How long do your razor blades last?

[vinteuil]

In my view, men under thirty should not be allowed to wear shorts unless they pass rigorous exams. End of rant.

... in my view, males over the age of eight should not be allowed to wear shorts.

[Jonathan]

To answer the original question, not long enough for how expensive they are!

[Serial_Apologist]

Um - was she paying you a compliment?

http://pics.librarything.com/picsize...5341455542.jpg

My father grew a beard in his last years, saying he'd always wanted one, in order to look like Ernest Hemingway. When asked why he had not done so while Mum was still alive, he replied, "Because your mother always said she'd divorce me if I did".

[Richard Tarleton]

My father grew a beard in his last years, saying he'd always wanted one, in order to look like Ernest Hemingway. When asked why he had not done so while Mum was still alive, he replied, "Because your mother always said she'd divorce me if I did".

I've had one for the last 35 years. The present Mrs T has never seen me without it.

[gamba]

My father grew a beard in his last years, saying he'd always wanted one, in order to look like Ernest Hemingway. When asked why he had not done so while Mum was still alive, he replied, "Because your mother always said she'd divorce me if I did".

GOOD !! Now that makes two of us !!!

[gamba]

I grew a beard on a trek up to Everest Base Camp, because there were no washing facilities. When I got back,my boss took one glance and said that I looked like Captain Haddock, so I kept it for a few years. Beards are hell. Mine always looked like a poorly maintained hedge, and once it started to go grey before the rest of me, off it came.

We have a lot of bearded and downtrodden young husbands around here at weekends, pushing buggies dejectedly round the local shops. Apart from fungus that looks as it has been grown by leaf cutter ants, the poor dears usually wear baggy khaki shorts over knotted calves, and hideous sandals with a thong over the big toe. In my view, men under thirty should not be allowed to wear shorts unless they pass rigorous exams. End of rant.

How about the bit from base camp to the top. How does it compare with Harrison's Rocks, near Groombridge, for example. ( !!!! ) They're more my level. Although I do have many happy memories of Tryfan & less happy ones of getting ' stuck ' on my own on Lliwedd. ( stupid boy ! ) I gave up rock climbing after helping carry down what was left of a young boy, who, with two others, had gone climbing on the Idwal Slabs with a clothes line !

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

To answer the question, I bought 2 packets of Gillette Fusion blades with the intention of making all 8 last me for a full year. I actually made a single pack of 4 last for more than a year. is this a record?

[Serial_Apologist]

To answer the question, I bought 2 packets of Gillette Fusion blades with the intention of making all 8 last me for a full year. I actually made a single pack of 4 last for more than a year. is this a record?

When you reach puberty, you will find they do not last as long.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

When you reach puberty, you will find they do not last as long.

The secret is in the soap and brush.

[Dave2002]

I have come to the conclusion that 2 weeks is the absolute limit for my razor blades, and 1 week is pretty much the norm. I use two different razors (both Wilkinson - didn't get on too well with other makes - though I wonder if Wilkinson has gone off recently), and try to push the blades to a week and half in an attempt to economise, but not much use really. I tend to alternate the razors, also in an attempt to get more out of each one.

If I change the blades on Sundays I remember roughly where I'm up to. I've tried shifting the day I change also so that I could gradually get a "free" week, but usually I forget, and it's easier to just go back to changing on Sunday.
That puts shaving at between £50 and £80 per year at current prices.