I started DE shaving for the cost factor. I stayed with it because it's cool. I have the coolest ablutionary routine of every other human being I know. I use multiple apparati and implements (one of which is a big, deadly-looking razor) to perform a formerly mundane and tedious daily task. I use soaps and creams from countries that no one I know has ever even been to. I rub soap on my face using wet animal fur then scrape my skin with a piece of sharpened metal. When I shave, I feel like the biggest badass in the neighborhood.