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A woman has revealed she found a jaw-dropping discovery behind her parent’s wall after they channel, where she has over 3,000 followers. <br>Most recently, the US-based content creator and renovator took to the video-sharing platform to show what she found hidden in the wall of her parent’s 1940s home. <br>In a clip, Elizabeth shared footage of the pile of razor blades she found in her family’s home.<br> Elizabeth has revealed she found a jaw-dropping di Someone else wrote: ‘Every vanity in a bathroom, had a little slot where you would put the razor blades.’ <br>’Yes!
Hotels had that too!’ one person commented. <br>In the past, many people , while others even shared stories of finding the blades in their own homes. <br>’My parents were renovating some stuff and razorblades started pouring out of the wall adjacent to our bathroom and I got to explain this phenomenon lol, we found at least 30 (also this happened in Texas for the record),’ wrote one person.<br>’We’re in the Chicago area.
We tore down our bathroom walls a few years ago and old, rusted blades literally poured out of the wall behind the sink like the skulls in RotK,’ said another user.<br>’I just removed an inset medicine cabinet from a bathroom in a c.
1860 house I’m restoring in Maine, and found hundreds of razor blades behind it. I was so confused until I saw the little slot. Then I was just grossed out!’ added someone else.<br>These days, the slots are no longer needed, since most people use fully disposable razors.<br>But that wasn’t always the case.
At the turn of the twentieth century, men who wanted to shave their face went to a barbershop, where a professional shaved them with a straight-edge razor.<br>In 1903, Gilette came out with an alternative that men could use at home: a double-edged safety razor.<br> In the past, many people discovered that razor blades were discarded behind walls , while others even shared stories of finding the blades in their own homes<br> <br> In 1903, Gilette came out with an alternative that men could use at home: a double-edged safety razor<br>But these disposable blades introduced a problem, because they couldn’t be thrown in the trash.
For one, the sharp blades were unsafe for people handling the garbage — but they also might end up in people’s gardens, since trash was often burned and the ash spread in gardens in the 30s and 40s.<br>So, according to , these razor slots were invented as a way to safely get rid of the blades.
Since the blades were so small, the idea was that it would take a really, really long time for them to fill up a wall cavity.<br>’Old medicine cabinets were installed directly inside the interior walls,’ Richard D’Angelo, Project Manager at JWE Remodeling and Roofing, told Reader’s Digest.<br>’These old units had a slot in the back that was used to discard used blades, which would allow them to fall into the wall cavity between framing studs, and collect on top of the bottom-plate stud.<br>’We have found stacks of razor blades in the walls at least a dozen times when we do remodels and restorations of older homes,’ D’Angelo added.<br>’We even once found them in the ceiling of the first floor: they fell through the wall from the second-floor bathroom, down a hole made for plumbing pipes, and into the ceiling cavity of the kitchen. When we demolished the old plaster ceiling, the razors came raining down. Luckily no one was hurt!'<br>
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