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.

Ditto. I purchased two DE's, one ebay, one new, AND organized a group buy if MdC. The latter put me back further and caused her the most frustration.


'Told her I was done ....for now.

There are a lot of threads about guys getting in trouble by SWMBO.. lol

I guess its for the best, I have no self control.. Without her I would send myself broke.

Trouble is I'm only getting started!!!