Thread: I don't even know where to begin..

Your story made me sick in the pit of my stomach. My condolences. I really am "sorry for your loss." I am both amazed and inspired by your reaction to this tragedy. You are handling it much better than I would. When I have problems, one of my close friends constantly reminds me to ask myself, "Twenty years from now, will this really matter?"

In the long view, it is only things and your relationship with your wife is more important than material possessions (But, I do wonder what her attitude would have been if the situation was reversed and it was her crushed jewelry on the highway because of you).

I hope you can find an 8/8 Filarmonica and a W&B wedge during this coming year at a good price. I know all of us will be thinking good thoughts your way.

Just to make me feel better, I would post a "To Do" list on the bathroom mirror and then checkoff the items.

TO DO:
1. Buy 8/8 Filarmonica
2. Buy Wade and Butcher Wedge
3. Buy a Simpson Silvertip Brush
4. Buy a Thiers-Issard 7-day Razor Box
5. Commission one new razor from (?)
6. Etc.

I hope you enjoy the new house and I hope things only get better from this point on.

The lesson here is if something is much more important to you than anyone else, do it yourself - if you're not prepared to accept all the consequences of a decision, don't make it!

Commendation on keeping it together and not going ballistic on your wife, that's a big win in the circumstances.

Putting a guilt trip on her seems small potatoes by comparison with homicide, and if she is a fair-minded woman, worrying about that is probably a bit like shoving a horse through the stable door after it is bolted, or something. She must feel pretty bad already.

Psychiatric opinion is that you aren't suffering from the illness of clinical depression when you actually do have something to be depressed about. No doubt the same applies to guilt.

I have noticed a lot of good will on this site, and I have learned a lot from reading posts and the wiki. pm me your address and i can mail you a w.h. morley and sons rattler that could be made to shave again with little work, or from the looks of it an easy restore. some hone wear, but every one here says that just means it was a good shaver.

Shaking head.
Really can't say more then was already said, strange how your misfortune has all of us feeling our pain sorta like a solid nut shot.

And congrats on your new house hope you can choose a nice room for a man cave.

Peace.


In the absence of light don't pray for a miracle use night vision.

Sell her jewelry to buy new razors...Sell the house to buy an RV and surf board...

Don't know if you've ever done the 'get-out-of-jail-free-card' thing, but I'd call this a 'perma-card' event.

My condolences....

Wow. Just wow.
What a truly horrid story.
So now there are two persons in your household feeling bad about this sad turn of events.

You are obviously a bigger man than I, Mrs. Birnando would have been in so much trouble had she pulled something like this on my shaving stuff
(happily, all of it is insured)

And that reminds me, any chance you have some kind of insurance policy covering some of this?
Many people have traveling and inventory-insurances that could possibly cover something like this. I know mine does.

Good luck hunting down your dream razors again.

Oh, If you'd like, I could ship you a Filarmonica EPBD #14.
It has some wear to it, but if you want it, just PM me, and I'll send you a few pics of it, so you can decide if it's something you'd like.

Dude, Not the Fily and W&B? I mean, What's the odds of that bag, falling off the truck? I truly would have lost it...Most woman don't think like we do, she clearly didn't understand the importance of your gear. I'm sure it wasn't delibrerate. Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda, Don't beat yourself now. Move on. Make the list on the bathroom mirror for now as DLB Stated, Replace the Fily and W&B when you can. I know both are expensive razors, believe me, I know the costs incurred when buying a house, it's not just the house, it's all the other stuff... Set your snipes, or your Ebay alerts. Keep you eyes peeled on the forum for those razors on our classifieds. I know I'll be thinking of you when I see one. If I come across any locally cheap, there yours...Thanks for sharing, I'm sure a lot of members will learn from this. I know I have.

Oh man! I couldn't believe it! I was reading in horror!

All the things that could have been done to prevent this are streaming through my mind, but none of them matter at this point. I feel so bad for you, for your wife, and for your son and the great inheritance he just lost!

As was stated already, your relationship with your wife is more important than a thousand razors, and kudos to you for not going nuts on her. I'm sure she feels horrible. The hard part will be forgiving and moving on. Maybe you could make some artwork out of it. Lay the Kroger bag down, lay out the broken shards of razors cut down in their prime, and cover them with epoxy. Then again...maybe that would just immortalize a day that's best forgotten.

Best of luck on your razor search. If you haven't checked out Larry's site I'm sure he'd cut you a deal knowing what your story is (besides his prices are in that low budget range).

Finally, Congrats on the house closing! And same to Ron. The wife an my house (selling) closes mid July. PTL!

Peace,