Thread: Here's to the Dearly Beloved

My dearest just smiles at me..sighs..and says "you know I support your passion" She'll ask me when I restore/rescale one if I'm gonna sell that one...My answer, " don't have a double of that one yet" lol. She just smiles and says "Oh Robert"

My wife has a knife and sharp edge phobia, so it is an incredible effort of will for her to have my collection of straight razors in the house at all. I try to keep all but those I currently use locked away in the storage area, and those that I am using are securely and discretely tucked away in the second bathroom cupboard, often in a locked steel cash box. There is not a lot of evidence in our house that there is a straight razor user and accumulator living there, apart from a strop hanging on a towel rack and my honing table downstairs.

She does not actively encourage me to accumulate more things (understandably I think) but neither does she actively discourage me. We are essentially adult about the whole thing - she realises that for me it is more than just shaving, and as long as I keep the spending within acceptable limits there's no issue. (There's plenty of issue when the spending gets out of hand! ) Similar with respect to the things she likes and enjoys.

James.

I use the tactical approach. I make sure I never spend at quite the same level that she does so she is never in a position to complain.

Truthfully though, I learned a long time ago for a marriage to work you both need to have a discretionary fund which is yours to do with as you please. it's worked for me for 35 years.

There's this unwritten law.
Ones razor acquisitions should be inversely proportional to your partners shoe acquisitions

Originally Posted by Jimbo

My wife has a knife and sharp edge phobia, so it is an incredible effort of will for her to have my collection of straight razors in the house at all. I try to keep all but those I currently use locked away in the storage area, and those that I am using are securely and discretely tucked away in the second bathroom cupboard, often in a locked steel cash box. There is not a lot of evidence in our house that there is a straight razor user and accumulator living there, apart from a strop hanging on a towel rack and my honing table downstairs.

She does not actively encourage me to accumulate more things (understandably I think) but neither does she actively discourage me. We are essentially adult about the whole thing - she realises that for me it is more than just shaving, and as long as I keep the spending within acceptable limits there's no issue. (There's plenty of issue when the spending gets out of hand! ) Similar with respect to the things she likes and enjoys.

James.

I can relate. Mine says all knives are scary and my razors are even worse. She just shakes her head and goes on after making some remark about how evil they look.

Originally Posted by justalex

When I find one I'll tell ya...

Just so you know, I know who penfold is!!! hehehe. Love the avatar. I just happen to have a collection of Danger Mouse!!

M

my SWMBO is the most incredibly patient woman in the world. I jump from passion to passion and have had many hobbies throughout the years we have been married.

The one thing she always marvels at is that I try and become as 'expert' at them as is possible for me to do. Each hobby or skill I have attempted has always cost something, in time, money etc.. but most have always given a payback of some type. One even ended up being what a chose as a career eventually, taking a passion to 'expert' to primary means of support.

Whenever I master one and become bored, I have searched for another to fill the time. At first she viewed them as competition for her time and attentions, eventually she came to realize that if I didn't have something to occupy my thoughts I become a very sad and dull person. She chooses to have a happier husband, even if it does cost us something.

She is the most frugal woman on the planet, having been a single mother for years before we met. Allowing me my hobbies also gives her the right to indulge sometimes, something she deprived herself of for many years.

As for my razors, AS's and colognes, strops, stones and restoration tools that I have invested in over the last year, she has treated it as all my other interests. She knows that eventually I will achieve the state of knowledge that I desire and will file it away in my 'one more thing I'm good at' bank and move on to something else. However, this one is one that gets used every single day. Brings unlimited wonder to her how I can put something so sharp onto my face, etc..

This time though, I bought her and my youngest son DE's of their own so they could sample the joy it gives me to change the boring chore into something exciting and unusual. They both have learned to enjoy it for what it is, just a different way of doing the same old thing!!

I consider myself the most fortunate man in the world to have found such a wonderful, patient and loving woman. I have been blessed, truly blessed.

M

Originally Posted by Wullie

I can relate. Mine says all knives are scary and my razors are even worse. She just shakes her head and goes on after making some remark about how evil they look.

It is good to know there are other people in the same boat - it can be a bit tricky at times.

James.

Originally Posted by mjhammer

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I consider myself the most fortunate man in the world to have found such a wonderful, patient and loving woman. I have been blessed, truly blessed.

M

With an attitude like that toward your wife, I think she is also a very fortunate woman!

James.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

I use the tactical approach. I make sure I never spend at quite the same level that she does so she is never in a position to complain.

Truthfully though, I learned a long time ago for a marriage to work you both need to have a discretionary fund which is yours to do with as you please. it's worked for me for 35 years.

We just started one this past month. Ten dollars a month.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

There's this unwritten law.
Ones razor acquisitions should be inversely proportional to your partners shoe acquisitions

My beloved doesn't spend too much, nor does she have oodles of shoes. However, just this morning she said that she needs a pair of "summer black dress shoes." I don't know why, but maybe I can get another blade out of it. Never mind, were too poor.