Hi, My name is John and I am a Wetshaver .... Oh ... it's not THAT kind of meeting place? Well, maybe it SHOULD be a 12-Step Program...
I moved to wetshaving because after 40 years of shaving with an electric, I was tired of both razorburn and the cost of replacing the electric razors every few years. And after trying cartridges and then looking at the price of cartridges, I thought "old-fashioned" might be both better and cheaper. Wetshaving was going to save me money. That was 2015. Since then, I have fallen down almost every available rabbit hole. I now own dozens and dozens of vintage DE, SE and injector razors, a good handful of modern DE and injector razors, a couple dozen modern and vintage brushes, enough blades to last 40 years, about 20 years worth of soaps and creams, the same in aftershave balms and splashes, a bunch of nifty old gadgets that people used to use to re-hone razor blades .... the list just goes on and on ...
I was on The Shaving Den from 2016 until it closed down 6 days ago. That place was NO help! Great people, a wonderful shaving school thread -- I learned to lather and shave there -- but chock FULL of enablers:
"Oh, this razor/blade/brush/soap/cream/aftershave is absolutely wonderful! You must try it!"
I trust this forum will be different and will be full of frugal believers in saving money by doing plain simple shaves. Yes????
I moved to wetshaving because after 40 years of shaving with an electric, I was tired of both razorburn and the cost of replacing the electric razors every few years. And after trying cartridges and then looking at the price of cartridges, I thought "old-fashioned" might be both better and cheaper. Wetshaving was going to save me money. That was 2015. Since then, I have fallen down almost every available rabbit hole. I now own dozens and dozens of vintage DE, SE and injector razors, a good handful of modern DE and injector razors, a couple dozen modern and vintage brushes, enough blades to last 40 years, about 20 years worth of soaps and creams, the same in aftershave balms and splashes, a bunch of nifty old gadgets that people used to use to re-hone razor blades .... the list just goes on and on ...
I was on The Shaving Den from 2016 until it closed down 6 days ago. That place was NO help! Great people, a wonderful shaving school thread -- I learned to lather and shave there -- but chock FULL of enablers:
"Oh, this razor/blade/brush/soap/cream/aftershave is absolutely wonderful! You must try it!"I trust this forum will be different and will be full of frugal believers in saving money by doing plain simple shaves. Yes????
Frugal shaver here...LOL
You are very welcome but do you REALLY think that this place will be different?! 