any shaving soap hoarders on it?
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I’m weak and I like variety. I have plenty of quality soaps I regularly use, with 3 new ones inbound, couldn’t help myself. I PIF plenty to my brother but am now burdening him with a glut of product. Double down time! Heard good things about the AE Peach and Cognac.
TOBS and MWF a few pucks and soft milled. A 68 year old man with a 15 year old complexion --- I'm worth it.
I second joining the G.R.U.M.E. It is really nice to focus on enjoying what you have. It really helped me stop and think about what I enjoy the most. Shaving costs a whole lot less these days.
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Yes but only to try so I know what I like 
so while I have bought what I think is a lot I will either sell off or send off or use up and find my top two or so and be happy and not buy anything but those top in the future
so KINDA
so while I have bought what I think is a lot I will either sell off or send off or use up and find my top two or so and be happy and not buy anything but those top in the future so KINDA
That's funny.
I have bad luck with products I like becoming difficult to get, so I almost hoard by adding not-needed extras of soaps I already have to whatever order I'm placing. A formulation change to Mitchell's or Arko would probably really annoy me so it's a pragmatic stockpile. The soaps I was less than happy with can be slowly used up in the shower.
I'm accidentally hoarding Arko. After trying it, for some reason I thought buying a 12 pack made sense. Still on stick 1 about five years later.
Rhody
I'm a Lumberjack.
Think of it more like a collection.
You can try samples. Keep a few staple soaps and use samples for more variety or a little treat.
Set a limit. It's up to you, but it could be seven, or ten, or fourteen, etc. Make a little rule with yourself that you need to finish at least one soap in your horde before you buy a replacement.
Check out the 3017 soap threads.
Check out the GRUME threads.
Focus on the soap base. You don't really need a bunch of different scents in the same soap base. Just pick one you like a lot.
Plan your purchases in advance. Keep a wish list. You don't have to buy every soap that interests you right away. Just add it to your wish list as a possible future choice. You may find things drop off your wish list on their own after awhile.
Set a limit. It's up to you, but it could be seven, or ten, or fourteen, etc. Make a little rule with yourself that you need to finish at least one soap in your horde before you buy a replacement.
Check out the 3017 soap threads.
Check out the GRUME threads.
Focus on the soap base. You don't really need a bunch of different scents in the same soap base. Just pick one you like a lot.
Plan your purchases in advance. Keep a wish list. You don't have to buy every soap that interests you right away. Just add it to your wish list as a possible future choice. You may find things drop off your wish list on their own after awhile.
Pfft, I did that three times. I can proudly say that I finished two sticks in five years. How is that?
If you keep buying soaps you will eventually run out of new soaps to buy. That’s my strategy.
I work on board the ship, therefore I'm unable to buy stof for a few months...
Also I try to compensate that when I'm at home, increasing my collection
Out of 17 sopas/creams I hvae, only 3 are in rotation... My wife thinks I rotate them all, but I don't, and for 7 of them she doesen't know
Also I try to compensate that when I'm at home, increasing my collection
Out of 17 sopas/creams I hvae, only 3 are in rotation... My wife thinks I rotate them all, but I don't, and for 7 of them she doesen't know
At this point in my shaving career I know exactly what I like in soap- from the ingredients to the scent- so that now makes buying things much easier to try out. I don't stray from my criteria. Of course that took many years to figure out and I have accumulated a pile of junk to get where I'm at, too.
I no longer try new soaps but collect more of my favourite Yardley, Cussons, Goya, and Old Spice soaps. Most of them I put away for my retirement in a couple of years.
That's what I am hoarding as well, Yardley, Pen's tallow and Old Spice....the newer, softer and highly over fatted, soaps are not aging too well. The harder the better!!
Whenever new soap formulations are released that I think might be better than the ones I already have in my collection, I buy them. Noble Otter just released a new scent call Logbook that I think I might like. I have several older Nobel Otter soaps, but none that were made using the current formula. Thus, a new soap is on the way to my mailbox for evaluation.
I currently have over 200 soaps in my collection. That is enough to last about 40 years. According to the actuarial tables my life expectancy is about 15 years. I will never live long enough to outlive all my soaps. However, of those 200 soaps, I only consider around 75 to be good enough to include in my current rotation. If I outlive the actuarial tables, I might outlive my top soaps. Thus, I continue to purchase soaps when I can find ones with both superb performance and superb scents. My goal is to outlive my soap rotation.
Occasionally, I will either PIF or discard some of the soaps that I am unlikely to ever use again. I have given away most of my vegan soaps. I do keep a few soaps that I purchased early in my wet shaving journey just to remind me of how bad soaps were back then. I won't mention the names of those soaps lest I draw the ire of some who use them routinely.
I currently have over 200 soaps in my collection. That is enough to last about 40 years. According to the actuarial tables my life expectancy is about 15 years. I will never live long enough to outlive all my soaps. However, of those 200 soaps, I only consider around 75 to be good enough to include in my current rotation. If I outlive the actuarial tables, I might outlive my top soaps. Thus, I continue to purchase soaps when I can find ones with both superb performance and superb scents. My goal is to outlive my soap rotation.
Occasionally, I will either PIF or discard some of the soaps that I am unlikely to ever use again. I have given away most of my vegan soaps. I do keep a few soaps that I purchased early in my wet shaving journey just to remind me of how bad soaps were back then. I won't mention the names of those soaps lest I draw the ire of some who use them routinely.
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