Thread: Straight Shaving, Part of a Larger Movement?

Hard to tell if there are any movements going on but...

Stuff!!!
We do seem to be more and more inunandated with stuff - things to buy / have / do, advertising everywhere, expectations to pack more into our busy lives, mobile / cell phones... online forums (how about talking to the family??)

Antidote to our crowded, fast lives?
In different ways, people may be looking for antidotes to their crowded lives...

• 'slow' food, home cooking, organic, local produce cooking
• do it yourself
• unplugging from the computer / tv (even if only for one night!)

Traditional skills?
Maybe there is some nostalgia.

Sometimes things are cheaper and better done yourself - have you changed a washer in your tap? changed the oil in your car?

Sometimes it's cheaper and easier to pay - puncture repair for the car?


I guess there are different motivations for starting the straight razor shaving, but I suspect that we have similar reasons for sticking with it. This would include slowing down and enjoying your time, the mindfulness of the shave...

All the best,
Michael.

I'm just getting into straight razor shaving, but it's no coincidence. It just seems to jive with my own character. My razor and brushes look so nice next to my typewriter. But I'm also am aware that on a deeper level, I am so attracted to straight razor shaving because it has a certain sense of quality to it. I'm sick of disposable, single-use, double-packed, made by someone you don't know by ingredients you couldn't pick out of a line up STUFF that is pasted all over our lives like an ugly collage.

Call me preachy, but I'm proud that my method of shaving doesn't fill up landfills as quickly as most people's. I've seen Idiocracy, and that prospect scares the hell out of me, even if I don't live long enough to see it.

I straight shave for the same reasons I do a lot of other things, ( I am of course a luddite] I grow my own veggies,hunt for my own meat, with a muzzel loader, brew my own beer, etc I like being as independant of the system as possible, give the big corporations as little as possible !! I find pleasure in all forms of skill.

Cheers