I used to do the whole soap cup, brush (still miss the smell), the flip open razor. My "new" way that I've done for thirty years seems to work fine for me.
Exactly. It can be a challenge finding good disposables without slime strip, so I buy in bulk and probably have enough to last me ten years. I tend to throw out the disposables after a couple of months, though tbh they hold up quite well.
In my old age I just don’t have time to make some big male ceremony out of shaving. Do the people who buy straight razors really use them? Seems hard to believe.