Ok, Gillette sent me a free Mach 3 turbo for my 18th birthday (which will be on Monday). I already have one, but I’ll take another!
How the heck did they know it was my birthday?
Kind of unsettling. Quite a suprise though.
Thanks, Gillette.
did you register with the draft?
Yeah, the same thing happened to my on my eighteenth birthday. Obviously, Gillette controls the US government and had access to all my personal information.
(sure was nice of them to send me a free razor, though :))
Me too… kept it until I got an electric.
That’s not fair. 
I’d like a Mach 3 Turbo sent to me on my birthday! They shave so much better than any women’s razor I’ve tried. Damnit.
Most certainly. The Selective Service sent me a kind reminder through the mail about the duty I have to my country. So I registered. I also registered to vote (hey, if I can be sent off to some godforsaken desert to die, I should have a say in the political process!)
It’s nice to know that Uncle Sam and Gillette remembered my birthday.
Lucky you.
All I got was one of those Selective Service reminders a couple weeks after my birthday. I had already registered by then.
Other than that, nothin’.
Heh…I got two on my 18th, because they erroneously thought I had the same surname as my stepdad, which I didn’t. One under my real name, and one with my first name and my stepdad’s surname.
Ummmm. What’s Selective Service? Judging by the posts here, it sounds like some kind of voluntary conscription - I don’t want to join the Army, but you can draft me if you need me kind of thing.
Selective Service = US military draft (currently inactive, but if a couple more countries need invading…)
reprise: Selective Service is the registration for the draft. While there’s no draft in the U.S. right now (and most likely never again will be, IMHO), Selective Service allows the government to be sure, just in case a draft is declared, that they’ve got your number
I got a Gilette on my birthday…
…but I already had electric, BOOYA!
Damn, I wish I could have gotten one of those…mofos cost like $7 (which may not seem like a lot but I’m in college and $7 = 12 pack of decent beer), and I really enjoy my electric. It’d take a lot for me to switch.
My housemate got one near his 18th (I’m not sure if it’s a birthday thing over here), but his twin brother didn’t 
my boyfriend got one when he turned 18. He’s 26 now, so I wonder how long gillette has been doing that?
I’m 34, registered under the same law, and I can say Gillette didn’t do that in 1986.
If there weren’t the overtone of “I know something about you that you didn’t know I knew!” it’d be kinda cute.
I should hasten to add: I’m not registered any more. IIRC, it expires when you turn 27.
I never got one, and I sure as hell registered for Selective Service. FAFSA wouldn’t come across if I didn’t. Cheap bastards.
Lucky you. I kept getting tampon sample packs.
I’m male.
Where do you live?!
Aren’t the Venus razors the same thing?