The week before last I received a Gillette Fusion in the mail as did Lenslinger (that’s him to the left).  At first I thought, "Holy crap, how can they afford to send me and every other male in whatever demographic I’m in a free blade?", but then I remembered the old adage about Gillette making their money on the blades and not the razors and it made sense. 

I gave the Fusion a spin just to compare it to the Mach 3 that I received in the mail a year or two ago.  I liked the Mach 3 when I first tried it and held onto it figuring that the blades would go down in price once it had been around long enough for Gillette to develop their next-generation face scraper and for Target to start carrying generic versions of the blades.  Now that the Fusion is out and Target does indeed have generic Mach 3 blades my patience has been rewarded. Even better is the fact that I like the Mach 3 better and so I won’t have to clutter my medicine cabinet with the Fusion while I wait for its blades to come down in price.  For what it’s worth I think the Mach 3 is better for me than the Fusion because it has fewer blades spread farther apart.  Since my beard grows like a Chia pet on steroids, as does all the hair on my body besides the hair on my head, I think the six blades on the Fusion just don’t have enough space between them to get to my skin. 

I’ve created a new category called "Product Alert" in which I will store all the cool stuff I come across that I’d like to buy or might want to buy for someone I like.  I guess if I find products for people I don’t like I’ll have to come up with another category.  Anyway the first entry in the Product Alert category is the Cupcake Courier.  No more battling your way into your childs classroom for her birthday with two cake tins covered in aluminum foil, or if you’re sophisticated two of those Tupperware contraptions.  This handy-dandy little carrier allows you to easily tote enough cupcakes to feed 36 of those little bast****, er, children.