Quote Originally Posted by Joed View Post
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.
Agreed, it's cheap as long as you keep it cheap. Like you I'm always buying and trying new bits and bobs but then I'm not trying to save money, this is my hobby and I don't mind spending my hard earned cash on something I enjoy. Let's be honest, if you really wanted to save money you'd grow a beard