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Clay Face
Honolulu, Hawaii
Cèdre-Orange v. (Le Père Lucien) cedar & orange
I've started a new way of shuffling through my soaps. Instead of picking a tub each morning, almost at random, with only the weather, my mood, or a horoscope to guide me, I've determined to fall back on the cold and unteetering logic of my spreadsheet.
It's set up to list each of my soaps by its cost-per-lather, with the most expensive lathers at the top. Each morning I'll use the first soap on the list, record it in the spreadsheet, and then press a button to recalculate the cost-per-lather. If today's soap is still at the top of the list for tomorrow, so be it. If it's a new one, all the more pleasure.
At first we'll see only a handful of new or pricey soaps whose lathers, so far, are quite expensive. But then slowly a few more soaps will work into the rotation as the cost of each lather becomes commensurate with the new soaps. This cycle will snowball until about this time next year I expect that all my soaps should share roughly the same cost-per-lather, and all will be part of the rotation.
The fact is, I like all my soaps and I'm happy to use any of them any morning, but I enjoy a soap most while its scents are still fresh. So I'm looking to balance my love of variety with my longing to ensure that new or expensive soaps don't go stale before they've had at least a dozen good lickings. The hope of saving money by wet shaving is now but a misty dream, but I'm still chasing after value.
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I've started a new way of shuffling through my soaps. Instead of picking a tub each morning, almost at random, with only the weather, my mood, or a horoscope to guide me, I've determined to fall back on the cold and unteetering logic of my spreadsheet.
It's set up to list each of my soaps by its cost-per-lather, with the most expensive lathers at the top. Each morning I'll use the first soap on the list, record it in the spreadsheet, and then press a button to recalculate the cost-per-lather. If today's soap is still at the top of the list for tomorrow, so be it. If it's a new one, all the more pleasure.
At first we'll see only a handful of new or pricey soaps whose lathers, so far, are quite expensive. But then slowly a few more soaps will work into the rotation as the cost of each lather becomes commensurate with the new soaps. This cycle will snowball until about this time next year I expect that all my soaps should share roughly the same cost-per-lather, and all will be part of the rotation.
The fact is, I like all my soaps and I'm happy to use any of them any morning, but I enjoy a soap most while its scents are still fresh. So I'm looking to balance my love of variety with my longing to ensure that new or expensive soaps don't go stale before they've had at least a dozen good lickings. The hope of saving money by wet shaving is now but a misty dream, but I'm still chasing after value.
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