I picked up a used book called Trade Secrets. It’s a British show featuring people in various jobs giving helpful advice. It’s unusual, because the advice is actually helpful.
I shave daily using five blade razor cartridges which work well but sometimes seem pricey. Did you know you could resharpen them just by rubbing the blade back and forth a few times over a flat glass surface? It works remarkably well, is easy to do, and so far has increased the lifetime of the blade by several times.
Any tricks of the trade or practical advice you want to share? Something you use at home or at work?
Another one for razor blades-After you rinse them clean, dry them off as soon as possible using a towel and/or a hair dryer. It isn’t the cutting of hair that dulls them so much as it is their getting rusty. I can make a razor blade last as long as two months this way.
Maybe rubbing the blades dries them out too. I rinse them, tap excess water away and store them blade side up. That’s enough for me, methinks. Rubbing is easy and takes seconds to do.
Tip from a professor in a college life drawing class: if you’re trying to draw someone’s portrait, and it’s looking like a perfectly fine drawing of a face, it just doesn’t look much like the portrait subject, pay particular attention to getting the shape of the person’s eyes right. That’s where a lot of the resemblance comes from.
I’m not entirely sure this belongs here, but what the heck. The razor thing made me think of it.
I keep a pump bottle of facial wash in the shower. It takes a long time to use it up, and it used to be that the pump mechanism malfunctioned before I used up the soap. Now, I keep a little plastic cup over the pump. If it never gets wet, it never breaks.
I’ve shared this on these boards before, but it is a good one for travelers.
Temporarily make your phone’s lock screen be your boarding pass. Then , there is no need to unlock your phone to look for it during security or boarding, just make the screen turn on.
Apropos of nothing. One of my razor blades, used daily on my hairy face^ and occasionally elsewhere, celebrated its fourth month of consecutive use. It is sharpened on a flat glass surface before and after use.
^ I came across a study showing male medical students tend to be hairier than average. Are hairy men smarter? Don’t ask me!
