I just happened to think of this the other day. When I was a kid back in the 1950's my grandparents had a large medicine cabinet that was built into the bathroom wall. Inside the cabinet was a horizontal slot which my grandfather used to dispose of his used blades by just sliding them into the slot. I imagine the blades ended up somewhere between the walls in the house. A cool concept! Has anyone else seen this?
Every house built back in those days had that...no telling how many millions of old blades ended up there. Fuzzy
I have one at my house, Ive been using it. I wonder how many blades where already in there before I started wet shaving afew months ago.
I recently bought a house, so I watch a lot HGTV. Every time they remodel an old bathroom they end up pulling out a huge stack of rusty old razor blades. My house was remodeled before we bought it so I won't get to go on the hunt for tetanus. :mad:
I'm pretty sure we had this in one house when I was growing up, and I know I saw it somewhere. I kind of assumed there was a bin you could get to somehow, but no, I guess they just fell between the walls. Pretty wasteful. Even before our current obsession with recycling, there was a market for scrap metal.
The slot was standard in most houses back then. Also, I lived in apartments that had them as well. I certainly made many deposits into those little slots. Who knows, maybe they'll make a resurgence? Wonder if you can buy a medicine cabinet with a razor slot today?
My house was built in 1949 and I just discovered mine last week-fantastic find as not all the blades I've had have the slot for used and abused razors. My potentially stupid question is if it's possible to fill up that slot? What happens if it gets filled. I don't see a way to get them out without tearing up the medicine cabinet.
Our house has this too. Our apartment was built in the 1970's and the cabinet has a slot. I've been using it and can hear the blades hit near the floor. Depending on how the wall behind is made I'll never fill it up in my lifetime. That would be a lot of blades..... KS
Based on the size of most "behind the cabinet" spaces, you'd probably fill it up in about 200 years...probably would be remodeled before then. ________ CBR600RR
I didn't know about this untill the other day when somebody else posted about it. We scrapped two of those mirrors three months ago. If I had know that I would have installed them. I went and looked at my moms mirror and it has the slot in it. That was a pretty neat idea. Makes a good mouse trap in the wall too lol.
Soon after WW2 my grandparents bought a house that was newly built. It obviously had a slot in the medicine cabinet. After some years my father began shaving in that house. Invariably my grandfather's blades and my father's blades got tossed into that slot. Some years later I bought that house from my father after my grandmother passed. I now put my blades in that slot. I know it's stupid to think of it this way, but I kinda think of it as a connection to the past. In fact, when I told my brother about DE shaving he simply didn't care. Once I told him about this slot he decided, next time he's in town, to DE shave so he can toss a blade to be a part of this "legacy" as he calls it! I might convert him yet! Now all I need is to come up with the ULTIMATE pamper shave routine for him!
