On 3/4/2013 9:22 AM, Swingman wrote:
On 3/3/2013 9:39 PM, Amy Guarino wrote:

Any of you home-renovator types ever come across a thousand or two
rusty razor blades inside a bathroom wall?

Anything built mid 70's and earlier when disposable because ubiquitous,
is almost guaranteed to have them, and a slit in the back of the
medicine cabinet is a guarnateed sign to be careful.

If you think about it, nothing more than a manifestation of an all too
human failing, "out of sight, out of mind", particularly when it comes
to waste of any kind, from toxic to plastic ...

My parents' house was built in 1939; they bought it in 1960. I can vouch
for the same medicine cabinet since I was old enough to remember, which
would have been the early 60s. At a time when people perhaps didn't gut
and re-shape their homes with such regularity, maybe it didn't seem like
such a bad idea.