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siglinde99I keep thinking that there must be more important things to write about than personal grooming products, but the fact is that most of my plastic seems to revolve around the bathroom. Today, for example, I am thinking about razors.
I use a disposable plastic razor for the minimal amount of body hair removal that I feel is essential. I wish I could stop shaving my legs, but I have been a little traumatized about leg hair ever since that time in university when my boss threatened to fire me from a retail job for showing up in a dress, high heels and bare, unshaven calves (my job was entirely behind a service counter). In the past, I often neglected shaving my lower legs for the whole winter, because I was wearing pants every day. I admire those who don't shave their pits, but I feel smelly if I don't shave. Besides, I'm a swimmer, and even the guys shave everything when they are serious about winning.
I re-use that razor until I get regular nicks from it. By shaving only intermittently, I can make it last far longer than the manufacturers would recommend. I have owned an electric razor since high school and should use it more often, but that will require me to rethink my morning routine. At present, I remember to shave sometime after I have staggered, bleary-eyed, into my morning shower. Using an electric razor during or immediately after that shower would be a very bad plan. For the rest of the month, however, I will use the electric razor.
Since I am not going to share a picture of my hairy legs, here is a news story a friend shared: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/food-industry-overuses-hard-to-recycle-plastic-packaging-report-indicates-1.2940535. This is why my rare fast food indulgences are usually shawarmas from an independent shop, and why I always have my Saturday coffee in the coffee shop (ceramic mug), even though the shop has only biodegradable cups and straws, plus recyclable lids.
I use a disposable plastic razor for the minimal amount of body hair removal that I feel is essential. I wish I could stop shaving my legs, but I have been a little traumatized about leg hair ever since that time in university when my boss threatened to fire me from a retail job for showing up in a dress, high heels and bare, unshaven calves (my job was entirely behind a service counter). In the past, I often neglected shaving my lower legs for the whole winter, because I was wearing pants every day. I admire those who don't shave their pits, but I feel smelly if I don't shave. Besides, I'm a swimmer, and even the guys shave everything when they are serious about winning.
I re-use that razor until I get regular nicks from it. By shaving only intermittently, I can make it last far longer than the manufacturers would recommend. I have owned an electric razor since high school and should use it more often, but that will require me to rethink my morning routine. At present, I remember to shave sometime after I have staggered, bleary-eyed, into my morning shower. Using an electric razor during or immediately after that shower would be a very bad plan. For the rest of the month, however, I will use the electric razor.
Since I am not going to share a picture of my hairy legs, here is a news story a friend shared: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/food-industry-overuses-hard-to-recycle-plastic-packaging-report-indicates-1.2940535. This is why my rare fast food indulgences are usually shawarmas from an independent shop, and why I always have my Saturday coffee in the coffee shop (ceramic mug), even though the shop has only biodegradable cups and straws, plus recyclable lids.
