Thread: It's Like an Octopus Really, Isn't It?

With tentacles all over the place?
As a beginner (about 1 month) I'm finding this new obsession many faceted.

Collecting Vintage German Medium Format cameras was fun, and you could use them all the time; but I lack inspiration, maybe I need a muse?...

Collecting Vintage Cufflinks was nice; and they're cheap and easy to get, postage is cheap too, but there's only so many cufflinks you can actually wear, even if I do wear them each work day...

Collecting Vintage Fountain pens was cool; and there was ink to choose, buy and even mix, with associated things like ink stands, blotters and so on. A bit expensive though.

And now has come along straight razors. There's a great many razors, creams, strops, sharpening stones, brushes, and you can do it at least once a day; more if you're brave! (and leathery).

And now I've made the terrible, terrible error of considering my cheap plastic scissors sitting on the bathroom bench. Hmmmm, I thought, Vintage German Barber scissors? Can you get them? Alas. You can. Carbon Steel. And signs, and posters and mirrors, and more signs and all sorts of things.

My wife is going to be really, really mad...and worried. Mad and worried.

LOL! Welcome to my world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My wife has been ready to kill me but the other night, she was reading over my shoulder and asked what an Edwin Jagger brush was. Well, I hope over to a store and start showing her a bunch of them and she was "oh, you'd like that one!" "That one looks nice...oh, I like that one - and it's a set with a bowl!"

Maybe, just MAYBE, I'll get to indulge more often hehe.

Good luck with SWMBO!

Why does everything so fun have to have all the drawbacks (cost, space, new equipment to buy, etc.) Was the same way raising fish, just no end to the amount of money it costs, or space it takes up.

You can decide to collect paper clips thinking it's really a cheap hobby however as you advance you'll find types that are difficult to get and the prices go up. In the end all hobbies are money pits unless you stay at the very lowest rungs.

Idea:


Make "shaving" your hobby.

Not collecting razors, which we all know, will bankrupt you multiple times, if you let it. Shaving.

Hah. That was funny. Who am I kidding?!

That reminds me, it's been at least 10 hours since I scoured e-bay for more razors.

Yes, of course, I don't need to collect shavers, I MAY stop at two, although there's a really nice Jassiano and Co one somewhere I really like the look of...
Got some soap today (first one, I've got two creams), Evelyn and Crabtree. Snuck it past the wife into the bathroom wrapped in my shirt. Any bets on how long it takes her to find it?

they work on the principle that the man NEVER sees anything new, therefore they can just dump any new thing right in front f you and when you question it they will answer that they've had ot for months if not years and you just never noticed it before .That's despite the receipt dated yesterday, which of course they think you won't see because they've been telling you that men never see anything that's right in front of their noses.
Therefore, when your good lady wife askes you about it in about ten minutes, look blankly at her and say that she bought it for you weeks ago and thank her for the kind gift.

Originally Posted by MickRussell

they work on the principle that the man NEVER sees anything new, therefore they can just dump any new thing right in front f you and when you question it they will answer that they've had ot for months if not years and you just never noticed it before .That's despite the receipt dated yesterday, which of course they think you won't see because they've been telling you that men never see anything that's right in front of their noses.
Therefore, when your good lady wife askes you about it in about ten minutes, look blankly at her and say that she bought it for you weeks ago and thank her for the kind gift.

About 1/2 an hour after I got home she said, "So, what did you buy at The Shaver Shop?". She does like the scent, though...

I didn't think it would take her long lol