Cra*p!!! I've got RAD!!!

I've been diagnosed with RAD! I started just with 3 razors 20+ years ago and I only used those three razors for 10 years. I gave up SR shaving for a decade and then I decided to start again. So I sent my razors out to Lynn. While they were out being honed I decided to buy another razor to shave with, then another, then another. Now I have 12 razors in a month and a half!!! WTF?!? I spend my free time surfing ebay looking at razors. Now I'm making razor boxes and a one off Razor stand to hold 6 razors, and one off shaving brushes and collecting strops and all sorts of shaving related material!!!! I used to be able to have regular conversations on a great many topics.... Now they revolve around shaving and straight razors!!! Is there a cure for RAD???? HELP!!!!

There's an easy solution. Are you married? If so, just let your wife open your credit card bill every month, problem solved :rofl2:

And if you're not married.... get a second job! lol

Sorry, the only cure for RAD is HAD which is even worse!

I got a GF. She really is the love of my life and soulmate. But she told me she is not opposed to me acquiring a razor here and there but if one more razor comes into this house this month she will take it and cut me 4 different ways... Long, deep, wide and continuous !!!!!

Hone acquisition disorder???? oh hell !!!!

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Originally Posted by Tsunami

I got a GF. She really is the love of my life and soulmate. But she told me she is not opposed to me acquiring a razor here and there but if one more razor comes into this house this month she will take it and cut me 4 different ways... Long, deep, wide and continuous !!!!!

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They are small and easily hidden!!:thinking:

Hmmm you need a other GF. One that can live whit your RAD. :gl:

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Originally Posted by Tsunami

.. if one more razor comes into this house this month ..

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Not so bad that, select vendors far away if you can't wait a few days, or if you can't wait just don't pick up your packages from the post office before the end of the month :D Personally, I'd take the opportunity to look into some soaps and creams, or possibly a strop. Beware of hones :D

Best of luck.

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Originally Posted by kalerolf

Hmmm you need a other GF

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Lol! Or that!

...or a P.O Box!!

A cure, absolutely! Start collecting Shelby's or Corvettes!! With those payments, you'll forget about your RAD!!
RAD's how I cured my SAD (Shelby AD)! Wife's very happy now that my toys come in little boxes instead of garages.

Howard

In my experience at least, RAD is rather like being drunk. There are lots of myths and suggestions on how to make it go away but at the end of the day TIME is the only solution. Eventually, you'll buy enough razors or develop other ADs that will replace RAD (i.e. PAD pipe acquisiton disorder, CAD cigar acquisition disorder, etc.) and your RAD will go into temporary remission. Not to worry though, it will be back as soon as you see one razor and think, "Gee, it's only one and it's a really nice razor too." Not unlike a recovering alcoholic who after a period of sobriety decides he can go to a bar and have just one beer.

The trick with wives and girlfriends is to convince them that 1. You're not really spending that much money (I know but it's just a little fib :) ) 2. Your disease is harmless compared to what "some guys" do (i.e. vintage cars, young hot mistresses, etc.) 3. (now we're proceeding towards desperate rationalization) Tell her you're trying to look and smell nice for her. And if all the above fail there's always "The Nuclear Option". It goes like this. "What!? I have too many razors? Are you kidding me, look at all your ____ (fill in the blank shoes, makeup, knick-nacks or whatever you can easily justify). Have you ever heard me say a word to you about that? No, in fact I think I've even bought you several. I'm not saying...I'm just saying." :)

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Originally Posted by SirStropalot

A cure, absolutely! Start collecting Shelby's or Corvettes!! With those payments, you'll forget about your RAD!!
RAD's how I cured my SAD (Shelby AD)! Wife's very happy now that my toys come in little boxes instead of garages.

Howard

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Ha!!
My old AD was guitars, I can get 100-200 razors for the price of one of those!!

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Originally Posted by rodb

Ha!!
My old AD was guitars, I can get 100-200 razors for the price of one of those!!

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Not if you want to collect Filarmonicas for example :P
SirStropalot if nothing else you know that you are not alone :tu:

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Originally Posted by rodb

Ha!!
My old AD was guitars, I can get 100-200 razors for the price of one of those!!

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With logic like that how can you miss?
Pure Genius!!!

1OldGI is right, the most common cure is time, and as it turns out, space...
The various AD's tend to go away after a while, sometimes shifting to others, sometimes just hibernating for a while.
Take comfort in the fact that there is always someone else even more bitten than yourself.

But hey, getting new gear is always fun, and how in the world are we gonna keep practising honing without new arrivals every week??

My wife does not understand why I need more than one straight razor. She thought it was a waste of money despite her having a hundred pair of shoes when she only wears one pair at a time.

She actually told me that I am selfish for not selling some of my razors and using the money for a family vacation.

On January 10th of this year I filed for divorce. Problem solved, no more wife bitching and no more extra funds for my RAD.

I just support my gf's AD's thus she seldom questions mine. I have helped her nearly acquire all of the MAC makeup brushes and whatnot. I also go with her to makeup and clothing stores with not so much as a grumble. A small sacrifice to watch her enjoy her hobby goes a long way.

Mine has MAC brush fever at the moment too! - they're not even badger!!

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Originally Posted by bonitomio

Not if you want to collect Filarmonicas for example :P
SirStropalot if nothing else you know that you are not alone :tu:

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I usually buy in the $20-$30 range and restore, but very true with those!! Not that I could ever buy one, but a 1959 Gibson Les Paul can go for $150k+!!

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Originally Posted by Tsunami

I got a GF. She really is the love of my life and soulmate. But she told me she is not opposed to me acquiring a razor here and there but if one more razor comes into this house this month she will take it and cut me 4 different ways... Long, deep, wide and continuous !!!!!

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Have em sent to the office. LOL

Luckily for me I married and enabler. And her ebay rating is better than mine.

Haha, I know what you mean. I caught the bug a few years back, I was at the estate sale of a barber from the turn of the century, he had a collection of about 100 OLD razors, 7/8s, 8/8s, Wade & Butchers, ivory scales, all the best names, all in almost mint condition... I paid the woman less than $100 for the whole box and I made THOUSANDS. That really caught my attention!

I admit I can be a bit compulsive. Starting straight razor shaving again after 45 years and at 70 made up my mind I wanted to try every well know manufacturer's razors. I bought, tried and sold. Luckily I can now afford to do this with kids gone, and most bills paid off. I have one RAD I can't kick. The vintage razors. Love US and Sheffield razors. On a buying spree now for some oldies. I am over my phase of Mastro Livi's collecting 5. Might have to go back to work on that one. When my wife ask's what I am doing in the bathroom for an hour and I should eat more fruits and vegetables or see a doctor, I say I am trying to get a really close shave to look good for her.