Thread: How do you tell your wife you've gone Razor Crazy

Wonderful scales-should be preserved with expertise. My wife did a spreadsheet for me with my annual razor purchases by dollar amount, with a GRAND total........owwwwwwwwwww!!!!! Now my acquisition rate is sharply reduced.

Anybody ever read the circular story to their kids called 'If You Give A Mouse A Cookie"? It's kind of like that.

It's a game. She says I don't want you collecting another damn thing. Then I say, I'm not, I shave with all of these. The she asks, but why do you need so many, it looks like a collection to me? Then I say yeah, I can understand why you say that, but I am buying old razors that don't cost much, and I can always sell them. Then she says, Ok, that one right there (pointing to my Dubl Duck), sell that one. To which I say, but if I keep it longer, it will be worth more. Then she says, you damn collectors are all alike. Then I say, but I'm not collecting them.

This happens every 2 weeks or so.

Great part about restoring and honing for others is that she won't know if the package coming in is for your collection or to be worked on...

You know, as long as your RAD is not affecting your finances.
In other words you pay all your bills on time and you are still saving money.
You have an emergency money account that would last you one year if you lost you job or became ill.
There is nothing wrong with it. How ever if you are not in that position the more self control would be advised.

There is nothing like ending up with a few restore projects that end up with swiss cheese steel along the edge area. Or finding the blade you have been sanding on for a while has a crack in the blade to slow you down.
I won't forget my loup when I am out looking anymore.

All I have to do to see a SAD disorder is look at my wifes shoe rack.
It is 4 foot wide and 7 foot tall. Full of shoes now shoes are in the floor too.

Or the Barbie's in her closet on a rack that is about 35 foot long and 3 to 4 deep with Barbies.

Tell her you think you are sleep shoping because all of the sudden all these razors just showed up. You do remember some crazy dreams you were having. But you just thought it was dreams?


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Cold comfort, but welcome to the club!

All I can say is that as time goes by your taste in razors will change and become more discriminating and expensive. You will purchase fewer razors, but spend more money. At least the parade of boxes to your mail box will slow, but you will continue to stumble upon that Boker you have always wanted, or a (insert grind/width/point style here) that intrigues you.

In other words, like most the rest of us, you are doomed!!

Originally Posted by Croaker

Wonderful scales-should be preserved with expertise. My wife did a spreadsheet for me with my annual razor purchases by dollar amount, with a GRAND total........owwwwwwwwwww!!!!! Now my acquisition rate is sharply reduced.

We did that with the same results. Problem is that I am too good at finding stuff at great prices that we can't resist!

Originally Posted by RobertH

You could have more expensive hobbies that's for sure. Ask my dad about his vinyl & stereo equipment obsession. I have to ignore it when I visit because if I were to get into that... I'd need a second job.

Or ham radio.......you start off wanting to talk local, so you buy a book to study for you exam. The big day comes and you pass your test. When your license arrives you probably have already bought a 2meter radio and a small antenna, a mobile unit, or better yet a hand-held (ht in ham parlance). You're okay for awhile, but then comes field day and lyou get a taste of hf (high frequency or world-wide), so you upgrade your license, and of course you need another book to study for the exam. Once that second hurdle is passed then you have to have another antenna and another radio. THAT works okay for awhile, but the General class ticket just doesn't allow enough band priveledges, so you decide to upgrade to Extra (the highest license) so that you can talk on ALL authorized frequencies....and that calls for yet another book (and more studying), and another antenna so you can use those new priveledges, and like straight razors, antennas and radios can multiply rather quickly. Your first antenna choice might not be quite the right antenna, so you decide to buy another, or even build your own, maybe you even decide to erect a tower......it can go on and on......before you know it, you have what is called an "antenna farm"...but it's sooo much fun that you don't care about all of those dollars you've invested.

Basically, enjoy your razors, strops, hones, brushes, mugs, scuttles, and ,(if you're like me, those shaving mirrors. BTW my call sign is KD5AFE.

When I decided to get into wet shaving about a month ago, I foresaw this situation and had a little chat with my wife about it (we're newlyweds). I told her that as long as she doesn't ask about my razors I wouldn't ask why we need another end table / sofa / rug / drapery / etc. Then I went out and bought 3 razors and she bought a sofa and a breakfast table set :-P