My parents had to cut through the wall of their 1940s home to fix a water leak…and we were HORRIFIED at what we found there.

A woman has revealed that she found an amazing discovery behind her parents’ wall after they were forced to cut it down due to a leak.

Isabel He frequently shows off his renovation skills on his TikTok channel, where he has more than 3,000 followers.

More recently, the US-based content creator and revamper took to the video-sharing platform to show off what she found hidden in the wall of her parents’ house in the 1940s.

In one clip, Elizabeth shared footage of the pile of razor blades she found in her family’s home.

The US-based content creator and renovator took to the video-sharing platform to show what she found hidden in the wall of her parents’ house in the 1940s.

In one clip, Elizabeth shared footage of the pile of razor blades she found in her family’s home.

She captioned the clip: ‘Have you ever seen this? Oh the things you find in an old house!

‘Okay, we’re working on my parents’ house that was built in the 1940s, and in the bathroom there’s been a small leak, so we had to cut through the wall and we couldn’t believe what we found in the wall. ‘, she said at the beginning of the clip.

Then, he held up a stack of razor blades. “Look at all these razor blades,” she said.

Elizabeth added, ‘Those are all razor blades,’ as she moved the pile.

‘Apparently, they did this in the past. When they had to change their razors, they would stick them to the wall,” she said.

At the end of the video, Elizabeth said that she didn’t “get it”, however many viewers flooded her comments section to reveal that this was a common practice in the past.

One person said: ‘We still have the original medicine cabinet in one of our bathrooms, it has a little slot for razor blades. Our wall is probably full!

“Yes, the original medicine cabinet had a razor blade slot… my grandparents had one too,” added another user.

At the end of the video, Elizabeth said that she didn’t “get it”, however many viewers flooded her comments section to reveal that this was a common practice in the past.

Someone else wrote: “Every vanity in a bathroom had a little slot where you put your razor blades.”

‘Yeah! Hotels had that too! one person commented.

In the past, many people discovered razor blades being discarded behind walls, while others even shared stories of finding the blades in their own homes.

“My parents were renovating some things and razor blades started coming out of the wall adjacent to our bathroom and I was able to explain this phenomenon lol we found at least 30 (also happened in Texas for the record),” one person wrote.

We are in the Chicago area. We tore down our bathroom walls a few years ago and old rusty sheets literally spilled out of the wall behind the sink like the skulls in RotK,” another user said.

‘I have just removed a built-in medicine cabinet from a bathroom in a c. An 1860’s house I’m restoring in Maine and I found hundreds of razor blades behind it. I was so confused until I saw the little slot. So he grossed me out! someone else added.

These days slot machines are no longer necessary as most people use fully disposable razors.

But that was not always the case. In the early 20th century, men who wanted to shave their faces would go to a barbershop, where a professional would shave them with a straight razor.

In 1903, Gilette introduced an alternative that men could use at home: a double-edge safety razor.

In the past, many people have discovered razor blades being discarded behind walls, while others have even shared stories of finding the blades in their own homes.

In 1903, Gilette introduced an alternative that men could use at home: a double-edge razor.

But these disposable blades presented a problem, because they could not be thrown away. For one thing, the sharp blades weren’t safe for people handling garbage, but they could also end up in people’s gardens, as garbage was often burned and ash scattered in gardens in the 1930s and 40.

So according to Reader’s Digest, these razor slots were invented as a safe way to dispose of razors. Since the blades were so small, the idea was that it would take a long, long time for them to fill a cavity in the wall.

“Old medicine cabinets were installed directly inside the interior walls,” Richard D’Angelo, project manager for JWE Remodeling and Roofing, told Reader’s Digest.

‘These older units had a slot in the back that was used to dispose of used blades, allowing them to fall into the wall cavity between the frame studs and accumulate on top of the bottom plate stud.

“We’ve found piles of razor blades on the walls at least a dozen times when we do remodeling and restoring older homes,” D’Angelo added.

“We even found them once on the first floor ceiling: they fell through the wall from the second floor bathroom, through a hole made for plumbing pipes, and into the kitchen ceiling cavity. When we demolished the old plaster ceiling, razors rained down. Fortunately no one got hurt!’