You know you're old when...

[Pauly Wauly]

Originally Posted by Esteban

My Dad had one of these when I was a kid. He let me use it and showed me how to shave properly. Always loved the smell of Old Spice. Still use it today.

I used one of those, and used Old Spice after shave when I first started shaving .

This was the type of razor I used back then

[M_Six]

I think my current razor has four blades. It's a bit silly.

[Roadcrew]

Originally Posted by ezaircon4jc

I had one of those...

I still have mine and use it exclusively. I've got Dupuytren contracture which makes appling shaving cream difficult otherwise.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Pauly Wauly

I used one of those, and used Old Spice after shave when I first started shaving .

This was the type of razor I used back then

That looks like the face of a person who just applied Skin Bracer after a shave.

These days I just use an electric razor. Takes about 4 minutes. Too easy.

[Pauly Wauly]

Originally Posted by Esteban

That looks like the face of a person who just applied Skin Bracer after a shave.

These days I just use an electric razor. Takes about 4 minutes. Too easy.

That was my face after applying Old Spice

I use Gillette Mach3 razors now. This is the last package I bought on Amazon. They last me a long time, and I don`t get razor rash. I have sensitive skin

[3.0L]

This wouldn’t fly today

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

This wouldn’t fly today

Pre-1950. That's when Transcontinental and Western Air became Trans World Airlines. Not sure that name would fly these days either.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by Pauly Wauly

That was my face after applying Old Spice

I use Gillette Mach3 razors now. This is the last package I bought on Amazon. They last me a long time, and I don`t get razor rash. I have sensitive skin

Sound's like you need some Johnson's baby lotion on that tender skin of yours.

[Boomer 2019]

Originally Posted by Esteban

My Dad had one of these when I was a kid. He let me use it and showed me how to shave properly. Always loved the smell of Old Spice. Still use it today.

Deja Vu. My dad had the very same Old Spice mug and brush set in the 1950's. He used a straight razor until sometime in the 1970's when his hands began to shake too badly. I remember lathering up the brush and smearing it all over my prepubescent face, but the one time I tried the straight razor was the last time.

[Esteban]

In San Bernardino, California.

[vreihen16]

...when you're only $2,900 away from your mortgage-burning party!!!!!

[Buug959]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

...when you're only $2,900 away from your mortgage-burning party!!!!!

Congratulations! That's a great feeling. Burned mine a couple of years ago.

[JeffL0]

we threw extra principal on ours for years, and when we bought this house we went for a 15-year instead of 30, and still kept throwing extra, and we paid it off a few years ago.

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by JeffL0

we threw extra principal on ours for years, and when we bought this house we went for a 15-year instead of 30, and still kept throwing extra, and we paid it off a few years ago.

Paid off several years ago. Great feeling!

[ezaircon4jc]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Paid off several years ago. Great feeling!

Same here.

[wizardofOz]

Paid mine off too!

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by wizardofOz

Paid mine off too!

Quite a few of us have done that now. Good for us.

[wizardofOz]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Quite a few of us have done that now. Good for us.

No you're absolutely right Esteban, years in the making and we're all hopefully enjoying the rest of our days.

[Lady Jane]

If you remember the sound of the magnetic door of your stereo rack.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by JeffL0

we threw extra principal on ours for years, and when we bought this house we went for a 15-year instead of 30, and still kept throwing extra, and we paid it off a few years ago.

We bought our extremely modest 2BR house in 2005, before the bubble popped. Since there wasn't enough garage space for my DW's grandiose plans, we were planning to flip it after a few years when the right garage property came along.

The mortgage company that we used would not write us for a 15-year mortgage, pushing us into a 30-year 5/1 ARM I gather because it had the highest sales commission for the mortgage rep. Since we weren't planning to hold it for more than 5 years, we settled on this and made extra principal payments every month out of principle.

After the bubble popped and as the first rate adjustment was approaching, the mortgage company started sending out scary "you better re-fi now into a fixed-rate mortgage before your ARM adjusts" notices every month. We decided to let it ride. The reason for their trying to push fixed-rate conversions was that they never envisioned negative interest rates when writing the ARM formula. To protect consumers, NY State has a cap of 0.5% per year on ARM increases, but no floor limit on how far they could fall. TL;dr the first adjustment set the interest to might as well be zero percent, and it would take them 5 years to get it back up to even 3% because of the cap.

After a few years of losing money on our mortgage, they sold it off to a bank that specialized in destroying people's credit. Before that transfer even finished, we did a re-fi through our credit union for 15 years at 2.75% fixed. We paid that at a 10-year pace, and will be 100% paid off by the December holidays...in 19 years.

At that point, we can sell at any time and use the proceeds to build the retirement Garage Mahal down yonder at the tree farm.

The interesting thing to me is that mortgages during my grandparents' times were mostly 20 years. Having paid ours off in about that time, I have to ask why someone has to search far and wide to find a bank writing 20-year mortgages these days?????

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by Esteban

Paid off several years ago. Great feeling!

I belong to that club as well. Yes, a wonderful feeling. Security.

[Artemis]

Originally Posted by JJ 911SC

If you rode the Cyclone; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Beach_Cyclone

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