When I decided to start wet shaving with a DE, I bought an EJ DE89L, a tube of Proraso, a reasonably-priced Omega badger brush, a 10-pack of Personna reds, and a bottle of Aubrey Organics AS splash. For $90 (and a salsa bowl swiped from the kitchen), I was up & running. "Wow, cartridges cost me $1 per shave, after 3 months this new stuff will pay for itself!"
Then I thought it'd be a good idea to buy an alum block - a totally practical purchase, and only $6. Decided at the last second to add a stick of Arko to my order...it was only a few bucks, and I was curious to see what it was all about.
Then I decided it'd be cool to have a birth year razor, and sprung for a NOS 1978 Gillette SS on eBay. The very next day, I was perusing BST and ended up grabbing a minty little 1966 SS.
Then last week I was idly surfing the web, and suddenly everything went dark, and when my eyes refocused, I was staring at an Amazon purchase confirmation for two bowls of D.R. Harris shaving soap: Arlington and Marlborough. I'd never even smelled these soaps before, much less tried samples...yet they showed up on my doorstep two days later.
I ended up loving the smell of Arlington so much that, just last night, I went over to West Coast Shaving's site and ordered the matching AS splash...and a bowl of the Windsor soap, and its matching splash as well.
Then this morning I was thinking, "my pure badger brush is nice, but man, I'd love to try a silvertip brush." So there I was, perusing silvertips. Fortunately, I caught myself just before I was about to pull the trigger on a Colonel Conk.
And a few minutes ago, I had the phone in my hand and was about to call up West Cost Shaving to see if they could throw the ceramic Tabac bowl onto my order.
What the hell?! This is totally getting out of hand!
Then I thought it'd be a good idea to buy an alum block - a totally practical purchase, and only $6. Decided at the last second to add a stick of Arko to my order...it was only a few bucks, and I was curious to see what it was all about.
Then I decided it'd be cool to have a birth year razor, and sprung for a NOS 1978 Gillette SS on eBay. The very next day, I was perusing BST and ended up grabbing a minty little 1966 SS.
Then last week I was idly surfing the web, and suddenly everything went dark, and when my eyes refocused, I was staring at an Amazon purchase confirmation for two bowls of D.R. Harris shaving soap: Arlington and Marlborough. I'd never even smelled these soaps before, much less tried samples...yet they showed up on my doorstep two days later.
I ended up loving the smell of Arlington so much that, just last night, I went over to West Coast Shaving's site and ordered the matching AS splash...and a bowl of the Windsor soap, and its matching splash as well.
Then this morning I was thinking, "my pure badger brush is nice, but man, I'd love to try a silvertip brush." So there I was, perusing silvertips. Fortunately, I caught myself just before I was about to pull the trigger on a Colonel Conk.
And a few minutes ago, I had the phone in my hand and was about to call up West Cost Shaving to see if they could throw the ceramic Tabac bowl onto my order.
What the hell?! This is totally getting out of hand!
