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(03-09-2018, 01:51 AM)Lipripper660 Wrote: I got into this type shaving to save money. I was tired of that check to Gillette every month. Hahahahahahaha. I now have, I don't know, maybe 35 razors between straights, DE, and SE. I have enough soaps to keep several Mahoots elephants clean for months. I have enough blades that I'm thinking of having the floor below "that cabinet" reinforced so it doesn't go into the basement. My den has enough stone in it to be rendered a quarry. I've not added up the total nor am I going to. Sure I budget what I do and I'm settled into my favorite makers. I not only haven't saved one thin dime but shaving has become as expensive as my wife's nail and spa days with her girlfriends. And I don't care!But you did that by choice. There is a huge difference between spending money on shaving gear because you choose to and doing so because you have no alternative. Traditional shaving gear gives you that freedom of choice, cartridge razors generally do not.
That said, there are far, far more expensive hobbies, e.g., fishing boats, expensive shotguns, high falutin' girlfriends, etc., that a man could have. I have found that it is sometimes best to clean out the wet shaving gear that you are not using or don't like to keep a lid on things getting out of hand as well as to fund new purchases. 
