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A decent safety razor, its cheap and should last you forever. Blades are significantly less expensive too.
I have one. Blades cost literally about ten cents. If you really want to be crazy they can actually be sharpened, but I guarantee you will spend more than ten cents worth of your time doing it.
My only issue is that I can never quite get a good smooth shave out of just them, so I end up also using one of the expensive-as-fuck three-blade cartridge jobs for cleanup at the end, but even so using it only for that makes those expensive blades last an unusually long time, too. (Wish I could find a cheap version of those, though...)
I find a single with-grain pass with my DE is good enough but need to do a second pass against-grain to get baby smooth. I had the same experience using cartridges though.
You can sharpen the cartridges on a piece of fabric. Have to experiment a bit to see which works best. The texture of some old cotton Columbia hiking shorts has been ideal. Maybe it doesn't result in like-new sharpness, but can make old cartridges passable for some time.
Any experience shaving heads with these? I'm bald and hesitant to make the switch for my head.
Use either a hairclipper first or make head shaving a daily routine.
A fresh blade lessens irritation but increases the risk of nicks.
I prefer an evening shave to let eventual nicks or irritation settle down before work. I use an alum stone to stop the bleeding, if any.
When lazy I decide the hairclipper is good enough.