Do You suffer from RAD, SAD or BAD?

I've avoided Razor Addiction Disorder so far by luckily only shaving with Western Kami style razors and there are only so many out there. And I have a great brush, so I have avoided Brush Addiction Disorder, so far. (So far)

But, Lord have mercy, do I suffer from Soap Addiction Disorder. I just started wet shaving in August and I have 15 years worth of wonderful, fragrant soaps in my den. This and I just got my first MDC! I haven't even shaved with Mitchell's yet!

I'm doomed to drown in a tsunami of tubs and wooden bowls...

Y e s .

I wish I had an AD, I guess I have ADAD, it is a paradox.

Charlie

Zen Master Round Eyed Marble Head has spoken.

I thought I had tamed my SAD, but it looks like it will inflame soon. Mike's Natural soap is working very well for me so I'll be getting a few of their scents.
RAD has always been in gear.
Brushes....finding the one(s) that feel right will result in an accumulation of numbers.

No, I have cycled through a few razors and a few more soaps but I don't feel the need to buy buy buy anymore. I recently gave away all bar one safety razor and one of my 3 brushes. It is all stuff I never use.
With regards to soaps I will just add any left overs to the cauldron.

I would probably give away more stuff if there were beginning wet shavers near me. I have acquired a lot of stuff. At this point it is not well organized enough for my liking and my lack of organization has sort of killed my desire to get more stuff. I feel the need to purge some of my stuff as well. I plan on keeping stuff that I really like using, and my 5/8 full hollows, for the most part need to find loving homes. So at this point I have to say acquiring is not my mode. I have lots. Compared to many I have very few soaps, but I have more than enough. I several brushes, in time I plan on two more. One will be a custom from a member here, the other will be a high end brush, but I am in no hurry. I have enough strops, but will likely get one or two more. I have come to a point of having enough or too much stuff.

I have RAD, picked up 7 razors in the past 2 months, last one was a Genco Grant, all from Antique shops most in good to great shape, they need a good cleaning and a hone, might be sending a couple out to get shavable.

I think I have finally tried enough stuff in 2+ years to know what I like. Doesn't mean I won't try new stuff but of the 50 or so soaps and creams I have kept, only 20 are really rotated. Same with razors and brushes that hover now around 10 each instead of the 30 or so I peaked at. I have a few DE razors that never see use and should probably be sold or gifted.

I am sure the bug will bite again.

HAD is my worst one with RAD coming in 2nd, luckily I don't have any other shaving ones!! lol

I've been there and done that, though I prefer to call it "acquisition" disorder. I kicked cold turkey though and now I'm more interested in getting rid of stuff than getting it ....... which can become a disorder as much as the other side of the coin ........ :o

Same here, I like the hunt better than the big pile of stuff so I sell everything that's doubles (triples..lol!)

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Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I've been there and done that, though I prefer to call it "acquisition" disorder. I kicked cold turkey though and now I'm more interested in getting rid of stuff than getting it ....... which can become a disorder as much as the other side of the coin ........ :o

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And also PAD
Pipe Acquisition Disorder...

I just have issues!

I have a case of RAD, luckily have avoided the other ancillary disorders that go along with it. At least so far...

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Originally Posted by RezDog

I would probably give away more stuff if there were beginning wet shavers near me. I have acquired a lot of stuff. At this point it is not well organized enough for my liking and my lack of organization has sort of killed my desire to get more stuff. I feel the need to purge some of my stuff as well. I plan on keeping stuff that I really like using, and my 5/8 full hollows, for the most part need to find loving homes. So at this point I have to say acquiring is not my mode. I have lots. Compared to many I have very few soaps, but I have more than enough. I several brushes, in time I plan on two more. One will be a custom from a member here, the other will be a high end brush, but I am in no hurry. I have enough strops, but will likely get one or two more. I have come to a point of having enough or too much stuff.

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I ummed and ahhed for ages about what to do with my excess stuff, give it to a new bloke and he might just disappear off the face of the planet with it, give it to friends - well they are usually pretty well equipped so I just sent it all to bill for the give aways.
I now have 3 straights, 3 strops, 2 brushes and one safety razor. As for soaps and creams I just mixed all of each together excepting one puck I use at home and have a largish tub of each at work where I do most of my shaving. The soap tub gets left over hand soap etc dumped in it along with the various bits of shaving soap I had, the cream tub gets Al the creams and left over lather from shaving mixed in.

I just suffer... that's it.... nothing more to say..... I'm a gonner...... done for..... left for dead.....

Regards

Kaptain "Groan......" Zero

Hmmm.... I dont know.[emoji52]
Is 50+ razors in rotation, and others in the to do box, considered RAD if done in less than 12 months. [emoji53]

I've done them all, RAD, SSAD, SAD, and HAD....recently indulged in more shaving soap, Czech and Speake 88 and Oxford and Cambridge, plus a pottery bowl of I Coloniali after stupidly finding myself in the Top 10 Shaving Soaps thread...again.

And after RAD'ing out on an tortoise scaled Heljestrand MK 32, fell hard for an MK 33 in original factory ivory scales in mint condition which is now making it's way here.

So I don't even fight it any more, I just feel like I'm maturing and growing in my experience with it....:o

I suffer from ASRAD. Which is Antique Store Razor Acquisition Disorder. Seems like any time I leave the house and I have an extra hour or so, I head to one of the Antique malls. Needed to pick up some stocking stuffers for my wife today, and ended up with 2 razors. :)

I have only one razor, one brush, and just a limited amount of creams and soaps. I have a couple more I want to get.

That just sad[emoji17]

And here I am, feeling sorry for myself... having to scrimp and save to make my 2016 budget list below $1K US......

Regards

Kaptain "There aught to be a local meeting for this disease" Zero

aka Founding member of AAAD also known as Active Anonymous Acquisition Disorders.