Razor blade depository!

I imagine that the "seniors" here will know what I'm referring to. Our two bathrooms are back-to-back. We tear down the drywall on one side to remodel. There, within the wall, is a fairly deep pile of used razor blades. Thats odd, I think. How would those get there? Then I realize, that they're right below the medicine cabinet from the other side bathroom, (which has a small slot in its back).

Apparently, it was "normal" to deposit used blades into a slot in the back of the medicine cabinet, without concern for the pile that would accumulate in the wall over the years.

No harm done. Its just funny.

I found exactly the same thing when I replaced our 1950s medicine cabinet!

I thought it was a one-off and a lazy homeowner. But evidently not.

There were piles of them. I had to use a dustpan and brush.

I used a shop-vac. Hard to say who shaved what over the years.

I was gonna re-use 'em to save a buck or two.

Didn't find any in our wall
But our bathroom was renovated, gutted down to the walls, at some point

Did the previous owner have a beard Dave?

To this day, I think metal med. cabinets still have that slot in them, for exactly that reason. But since cartridges have almost completely replaced flat blades, they don't see much use anymore.

Artie,


You should know by the sharpness of those blades that the reason they were disposed of in the wall, was of safety, not the concern of who would find them years later and start a thread on a plumbing forum.


Do you remember when garbage, all of it went in paper bags, sometimes just the garbage can itself?

The reason was the disposal of those blades were dangerous, and could cut anyone in the disposal of them.


I was taught years ago to never dispose of a utility blade in garbage as it can rip a hole in it, fall out and end up on the ground.


A lot of genious ideas back in the day that gave indication that they cared.


That same razor sharp edge is now found on your garage door, the L angle used to support it with not a care in the world who gets injured.

I would not be surprised if this was related to the Cold War.

A stash of razors in the event of a nuclear attack could have all sorts of uses.

From cooking, to killing to suicide.

Shaving even.

Ian Gills said:

Did the previous owner have a beard Dave?

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No she did not, at least not from what I could see