{"id":8478,"date":"2016-11-15T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=8478"},"modified":"2016-11-14T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:31:13","slug":"which-is-more-cost-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/which-is-more-cost-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is More Cost Effective?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iw4AevlKmtc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I came across another old razor from my late father&#8217;s shaving tools.<\/p>\n<p>I recall that dad received this razor as a Christmas gift. \u00a0It dates back to the late 1970s. \u00a0 So, it&#8217;s somewhere near 40 years old.<\/p>\n<p>This is the <strong>Barbershop Old Fashioned Luxury<\/strong> razor from the Franklin Toiletry Company. \u00a0The razor has a nice weight and heft to it and is well balanced. \u00a0From the enclosed informational card, I learned that it uses the Gillette Trac 2 blade cartridge system.<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued. \u00a0Since the razor was still in fairly good shape (and cost me $0.00), I toyed with the idea of buying a package of Trac 2 shaving cartridges and giving the razor a try.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Trac 2 cartridges are $30.00 for a package of ten! \u00a0If you get three shaves from each cartridge, that works out to one dollar per shave! \u00a0That&#8217;s 30 bucks for one month. \u00a0Multiply that by 12 months for a year, and you&#8217;re looking at $360.00! \u00a0That&#8217;s the same amount of money many folks pay for cable television! (Even if you got six shaves per cartridge blade, that still works out to $180.00 per year! \u00a030 bucks every two months. \u00a0Or, $15.00 per month times 12 months = $180.00.)<\/p>\n<p>Contrast this to a safety razor. \u00a0I use <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B019QLSRT4\">The Godfather Razor by Vikings Blade. \u00a0This razor<\/a>\u00a0uses double-edge blades. \u00a0These blades cost anywhere from eight, nine, ten, or eleven dollars for a package of 100! \u00a0 \u00a0With this kind of blade you can get three to four shaves. \u00a0Some guys get five good shaves (some guys get more). \u00a0So, let&#8217;s just split the difference and keep things simple and say four shaves from one DE blade. \u00a0So, for <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B01F90ZOCY\"><strong>approximately ten bucks<\/strong><\/a> (depending on the brand), you&#8217;ll get a little over <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B01F90ZOCY\">an entire year of shaves!<\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong>Stated another way, it&#8217;s about <strong>two and half\u00a0cents per shave. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A package of 100 DE blades with each getting four shaves = 400 shaves. \u00a0$10.00 divided by 400 = .025 per shave. \u00a0Checking the math, .025 multiplied by 400\u00a0days = $10.00.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a no-brainer. \u00a0Do the math! \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/deshaving-20\/detail\/B019QLSRT4\">Get a Safety Razor<\/a>, learn the proper wet shaving technique, get a wonderfully close shave, and save a ton of cash in the process!<\/p>\n<p>(Note: \u00a0Obviously, YMMV with the number of shaves you\u00a0\u00a0get from a cartridge or double-edge blade. \u00a0Still, the cost of\u00a0a safety razor using a double-edge blade versus a cartridge blade system is considerable. \u00a0And, needless to say, I did not buy the Trac 2 cartridges.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=cbf_2016&amp;banner=12K4W8N4SJAHJNPCAAG2&amp;f=ifr&amp;lc=pf4&amp;linkID=d5ad588689ba4b0bb561484d75f8c9f0&amp;t=georgetoon-20&amp;tracking_id=georgetoon-20\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across another old razor from my late father&#8217;s shaving tools. I recall that dad received this razor as a Christmas gift. \u00a0It dates back to the late 1970s. \u00a0 So, it&#8217;s somewhere near 40 years old. This is the Barbershop Old Fashioned Luxury razor from the Franklin Toiletry Company. \u00a0The razor has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1467],"tags":[1425,1399,1393],"class_list":["post-8478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-wet-shaving","tag-the-godfather-razor","tag-vikings-blade-razor","tag-wet-shaving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8478"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8489,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8478\/revisions\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}