jgreenepa
TSC's "Velveteen Shaver"
I really enjoy this forum, but must confess that my main hangout is at TSD (The Shave Den) where one of the main threads is the 30DC, which apparently has been running nonstop since 2015. The focus of the thread is educational (30 Day Concentration) where initially newcomers are directed to stick with one razor, one brush, one soap etc for 30 days straight. I tell you this in order to explain the title of this thread. There’s a core group of us, just as there is here, that spend every day documenting our shaves, and also helping newcomers to learn the hobby. It’s a wonderfully supportive core group, and one of the things that occurs after one has been there participating and eventually helping others into the hobby is the award of what is termed a CT (Custom Title) that appears under one’s handle in place of the automatically generated ones you see on most of the forums. Mine as you probably guessed is the ‘Nasal Barbarian’, awarded me based on my total lack of scent sophistication. My response to many of my friends’ detailed scent descriptions was usually something along the lines of “me likee”, “smells good!”, unlike their “notes of patchouli, oranges, bergamot etc”, thus my CT.
In my defense, my SWMBO has a severe fragrance allergy which can actually evolve into a migraine when exposed to any fragrance. This SWMBO is my second wife, and I adore her! She is the best person I know, and consequently most of my AS’s and soaps have rapidly dissipating scents or are scentless. We met at church, after having lost our respective long term spouses on the same day, one month apart in 2012. She lost her Don on November 6, 2012 and I lost my Anita on December 6, 2012. She lost her spouse to cancer as did I. Cancer brought us together, in more ways than one. Both Lauren and me are cancer survivors. We initially never intended to marry, but as time passed we began to really enjoy each other’s company, and married, 4 yrs after meeting. So we’ve been together 8 yrs, but married for 4.
I always kept things simple and frugal in the shaving arena for most of my life. I bought a Schick Krona for $1.49 in 1969 and used it continuously for 50 years until it finally broke in August 2019. I’d been collecting other razors and lurking at various shave fora, but finally began to formally join them this last year. I will now post my shave descriptions here, and my pics in the SOTD thread.
In my defense, my SWMBO has a severe fragrance allergy which can actually evolve into a migraine when exposed to any fragrance. This SWMBO is my second wife, and I adore her! She is the best person I know, and consequently most of my AS’s and soaps have rapidly dissipating scents or are scentless. We met at church, after having lost our respective long term spouses on the same day, one month apart in 2012. She lost her Don on November 6, 2012 and I lost my Anita on December 6, 2012. She lost her spouse to cancer as did I. Cancer brought us together, in more ways than one. Both Lauren and me are cancer survivors. We initially never intended to marry, but as time passed we began to really enjoy each other’s company, and married, 4 yrs after meeting. So we’ve been together 8 yrs, but married for 4.
I always kept things simple and frugal in the shaving arena for most of my life. I bought a Schick Krona for $1.49 in 1969 and used it continuously for 50 years until it finally broke in August 2019. I’d been collecting other razors and lurking at various shave fora, but finally began to formally join them this last year. I will now post my shave descriptions here, and my pics in the SOTD thread.
