Money Saving Experiment Gone Way Too far!

I'm not sure this is so much a personal finance post about being frugal or perhaps the admission on a really absent minded routine that I shouldn't even admit to!

It started out around last Thanksgiving, (I forget if it was before or after) My wife Cheryl and I were talking about disposable razors....but to be more specific, I was complaining that I went to get a new razor out of the drawer only to find not a single one left.

I had bought a 10 pack (or is it 8 pack) about 2 weeks earlier, and since I used them up at a rate of about one per week, I figured that given there were 2 of us, they would last about 5 weeks.

She told me they were disposable and that she used one a day.....to which I replied that I used one a week, and that I thought she was wasting them. (Look, I can be a real pain in the butt at times...I mean I pay $1 for 8 to 10 of these.....so it really was a silly petty point....but to me it was still waste)

So I told Cheryl that I bet I could use one of these for a month before throwing it out....and that it would NOT cut up my face. (which is what she told me happens if she used it twice)

So I went off to run my experiment....to shave with the same 10 cent disposable razor for a month.

I would learn to really care for it....cleaning and drying it in order to maintain the sharpness of te blade. It became part of my morning routine!

It became such a part of it that I shaved with it until this morning! That's right....like about 3 months with the same cheap disposable razor....and I never cut up my face.

In fact, I ultimately stopped using it because it was getting very dull and requires about 3 passes over an area to get close enough.....but it was still a decent shave. (nothing like new though)
So I suppose I tool the experiment a bit too far....but I did so almost by mistake. But I stand by my position that these are dam decent razors! (I had tried others at the Dollar store, and none were as sharp or kept their edge as these do)