My shift starts at 7 AM. I get up at 4:30, leave the house at 5:30 and I'm in my car drinking coffee listening to talk radio by 6 AM.
I don't shave in the morning other than on the weekends. I usually shave after I get out of the shower while my face is nice and hydrated. And I go through spells where I'll grow a beard or a mustache and goatee for a month or two until I realize how gray I am or the hair under my nose starts irking me and start shaving again. Sometimes I just hit it with the trimmers every couple days for a few weeks and go with the 5 o:clock shadow thing for awhile.
This should appeal to some of you. You can buy a 40s NDC Gillette Super Speed for about $15. Razor blades go anywhere from $12-$40 per 100 depending on what blades you prefer. You can easily get 5 or more shaves out of each blade if you rinse the blade and dry it after each use. That's 500 shaves for $15. Now you can stop there with the wet shaving experience, get you a can of Proctor and Gamble goo and the thirty or so dollars you spent on a razor and some blades will last you a couple years. And you will get a far superior shave. How much does a cartridge razor cost ? And the 5 blade refills ? Some of you guys are spending ten times as much for a way crappier shave because you think it's convenient, when in reality it takes no longer to shave with a real razor than it does with a cartridge razor.
And soaps. Ok, I have no idea how much a can of goo costs these days or how long it lasts, but you can buy a tub of good soap for about $20 or just get a tube of Cremo from WalMart and it will last you a year or more. You can buy a decent synthetic hair brush for about $15 and it will last you forever.
I may have went a bit overboard buying a lot of old razors and a lot of really nice, great smelling and great performing soaps and I may have spent $300 each on a couple of really great badger brushes, but as I just pointed out, you don't have to. It depends how much you want to enjoy your shave. And I haven't bought anything shaving related in about 3 or 4 years and as it is I won't have to if I don't want to for probably a decade or more. That's not an exaggeration either.
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