Thread: Stop saying we gonna save money!

"Switch from disposables to classic wet shaving and you´ll save a looooottt of money"
Well this statement is absolutely NOT true.. I just spent almost 500.00 in my VERY FIRST wet shaving kit,, and its just the FIRST ok and it does NOT include the hones and so many soaps and creams and other razors that I wanna try some day..
But you know what?? I reallty dont regret it!!!

So,, senior members please stop saying that kind of statements!! It would be better to say:: "change from disposables to classic wet shaving and you WILL NOT save any money,,, but pretty sure you will have a very nice new hobbie and you wont regret it at all!!"

Is it OK for junior members to say it?

I like your style, sir. Bravo!

In that case, nothing guarantees you will save money.

There is a potential to save a lot of money with a straight, but it is up to you whether on not you will. If your straight is just a tool, you'll be fine. If it's a hobby, probably not. (And if you joined a forum for it, you probably fall under the second heading.)

Betcha could have done it cheaper.

ledemon, I just got started I have 2 straights and a DE, Badger hair brush, soap, bowl, strop. Including me sending one of my razors in to get honed, I've spent maybe $50...maybe. That's about 2 sets of razorblades for my "normal" razor, not including shaving cream. I can use my new antique razors instead and not have to spend near as much as for what my replacement blades cost. $500?? You really could have done a lot cheaper.

If one was really hurting for money, how much money would it require to last a whole life time.

$25 razor
$10 strop
$10 brush
Soap... can use regular soap.

If you don't ding up your razor, maybe for about $45 dollars for the rest of one's life?

Can anyone beat that?

Originally Posted by Dorado

ledemon, I just got started I have 2 straights and a DE, Badger hair brush, soap, bowl, strop. Including me sending one of my razors in to get honed, I've spent maybe $50...maybe. That's about 2 sets of razorblades for my "normal" razor, not including shaving cream. I can use my new antique razors instead and not have to spend near as much as for what my replacement blades cost. $500?? You really could have done a lot cheaper.

Only $50.00 bucks!!!! I wish I could have that price here in Mexico for all those things,,, I spent 50.00 only for my Merkur Classic DE

You can save money switching to either DE's or Straights, I did for many years but you have to view them in the same way you view a disposable razor, as a tool to remove hair.

My first razor was a '59 Gillette Fatboy given to me by my father along with a boar hair brush and for almost 10 years it was all I used. I brought a new pack of 10 blades once every couple of months for less than £5 and a cheap tube of soap every 3 or 4 months for a couple of quid and that was my total outgoings for shaving. Even with the cost of buying a straight, strop and hone you'll recoup the money within a year.

The problem is, in my opinion, that if you are a member of this forum you no longer view your razor as a tool for removing hair but instead as a hobby and as such you should view it as a hobby. Sadly hobbies are never cheap.

In the end it comes down to your discipline, you can choose to save money or you can choose to enjoy collecting, restoring and so on.

Well it might be more correct to say that straight shaving has the potential to save you money. My first straight razor came is a local auction lot, 5 vintage straight razors for $25 with a vintage strop. Add a $45 hone, a $5 drug store brush and a puck of Williams for $2 and I was straight shaving. If I would have stopped there I would have been set for life. That was a few years ago. The extra cost comes in when we try to improve on a good thing. More brushes, more razors, more strops and top it off with different shave soaps/creams and aftershaves/colognes and, well the buying can go on forever. If you regard your shaving gear's importance to you as you did when using the disposables you will save money, no doubt. I do doubt that there are many of us on SRP that would fall into that category. I know I am not one of them.