{"id":1520,"date":"2010-05-09T18:03:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T09:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-05-09\/1520"},"modified":"2010-05-09T18:03:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T09:03:04","slug":"shaver-recommendation-gillette-fusion-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2010-05-09\/1520","title":{"rendered":"Shaver Recommendation: Gillette Fusion Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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From the “and now for something completely different” department,\nchanging my razor's blade cartridge today reminded me that I've been\nmeaning to write up a recommendation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Let me start out by saying that I hate<\/span> shaving and it hates me. For years<\/span> and years I tried<\/span> all kinds of electric and disposable shaving\nmethods, and always ended up with hacked up skin and\/or a bad<\/span> shave. Ugh. The least<\/span> offensive for a long<\/span> time was Gillette Sensor, so I'd stock up at\nCostco to save on blades, change often, and suffer.<\/p>\n\n

But last summer, on the recommendation of my dad, I give<\/span> Gillette\nFusion Power<\/a> a try.<\/span> I would<\/span> have never tried it on my own —\n“5 blades, with an extra blade on the edge” is just comical\n— and, of course, the whole battery thing (the “Power” in\nthe name) seems so gimmicky.<\/p>\n\n

But it's great. I consistently<\/span> get a good<\/span> shave, without razor burn or\nother hacked-up-skin effects, and it's cheap. And yes, the blade on the\nedge is useful, and the battery vibration thing does seem to make it all a\nsmoother<\/span> process.<\/p>\n\n

I say “it's cheap”, but if you look at the prices in the\nstore, you won't think so.... a pack<\/span> of 8 blades costs something like $20. The thing<\/span> is, they last forever... I've been using this for nine months and\nI'm changing the blade for the second time, so that works out to three\nblades a year.<\/span> I've not yet had to change the battery, but let's count that\nas one change a year<\/span> and we're still talking less than $10\/year for a good<\/span>\nshave.<\/p>\n\n

Gillette Fusion Power: recommended.<\/p>\n\n

(For those who are familiar with The Onion and don't mind their, er,\nsalty perspective, they have a great<\/span> 2004 article about Gillette razors.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the \"and now for something completely different\" department, changing my razor's blade cartridge today reminded me that I've been meaning to write up a recommendation.<\/p>

Let me start out by saying that I hate shaving and it hates me. For years and years I tried all kinds of electric and disposable shaving methods, and always ended up with hacked up skin and\/or a bad shave. Ugh. The least offensive for a long time was Gillette Sensor, so I'd stock up at Costco to save on blades, change often, and suffer.<\/p>

But last summer, on the recommendation of my dad, [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}