Simple way to track shaves
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It's a good idea; I sometimes see dice in guys' den photographs, and they look cool. But not for me. I decide on each shave as I go into the can to shower and shave. After each shave, I do assess the results. If not the closest shave, I bin the blade; I pick a new one the next time I shave. No need for a die, which I'd forget to turn anyway. A spreadsheet? Not in this non-tech life-time.
Use one of these
+2 for shaving buddy
You could make a variation of ranger beads:
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Usually I get something between 4 and 8 shaves from a blade. But I do not keep track, "face feel" is much more important than the numbers.
I like the ranger beads idea, hadn't thought of that before.
You can find pictures on the link I posted.Draw me a concept piece of that three sided die will you? I'll make millions
That's the way to go, but too many of us suffer from OCD... For two years, I used Google calendar to track the shaves in great detail. Crazy!
I make notches on the wrapper and place the latter under the razor with that blade. See the picture below.
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I use a spreadsheet to track all my shaving stuff.
This one had me laughing!
That's what I do. I also do reports out of it to see how many shaves I get out of X blades and which combo works best. So far, the Schick blades are my top blade compared to the Personna schick as an example...
Better than a three sided die.... the table marker from a churrascaria (Brazilian steakhouse)!
green up (1)
yellow sideways (2)
red up (3 and out)
green up (1)
yellow sideways (2)
red up (3 and out)
+1,too long in the tooth to try to remember what day it is.
This topic recently came up when I told my wife I was using a variety of different blades and was having trouble keeping track of how many shaves I had on each blade. Of course I had a number of extremely complex methods I was considering, when my wife said "Why don't you just put a permanent marker pen near your blades and put a mark on the blade after each use, thereby knowing how many shaves you have on each blade."
Now I use this method and it works perfectly. Leave it to a wife to employ the old axiom KISS (keep it simple stupid).
Now I use this method and it works perfectly. Leave it to a wife to employ the old axiom KISS (keep it simple stupid).
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Very good idea except that blades are wet and you have to take them out of the razor. You could just mark the blade wrapper.
X3 but the flaw with it I cant change blades and reuse. If I change it it starts from zero again. Really good app for ppl who's lazy to do excel.
