Close Shave

I have a kind of personal Murphy’s Law:

 

“Whatever item Doug customarily buys, likes or needs will soon be obsolete.”

 

Time and time again. My beloved Niji pens. Trader Joe’s Brown Rice Medley. GilletteTrac-2 replaceable razors. It’s a long list and now the next one seems to have bit the dust:

 

Williams Mug Shaving Soap.

 

Yep, I’m an old-fashioned shaving brush lathering up from a circular shaving soap bar. But now I’m close to out of my current bar and sure enough, no stores in San Francisco, from Mom and Pop to Walgreens, carries it any more. Or anything like it.

 

So off to the online world and there were some possibilities, ranging in price from $6.49 per bar to one that I swear I saw yesterday (but can’t find today) for $149. Yes, that’s for ONE BAR OF SOAP! Even the ones I did find today have quite a price range for the exact same product— the e-Bay $46.29 over six times more expensive than the Brivol $6.49!

So I bought three bars from Brivol (with free shipping) and hope that will last at least a year or two. If it’s completely gone by then, I’m just going to grow a beard.