I Have Hit The "Wall"

I'd like to bring us back on track here, please. Surely, this is a better topic than a damn Wizamet/Polsilver "orgy" thread?   

I may jump "bail" and buy a few samples from Maggard this week as my resistance is weakening and they surely have "pimped" me with their Black Friday specials e-mail!! 

Bail jumping should spice up your holiday weekend BP.  If it is not too private, what's on the radar?

I thought about B&M Lyssa & Dickens samples, but to be frank the scent profiles really aren't for me. Maybe one or two new A&E samples, Signature & Khalifa. I'd like a sample of the new Wholly Kaw Siero soap, alas there are none.    I need some more of their handy dandy 12ml spray bottles also as I like to have a small spritzer of my AS of the day on my person as I never know when I may see a cute dame and need an emergency squirt.    Finally, I want to try a tuck of the new Czech Tiger Platinum Premium Stainless blades as I read good things about them. They were making plain carbon blades for mainly Third World & industrial sales, but I read they have revamped and invested heavily in new eqpmt. to make shaving grade blades. 

Of course, if a good buddy like you were to gift me with say a $50 or even $100 gift certificate I'd really go to town.   

I know this won't help but yesterday I received the new WK Siero, Fougere Mania and Dickens.  They're both wonderful.  The WK is as strong and beautiful to my nose as when I first experienced WK Chypre Rose Concerto - I'm not saying its the same as but rather as good as  .  Dickens I got because I'm curious about the update and while I haven't compared it to the original, it too is really nice.  To balance things out I got the Stirling Frankincense and Myrrh set just to be Christmas-y and I have to say its a miss.  Oh well, the wonderfulness of Dickens and Fougere Mania more than make up for it. Good luck escaping Black Friday unscathed  .

Does Fougere Mania smell anything like Fougere Bouquet?

The last handful of posts reminds me that The Wall goes on forever.  It keeps receding, like a mirage, and we are forever prone to ponder whether the grass is greener beyond The Wall - or the shaves smoother, as the case may be.  We are not prone to ask when the grass is already green enough, or when we would be better served by learning how to make better use the grass we've got. 

I am far from immune.  I say I have hit The Wall, but I wonder if that is just what I want to believe.  I came up with the idea of buying only stable products - ones that rarely change and are always or almost always in stock.  I spent some Christmas money buying a handful of these products - ones which are new to me but not new to shavers - and telling myself "What better way to resist the pull of The Wall than to spend quality time with the best of these products?"  First on my list was MWF, which struck me as about as stable and available as anything.  So I bought some - for the first time - and it Wowed! me.  It may or may not be the best soap around, but I suspect it would have Wowed grandpa too.  

Now, one of my favorite artisans - one who rarely restocks titles - has announced an upcoming restock of a very well received soap.  One restock hardly qualifies a title as either stable or normally available off the shelf. So, will I resist?  I would have said "No" before writing this post, but now I think "Yes, I will resist."  It seems foolish, even dishonorable, to veer away from spending quality time with my recent purchases.  In any case, the answer to my question will be clear by this time next a week.  One thing is clear to me already:  If we keep buying off The Wall, that is where the products will be, and if we buy off the shelf, then they will be there. 


BTW, a little Shakespeare trivia:  Recent research has shown    that Hamlet was originally written about a traditional wet shaver, and his famous soliloquy began "To buy or not to buy?  That is the question. ..."

Does Fougere Mania smell anything like Fougere Bouquet?

Other than they're both fougeres I'd have to say no.  This one is completely different.  To my nose some of the WKs have been almost variations on a theme but this one isn't, at least not to my nose.

The last handful of posts reminds me that The Wall goes on forever.  It keeps receding, like a mirage, and we are forever prone to ponder whether the grass is greener beyond The Wall - or the shaves smoother, as the case may be.  We are not prone to ask when the grass is already green enough, or when we would be better served by learning how to make better use the grass we've got. 

I am far from immune.  I say I have hit The Wall, but I wonder if that is just what I want to believe.  I came up with the idea of buying only stable products - ones that rarely change and are always or almost always in stock.  I spent some Christmas money buying a handful of these products - ones which are new to me but not new to shavers - and telling myself "What better way to resist the pull of The Wall than to spend quality time with the best of these products?"  First on my list was MWF, which struck me as about as stable and available as anything.  So I bought some - for the first time - and it Wowed! me.  It may or may not be the best soap around, but I suspect it would have Wowed grandpa too.  

Now, one of my favorite artisans - one who rarely restocks titles - has announced an upcoming restock of a very well received soap.  One restock hardly qualifies a title as either stable or normally available off the shelf. So, will I resist?  I would have said "No" before writing this post, but now I think "Yes, I will resist."  It seems foolish, even dishonorable, to veer away from spending quality time with my recent purchases.  In any case, the answer to my question will be clear by this time next a week.  One thing is clear to me already:  If we keep buying off The Wall, that is where the products will be, and if we buy off the shelf, then they will be there. 


BTW, a little Shakespeare trivia:  Recent research has shown    that Hamlet was originally written about a traditional wet shaver, and his famous soliloquy began "To buy or not to buy?  That is the question. ..."

Hmmm. I wonder who has stable product and is rarely out of stock?

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The last handful of posts reminds me that The Wall goes on forever.  It keeps receding, like a mirage, and we are forever prone to ponder whether the grass is greener beyond The Wall - or the shaves smoother, as the case may be.  We are not prone to ask when the grass is already green enough, or when we would be better served by learning how to make better use the grass we've got. 

I am far from immune.  I say I have hit The Wall, but I wonder if that is just what I want to believe.  I came up with the idea of buying only stable products - ones that rarely change and are always or almost always in stock.  I spent some Christmas money buying a handful of these products - ones which are new to me but not new to shavers - and telling myself "What better way to resist the pull of The Wall than to spend quality time with the best of these products?"  First on my list was MWF, which struck me as about as stable and available as anything.  So I bought some - for the first time - and it Wowed! me.  It may or may not be the best soap around, but I suspect it would have Wowed grandpa too.  

Now, one of my favorite artisans - one who rarely restocks titles - has announced an upcoming restock of a very well received soap.  One restock hardly qualifies a title as either stable or normally available off the shelf. So, will I resist?  I would have said "No" before writing this post, but now I think "Yes, I will resist."  It seems foolish, even dishonorable, to veer away from spending quality time with my recent purchases.  In any case, the answer to my question will be clear by this time next a week.  One thing is clear to me already:  If we keep buying off The Wall, that is where the products will be, and if we buy off the shelf, then they will be there. 


BTW, a little Shakespeare trivia:  Recent research has shown    that Hamlet was originally written about a traditional wet shaver, and his famous soliloquy began "To buy or not to buy?  That is the question. ..."

Hmmm. I wonder who has stable product and is rarely out of stock?

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Not only in stock and ready to go, but innovators in Air Mail Delivery!

Even if I have to fly it my damnself!

HighSpeed I think the only way to have a hope of control is to back away from limiting yourself to a class of product like "top tier" artisans or even this one artisan because sure as the day is long those artisans will suddenly release a ton of stuff and you will somehow feel you can buy them.  No, I think ruthless adherence to a budget is the only hope.  If there is hope at all.  I'm curious off those people who can actually claim to have reined in their shaving related spending didn't just shift their spending over to other things like watches or fountain pens.

I used some Cyril R Salter Indian Sandalwood shaving cream this morning - I haven't used that for a year or two and its still excellent.  When I first started out in wet shaving I would use one puck until it was gone.  I could have easily done that with the Salter creams too.

The last handful of posts reminds me that The Wall goes on forever.  It keeps receding, like a mirage, and we are forever prone to ponder whether the grass is greener beyond The Wall - or the shaves smoother, as the case may be.  We are not prone to ask when the grass is already green enough, or when we would be better served by learning how to make better use the grass we've got...

I'm not sure. How about "Put the brakes on, you dumba$$", or if you prefer, first pause a moment and then yell "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore, you dead, tree-hugging son of a gun.' "

TBH BP, I am not sure where you were going with that post. It seems like it is supposed to suggest something to me, and I missed whatever it is. Sorry amigo.