What I really enjoy the most is having a smooth face. For years I tried to achieve that with carts and it never got me close. Wet shaving really allows you to have a younger looking face too. That's a detriment when you are 20 but when you get to be an older dude it makes you feel pretty good when someone says "Man, I thought your were in your mid 30's!" I was reviewing some old surveillance footage and saw a picture of me at 3pm prior to me starting wet shaving and man I had a 5 o'clock shadow already going on. Now I can do a one pass shave and have a great looking face all day if I want to. One pass wet shaving far exceeds my 3 with the cart way back when.
One thing that's changed for me recently is that I no longer feel BBS or DBBS is the benchmark. When I started I felt like what was the point if you weren't the smoothest you could possibly be, but now it's a great shave that matters. One that feels good while you are doing it and feels amazing afterwards.
On the issue of building this huge amount of shaving stuff.........I really haven't. All I really have are the things I won in PIFs early on when I joined TSC. It's not really a hobby for me, it's a daily task that's far more enjoyable. I'd love to honestly try more soaps and things, but if you know me well you know I have a lot of serious hobbies so there's no money for wet shaving beyond my guilty pleasure of buying Bay Rum Mystic Water soap every now and then. I can see how it would be someone's hobby though and the friends you make are seriously great. Some of you I've met in person, and others it's just PM conversations, but it's a brotherhood of the razor so we all bond through that.
