I have had my Gillette Sensor razor for over 20 years. I don’t need a new one, even though they’ve changed the design enough times trying to entice stupid people to throw their old ones in the landfill and get “hip” while shaving with the latest design in their hands. They’ve gone from the original 1 blade, to two blades, then three, and now I hear there is a 5 blade razor cartridge out there (what happened to four?)!
I think when I first bought my Sensor razor it came with three cartridges in the package, and you could buy a 5 pack of replacement Sensor Excel cartridges for under five bucks. Now the price for that same package of five blades is a whopping $17.99. Have I missed something?
When I first starting shaving I had a razor like my dad used. As a child I would watch him each and every morning with his shaving brush and lather cup foaming up his face, and rinsing his stainless steel Gillette pop-up razor that held a single two-sided razor blade (the ones cocaine addicts use to chop the rock into something they can snort up their nasal cavities). Well, I had one of those razors for a short time, but I never had the brush or the cup. By then you could get shaving cream in an ozone destroying can in foam or gel, and of course you put enough on your face to shave the hide off a donkey, but hey, it was the beginning of the “disposal” age, and you never really cared about waste until the end of the can dribbled out that liquidy soap that fell off your face into the sink. And you would curse, and hopefully remember to buy a new can, which you’d never remember to shake, and again, you’d fill up your hand with enough lather to haul that donkey’s ass into the bathroom again.
I think when I first bought my Sensor razor it came with three cartridges in the package, and you could buy a 5 pack of replacement Sensor Excel cartridges for under five bucks. Now the price for that same package of five blades is a whopping $17.99. Have I missed something?
When I first starting shaving I had a razor like my dad used. As a child I would watch him each and every morning with his shaving brush and lather cup foaming up his face, and rinsing his stainless steel Gillette pop-up razor that held a single two-sided razor blade (the ones cocaine addicts use to chop the rock into something they can snort up their nasal cavities). Well, I had one of those razors for a short time, but I never had the brush or the cup. By then you could get shaving cream in an ozone destroying can in foam or gel, and of course you put enough on your face to shave the hide off a donkey, but hey, it was the beginning of the “disposal” age, and you never really cared about waste until the end of the can dribbled out that liquidy soap that fell off your face into the sink. And you would curse, and hopefully remember to buy a new can, which you’d never remember to shake, and again, you’d fill up your hand with enough lather to haul that donkey’s ass into the bathroom again.
Well, I’ve turned over a new leaf! I got me one of the old razors, and I soaked it in cleaning vinegar, and scrubbed it with an used toothbrush, and I soaped it, and soaked it in alcohol, and polished it up all bright and shiny like. For Christmas I got a shaving brush and a dish of shaving soap, and last week I purchased a five pack of razor blades from the drugstore for the small cost of $5.69 and you know what? I bet that the shave I get from that razor when I start using it next week will be as smooth as the shave from my Gillette Sensor! In fact, I’d even put my freshly shaved face up against one shaved with one of those 5 blade razors and dare anyone to tell which blade shaved which beard!
Sometimes I think it’s OK to be old fashioned, and I think my Dad will look down at me shaving as I once watched him and say “that’s my boy!”
Sometimes I think it’s OK to be old fashioned, and I think my Dad will look down at me shaving as I once watched him and say “that’s my boy!”
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