Pluggers by Rick McKee for March 20, 2023

If you’re at plugger age, just use an electric razor. Norelco works fine for me.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, no plugger is the fairest of them all.

Years ago, the warm wet shave on the back of the neck was the most fun part of a trip to the barber shop. I would go to a nice old fashioned one near the White House.

Don’t shave every day so tis hard to say how long a disposable lasts me . In winter cold it helps to have some beard growth ;-)

I still use the original disposable, the double-edge. Two shaves per blade.

Real pluggers use the double edge safety razor with the three piece handle

I’m still using the same blade I installed for the first shave of 2023. Of course, since I work from home now, I don’t shave every day. Or even every week…

I’m an electric shaver man myself. Cheaper and safer. Had the same blade set in the shaver head for ten years now and still getting a close shave.

How do you cut yourself with a modern razor? Do they even make styptic pencils anymore?

Great Clips and all of the salon type shops don’t shave around neck or ears. Up to $20 for a trim basically.

Not me! Once the blades start dragging, it’s time for a new one.

Time to get out the styptic pencil!

… and then one or two more after that.

Pandemic Whiskers to the rescue. (I was hoping they would act like velcro for the various pandemic masks. Not so much.)

I switched to double edge several years ago. You could change your blade every other day and still have a cheaper shave than buying disposable razors. Buy in bulk. I average 6 cents per blade.

I quite doing that. My skin has gotten too sensitive.

Shave? What’s that?

Funnily enough I haven’t done this since i was a teenager haha

it always smarts when you shave more than once, thinking you got it all

Husband has always used an electric razor – same brand. He had to buy a new one last December (he always buys them in December and gets them a Christmas gift*) and it was not easy this year finding a model which did what he wanted it to do and didn’t do other things (like wet shave).

*I used to go out and buy what he said to get him for Christmas – but even then, I would not try to buy him a electric razor. Since he quit his job about 20 years ago we are together all the time (except before Covid I went out one day a month to my embroidery meeting – because I would not let him come there with me – told him to join a different chapter if he wanted to go, yes, among many other crafts – woodwork, woodturning, leatherwork, etc he also does embroidery and sewing, plus 1 day a month I went to NYC to my last business client, and 2 days a year when I go to the synagogue in memory of my late father). So he buys his own gifts.

I don’t get gifts – Christmas, Chanukah, birthday, anniversary – took me most of the past 40 plus years to stop him from buying me things as I don’t want anything and if I actually need something he will have talk me into spending money to buy it – I was perfectly happy darning socks during the pandemic – but when we went out to buy him something and we actually saw the kind of socks I like – he talked me into buying more.