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    all your razor are belong to us red96ta's Avatar
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    Default 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?
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    I don't lol. She's stubborn, huh?

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    Also, there is such a thing as Barber-cide. You can also just soak them in rubbing alcohol or hydrogen-perioxide (or both) and they'll be sterile enough to perform surgery with. I wouldn't recommend the performing surgery, but shaving with them is a good idea :-)!

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    Tell her to stop borrowing them then.

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    I'd say that marriage is much more dangerous considering you run a high risk of getting a tumor that will afflict you for 18+ years.

    I bet she's not trying to stop you from being married.

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    Redirect her concern by buying used underwear from a thrift store.

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    Does she throw away all forks, spoons and knives whenever you have had people over for a meal?
    They put these things in their mouths... Yuck...


    Bart.

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    I shave with a spoon on a stick. Slartibartfast's Avatar
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    Tell her the internet said she is wrong....


    Usually by the time i finish restoring/honing a blade, i've removed enough steel that i'm not worried about it. I have clippercide if i'm feeling paranoid.

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    I've never worried about it personally. I have a large collection of vintage tobacco pipes that were well smoked by someone before I got them. After I am gone someone else will be smoking them too. I do clean those up fastidiously before I use them though.
    Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by keenedge View Post
    Redirect her concern by buying used underwear from a thrift store.

    LOL ... Sounds like a cure all here...LOL

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