasket could cut anyone who handles the liner bag, not to mention the risk of a small child or a pet getting into the trash.
If you’re ripping apart a building you’re already dealing with broken tile and glass and wire and rusty nails and all kinds of other stuff that would easily cut through a light-duty garbage bag anyway so a few extra sharp things in the rubble aren’t going to make much difference.
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Allow me to resurrect this from the ‘band name/album’ topic:
Band Name : Ray Zore Blade & The Slots
Album Name : The Cabinet of Medicines
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I suppose teeth found in New Jersey could be evidence of another mob killing, so also useful.
To be honest, I remembered having seen a photo of a wall cavity full of blades; it could have been a completely different picture, and I still would have said I was sure I had seen yours.
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Yep, my old house, built in 1931, has a slot for the blades. My across the alley neighbor renovated his house by taking the stucco off rather than the interior plaster, and discovered hundreds of snail shells in the spaces. His theory was that rats left the shells there.
We had one of those growing up. In the floor under it we had a laundry chute door, which simply opened into my father’s workshop. Needless to say we didn’t use the chute.
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My house is old enough to have one of these, but the bathrooms have gone through several remodels, so if it ever had one it’s long gone now. I use a safety razor, though, and I kind of want to install one. Sounds like a fun weekend project. (Ironically, the bathroom I’d put it in is part of the addition added 6 years ago.)
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At least now I know how the older teens in The People Under the Stairs managed to stay so clean shaven. 
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