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Amazing review Boar Fighter,
I envy guys like u and Nav and especially Gray dog who have so many brushes,
With my tiny 409 Sq foot apartment I have to limit my brushes to ard 5 at most... Its on the orders of my gf lol.
Thank you, for the little it's worth. But, as with blades, it's very YMMV. What one thinks as high backbone, can be floppy for someone else...
I understand your space and girfriend problem. In a sense, i also face similar problem, because i have or had in the past several hobbies, which led me to occupy much space and my wife who is the "Queen of the House Order", never like me occupying even more space. And believe me, she thinks that i have suffered a regression to primitive state for going back to wetshaving. I don't expect her to gift me a shaving brush, anytime soon. Let's put it this way.
So, i want more brushes, she doesn't like brushes and doesn't like me occupying more space. There is a proverb here that more or less says: "What the eyes can't see, can't cause suffering". Counting the spare brushes, i am now at 50+ (boars, badgers, synths and horses). But i don't "show them off" to her. I keep only 5 in plain sight each month, in a little angle out of her way and in a place where she doesn't have to look all the time. I also take care of cleaning the brush stands on my own every while, because otherwise the dust will catch her eye. Because if you put something right on her face, it's easier to have her notice it and irritate her. The rest of the brushes, sit dispersed in various boxes in a storage room, some of them under other items. She knows that i don't have just 5 brushes, but she doesn't know the exact number, because she doesn't care to search boxes with items she hates (like items for house repair, car tools etc, machine oils, etc). They are also heavy and she doesn't even care to lift them so that she can open them.
The same holds true for soaps. Although since some soaps have very strong scent, i keep those together in the same box, open for inspection (because i have nothing to hide!), because it would be futile to try to hide something that has such strong scent that it would seep out of a box with "car tools". In the box with the "car tools", you put scentless soaps or sealed creams. A man's got to do what a man's got to do...
This system works well enough. Like i said, you have to work with what you have and adapt your strategy accordingly. The only problem is that even so, i am running out of space, because you can't just make the boxes vanish nor justify an ever increasing number of them appearing, so i will have to consume some soaps to make new space.
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