Anyone have a different weekend routine?

I know for me, that when the weekend hits that I really enjoy the hot towel treatment when I'm shaving. I usually don't take the extra time during the week and it is just a super relaxing part of the regiment for me. In addition, I try to use one of the razors from my personal rotation when I can like one of the customs or razors I have culled out because they shave so well. I also like to have a nice hot cup of coffee that I can enjoy during the shave. This is really my time!

How about you guys? Weekends any different? Razors? Suds? Routine?

The weekend is when I usually break out my 18th century gear, slow down, and really savor the moment. Have fun!

In the weekend first a breakfast with a cup of coffee, watching some television and having a relaxing morning start. This takes about two hours.

After this ritual I have a shave that takes an hour, including a long hot shower.

The weekend is when I get most of my shop time in. I can only average an hour a night during the week, so the weekend is my time. After a good day in the shop, it's really nice to come upstairs around 4 or 5 and spend a minute thinking about it: I like to ponder the soap first, which helps dictate the brush. When that's done, I wander over to the razors and think - is it American steel, a Sheffie or Solingen. During the week it's grab and go. So I guess my weekend routine has a bit more postulating in it, and I piece together my shave based on what I'd really like. You all understand (my friends don't get it) that somedays you just "feel" like having a coticule edge, etc.

When I was working the weekends were special and I always took the time to go the whole nine yards. Now that I'm retired every day is the weekend so I can pretty much indulge whenever I want.

The weekend are when I really focus on on my straight razors. I usually have time to relax and enjoy my shaves. I take the time to enjoy.

For me weekend = time. Hence, uberlather, good music, and taking some extra time to do touch-ups and ensure the old BBS. It always kills me that I look my best when no ones looking.

My coffee comes after. If it's a great weekend, it'll be a coffee and cigar : ).

I work from home so my days are similar on the weekend. It just depends on what I have going. If I'm shooting a wedding I have less time on the weekend, as thats when they usually occur.

I'm still starting out, so weekends are kind of experimental time for me. Try different soaps/creams, prep, shavin techniques, different stropping, whatever... Sometimes it works out great... sometimes not so much. During the week I have to stick to what I know works, and get it done ;)

Weekends are usually shave free for me....

I love the Sunday night shave, it's my favorite one of the week. Every Sunday evening at about 7:30 ish, I'm in the shave den. All the other shaves throughout the week I do, albeit are awesome, are in the morning, then it's off to work. Sunday nights I'm usually enjoying a cold one, after some well earned "Me Time".

I usually grab an evening shave, but on a weekend, i try to get in at least one morning shave... feels so nice to mix up the time and enjoy starting a day vs ending a day...

I have to wake up at 4:30am during the week for work and I really don't want to get up any earlier to shave so I leave it to the evening. This means by the time I wake up its already starting to grow back through :banghead:

However, weekends are free for me so shave in the mornings and get the full benefit for most of the day. Also take more time to get it 100% BBS.

I too like to take my time and enjoy the lathering, and the shave. I usually shave later in the day, so instead of a pass WTG, and a second ATG, I just do two passed WTG.

normal weekday is WTG, XTG ear to nose then ATG. weekends have a extra XTG pass nose to ear. take my time and enjoy.
a hot towel shave is calling my name, must give it a go next weekend

On the weekends is when I shave in the morning, and I too enjoy a cup of coffee during my shave. Because I shower at night, I use a hot towel for the weekend shaves. These shaves seem to be the most relaxed ones.

Is a shave coffee like a shower beer !!!!

Every work day I get up at 0550h, and have to QUIETLY get dressed and shave so that I don't wake up the kids.

I usually turn on the bathroom fan, splash hot water 12 times on my face, proraso preshave, lather and have a quick once-over.

Start to finish, 10 mins.


On the weekend however, I actually get to have a shower in the morning!! I Heat up my makeshift-scuttle while I apply my proraso preshave in the shower.

Then I just stand there and enjoy the quiet for a few mins.

When I get out, I happily strop about 60 laps on leather, just because I can.

I whip up whatever lather I feel like that day, really paying attention to and enjoying the process.
By this time, my 2 year old daughter has heard the sound of my brush and bowl and come RUNNING into the bathroom to 'shave with daddy'. So we stand there and lather her up too. She shaves with the back of a comb while I shave with whatever razor I fell like that day.

I take my time, strop between passes and usually have a very satisfying 3 pass shave.

I usually nick or get some razor burn, but not always.

Either way, I look forward to my Saturday shave all week!

I finish it off with either Proraso aftershave or Dominica bay-rum depending on how my face is feeling.

It's an outstanding beginning to every weekend!

I refuse to shave on weekends our any other day I don't work....unless i'm trying out a be razor at a meetup our something like that.

Saturdays are DE days; simply because when I was a kid I saw my father more on weekends, and based on fleeting memories, suspect I watched him shave with his DE on Saturday mornings. That was always after a frenetic day mowing lawns and cutting every blade of grass. This was late 60's

Sundays, it's currently the De Pews. This is a very mild (AKA blunt) razor, so it's nice after the DE; which I find actually gives me an all round more completely smooth shave. I really don't need a super sharp razor after the DE, with my ability to tackle every hair completely ATG with it.

I like mentholy aftershaves on weekends, again, in keeping with the whole mowing the lawn on a hot summer's day, etc, etc theme...Even in winter...

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I love that story, that's really cool.

It'd kill me to not have a shower each morning. Like my SWMBO says, "With you, it's like 'Save the planet, man', unless it effects your comfort". That's one thing I hated about the army out bush, lack of showers. Give me a hot shower each morning and evening (and maybe at lunch time it it's hot (or cold)) and I'll fight for months. No shower and I'm finished in maybe six weeks...

During the week when I'm rushed, there are always the tough areas where due to time constraints, I can't do justice to the shave. A small amount of stubble gets away. But on Saturdays when I have all the time in the world, I look at those areas and say, "You're mine, whiskers!"

I do - I add a hot towel before each pass.

For me it's either a morning shave with a long hot shower, good jazz, real italian espresso and take my time for it. Ritual can take up to 45-60 mins vs 10 during weekdays. Other option is an evening shave, which are rare but therefor very favourable! I take a long, and with long I mean Greenpeace-would-kill-me-long, turn on the stereo on full volume and play some old records from my father. Whip up some uberlather, pour myself a whiskey and when I feel like it also a cigar. Sometimes use just one of my most manly massive blades, sometimes use different razors for each pass!

But truth to be told, I'm still in uni, so weekend can occur on weekdays as well if I feel like it ;) :beer2: