Shavings Account
One blogger’s relationship with razor blades.
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Originally published on RBCp2p, an initiative by The Royal Bank of Canada, where I won a Canada-wide competition to become one of 6 student bloggers.
As I sit here writing this entry I am in need of a shave.
Not desperately in need of one, but it would be a good idea. But, oh what’s this? I’m out of razor blades, and I will readily admit that razor blades are among the things I most despise buying. The reasons are simple enough:
- they are so freaking expensive (at the LEAST, $11 or so most of the time for the ones I buy). See attached pictures for an example of what can happen when I use lesser-quality blades (on New Year’s Eve no less) and when I don’t use any at all. Either way, not pretty.
- there’s always that internal struggle of whether I should buy the 4-pack because it technically costs less or go for the better value of 8 (or however many are in the bigger pack). The 4-pack idea usually wins, even though I have to return to the guarded security compound (refer to bullet point #3) that is razor blade shopping more often if I buy the smaller pack. They just don’t seem to last long enough.
- you have to go on a treasure hunt to find them/find the cost of them. Am I the only one troubled by the fact that we keep these items behind alarm-rigged cases and behind/near the checkout for security purposes, while just about EVERYTHING ELSE in the store is out in the open? “Code Quattro! Code Quattro! We have a breach! Suspect is… well, hard to identify because he’s wearing a hair mask!” Vain much, are we?
- there are single blades, triple blades, quadruple and quintuple blades (where will it end?), powered ones, different coloured lubricating strips (do I want the orange or the blue?), and who doesn’t wanna be on the cusp of shaving revolution, right? (I currently use the Mach 3, and am pretty satisfied but I oh-so enjoy the word Fusion).
By my calculations, blades usually run me $14 after tax for a 4-pack. Divide that by the four blades and each blade is about $3.50. Considering I get 3-3.5 REALLY good shaves out of a blade (those among you who shave larger areas would get less), I wish I could somehow find a way to shave with loonies. It would make the whole process more efficient, don’t you agree?
LOONbricating strips. Anyone? No?
