If you go down the D/E or shavette route, which for $20 you are probably going to need to, get your blades from ebay, and buy in bulk, for around $15 you can get 100 astra blades delivered, i also picked up an inexpensive D/E for around $5 though delivery was double that. If you look in the vendors corner/ classifieds here you can finf D/E's sometimes.