So I go to Costco, and they have a freebie....

[Absolute Mustard]

Well, if you read the fine print their five weeks is 4 shaves per week; so it's more like 20. C'mon, if this guy (who ever he is) can do it, you can too!

I can't count how many times I've shaved while taking a water taxi to a Bangkok whorehouse.

[PugslyCat]

Put it in storage in case you travel and will only carry on, or will be shaving at the gym, or between shifts at work... etc.

+1 - Between work, elderly family members, a crazy first wife, and currently life on a flood plane in tornado country, I have always found it good to keep two "Go bags" to be grabbed if I'm leaving in a hurry. One is TSA approved, the other isn't.

[ouch]

A Gillette Fusion Proglide, free with purchase of shampoo.

Still too expensive for me.

[Useless shaver]

Burn it in a ritual sacrifice?

Edit: And that bit of levity was my 500th post!

+1

BTW Congratulations on your 500th post (it's always nice to be congratulated on one's 500th, 1000th, etc. posts, isn't it? Nobody congratulated me on my 1000th post)

[ouch]

+1

BTW Congratulations on your 500th post (it's always nice to be congratulated on one's 500th, 1000th, etc. posts, isn't it? Nobody congratulated me on my 1000th post)

Belated congratulations!

[Useless shaver]

Belated congratulations!

Oh, thank you very much indeed!

(Sometimes fishing pays off! )

[kingfisher]

Oh, thank you very much indeed!

(Sometimes fishing pays off! )

Congrats on you 1051st post!

[smalltank]

I had a fusion.........threw it in the garbage yesterday. Ordered a Japanese straight.

[Useless shaver]

Congrats on you 1051st post!

Thank you, thank you!

BTW Nice username.

[jbradley]

No way would I use it. The last cart razor I used I had razor rash under my collar for a week. Swore never again.

[cubfanbob]

> How was the shave? close and smooth, but completely without satisfaction. I hadn't realized really how much I enjoy shaving now, until I had to go back. It was a "scrape the face and get to work" exercise plain and simple. I don't miss the old way, even taking into account the occasional weeper or cut from my DE.

+1 - especially the "scrape the face and get to work" part.

About once every couple weeks [yesterday for example] I find myself running late in the morning. My DE shave takes me 15-20 minutes of no hurry, self-indulgent ME time - so I pull out a Mach 3 and Edge Gel and spend 5 quick minutes whacking whiskers.

I get the time back but my disposition is not improved, especially later in the afternoon when the facial flagella start reappearing.

[Blondie]

In case you need a lesson in shaving with the Proglide, here you are. It seems the cost in blades is more than made up for in how little shaving cream you end up using.

[fonkemonkey]

What was the point of using any cream at all?

[Chevyguy]

Seriously? They're claiming five weeks per cart?

Man, I'd been thinking about giving up one enjoyable shave to science, but almost forty? Egads!

IRRC, I got about a week or so per cart before the big switch.

Proctor Gamble sent me a Proglide along with my $15 check for sending them back my broken M3 Power. I just used it last month and the best I could get out of it was 8 shaves before it caused me irritation and a red neck. It went into the recycle bin.

Clayton

[D.B. Cooper]

I won't deny that cartridge razors can give good shaves. It's just that I'm to the point now where the idea of holding a plastic razor seems really beneath me. We're talking full-on snobbishness.

[AceByTerror]

Burn it in a ritual sacrifice?

Edit: And that bit of levity was my 500th post!

Congrats on the landmark post dude!

[Jorocom]

By all means, use it... you won't go to shaving H*LL, I guarantee it.

[cb91710]

A Gillette Fusion Proglide, free with purchase of shampoo.

The stuff is on my list anyway, so now I have a Proglide. Never had anything but a Fusion before.

Shall I use it? Or is it too evil to be trusted to mortal men?

That's not a freebie.

That's like the drug dealer on the corner.

The handle is worthless... dime a dozen... the Proglide blades are 100% compatible with the original Fusion.

But $28 for 4 carts.... ya.... just like the guy wearing the heavy jacket on the corner when it's 90 degrees....

[dieselfuel79]

All I have to say to Gillette about the Fusion is....

[Topgumby]

I got it figured out.

I used it once. Not a bad shave, but like a Pat Poone cover of a Little Richard song, compared to my usual shave it was soulless.

After that, it got claimed by my visiting sister-in-law for her gams.

All's well that ends well.