Thread: What do your women think?

My wife was the oe who got me into it in the first place! She was getting cheesed off that I was only shaving with my Crap3 once a week. She got me a book as a joke about shaving to encourage me to shave more often. The joke was on her though because since then i've taken up straight razor shaving in a big way. She tries to roll her eyes but I always point out that 'You wanted me to shave like this dear' and if she is being honest, she does love the smoothness.

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

My wife was the oe who got me into it in the first place! She was getting cheesed off that I was only shaving with my Crap3 once a week. She got me a book as a joke about shaving to encourage me to shave more often. The joke was on her though because since then i've taken up straight razor shaving in a big way. She tries to roll her eyes but I always point out that 'You wanted me to shave like this dear' and if she is being honest, she does love the smoothness.

I couldn't have said it better myself Sidney! My wife is in exactly the same boat as yours, "Careful what you wish for".

Mine thinks it is absolutley crazy. Not normal to be so obsessed. Do I really have to spend so much time shaving.....?!
Says she who spends an hour a day putting on makeup, hair care, painting nails etc, etc, etc........
Which is more normal I ask myself.........
Keep doing it guys...

Mark.....

The 'ole eye roll and a hearty"you're obsessed".

she thinks I'm insane, but she thought that anyway.

SWMBO thinks I am insane on one level, but she told me that she completely understands the pampering thing. What's more, she requested the URL's of some online shaving stores recently!

I think I'll keep her. I hope she keeps me!


-Rob

My wife thinks it's a great hobby, and looks forward to the after-shave part when I'm BBS, and smell good...that is, if I use her favourite soap and ASB...if I use Bay Rum or Old Spice, she's not as thrilled.

She thinks my restoration is nuts though - so much time and money for razors, she thinks!

...and I think she also thinks that being on an internet forum discussing shaving is nuts as well...

Mark

SWMBO is just incredible, that's why I married her!

I always had problems when shaving thanks to me sensitive skin... and she decided me to try to use a shaving cream and a brush with my Mach3 (I had already quitted my electric lawn mower after the army); a real improvement! After a few months, my shaves were a lot better but still not a very comfortable shave.

She tried to help me - even more than saying nothing when I was trying and stealing some of her face creams - and had a look on the internet and pointed me to Mantic's videos and B&B. As I wanted to try a DE, she offered me for my birthday the Merkur Vision...

After that, I discovered SRP and straight razor shaving. RAD hit me quite hard but - despite the quite bad state of our finances - she never complained, but was happy to see that I was enjoying shaving and collecting (even if at the beginning she thought I was a little nuts because I ordered 3 razors before trying). The same goes as far as restoration is concern: she is happy that I found a hobby.

She is a real pearl!

I don't care what she thinks. See "I don't want to buy a minivan" thread in Conversation Forum.

She doesn't overly care about the razors but gets very ****ed off when I spend a lot of time honing a difficult one. And she totally doesn't understand the euphoria on the rare occasions I get it right.

Originally Posted by loueedacat

She doesn't overly care about the razors but gets very ****ed off when I spend a lot of time honing a difficult one. And she totally doesn't understand the euphoria on the rare occasions I get it right.

I hear ya, brother!

Mark