Read a Wired magazine article touting the cost savings from straight razor shaving. Right! Bought a straight razor for $20 from my collector brother-in-law, found my wife's barbers hone, and went at it. I did OK, but ploddingly. When I found SRP a few weeks later, my progress went on a radically better trajectory!

Any more, my wife teases me that I spend all my time on SRP. I don't think she's worried about me hunting up pix of naked women at all on this Internet thing!