Thread: wife: used razors bring infection

My wife is grossed out that I buy old razors and fix them up for use. She says that razors are 'personal' items that should not be used by more than one person.

I explained that these are not cartridge razors that get gunked up with stuff like the cartridge razors and that she has nothing to worry about. The next argument was that I was going to get an infectious disease from using them. I tried to explain that a) Hepatitis B only lives outside the body for about a week...there's no way that a 100 year-old razor is going to carry the disease. Even then, I've been vaccinated for HepB. b) HIV/AIDS wasn't even around 100 years ago, so there's no worrying about that, besides, the HIV virus dies within a couple minutes of being outside the host. c) I've explained that once the blade is sanded, polished, and then honed, that the metal underneath has never touched another person.

She's still leery.

Anybody else have this problem?