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Hello,

I'm a new member from the mid-Atlantic seaboard.

I've been using a cartridge blade ever since I was a pup, some 40 or so years ago, usually mindlessly adopting Gillette's current flavor. A few years back, I inherited a bunch of 3-blade cartridge razors from my dad and found they were smoother and more comfortable than the 5-blade Fusion or whatever it was called that I had been using. When the extra cartridges began to run out I realized there was no name on them. Same for the handle. My dad was, shall we say, thrifty and I should have known that these blades of his would not be name brand. (He was a sailor who poured all disposable income into a hole in the water!! Once when he was visiting and forgot his toothbrush I gave him a brand new super-duper $5 brush with all the bells and whistles. Always looking to repay a favor, when next I saw him he gave me a three-for- $.79 generic and didn't bat an eye. But I digress.)

After doing some digging I stumbled on this forum and a couple others. Turns out I had a Personna Match 3. I got some refills off eBay (24 for $12). Then I figured the name brand original might be better, or at least have some decent handles I could acquire, so I "reverse engineered" to the name brand Gillette Mach 3. I scoured the internet until I found what I felt was a decent deal on a stock of cartridges (20 for $28).

Next, my father-in-law had been giving all of us sons-in-law a bottle of Nivea sensitive skin after shave balm every year for Christmas. I just put them on the shelf. Never really saw the need and wasn't sure what he was talking about when he said it would help keep our faces looking young. None of us used it, and when he caught wind of that the gifting magically stopped. Turns out I'd been looking a gift horse in the mouth (whatever that means).

Recently, I figured I try it. Lo and behold, I liked it. Smelled nice, not too strong, usually no sting, just sort of moisturizing. Not that I had a dried out face to begin with, but it was pleasant. About the same time, my new Mach 3 "colossal" handle arrived from the good doctor in Germany.

And here's where things begin to turn weird...

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