A mild panic attack struck me at around 7.30 pm but then I took some deep breaths and remembered Jyothi Nair’s comment during our chat on Facebook earlier in the day when we were brainstorming for today’s prompt.
Immediately, I went out to a shop in the neighborhood and asked for my object of desire.
So, here I am with my 7 o’clock picture which is courtesy Jyothi’s idea. Thanks for rescuing me today, Jyothi 🙂
This is the 7 o’clock razor blade which found its way in our home for the first time. KG has never used this type of blade for shaving thus there was never a need to buy it. But, my father still uses these blades and incidentally 7 o’clock is the brand he favours.
I remember, as kids (my sisters and I), these blades were kept away from our reach. We were never allowed to even touch them. Yes, we have over-protective parents!
But we used to enjoy sharpening our pencils with these blades as there were a couple of girls in class who always carried them in their pencil boxes.
Then in one of our art class we were taught about blade painting. In this, an art work is created by using razor blades instead of regular brushes. It was an innovative form of painting for us then and we enjoyed it thoroughly. I believe now-a-days, some special knives are used for the then blade paintings.
As we grew a bit older, we were allowed to use these razor blades to cut thermocol for art and craft things. Today’s push-lock cutters or thermocol cutting knives had not made an entry then in the stationary shops.
I remember, a school mate had made an artwork of some super man kind of character by pasting small strips of razor blades all over it.
So many memories attached with a razor blade!! LOL 😀
This post is a part of May Photo A Day.
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haha razor blade purane zamane ka :). Yep I remember the sharpening and thermocol cutting bit too.
You know what, I thought this is such a purane zamane ka thing, it must not be costing more that Rs 5 or 10! I gave Rs 50 to the shopkeeper and he hands me back Rs 5!! Imagine my shock on seeing Rs 5 in my hand! 😀
Shilpa, hats off to you! Only you can manage to think of so many memories associated with this product 🙂
LOL 😀
Ya I used those gor thermocol cutting too. 🙂
I guess, thermocol is cut best with these blades!
Wow old memories revived. We also used blades to sharpen pencils.Thanks Shilpa for sharing.
That’s cool 🙂
What a clever take on the subject and thanks for the memories.
Thanks L 🙂
haha !
Good one shilpa. This reminds me my dad’s shaving. I used to love that foam and smell 😉 and play with it.
I love sharpening pencils with them
Liked ur unique idea and I Know an art form with blades . we made a blade palace at school and I too experimented with thermocol
A palace of blades must be pretty interesting and a lot of hard work! 🙂
Ha ha…. You are welcome Shilpa. I am so happy to see these again. 🙂 I have ditto memories of the blade. I guess it was more the awe of the forbidden fruit for me. I had over protective parents too. 🙂
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Yes, the forbidden fruit is the sweetest. Thanks once again for the idea 🙂
oh wow! good one!!
Brought back memories! 🙂
Thanks H 🙂
How can I forget this.I started shaving with this blade
Awesome 🙂
Good one Shilpa! reminded our school days 🙂
Thanks Seena 🙂
That is such a smart post Shilpa 🙂
And so many memories associated with a razor, that is really cool 😀
Glad you liked reading this, Bhavya 🙂
My hubby used this till a couple of years back. Nice one.
Wow! 🙂
My mote papa still uses this brand! And ohh, I could never ever sharpen the pencils with blades..never! My sister used to do that for me, when we were not in the mood to use a sharpener 🙂
There was a thrill in sharpening pencils with blades… the pointed lead of the pencil sharpened with a blade was so different from that of the regular sharpener! 🙂
The picture took me to certain many days of long ago.
Yes, they were used commonly such a long time ago!
I remember only cutting my skin in the name of sharpening pencils using blades! 🙂
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LOL 😀 Many pencils of mine were soaked in blood too 🙂
“But we used to enjoy sharpening our pencils with these blades ” Me too! My father still does, for various purposes like gift- wrapping, book wrapping and yes for shaving as well 🙂
Fantastic way of taking up today’s topic, Shilpa! Loved your interpretation 🙂
Wow! You too, Deeps ! 😀
Thanks, glad you liked this post! 🙂
Ha ha… I remember sharpening pencils with razor blades. They were so much in demand wekd break one and make two out of them :-). Crazy memories.
Oh yes, breaking into two… I remember that too 🙂
Shilpa, th ethings we do for a post huh! Buy a new blade thou must be a novel one 😉
We can be comfortably labelled as crazies! 😀
Now we don’t have a single blade in the house when we need it. Those days it was always there and we could sharpen pencils especially I used to love sharpening eyebrow pencil(mostly used as eye liner).
Ah… good you reminded me… I cant find my eye liner pencil sharpener… now that we have blades at home… will put it to good use 🙂
Ah! So many memories!!!
I also have my own set of memories associated with blade. Even I was not allowed to touch a blad but u know whow we love doing the forbidden things? I tried it at school using some other girls’ blad and had such a big cut in my palm. Post that have never been fond of the thing. Though My hubby uses it for cutting things but I prefer staying away from it.
Once bitten twice shy!! 🙂
LOL! What a pic(k) 😛
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Interesting Picture Shilpa 🙂 My father also uses these type of blades even now. He does not like the new fangled razors. I have not seen one in ages…somehow they remind me of my school days too.
Ditto for my father too 🙂
True… I guess, the last we must have used these blades must be in school!!
hi shilpa need ur help with write tribe I tried posting through link but it didn’t work:(
please look into it and tell me what went wrong:)
I hope you saw Corinne’s reply!
You missed it Kunjal, for the first prompt. 🙁
Looking forward to your story for the second prompt 🙂
This is cheeky! While we all were scratching our brains out, you were smiling and clicking your razors 🙂
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Necessity is the mother of invention!! 🙂
I was going to do the same you know…only I couldn’t find any blades in the house with Dad not being and all…lovely idea , great minds think alike 😉
True… great minds think alike 😀
I liked your snack time pic 🙂
You know the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the prompt was this 🙂 It brought back memories of thermocol models we made during school using the blade…
You too did the same!! Wow 🙂
Waah! I like this picture! Was hoping someone would post it 😀
Happy to give you that Aha! moment, Kadambari! LOL 😀
Oh yes dad used to use it too. How nice that you remember it 🙂
When in tough situations… keep it simple is the mantra 😀
Never knew about blade painting…I used to have them too for pencil sharpening…:)
Oh, it was fun doing blade painting! It was done with tube paints and no water was added to the colour. The painting had a raised, uneven texture!
Loved your take on 7 o’clock. I remember my dad using blades as well.
Thanks Suzy! True our dads definitely used these though the same cannot be said for our husbands 🙂