I hate the throw away culture/ but I love my Gillette razors

[mkevenson]

Funny How King Gillette started out his business venture in the shaving world wanting to produce and sell a product that was widley used and then thrown away, creating an ever growing continuing demand for his product. Of course this product was the DE razor blade, needing no sharpening or honing, just replacement with a new blade after a few shaves. Today we at B&B collect, use and admire another of King Gillette's wonderful products, the disposable blade holder. This blade holder in many cases will last over 100 years. Interesting concept old Gillette had, make a blade that everyone will need to replace and almost give the holder away for pennies, a holder probable 100000x as good as the blades.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

 

[sandmountainslim]

Funny How King Gillette started out his business venture in the shaving world wanting to produce and sell a product that was widley used and then thrown away, creating an ever growing continuing demand for his product. Of course this product was the DE razor blade, needing no sharpening or honing, just replacement with a new blade after a few shaves. Today we at B&B collect, use and admire another of King Gillette's wonderful products, the disposable blade holder. This blade holder in many cases will last over 100 years. Interesting concept old Gillette had, make a blade that everyone will need to replace and almost give the holder away for pennies, a holder probable 100000x as good as the blades.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

Merry Christmas!
It is amazing how the razors themselves are so sturdy and in my opinion works of art.
You know it's sad how nowadays Gillette makes expensive disposable cartridges but the razors themselves are just cheap plastic crap. Very doubtful that anyones grandson will shave with their Fusion seventy years from now It's the same thing with everything. I played a round of Wolfenstein VCS on my Atari 2600 this morning that I got back in '82 for my birthday, I normally use an Atari emulator on my PC but that old machine is built like a tank and will be going strong when Xbox 360's fill up the landfills! Just like the Gillettes of yore

 

[Loner16]

Agreed!

A highly successful business model that has prospered to this day, and it's amazing how many industries still adhere to it..
I also hate the concept of our "throwaway" society.. So maybe I should make a move to the straight razor..

Merry Christmas to all...

 

[mkevenson]

Agreed!

A highly successful business model that has prospered to this day, and it's amazing how many industries still adhere to it..
I also hate the concept of our "throwaway" society.. So maybe I should make a move to the straight razor..

Merry Christmas to all...

Been there ,done that. For that very reason about 2 months after I started using a DE, Nov '08, I bought my first, of many str8s. I bought the hones and the videos and all the stuff. I was determined that I was going to use a str8 and never throw away another DE blade. I worked hard at it, I really did, for about 9 months. Then one day I said, "self, you just are not getting the close shaves that you get with a DE, and you are bleeding 2-3x a weeks from cutting yourself, not only that, you are spending way too much time honing those razors." And the rest of the story is that I have gone back to the original concept of using a DE and loving it. I tried, I really did, but oh my I failed in my str8 endeavor.
Happy Days are here again

 

[T Rick]

As far as the throwaway aspect is concerned (the ecological part), you can always use a metal blade bank, and recycle it when it's full. Not a total zero footprint (they still require energy and furnaces to make the blades), but at least it doesn't contribute to filling landfills and robbing the industrial machine of steel.

As for the economical side, hey, at about $10 to $15 per 100 for many good blade types, who's worrying?