Mock Me: I Paid $15 for Shaving Cream

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$.99 at the local Sail Drug. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I will leave it to you to decipher the meaning of these numbers, Mr. Smartypants.

“Kiss my big hairy butt”??

Wild guess.

Everybody! Point and laugh!

I have all of you beat on the low end. I received a coupon in the mail for $3.00 off of Edge gel which is the brand that I use anyway. The local Vons had a sale on Edge gel and were selling it for $1.89/can. So they paid me $1.11 to take the shaving gel off of their hands.

I usually choose Aveda or Body Shop.

Worth every bit of the price.

I bet you coulda got $1.25 if you had your club card.

I’m currently using a can of shaving cream that cost me $1 at CVS.
I’ll sometimes use just soap.

Heck, sometimes I won’t even use soap – just the blade.

But I’ve got no right to complain. You’d be amazed at what I pay for some books. Yesterday I was looking at one on Alibris that cost $1995, and giving it serious consideration. But I need a new bathroom more.

Yipes. I actually have the OP beat.

I got a tube of this stuff at Christmas, and rather liked it. I talked to the guy again to get another tube, and the total charge was about $27! Apparently, they sell through “reps” or something, so the salesfolken tack on a few extra bucks to turn a profit on their goods.

It’s nice, but yipes. I think I’ll go to eBay if I want another tube.

If it wasn’t bad enough that I didn’t stop with this product, I bought a package for my husband that had EVERYTHING that goes with it.

The good news is, it works worth that much money, and it seems to be lasting a long time. He didn’t want to like it, but he’s a believer.

Silenus, that Sail is like walking into the Twilight Zone. It all looks like a dime store from 30 years ago, until you realize that the people there are weeeeird. Then you look at the stuff, some of which might also be 30 years old and weeeeeird. I go into that place when I need some creepy entertainment. Be careful!

I use “Shave” from Mac, but that’s only about $10 a container. I go through it pretty fast, though.

When Super-shaved
Remember, pard
You’ll still get slapped
But not so hard
Burma-Shave

Shaving creams? Shaving gels? Electric razors? Bah!

I tried all these- all those expensive bloody razors with half a dozen blades that play Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance when you take them out of the packaging in the morning, all the creams and gels that supposedly gave you a shave so close you’d be shaving hairs that hadn’t even grown yet, all those expensive electric razors that can also act as a remote for your TV- and all to no avail.

To say my beard grows fast would be an understatement. I have a 5 o’clock shadow that could cast darkness across an entire land. Remember that episode of the Simpsons there Homer is showing Bart how to shave, and a few seconds after he’s done, his beard grows back almost instantly? That’s what it’s like for me.

Keeping clean shaven is a constant battle, yet I refuse to grow a beard because, well, it makes me look a hell of a lot older than I really am. I’m only 24 and people already think I’m 30- I don’t need to look like I should be drawing a pension as well.

Anyway, after spending a small fortune on various razors and creams/gels/lotions (and I do mean a small fortune), I finally found something that works perfectly for me, and costs bugger all.

I went and got one of those 1940s style “Missile-Silo” shavers (the ones with the double-edged blades), which cost AUD$25 and was made of gunmetal (how cool is that?), and best of all, you can buy 10 packs of Wilkinson Sword blades for AUD$10 from any supermarket- and each blade lasts about 3 weeks, instead of the 1 week that a Mach 3 blade was lasting me.

So, what am I using instead of cream or gel? I’m using Somerset’s Shaving Oil! It’s $10 for a tiny vial, and the label said it was good for 90 shaves. Pffft, said I. Such claims are but mere Puffery, intended to fool a gullible and easily led buying public.

All the same, I bought a vial because I’d tried everything else, and bugger me if it didn’t work spectacularly. And I have indeed got around 90 shaves out of the vial… it really has made a huge difference.

Now I don’t look like I’ve been locked up in a Turkish Prison every time someone sees me out in public! Hurrah! :smiley:

Fifteen bucks huh? Is it getting you laid any more than normal? If it is, then that’s cheap enough, even if it’s only once.
If not, then buddy you’re just throwing money away. I can get a half gallon of cheap whiskey for $15. You can drink it or shave with it. Might even help in the sack, a couple of bourbon and cokes is just what some gals need to really shake it. :smiley:

Me…I gotta beard. To hell with shaving.
When I do use a razor…a little conditioner works great. What, where or who gets shaved is nunya bidness. :wink:

I mean in all honesty isn’t that the real reason guys do all that shit to begin with. Shaves, styles, suits and cars, all that BS is for the women right?
What’d Ol’ Powers Booth say in Extreme Prejudice to Nick Nolte.

“That’s what’s it all boils down to…” ??

$15 on shaving cream? Foolish!

I spend a buck on Williams shaving soap every 4 to 6 months, and I found 10 Wilkinson blades for my safety razor for $2.