I don't know about you all, but I'm getting pretty tired of the disposable lifestyle we have been handed over the years. What I mean is that just about everything we use today has something to throw away attached to it. And forget about toys and such... More trash attached to the toy than the toy on it's own... and it gets thrown away soon as well.
About 10 years ago I started looking at what I was using and throwing away. At that time I didn't know how to slow down the 2 to 3 trash cans of junk I threw away every day... Every Day... I was amazed at the amount of crap that was the packaging to the food I was eating at the time, the products I used daily and so on. I soon started looking for ways to use less stuff, and if I couldn't use less how to get these items without packaging... Soon it dawned on me that allot of this stuff is already out there in a more durable form, we call them Antiques/Junk.
One of the items that set off this crazed mentality was shaving gear. Disposable razors, Cartridges, Cans of goo, multiple wrappings and so on... AND THE COST!!! One option was to stop shaving, tried that, work gets funny about that in some places... So I had to shave and I'd seen ways of doing it before :) Yup the time tested Straight Razor. These buggers are still usable after 200 years, and most likely out live me.
So I started looking into straight razor shaving and what was involved. You can have a set of 2 or 3 razors, a bar of shave soap, brush, and strop, for what it costs you in 1 year of buying modern shave gear... Now here is the kicker, next year you only need to buy soap... and the year after that, and the decade after that... You see where I'm getting at? Baring an accident where you break something you don't need to buy dozens of the new 5 bladed whozits and a few dozen cans of the next toxic waste. It's CHEAPER AND uses next to now packaging that lives on in our dumps or oceans. Now I'm not a granola head but I sure as heck don't like the looks of our trash piling up around us.
Give it a look over
a look over, you may get the bug to try something different and do your part to lessen the trash build up :)