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Post by jenjie on Jul 13, 2022 22:45:26 GMT
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Post by leeny on Jul 13, 2022 23:09:50 GMT
Yep always have had that in all of our houses, even as a kid!
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Post by jenjie on Jul 13, 2022 23:11:10 GMT
Yep always have had that in all of our houses, even as a kid! Did you know it was for razor blades? I never did! |
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 13, 2022 23:11:21 GMT
I remember those as well! And, yes, I knew it was for razor blades. Thank goodness someone invented the current razors for women!
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Post by leeny on Jul 13, 2022 23:13:00 GMT
Yep always have had that in all of our houses, even as a kid! Did you know it was for razor blades? I never did! Yes, my parents told us, so when we started to shave our legs (this was before disposable razors) they showed us where to put the used blades. |
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Post by milocat on Jul 13, 2022 23:13:08 GMT
Oh that is so interesting. There was a medicine cabinet at my grandparents I don't remember it having a hole in it. My parents have one but it's from the early 80s and definitely no hole.
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Post by Jennifer C on Jul 14, 2022 0:17:04 GMT
My grandparent's inherited my great grandmother's farm. In the bathroom they had something similar except it was a tile between the sink and cabinet with a slot.
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Post by ilikepink on Jul 14, 2022 0:18:15 GMT
Interesting story: author Mary Kay Andrews was renovating a cottage on Tybee Island in Georgia and they found an old wallet in the bathroom wall under razor hole. She was able to contact the family and return it. Became a local news story. And she also used it as a story line in her latest book. But no one knew how a wallet fit in that tiny hole.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 14, 2022 0:33:02 GMT
Didn't have to fit, all you had to do was unscrew the medicine cabinet. They went down between the studs, that is the razer blades.
I had one in my previous apartment. Buildings built about 1948-1950.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 14, 2022 0:36:23 GMT
We had that and I knew it was for razor blades. When I was a teenager I wondered about a wall with a pile of blades in it.
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Post by Linda on Jul 14, 2022 0:45:52 GMT
my grandparents house (built 1900) had that - pretty sure dad used it for his razor blades - he used a safety razor - when we lived with my grandparents. The house we inherited from my great aunt(built 1954) did also but only in the original bathroom - my parents added a shed dormer with a bedroom/bathroom for themselves in the attic - so I don't think it had been used in years (Great aunt was widowed when she bought it in the 60s)
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Post by jenjie on Jul 14, 2022 0:48:25 GMT
Interesting story: author Mary Kay Andrews was renovating a cottage on Tybee Island in Georgia and they found an old wallet in the bathroom wall under razor hole. She was able to contact the family and return it. Became a local news story. And she also used it as a story line in her latest book. But no one knew how a wallet fit in that tiny hole. That is an interesting story! |
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Post by GiantsFan on Jul 14, 2022 0:51:37 GMT
We had this in my house growing up, too. Even stranger...My sister lived in a house that had a slot in the kitchen for used matches!  Yep, right above the gas stove was a little metal drawer with a slot in it for used matches. So weird! |
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Post by Lexica on Jul 14, 2022 0:53:16 GMT
Yep, I’m old! We had one when I was little. I was always fascinated when my father shaved and I would stand on this little step stool by the sink to watch him. If he had the time, he let me lather up his face for him. He used the brush with the shaving bar and I would be super careful to not mess up and get the soap on his shirt or in his mouth. When it was the weekend, he would lather up my face and let me shave with a popsicle stick. I asked him if I was going to need to shave when I grew up. He said no. He lied! Well, I don’t shave, but I sure have to pluck the hairs on my chin!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 14, 2022 0:57:06 GMT
We had this in my house growing up, too. Even stranger...My sister lived in a house that had a slot in the kitchen for used matches! Yep, right above the gas stove was a little metal drawer with a slot in it for used matches. So weird! Wow, that drawer sounds familiar.... But very vague. We had an electrified ice box in that house too. My grandparents bought the house in the late 1920s. |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 14, 2022 0:58:00 GMT
I’ve lived in homes that had the little slots for used razor blades in the medicine cabinet. Another quaint old custom that’s been made obsolete.
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Post by jenjie on Jul 14, 2022 1:36:43 GMT
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Post by TXMary on Jul 14, 2022 1:50:50 GMT
Interesting story: author Mary Kay Andrews was renovating a cottage on Tybee Island in Georgia and they found an old wallet in the bathroom wall under razor hole. She was able to contact the family and return it. Became a local news story. And she also used it as a story line in her latest book. But no one knew how a wallet fit in that tiny hole. I had never heard of it before I read that book. |
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jul 14, 2022 2:02:58 GMT
We had the razor blade slots in many houses when I was growing up, and I did know what it was. Our current house was built in 1958 and had the original bathroom until 2017 - complete with razor blade slot. I always envisioned a pile of old, rusty blades behind the wall. The day they demolished the bath I was not here and never remember to ask the contractor if there was indeed a pile of blades.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 14, 2022 2:18:27 GMT
We had that and I knew it was for razor blades. When I was a teenager I wondered about a wall with a pile of blades in it. Our medicine cabinet was on an outside wall and it drove me nuts thinking of the pile ( huge in my mind ) of razors just screwing up the insulation in the walls. Any time a big freeze would come & my parents left the vanity doors open as a precaution, I’d grumble about if the vast pile of razor blades weren’t there the pipes might be safe. Yes, these were my nerdy thoughts as a kid. Ends up my dad never used the slot, no blades in our wall. ( he built the bathroom so no previous occupants ) |
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Post by femalebusiness on Jul 14, 2022 2:27:32 GMT
When we remodeled our bathrooms they both had a ton of razor blades behind the medicine cabinets. When I saw them I remembered that my dad used to put them in a slot when I was a kid.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2022 2:44:44 GMT
Yup, I remember that as a child when we'd go to my grandparents' houses! It was weird. Vague memory.
ETA: I used to watch my grandfather shave. He had endless patience. I'd watch him put the razor blade behind the medicine cabinet. I used to ask him why he'd put it there and he'd tell me that it was the "safe place" to put the sharp blades.
Gee, things that are deep in your memory that are just forgotten. Thanks, jenjie for allowing us all to relive some of those memories. As a sidenote, we'd all watch my dad shave (in the 1960's) and I don't recall him putting the blades behind the cabinet. Actually I don't remember even seeing the blade, but he was a VERY careful man who probably didn't want us to take note of it at all. I was a nosy, danger-seeking kid! |
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Post by gorgeouskid on Jul 14, 2022 5:21:45 GMT
Crazytown. I live in a 1938 Los Angeles bungalow, and we don't have a razor disposal system, but we do have a match safe. We remodeled our kitchen some years ago and my non-negotiable was keeping our match safe.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 14, 2022 11:51:39 GMT
Wow, I've never heard of that before, that's wild! I don't know what surprises me more - the story, or the fact that pretty much all of you knew about it!  |
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Post by jenjie on Jul 14, 2022 11:52:23 GMT
Crazytown. I live in a 1938 Los Angeles bungalow, and we don't have a razor disposal system, but we do have a match safe. We remodeled our kitchen some years ago and my non-negotiable was keeping our match safe. I googled. Everything I see is some kind of small container. Was yours built in? |
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Post by jenjie on Jul 14, 2022 11:53:12 GMT
Wow, I've never heard of that before, that's wild! I don't know what surprises me more - the story, or the fact that pretty much all of you knew about it! LOL right! It was news to me, too! |
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Post by artbabe on Jul 14, 2022 14:23:32 GMT
I've lived in a couple of apartments/houses with razor slots. I've known what they were for since I was a child. I don't remember who told me.
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Post by iluvpink on Jul 14, 2022 14:29:35 GMT
Darn it. We lived in an older house for almost twenty years. Until not quite five years ago. It had an old crappy medicine cabinet. I don't *remember* a slot anywhere but it was so old, small and icky inside that we used a different cabinet for storage so very rarely opened it. Now I wish I had known this several years ago and looked!
Funny, I actually read about the medicine cabinet/razor blade thing in a novel a few months ago.
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Post by iluvpink on Jul 14, 2022 14:31:38 GMT
Interesting story: author Mary Kay Andrews was renovating a cottage on Tybee Island in Georgia and they found an old wallet in the bathroom wall under razor hole. She was able to contact the family and return it. Became a local news story. And she also used it as a story line in her latest book. But no one knew how a wallet fit in that tiny hole. Haha, that's the book I read! |
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Post by jenjie on Jul 14, 2022 14:39:31 GMT
Interesting story: author Mary Kay Andrews was renovating a cottage on Tybee Island in Georgia and they found an old wallet in the bathroom wall under razor hole. She was able to contact the family and return it. Became a local news story. And she also used it as a story line in her latest book. But no one knew how a wallet fit in that tiny hole. Haha, that's the book I read! What’s the name of the book? And would you recommend it? |
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