If you live in an old house, look in your medicine cabinet. If it’s an old medicine cabinet, there’s likely a slot in the back. This slot was designed—by a rather short-sighted person—to accept razor blades and store them “in perpetuity” within the bathroom walls. Apparently the designer didn’t consider the fact that houses might be renovated in the future. 🙄
If you were following along last summer, you might recall how I dug around in the crawl space above the kitchen and discovered a few of these razor blades where the original medicine cabinet would have been. Over the last few days, we’ve finally torn out the floor of this crawl space, causing razor blades to rain down into the room below. Luckily, I’m a bit of a ✨historic hoarder✨ and sifted through the blown-in insulation to collect them all. Like weird vintage Pokémon.
I haven’t dated all of them yet, but I know some of them are ’30s/’40s. They’re likely all pre-1954, when the house was first gutted and renovated, stripping out all the original character. 😭 Don’t worry, we’re putting it all back in. ✨