Perhaps you could share your grandfather's straight razors on the site, interesting that you did razor commercials. I stopped using Gillette razors just over a year or so ago, I'm glad I made the switch depsite the learning curve. Saving money is always a plus, surprised you never used soap or foam! My skin is incredibly sensitive and would hate it if I just used water or something. I actually want to grow a beard out myself but it always gets to the point where I'm too lazy to trim it, then it gets all scraggily and before you know it I'm shaving it off lol. I should probably have to look into a beard oil or something.

Before I found safety razors, I used to think the more blades there were the better. But turns out that doesn't seem to be the case, it was why my skin hated it so much because I was shaving with 5 blades going across my skin as opposed to one blade with a safety razor.. and after seeing how much they charge for cartridges, I don't think I'll ever be going back to standard razors ever again. You can buy a pack of like 100 razor blades for 10 dollars, and each blade can last 3 or 4 shaves. The biggest investment a person would be making would be the safety razor itself, and those things will literally last generations.

If you ever feel like shaving that beard off, you should definitely give it a try :)