All of them.
2024 Shave Purchase Sabbatical - The Year of MacGyver
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Just when things were starting to stabilize in terms of drops. We have 2 in 2 days.
Is anyone left but me?
Still in.
Is anyone left but me?
Still in.
I'm still in, despite all the cool kids dropping out..
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To be honest, that might not be a bad idea.
I have been doing more research and some people seem to think that companies with RM business accounts will still be able to post blades through age verified services. I hope they are right, but the sparse information offered by Royal Mail seems to directly contradict this:
The actual legislation is the typical impenetrable legalese. It seems to suggest that the sending of a "bladed product" to a residential property by any means will involve the commission of an offence, but being able to show that reasonable efforts were made to ascertain that the recipient was over 18 could provide a defence. The issue is that the legislation also seems to require that items are "delivered into the hands" of someone over 18. It looks like Royal Mail simply don't want the responsibility, and since a lot of couriers already have blade bans in place I doubt they will want to take it on.
I am no legal expert so I might be mis-understanding, but I imagine we won't get any real clarity until after the cut-off date, when people try to continue "business as usual".
I still think it makes sense to grab a few hundred Feathers now, just in case!
) I went with PermaSharp, Platinum dark blue and 7'o clock SharpEdge (yellow).
A few hundred Feathers? I don’t understand why . . .
Definitely stock up now just in case. I would do the same thing in your situation.
Me too.
Pre Sabbaricsl and with the already lingering news of Russian blades, I stocked up with a few hundred of each of my three blades
I believe I have enough to last me until I'm in my 80's, I'm currently 50. That is if I continue my one blade a week, shave every second day routine.
When I retire in 5y, if I decide to grow a beard, I'll have a whack of blades to give my kids who DE shave.
I like Permasharps, of which I now have a couple of hundred, and Feathers, of which I have around 90. I also have a few hundred of other blades which are not favourites but were purchased impulsively. I seem to have spent a lot of the past couple of years sampling with abandon and working through tucks of blades I don't particularly like, but until recently my stocks of my "old favourites" were down to almost nothing, so there was no "buffer" in place.
I don't have the disposable funds to blow on crazy quantities of blades, but if I pick up a few hundred Feathers and maybe another 100 Permasharps, I should have enough of my favourites to last me around 6 years.
I can't believe that the law is literally going to deprive us of razor blades, but it does look like a serious possibility! The fact that other UK shavers don't seem to be panicking means one of two things: a) I am over-reacting, b) I am the only person who has realised how potentially disruptive this could be.
It feels like there has to be a work around, otherwise businesses like Heinnie Haynes or knivesandtools.co.uk will be completely screwed, but it isn't clear what that will be unless there are couriers that will take the job on.
Well, if I am wrong I will have failed the restraint for no reason, but if I am right...just call me "Winston".
'I wanted to ask you whether you'd got any razor blades,' he said.
'Not one!' said Winston with a sort of guilty haste. 'I've tried all over
the place. They don't exist any longer.'
Everyone kept asking you for razor blades. Actually he had two unused ones
which he was hoarding up. There had been a famine of them for months past...
'I've been using the same blade for six weeks,' he added untruthfully.
Does anyone recognise the quote?
I don't have the disposable funds to blow on crazy quantities of blades, but if I pick up a few hundred Feathers and maybe another 100 Permasharps, I should have enough of my favourites to last me around 6 years.
I can't believe that the law is literally going to deprive us of razor blades, but it does look like a serious possibility! The fact that other UK shavers don't seem to be panicking means one of two things: a) I am over-reacting, b) I am the only person who has realised how potentially disruptive this could be.
It feels like there has to be a work around, otherwise businesses like Heinnie Haynes or knivesandtools.co.uk will be completely screwed, but it isn't clear what that will be unless there are couriers that will take the job on.
Well, if I am wrong I will have failed the restraint for no reason, but if I am right...just call me "Winston".
'I wanted to ask you whether you'd got any razor blades,' he said.
'Not one!' said Winston with a sort of guilty haste. 'I've tried all over
the place. They don't exist any longer.'
Everyone kept asking you for razor blades. Actually he had two unused ones
which he was hoarding up. There had been a famine of them for months past...
'I've been using the same blade for six weeks,' he added untruthfully.
Does anyone recognise the quote?
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I did the same thing as @brucered did. There's a couple thousand blades in my cupboard and I am set for life.
The stance of royal mail does pose a real problem for @Goblin and the other English gentlemen on this forum.
The world is in a sad state. Maybe @Alum Ladd can chime in since he is in England too if I remember correctly.
The stance of royal mail does pose a real problem for @Goblin and the other English gentlemen on this forum.
The world is in a sad state. Maybe @Alum Ladd can chime in since he is in England too if I remember correctly.
1984
Is the original 1984 quote about razor blades? If not I’m guessing cigarettes. (I really should have read that by now!)
100s? 1000s? I can’t wrap my mind around that! I’m still wondering if I’ll use the 130blades I got three years ago before I die! (Which will admittedly be sooner than most of you here.)
100s? 1000s? I can’t wrap my mind around that! I’m still wondering if I’ll use the 130blades I got three years ago before I die! (Which will admittedly be sooner than most of you here.)
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lol - when I started I had no idea what blade I would want... I found a site the you could order a single blade of about 110 or so different types. I decided to look them up and order a box of each (5-10 per box), I then tossed in a bulk box of several different that people seem to like and suddenly I have 2000+ blades. The very next thing I did was find the Excalibur thread and now seem to be averaging a month or so per blade. 
Suffice it to say that I spend zero mental energy worrying if I will have enough DE blades to make it through a sabbatical of any length that I am likely to be alive at the end. Toss in that I have become straight curious and am trying to work my way up that learning curve so on days that I have the leisure time I might not even use a DE blade.
If I was going to spend on shaving... it would be getting an oven so I can heat treat metal, but to be honest I would make several woodworking chisels and plane blades before I tried to make a straight (if I ever tried) I fear I really should be in a sabbatical for sewing stuff. I am really close ordering an industrial walking foot sewing machine to make stuff with webbing and heavy cordura. I am resisting by telling myself my skills are subpar so I am using the snot out of our household sewing machine (community property state so it is half mine right?). I have been told if I knock it out of time again... swmbo is going to hurt me.
Still out here but in the decade sabbatical.
Ruckin
Suffice it to say that I spend zero mental energy worrying if I will have enough DE blades to make it through a sabbatical of any length that I am likely to be alive at the end. Toss in that I have become straight curious and am trying to work my way up that learning curve so on days that I have the leisure time I might not even use a DE blade.
If I was going to spend on shaving... it would be getting an oven so I can heat treat metal, but to be honest I would make several woodworking chisels and plane blades before I tried to make a straight (if I ever tried) I fear I really should be in a sabbatical for sewing stuff. I am really close ordering an industrial walking foot sewing machine to make stuff with webbing and heavy cordura. I am resisting by telling myself my skills are subpar so I am using the snot out of our household sewing machine (community property state so it is half mine right?). I have been told if I knock it out of time again... swmbo is going to hurt me.
Still out here but in the decade sabbatical.
Ruckin
OldSaw
The wife's investment
First tallow, now blades‽ What is this world coming to? I think I’m down to my last 100 Feather blades. Maybe I should stock up?
Gillette Yellows and PreWar Wizamet for me. I have enough to get me well into my 80s. I doubt I’ll ever buy another razor blade. I turned 58 a couple weeks ago @brucered and I will be retiring later this year. I suspect Ill grow a beard every winter and shave during summers. That’s part of why I’m, in this sabbatical. I have so many great blades, soap, and after shaves I’m wondering if I’ll ever get through them all.
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