I just shaved with Ozark Mountain. It’s snowing hard outside and I’m not quite ready to kick into Christmas Mode where I’ll bask in the equally wonderful scent Christmas Eve. OM is a perfect outdoor and cold weather scent. I just try to limit myself from always using it, otherwise my other soaps get jealous. I’m also a little nervous that this particular puck is extra special, and it’s backup only has normal greatness.
December 2nd Razor: Occam's DE OC Blade: Kai Stainless (3) Brush: Stirling Finest badger Pre-shave: Stirling Mentholated Soap: Stirling Orange Chill Stirling Orange Chill witch hazel Stirling mentholated post shave balm AS: Stirling Orange Chill Menthol Monday Good morning!
SOTD December 2, 2019 Prep: Cold water and PAA Cube pre-shave soap Blade: Kai Captain Mild Razor: RazoRock Black Hawk Brush: Ever Ready 100T restored badger Soap: Stirling Ozark Mountain Post: Witch hazel, Stirling Ozark Mountain aftershave First of many Ozark Mountain shaves this month. Quite enjoyable!
It's the little boy from the movie A Christmas Story. His name in the movie is Ralphie. This is where Santa pushes him down the slide after he asks for the BB gun.
I do. We're working on MITA, Haverford, Triumph, Witchy Woman, and an attempt to make the Barbershop stronger right now.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and picked something up over the weekend. I am in your debt. It's been a fun weekend. Our first ever Black Friday weekend when we have an actual storefront and we had an absolute disaster. We had more customers in store on Friday and Saturday than we have in a normal month, and the whole place stunk like death. Normally customers walk in and say it smells so nice, and of all weekends, it smelled like rotting carcass. We had to keep all the doors open and it was freezing cold the whole time. Spent all day Sunday drilling holes in the floor with a small wire camera, and finally ended up having to take the circular saw and cut two large holes in the floor to pull out a dead and rotting possum that had crawled under the crawl space of the building and died up near the storefront. I was absolutely mortified and embarrassed every time we had a customer come in this weekend. We're still cleaning up the mess today, but at least the stench is gone. We covered the spot with 80 lbs of lime, and I dumped a leftover jug of Stirling One aftershave on the pile as well to cover any residual. Now I'm going to go fix another coffee and get back to all the emails that came in yesterday....
Wow, that's really unfortunate! Glad you were able to locate the stench. I'm sure your walk-in customers understood and it didn't hurt your business. I'm thankful for you guys and your wonderful products and hope the weekend was good for your business.
This is a great example of one of the first things I learned in my Marketing class in college many years ago - Murphy's Law ("Whatever can go wrong will go wrong ( snd at the worst possible time)). It sounds like you made it through just fine and had a nice prosperous weekend to boot. I couldn't be happier for you. You and all of Stirling are very special to us.
I would have used Sandpiper to clean up any messes in MY bathroom!!! . Maybe throw in a little Spice.
Question for the group and I'm sure answers will vary but trying to gauge my own use/abuse of the wonderful aftershave's Stirling produces and see typically how much aftershave is being used to a tub of the shave soap. At the current pace I'm on I think I'll use about two of the bottles of aftershave to get through most of a tub of soap. Maybe a little more?!?
