You’re in luck, these are on sale.
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I think that ties into “neanderthal”, also.
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Merkur, a fairly popular brand, comes with a plastic case with a spot to put used blades (at least in the US).
I like your solution more since it has less plastic you toss away.
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Is that what they called it back then?
You never heard the phrase “young shaver”?
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I use one as well, hella cheaper (try $0.50/blade instead of $4+), smaller environmental impact, sharper and looks badass
Yup, I used those when I got blades in plastic cases, but when I switched to Gillette Silver Blue they just came in a cardboard sleeve. I guess I could say I did it for environmental reasons, but really it was just my favorite blade.
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I learned to shave with a Gillette double-edge razor, and put a few used blades into the slot in the back of the medicine cabinet. But as @AJinNH says, the later blade containers had a space at the back for used blades.
I used to have my father’s razor blade sharpener like this one.
It’s an interesting piece of depression-era technology. The blade sits on eccentrically-mounted posts, and pulling the string back and forth strops it against the green bars, which must have had some fine abrasive embedded in them.
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Same ‘deal’ with Feather (a Japanese brand; same case). I use those in my Merkur Razor.
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My oldest brother moved into a house and decided to rebuild the bathroom. After removing the in wall medicine cabinet with a razor blade slot. He discovered a wall half full of US $0.25 coins. Over $350.00 worth face value, and most pre 1964 in silver so worth more.
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Sounds like some little kid way back when was using the medicine cabinet as a piggy bank.
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I love that (and want one). I’m also surprised that MEI sold anything other than bicycle parts and electrical bits during the depression. (My dad was a Panasonic dealer in the 60s, we used to have lots of corporate literature around, but the historical parts were usually about bicycle lights, batteries, and vacuum tubes.)
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Either that, or dad using it as a swear jar whenever he cut himself shaving.
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From inside the wall, the muffled distant “Damn it!” — then the arrival of the coin. Worthy of an arthouse short.
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Primative pay toilet?
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And that turns out to be true! Come 1992 when I was demoing the bathroom wall of my parent’s condo in Astoria, I was luckily wearing work gloves when I incredulously found tons and tons of old razor blades in a pile of tile and plaster and metal wire. The slot had been closed up before I was born, but all of the blades were still nice and sharp… but they weren’t a problem for the thick plaster bags we used to cart this stuff to the dump. I guess we should be happy they fell out of use before the age of plastic razor heads…
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