{"id":11743,"date":"2011-05-16T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=11743"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:12:05","slug":"frugal-librarian-35-splitting-hairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-35-splitting-hairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #35: Splitting hairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>According to one savvy reader of <em>The Consumerist<\/em>, if fellows crunch the numbers and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2011\/04\/switch-to-old-school-safety-razors-and-save-160-a-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">start shaving old school<\/a><\/strong>, they can rack up quite a savings.\u00a0 Hundreds of dollars a year, in fact.\u00a0 Many guys marvel at the appalling cost of cartridges that seem calculatingly designed for planned obsolescence.<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badgerandblade.com\" target=\"_blank\">hobbyist sites<\/a><\/strong> devoted to the discussion and manufacture of retro hardware, soaps, and brushes.<\/p>\n<p>So in addition to the financial savings, you get to join the fraternity of every guy you&#8217;ve seen in a Western, war movie, or <em>Mad Men&#8217;s<\/em> Don Draper.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in both factors, but think I may go through more than $160 a year in bandaids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to one savvy reader of The Consumerist, if fellows crunch the numbers and start shaving old school, they can rack up quite a savings.\u00a0 Hundreds of dollars a year, in fact.\u00a0 Many guys marvel at the appalling cost of cartridges that seem calculatingly designed for planned obsolescence. There are<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-35-splitting-hairs\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[521,1628,379,1627],"class_list":["post-11743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-can-use","category-reference","tag-frugal-librarian","tag-retro","tag-saving-money","tag-shaving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-33p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11748,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11743\/revisions\/11748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}