I have downsized the den

That is certainly an impressive collection! Thanks for sharing.

Pairing down is a novel concept. I just put up shelves to help clear off my sink counter; two shelves, but I've already ordered a 3rd as my shave collection is always growing.

Once I found a magical recipe a lot of gear went to friends and homeless vets. I have my Mergress, Paladin, Vie-Long and VP, MWF, Dusy Kabinette and Penhaligons scents. I never imagined owning such an assembly when that Merkur HD and best grade badger first arrived. I hope to add more Paladins, experience a Plisson and Kent and master a straight for my bucket list. Shaving is like breathing. You think you've exhaled product and all this other neat stuff gets inhaled.

Doc, I built a shave cabinet years ago after outgrowing a shelf. I began outgrowing the cabinet and considered building another. Then reality set in. Sure I would like to have more shave stuff, but for soaps I pretty much just use what I make. I can't remember the last time I used brand x soap. Same goes for any after the shave product... I use mine and it's been even longer since I used any other. Truth be told, I could significantly reduce my inventory. But then the cabinet would look empty and nature abhors a vacuum, I'd need to fill it again. So I'll just keep it the way it is now.

I should probably force myself to use a brand x soap once for every new SE blade. Maybe in 40 years I'll see fewer soaps in my cabinet at that rate.

I try not to count but my display shelves do not hold more than 55 brushes and I stay around that. Currently, I own approximately:
14 Simpson 2 Band from the famed 2011-13 period
6 Simpson Manchurian
4 Simpson Super 3 Band
2 Wiborg White Badger
1 M&F
2 Rooney Alibaba (one of each Heritage 2 and 3 Band)
6 Thäter (3 of each 2 and 3 Band)
2 Elite Manchurian
2 shavemac Silvertip 2 Band
3 Rudy Vey with TGN and shavemac knots
2 SV 2.0
The rest is a mix of other brands.
All are badger, but one horse and one boar brush (more to remind me why I don't like them as much as badger).
No synthetic. The ones I owned I sold.

Downsize ? That trick never works... Rubbermaid Roughneck, box of silica gel packets, and store then wherever you can. Never know when you might have a change of heart, or even worse the chance to get "the one" if only you only had that other one you sold to swap with.
"he who dies with the most toys wins"

I downsized also. Compared to what I used to have anyway.

10 brushes
about 20 DEs
3 straights
about 30 soaps

I'm perfectly happy with all of it and don't feel like I need to get rid of anything and it all fits into this small wall cabinet.

I downsized also. Compared to what I used to have anyway.

10 brushes
about 20 DEs
3 straights
about 30 soaps

I'm perfectly happy with all of it and don't feel like I need to get rid of anything and it all fits into this small wall cabinet.

Nice cabinet! How many aftershaves? I don't see any of those there.

15 aftershaves and about 5 balms that I hadn't put up on top behind the brushes when I took this picture. I did win an unreleased soap from PAA in a contest that isn't here yet.

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