At left is a picture of my wife & I playing some silly shaving cream games while I shave and our personal photographer gets a shot of us. It would have been kind of sexy if not for the photographer invading our privacy.

Anyway, thinking back to that day of frivolity, it now occurs to me I could have made that razor blade last longer if I'd quit playing games and dried the razor at the end of the shaving session. At least that's what Greg Karp tells me in yet another of his blog posts on how to wring pennies out of every last dollar.

Simply by blotting his razor dry after each use, he hasn't changed blades in over two months, and presumably he hasn't hacked a five-inch hole into his cheek.

This is an equal opportunity frugal tip, since men and women both shave various parts of their bodies, except for you back-to-nature types.