I don't often make an effort to be frugal, but I don't want to toss a Feather SuperPro blade early. Unfortunately, by the time I realize a blade needs changing, it's because my against the grain pass is already giving me ingrowns on my neck, and that's about 11 shaves in. I'd like to change after 9 shaves, but damn, that's hard to keep count of. It would be easy to toss the blades after a week, but those last two shaves tend to be particularly nice ones!
I'm thinking of making something like a billiard scoring device for the bathroom, or maybe tying knots in a string, or some such. Anyone have any good tricks?
Blade use counting
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bernards66
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A couple of ideas:
1. Get one of those wallet calendars, a plastic card with twelve months printed on them. Circle the blade change days with a Sharpie marker (won't wash off). Put it near your razor.
2. Get a small container, like a shave cream sample jar. Put in 9 Tic Tacs. Each time you shave, which will presumably be after you brush your teeth, pop a Tic Tac in your mouth. The morning that there's an empty container, change blades and put another 9 Tic Tacs in. Or just use an empty Tic Tac container to hold the 9 Tic Tacs.
Dave
1. Get one of those wallet calendars, a plastic card with twelve months printed on them. Circle the blade change days with a Sharpie marker (won't wash off). Put it near your razor.
2. Get a small container, like a shave cream sample jar. Put in 9 Tic Tacs. Each time you shave, which will presumably be after you brush your teeth, pop a Tic Tac in your mouth. The morning that there's an empty container, change blades and put another 9 Tic Tacs in. Or just use an empty Tic Tac container to hold the 9 Tic Tacs.
Dave
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JimmyWilliam
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Shave Counting
Here's what I do: Pull one nose hair out each time you shave and keep them neatly lined up near the sink.
Just don't sneeze!!
Seriously, how about a pair of dice? Then you can just keep track with the number on the top faces. Good for up to 12 shaves that way.
JW
Just don't sneeze!!
Seriously, how about a pair of dice? Then you can just keep track with the number on the top faces. Good for up to 12 shaves that way.
JW
Ruddy cheeks and face of tan, Neatly shaven, What a man! - Burma-Shave
I like the dice thing also. I might just add that to my list of things to do.2 wrote:I like the die (dice) idea.
I think I'll put that into effect.
Thanks Jimmy. Great idea!
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I don't think I can post SOTD that just alternate between Mitchells and Tabac, though. I don't want to put everyone to sleep. Of course... if more people would just send me exotic shave products....maybe a decant or three of Czech and Speake 88 or something like that, I'd have more to write about
Re: Shave Counting
Or, if you find a local gaming shop, up to 100JimmyWilliam wrote:Here's what I do: Pull one nose hair out each time you shave and keep them neatly lined up near the sink.
Just don't sneeze!!
Seriously, how about a pair of dice? Then you can just keep track with the number on the top faces. Good for up to 12 shaves that way.
JW
I'd recommend an 8-sider.
After the first shave, turn it to 1, and keep going. When you look down and there's no number to turn to, change your blade.
You can even get a fuzzy one! http://www.advancinghordes.com/product_ ... cts_id/559
Karl G. Siewert
Librarian and yo-yo enthusiast
Tulsa, OK
"Someday I'll find it, the BBS Connection, the razor, the stubble, and me."
Librarian and yo-yo enthusiast
Tulsa, OK
"Someday I'll find it, the BBS Connection, the razor, the stubble, and me."
Scott, over a year ago I raised the same concern as yours and someone replied with a solution that I use to this day; that being, I have a magic marker that I use to put a small tick mark in the upper corner of my mirror. Four ticks and a slash with four more ticks and you change your blade after your nine shaves.
The marks are small enough to not be very noticeable.
Before settling on the Tech razor I was cycling through four or five different razors and tracking them all. At that time the tick marks were noticeable.
The marks are small enough to not be very noticeable.
Before settling on the Tech razor I was cycling through four or five different razors and tracking them all. At that time the tick marks were noticeable.
John V
"What one relishes, nourishes"
Benjamin Franklin
"What one relishes, nourishes"
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Re: Shave Counting
Embarrassingly enough, I'm pretty sure I have a set deep in a drawer that I haven't opened in about 15 years, when I moved in, or the 10 years before that.yoyology wrote: Or, if you find a local gaming shop, up to 100
I'd recommend an 8-sider.
After the first shave, turn it to 1, and keep going. When you look down and there's no number to turn to, change your blade.
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Re: Shave Counting
I know exactly where my dice bag is. I've got a game coming up a week from Friday.ScottS wrote:Embarrassingly enough, I'm pretty sure I have a set deep in a drawer that I haven't opened in about 15 years, when I moved in, or the 10 years before that.yoyology wrote: Or, if you find a local gaming shop, up to 100
I'd recommend an 8-sider.
After the first shave, turn it to 1, and keep going. When you look down and there's no number to turn to, change your blade.
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In what way is this embarrassing?
Karl G. Siewert
Librarian and yo-yo enthusiast
Tulsa, OK
"Someday I'll find it, the BBS Connection, the razor, the stubble, and me."
Librarian and yo-yo enthusiast
Tulsa, OK
"Someday I'll find it, the BBS Connection, the razor, the stubble, and me."
Sorry Karl-
Didn't mean to offend. Let's just say that who I was in my teens is quite a different person from who I am in my forties. Plus, many might consider the inability to toss stuff that's laid unused for twenty years with little likelihood of ever seeing the light of day again its own sort of disease!
Didn't mean to offend. Let's just say that who I was in my teens is quite a different person from who I am in my forties. Plus, many might consider the inability to toss stuff that's laid unused for twenty years with little likelihood of ever seeing the light of day again its own sort of disease!
Oh, I'm not offended at all! I accepted my inner geek a long time ago.ScottS wrote:Sorry Karl-
Didn't mean to offend. Let's just say that who I was in my teens is quite a different person from who I am in my forties. Plus, many might consider the inability to toss stuff that's laid unused for twenty years with little likelihood of ever seeing the light of day again its own sort of disease!
Karl G. Siewert
Librarian and yo-yo enthusiast
Tulsa, OK
"Someday I'll find it, the BBS Connection, the razor, the stubble, and me."
Librarian and yo-yo enthusiast
Tulsa, OK
"Someday I'll find it, the BBS Connection, the razor, the stubble, and me."
'tis but a flesh wound...ScottS wrote:Hail, Hail, Fire and Snowyoyology wrote: Oh, I'm not offended at all! I accepted my inner geek a long time ago.
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