miracle hair removal system

MIRACLE HAIR REMOVAL SYSTEM
Yesterday after work I was cycling home as usual. The evil fairies possessed bike might be a pain to continually fix ( lacking a warm workspace at home I just let the bike shop do all the labor even though I’ve done plenty myself over the years ) but it is still cheaper than gasoline to commute. Let alone insurance and repairs. But towards the four mile mark I really started to lose steam to the point that the last couple of miles were difficult. I had been pretty busy at work and didn’t have time to make my nuke bread so instead just huffed down a one pound loaf of white bread ( bread sandwiches as I worked ). There is a world of difference between a pound of white bread and a pound of half and half white/whole wheat bread energy wise. The calories are the same, but of course calories are not created equal. Eat a candy bar and a piece of meat with the same calorie count. This is of course obvious, but I bring it up to remind you to remember to be conservative with your empty carbs in your food storage. When you are no longer getting fatty fast food or even much meat at all in a collapse/emergency those empty calories will be much more apparent.
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Today, I’ll once again touch on a blast from the past. Shaving after the Apocalypse. I’ve already covered straight razors, which you of course can read about in the Bison Newsletter e-book. A loyal minion was kind enough to donate a carbon steel straight razor, but I chickened out and never used it. It is one thing to practice on a crappy edge stainless steel razor to get the technique down but quite another to get a wicked sharp blade against your neck. If I ever must use a straight razor I have it. If I need a replacement or a barter item I have about a dozen stainless steel blades I bought for something like $2 each. Stainless gets just as sharp, you just need to work harder on the edge and it won’t hold as long. Such is the price of affordability and longevity ( the same applies to regular knives ). Instead, I decided to go with disposable razors and a razor sharpener.
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The disposable razors were easy. I just continued to buy on sale. Five for a buck is for chumps. My standard is buy in bulk. Only eight or more for a buck is acceptable. After a few years I now have something like thirty or forty years worth of shavers. If you meander over to http://www.lehmans.com/store/Personal_Care___Shaving_Supplies___Disposable_Razor_Sharpener___36731?Args=
you’ll find a handy dandy miracle hair removal system. OK, it’s actually only a piece of mirror glued into a plastic base that has a guide for the razor. But the mirror has to be the exact width to fit in between the two plastic ends of the disposable razor and only touch the blades. I imagine if you went to a glass business you could get them to cut up a bunch of pieces about six inches long and whatever the width is and sand down the edges. If they used scraps from window glass or whatever you might get a great price. Then you have a great barter item for after the collapse. Or even a side business. If you don’t go that route, just buy yourself one of the above pre-made units for $13. You are supposed to be able to sharpen each disposable about thirty times. I’m sure that is unrealistic, and I confess I haven’t kept very good count myself. I think my blades last about three months at three times a week. But you don’t need to resharpen every single time you use the blade. Just keep using it until you feel the difference. Let’s call it a dozen times to reuse the blade at two uses between sharpening to be conservative. You will get two months use from every blade at three times a week. Of course, you might tear up a razor quicker. But as an average, call it six razors a year. A pack of twelve for a buck is fifty cents a year. You can easily invest in decades of disposable razors.
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Now, in order to justify writing about the same subject again, here is some new information for you I didn’t cover before. I’ve been buying the razors with the lubricating strip on top of the blades. Recently, I started buying them without the strip since I’ve been getting twelve of those instead of ten of the strip razors for a buck. So I accidentally discovered the following. The razors without the strip work much better with the razor sharpener. You get more uses from them. With the strip, as it wears down you get a rough shave even before the blade wears down. Resharpening doesn’t work as well. No strip, your shave starts out a bit rougher but you get a lot more shaves out of each razor. I intent to shave the rest of my life. Shaving is a pain, although skipping every other day and the weekend keeps my skin from getting too sensitive ( I won’t ever work for a job that requires daily shaving without a big pay raise ). Wearing a beard is worse. With my oily skin I get too many ingrown hairs. It looks gay with all my gray hair. And beards don’t work with crew cuts on just anybody. Disposables with the sharpener are cheap, easily stockpiled, and minimize the PITA factor.
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