{"id":1856,"date":"2019-07-10T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T00:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2019-08-03T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T00:05:25","slug":"estate-sale-find-safety-razors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/10\/estate-sale-find-safety-razors\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate sale find: safety razors!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sibling C and I went to a cool estate sale in Austin a few weeks ago! It was particularly well-organized, and much of the normal junk that clutters estate sales (old food, low-quality mismatched silverware, low-quality pans, etc) had either been hidden or sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was excited to find a small collection of old shaving accoutrements. I have a straight razor (that I need to get sharpened), but I&#8217;ve also been interested in trying out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Safety_razor\">safety razors<\/a>, with the particular goal of being able to recommend them to friends in good faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought 2 of the razors from the sale for $3.75 each, which seemed like a good price \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6612-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6612-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6612-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6612-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/IMG_6612.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>On the left is a Gillette &#8220;Tech&#8221; made in the &#8217;40s. It is stainless steel and essentially the same design as modern razors. On the right is a Gillette &#8220;Old Type&#8221; made in 1914 (105 years old!!). It is silver-plated brass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibling C and I went to a cool estate sale in Austin a few weeks ago! It was particularly well-organized, and much of the normal junk that clutters estate sales (old food, low-quality mismatched silverware, low-quality pans, etc) had either been hidden or sold. I was excited to find a small collection of old shaving &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/10\/estate-sale-find-safety-razors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Estate sale find: safety razors!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beansproutadventures.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}