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Discussions About Being Bald => General Discussion => Topic started by: Razor X on December 08, 2012, 09:22:16 PM
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I was watching a program on HGTV this morning in which a very old and outdated bathroom was being renovated. When they broke down one of the walls, they found a bunch of razor blades behind it. There had been a slit below the medicine cabinet specifically for that purpose. I mentioned it to my dad later in the day and he said that was once a very common method of disposing of used razor blades. I never heard of this before and it seems like a very odd thing to do. Is anyone else familiar with this practice?
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Yup ... it was also common in hotel bathrooms.
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Yup ... it was also common in hotel bathrooms.
What happens when the wall fills up?
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That was a very common part of every medicine cabinet at one time--just a slot and the blades fell into the spaces between the walls bounded by the upright studs. It potentially could hold several lifetime's of blades. I don't know if that worked on exterior walls because of insulation issues though. If you're in an older home without a bathroom rennovation, open the medicine cabinet and the slot is in the rear. I don't remember the slots as large enough to accept anything other than single and double edge blades for safety razors and the blades from injector blades. I think the advent of cartridge razor systems in the late 50's and early 60's finished that off.
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That was a very common part of every medicine cabinet at one time--just a slot and the blades fell into the spaces between the walls bounded by the upright studs. It potentially could hold several lifetime's of blades. I don't know if that worked on exterior walls because of insulation issues though. If you're in an older home without a bathroom rennovation, open the medicine cabinet and the slot is in the rear. I don't remember the slots as large enough to accept anything other than single and double edge blades for safety razors and the blades from injector blades. I think the advent of cartridge razor systems in the late 50's and early 60's finished that off.
That brought back memory's ! ;) O0
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Yeah, apparently it was pretty common! If I owned my place I'd put one in for sure.