Not just hotels but houses too. There would be a slot inside the medicine cabinet for disposing razors into the wall. Dude who came up with the idea was probably like, “we’ll all be dead from nuclear bombs before any of these fill up or needs to be renovated”.
They predate nukes, bro.
Came to say that. Was very common for a long time.
Ngl, this sounds like the premise to a GREAT horror show, like American Horror Story. :-P
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Fuckin razor blades. Where do they go?
Yeah we had a 1920s house with a metal medicine cabinet above the sink. It had the razor blade slot and yeah they literally fell into the wall between the studs.
so it’s the graveyard of razorblades?
razorgraves?
Tomb razor.
I think this is the first real TIL for me in ages.
Congrats ☺️
A small blade safe can hold hundreds of blades and it’s like 4"x3"x3". Makes sense they thought the inside of drywall 5’x3’x1’ would be fine. It can probably hold tens of thousands. Even with a new blade daily that’s decades. And when you tear down the wall you’re dealing with Sheetrock, nails and screws already. All that time would have dulled the incredibly thin blades.
This is all to say: it seems wild but was a decent idea.
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Hundreds of thousands
yeah I have one that’s a few inches cubed for 6 years now and it’s nowhere near full.
What to do when it’s full? Break the wall?!?!? gEnIuZ
It’s a pretty big area back there and razors are very small. It would take decades or maybe evenover a hundred years of regular use before it is likely to fill up. The building could even be condemned or otherwise destroyed before it’s full.
But yes, if it did somehow fill up, you would need to remove the tiles and cut a section out of the wall to empty it. That’s not so big a deal if you only have to do it every 50+ years.
I’ve seen medicine cabinets in old houses with razor disposal slots in the back.
I’ve come across one or two walls full of blades doing basement renos.
Why were the walls doing renos?
how is this a “meme”?
I’ve totally been throwing ancient screenshots at almost-matching communities lately, including here, because I am trying get Lemmy some momentum – Lemmentum if you will – and be the change I want to see.
But yeah no meme here.
If I had this in my home, I would draw a face around this “mouth”.
come feed me used blades
Curious as to why this fell out of fashion?
The used razor blades were arming the rats who were also in the wall.
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