Do you really save money?

I think I saved more money on Harry's auto shipment as I was buying my 8 razors and various cremes and brushes.

However, now that I have stopped buying razors and have settled on Arko as my go to shave soap - along with my stock of 600 razor blades, I am set for about 15 years. The only thing I will have to buy now is some Pinaud about once every 8 months.

So in the long run, I will be saving a TON of money!

 

No way, has it saved money on shaving, but it has helped curb my appetite for guitars (GAS) . I've gone from 7 instruments to 2. So dollar wise I'm ahead.

 

"Wet shaving will save you money!!!"

 

Yup. I am sure you can but not me. I have a friend who has been gifted all of his gear and I am sure he is done spending money on shaving for a long while.

 

Sometimes the purchases seem to go in spurts. Then it is like this:






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Once my RAD calmed down and I more or less finalized my kit, shaving is very inexpensive for me now. I haven't needed to buy blades, soap or AS in years. While the RAD was expensive I look at my razors as investments as well as a hobby, all of them are worth more now than when I first bought them, some of them are worth ALOT more!

 

Figuring in that I was able to profit from flipping almost all the razors I ever found or had sent to me from my Dad's auction wins...and that I've never bought a new razor...or bought top of the line anything...and am happy with just one brush and meager soaps or cream...and 40 year old aftershave...yes, absolutely I've saved money. In fact, I've made money, but those days are pretty much over.

Now that I know what I like, I'm content to have less but to have more than broke even getting here.

 

If you let it become one, as with anything else.

 

As others have vocalized it's not that wetshaving doesn't save money it's the collecting that screws you. I mean who needs 40 soaps? I sure don't but it's fun to try them all.

 

The short answer to your question, NO.

 

Let me know when you find out.

 

Nope not saving any money. I used to dread dragging that cart over my face in the morning and now look forward to shaving. I definitely need to thin the herds some but I just can't seem to decide what razors/brushes/soaps I can live without.

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I think i could shave the rest of my life, and not spend any more. (If i choose to).

 

Now that I have found my go to set up and just play around in the soaps/creams it will save. For me coming from multi blade razors in my youth to electrics for the last 8-10 years, I find the cost savings secondary to the awesome quality of the shave achieved with no burn, bumps or stubble. The time spent is relaxing and an added reward. Cost? Meh....

 

I have two friends who's cost of shaving went way down last year when I gifted them with a merkur razor along with brush/soap/blade assortment/AS.

I, on the other hand, have not faired so well.

 

I think I spent more money when I converted to wet shaving than I did when I was cartridge shaving.

 

For me probably not, but I don't care. I could get Barbasol and Personna twin blade throwaways at Dollar Tree and get good shaves for dirt cheap. I just don't want to anymore. With the price of razors, soaps and blades with shipping included, traditional wet shaving is probably more expensive. But, I like buying razors, trying blades, and experimenting with different soaps !!!

 

Not at all!

If switching meant going minimal then maybe.

I'd hate to see what I have tied up in this "money saving" adventure.

 

Shaving is a heck of a lot cheaper now! The fact that I've spent who knows how much on stuff is a whole nother thing! Has nothing to do with the cost of the shave itself.