Why I use a straight razor.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child. But when I became a man, I put away my safety razor and started using an adults razor. A real razor.

I remember when I was young, everyone knew that Kodak could give their cameras away. We all knew it was because they made all their money on the film.

I remember the first "action figure", G.I. Joe. They had wanted a doll for boys but you couldn't call it a doll. Boys wouldn't have any of that. So they called it an action figure. Well, the thing that made G. I. Joe so successful was that once they got you to buy the, um, action figure, then you had to buy all the stuff that went with it, the tanks, the canons, the helicopters and on and on. They called it the razor/razor blade marketing strategy.

And there is one reason. - I don't like supporting a company that only thinks of their customers as cash cows. "Let's milk them for all we can." That's all the respect they have for the customer, and that's no respect at all. They have all the technology to make whatever they like but all they care about is the next quarterly report.

One day I came home from work and noticed in my mail box, a new razor, one of those four blade models, and I thought to myself, yeah. Just like dope dealers, "The first one is free".

And who thinks those little "moisterizing strips" actually do anything good for you? I remember the first "Mach 3". They had plastic strips there. And the companies knew people would use those things for ever. So they put some "moisterizing strips" there instead. These things decay in almost no time so that the blades sit up above and then will cut you to pieces and you have to buy more "fresh" ones. Now they have you buying on a regular basis. Predictability. That's what they want.

So I bought a Dovo, all stainless, straight razor, and have been happy ever since.

I have now, for the past couple of years, already spent all the money I will ever need to in order to shave.