So, I was driving from Washington, DC out to West Virginia last week-end, I need to cross a lot of country-side in order to accomplish this. Some of the towns out there are very small with no grocery and/or convience store in them and even if they do have any manner of stores the shaving implements offered are often non-existent.

This got me wondering if you lived in one of these small towns in rual americana wouldn't shaving with a straight be the best way to get the job done? I mean the people that live there need to go a long ways to to buy anything and therefore probably do it very rarely. Just to go for groceries might take all day.

I would think that if one shaves with anything other than a straight in rual americana stocking up on the blades might get a bit tricky if not expensive. Would need to buy enough blades to get you to the next time that you made your way to a grocery store and/or a larger community. But not so many blades, which would be a bit wasteful. Buying just the right amount of blades would be a bit tricky. I would hate to live on a farm and get up to go out into the field one day and go on over into the bathroom only to find that I had miscalculated the number of razors/blades I need and have to jump in the auto and run into town.

Wouldn't the striaght be a better option, no calculating the number of blades or razors needed. If the blade needs to be sharpened, pull out the trusty hone and problem solved. I would think that the striaght would make things a bit easier to deal with so that my attention could be on running the farm rather than managing the shave den.