The Goodfellas’ Smile(s)
Paul First, about the elephant in the room. Yes, I scheduled the Proraso blue for the second week in a row. I didn’t notice until I’d already taken the picture of…
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Some Shave Planning Notes
I just wanted to drop a quick post explaining one of the quirks that happens sometimes when planning my shaves, and how it manifests itself in the next two months…
The Razorock Gamechanger .68-P Review
Let me address the elephant in the room right now: yes, I did get yet another new razor. This one’s been on my mind for a while, as you can…
Getting Started – Some Thoughts On the Collection
As of this moment (I’m writing this the weekend of March 7, 2025), I have 991 individual things in the shaving collection, and that feels like an enormous number. And…
The Mühle R89 Review
I know what I said in The State of the Shave of the Day post at the end of the year, as I listed out the razors I was thinking…
New Arrivals
Okay, have a seat. This may take a while. I was good during all of the Black Friday sales and didn’t buy anything, even though there were some great deals…
Organizationalizing
A lot of shavers in the online forums will refer to the bathroom dedicated to their shaving stuff as the “shave den.” We have one bathroom in the house. And…
Let’s Talk (Blade) Gaps
I (and my shaving enthusiast brethren) talk a lot about mild, medium, and aggressive razors, or as some prefer: efficient and less efficient. While this is a somewhat subjective measure,…
Another December Mail Call
Thanks to the sample haul back in July, there were a couple of lathers that I really have wanted to add to the collection. I put them on my wish…
The State of the Shave of the Day (TSOTSOTD)
It's the end of the calendar year now, with only a couple of hours until the clocks tick over to 2026, and this seems like a good time to look…