Lifestyle change. It can also become a hobby for those who collect lots of equipment and accessories and toys. But the style of shaving itself is a lifestyle change. A great one too.
The site has brought together various means and methods of doing this quotidian task in the most interesting and painless manner.
Call it whatever you like, but this has been the best dang hobby, sickness, disorder, mindset that I've had since building model cars.
I stopped building model cars when they made the glue safer.
I had knee replacement 2 months ago and had a lot of time to read plenty of post. What kind of bothers me is people shaving with a straight or with a DE continue to call it a hobby. I thought collecting coins,stamps etc was a hobby? What we do is a lifestyle change. I mean, am I way offbase or am I right? Your thoughts please.
Shaving in itself is not a hobby. However collecting and trying out different razors, brushes, soaps etc isn't really any different from collecting stamps, except that the things I collect are also useful.
It's not a hobby, it's not a "lifestyle" (hateful word): it's shaving, which as Mario's grandfather reminds us, gentlemen do every day. It's just shaving. The site has brought together various means and methods of doing this quotidian task in the most interesting and painless manner.
Collecting, however, is a hobby. A peek over there on the shaving den thread will show the difference. I have 15 +/- rose and almond soaps and creams, but I am not collecting them. I'm trying to find the one(s) I like best.
Returning to DE wet shaving has given me back a pleasant 20 minutes a day, replacing a dull chore with a pleasurable zen-like moment.