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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Multiple homes I've lived in have had these slots in the medicine cabinets lol.

Did they anticipate people not living long enough to care? Or that some biome would form to use the blades as food?

Interesting decisions all around.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are very slim. You would really need to shave a lot to see it being full.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But when that happens, who's going to want to remove a wall full of used razor blades?

[–] sukhmel 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It likely doesn't go in the whole wall, more like in a small container friction fit between tiles. That way you can empty it once it's full (not too soon, admittedly)

Edit: there was a comment here about two feet of blades, so I was wrong, it does go into the wall and it is a 'fuck the future me' kind of thing 😅

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use these blades to shave almost daily. I use approximately 40 each year. I would never be able to fill up a wall with these, not even during 10 lifetimes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It's not so much about filling it up, but when someone goes to eventually renovate the place lol. Open the drywall and just have a bunch of blades to clean up... Or if you get a leak and have to now deal with a puddle of rusty blades.

I want to say that possibly one of the medicine cabinets had a smaller container that collected them at some point, but again, it was still fixed behind the wall lol.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Prevents them from being mixes in with general garbage and people cutting themselves when handling such.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago