Now that I have accumulated several soaps (23 I think), how does everyone decide on the rotation? Thinking weekly, maybe monthly, but then how does one fit in the menthol Mondays...oh the agony. Maybe I need to use a radomizer or give the dice a roll...oh the anticipation... I know I'll blind fold my self and the first one I grab is the one I use, as long as I don't shave with the blind fold on.
I have twenty soaps and creams, and I just made the list, and I go to the next one on the list each day. I feel like I am never going to run out of soap. My TOBS lavender is getting low, I can see about 50 cents worth of the bottom. At this rate it will probably last another three months or more.
I just take the one I feel like using that particular day, but have considered a randomizer of some sort.
I only have a few. I just randomly grab from the cabinet, or whatever I feel like. I still have to test Proraso Red and Cella with my Shavette so those might be up next.
Daily morning inspiration strikes. Zero pre-planning unless I just bought a new soap I want to try out for a few days in a row.
Right now I am doing the 30 Day Rule, so I am only using one soap. I have about 10-12 total and am looking to get more. Before doing the Rule and once I finish it, my system was just like @Darkbulb -- whatever inspiration hits that morning is what I go with unless I have a new soap and then it gets used. I don't think I would enjoy having a fixed schedule, as part of the shaving experience for me is deciding what to use that particular day based on how I am feeling.
I have near 40 soaps, approximately 8 stacks of 5 each. After I use the soap du jour, it goes into a new stack. Work down one stack, start a new one. I stick to the rotation pretty strict. Only time it varies is when I go on vacation, then I take my Tabac and one of my TSD soaps. As for Menthol Mondays, you GOTTA get some TSD M Bomb, then you can add menthol whenever you want it to whatever you want, as much as you want.
I have 70 plus soaps and creams so no rotation works. I just pick something that interests me that day.
At first it was random. Now I divide my den into two collections, which I switch out on the fall and spring solstices (same day as I change my furnace filters). They are quasi-divided up by summery scents and fall scents. But the best part is that I get to experience a completely different shave den twice a year.
I'm pretty random about it. I set one on the countertop, use it for two or three shaves, then put it back under the cupboard, exchanging it with another. L'occitane, MWF, Proraso Green. Proraso White, Tabac, TOBS sandalwood cream, TOBS Mr. Taylor 's cream, Nivea Sensitive cream and VDH. That's it, and a tub of Cella in the mail
I try to follow a set rotation, but just as I am about to select my next soap another one on the shelf calls out, "no, no, not that one...pick me, pick me". And of course I give in...
I would just pick whatever scent you are in the mood for at that time. I don't have a set rotation or do planned shave, I just select the gear that as I go.
