I take your point. Nonetheless weekly or semi-weekly honing sessions seem a bit overkill. If they are necessary that makes the advice to new guys that they only need razor and strop to straight shave very deficient. We should amend said advice to Razor and Hone. Some guys claim to get 7-10 shaves between stroppings (see Stropping is King thread), so that's a week to a week and a half for an everyday shaver like myself; or a month for a 3x a week shaver. If you're going to have to touch up hone with that same frequency spend the $80 on a barber's hone and a finisher instead of a nice strop!
Axel--Where's hellhole MN? I'm in extreme NW Iowa, but just moved from Eastern SD and I must have been pretty close to you there. ;)