De-pill sweaters – It’s no good getting ready for a big night out and throwing on a sweater withthreadballs all over it. There shouldn’t be any kind of balls on your sweaters, period. If you don’t have a lint roller (and who does?), then skip over the whole use-a-piece-of-tape method and grab your razor. Simply drag the blade across your clothing and all that extra pilling will be whisked away. Start with the front breast, then the sleeves and back, and finally all the small areas like cuffs and/or collars. Congrats, you now look epic.

Grate cheese – Like that ultra-thin shred for all your fish taco needs? Have more patience than sense? Then break off any lubricating strips or skin protectors and get to shredding. Maybe you’re more a fan of infintesimal julliened carrots – same principle applies. In some professional kitchens, the size of your shred can determine your place in the pecking order. Get a leg up by using a razor to blow everyone away. Head to your local Giant Eagle or such retailer, buy a razor, and get grating!

Defend yourself  – MacGuyver was a great tv show (not really, but stick with me…), what with all his invented gadgets and improvised tools. But Big Mac has got nothing on the imaginations of the men and women in our country’s penitentiaries. These crafty buggers can make pretty decent shivs out of a disposable razor, and that means you can to! That makes it a dual function tool perfect for your every day carry; shave your face, then ward off a mugger or Jehova’s Witness…

Create a tripod – Modern life is all about documenting every second and showing the world how Totally Awesome your life supposedly is. But it is no good if your sweet SnapChats are shaky or your 160 megapixel panoramas are tilted. But who wants to carry around a tripod? Well you don’t have to if you spare one pocket for 3 razors and a camera adapter. Set them up as stable legs and they will support your camera while you get that sweet pic that will get you 2000 likes for sure.

Enjoy a new movie – For realsies. Schick is currently running an offer to send you to your local cinema of choice! Just buy a razor (you need one anyway you hairy hippy!), then text a photo to Schick and you’ll get yourself 2 tickets for any new release! That there is what we used call a pretty good deal. Now I think the youth call it a “gordo” or some such nonsense…

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Schick® Men’s Shave. The opinions and text are all mine.

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Instead of having the same central items or theme each month, Bespoke actually curates a whole group of boxes each with their own individual theme. Cooking supplies one month, beachware the next. There’s nothing to get sick of, because each month you’ve got an entirely new collection at your doorstep. Pretty good idea, right? You can even return boxes you don’t or swap it out for another theme before it is even shipped out to you.

We picked up a Lather box – full of shaving essentials and not-so-essentials. We received a badger hair soap brush, a block of shaving soap, pre-shave oil, and a shaving soap mug that wouldn’t look out of place on a Nantucket whaling ship from the 1800s. Everything is high quality and well thought-out. And after our first shave with everything, my face looks well thought-out too.

We thing Bespoke Post offers something really interesting to the subscription box space, and we think you – our readers – will enjoy it too. As such we’ve persuaded them to give FactoryTwoFour readers a deal. To get 20% your first box, just use the coupon code BOX20 at checkout to enjoy a little something on us. It’s about time someone un-siloed the subscription box thing. Now if only they could send me direct groceries too…

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