Thread: Been Too Long...

I participated in No Shave November last year and let's just say, it kinda turned into No Shave Winter.

Big no no, right? Anyway, I shaved this morning and it felt amazing. I missed my morning routine- make coffee, head to the bathroom, pick out a blade, strop, lather up, and shave, taking sips of coffee when I wipe off the blade. Just something about it, it's so relaxing. No one I know personally gets it. But I know you folks do...

Anyway, what's the longest y'all have gone without shaving?

For the last 4 years I just shave my neck and cheeks a bit so I don't look like Chewbaca

Until I hit my mid-40s, I had a beard longer than I didn't have one. May your reacquaintance be sweet. Several hobbies over my life have taken long vacations. The return is always tenative but turns good.

I have always shaved intermittently until I got a job that requires me to be clean shaven. Now it's an everyday event for the most part. I did go two years once without trimming my beard. It was getting fairly long.

Had a full beard from around when i was 17 to about 32, when my then gf and today swmbo put her foot down and demanded access to some skin on my face... Been sporting a circle beard since, as a compromise. It's been 6 years, so counting only years in which i was able to have a beard, it's 15:8 not shaving to shaving. It's 21:2 sporting SOME sort of beard to clean shaven...
One of the reasons I started the whole beard thing was that I couldn't stand cartridge razors, and when I got back to it it was a year and something on mach xxx and goo, (at which point I found srp) 4 months cartridge with brush and cream/soap, 6 months DE wet shaving, and straights all the rest. The str8s are here to stay.

I had a full beard of varying lengths for 40 years. Life events and changes led me to say time for change, but not completely. Reduced it to a moustache and goatee known as a Van Dyke - and avoids the problem areas of shaving upper lip and chin. And of course multi-bladed objects were not acceptable. Straights daily except for occasional variations of a DE or SE for the heck of it.

Same here, except I let mine start in August. Work requires it again. It really does feel great to shave with the straight again.

Enjoy!

I agree grizli, straights are here to stay for me as well.

I think what I will end up doing is just growing a beard every winter, then shaving it off every spring. Except I will have to be sure to not take a hiatus from here for so long again!

For the past two years I have only gone as much as four days without shaving with the straight. That is how long my winter camps would last.