Poll: (Men) Do You Still Shave Every Day?

[Midpack]

Like most I assume I shaved every day while working. Since retiring I don’t. You?

 

[elvis76]

Retirement changes the daily routine quite a bit, shaving habits being just one small part of that adjustment.

 

[disneysteve]

Personal care is for me, not for anyone else. I still bathe, wash my hair, brush my teeth, change my underwear, and shave just as often as I did when I was working.

 

[old medic]

Goatee and mustache, the rest hardly grows. I can go a week without shaving.

 

[big-papa]

I had a full, long beard for about 15 years until this January, when I shaved it off but kept a moustache. I really like the look of the particular moustache style I have, but I decided that the overall maintenance (shaving everything else and trimming the moustache itself) was more bother than I wanted. The beard alone was significantly less maintenance for me, given that my barber did most of the maintenance once a month. So after 6 months of trying that out, I'm letting the beard grow back again. In week 4 now.

Cheers.

 

[stepford]

I used to shave every other day or so for work. In my early 30s I went on a 2 week vacation and came back with a beard. The folks at work were ok with it, but I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep it -particularly since I was still single and lots of gals aren't into facial hair.

Anyway that week I went out on a date with a new gal and soon after we met mentioned that I was thinking of getting rid of the beard. Very quickly she said "No, no, no, I dig beards". This was clearly one of those little IQ tests the world throws at you now and again. The gal became my DW and I haven't shaved in 35 years.

 

[sengsational]

I've always used a plug-in electric, self-sharpening floating head rotatory (Norelco, originally, but a copy when the patent ran out). Takes just a few seconds every day.

When I was working, but solidly decided I was going to quit in the year I turned 55, I grew a beard, if you could call it that. It was scraggly and made me look like a street person. It lasted a month or two, and I still had to trim it.

 

[Aerides]

Retirement changes the daily routine quite a bit, shaving habits being just one small part of that adjustment.

right, we all know that, but rather than generalizations, people generally ask, or make threads, to hear personal experiences and thoughts from other members.

 

[Flieger]

Goatee. Shave the rest once, maybe twice a week.

Flieger

 

[VanWinkle]

Shave every night, she doesn't like stubble when we snuggle.

 

[big-papa]

I've always used a plug-in electric, self-sharpening floating head rotatory (Norelco, originally, but a copy when the patent ran out). Takes just a few seconds every day.

Back when I was a shaver, I also used electric shavers with Norelco being what I used for years before switching to a Braun and before I transitioned to a full beard. None of them were as close as shaving with a blade but for whatever reason, shaving with a blade caused my skin to break out. Back during my goatee days I finally found a shaving lotion that didn't break me out and gave me a closer shave. Still available, so when I shaved my beard off earlier this year I used it and still no breakouts. However, it's still shaving and still more work than I wanted, even though I was only doing it every other day before I decided to grow the beard back.

BTW the brand is "King of Shaves" out of the UK and available on Amazon. I used the formulation with tea tree oil in it.

Cheers

 

[Dawg52]

Twice a week.

 

[big-papa]

right, we all know that, but rather than generalizations, people generally ask, or make threads, to hear personal experiences and thoughts from other members.

Interesting - I didn't take that comment as a negative for creating this thread and poll...

 

[Mark1]

Still shave most days. When working no face hairs (beards) were allowed, due to the potential of having to wear fresh air mask.

Now ask me if I more willing to dig around the dirty clothes in the laundry basket for something to wear for hiking, etc.

 

[Koolau]

I shave for church and if we are going out for an "event." Averages twice a week.

 

[folivier]

I had a mustache until I retired. Shaved everyday until the last few years of w*rk when I would shave 2-3 times/week. A week after I retired I shaved the 'stache and it took DW and my kids a couple weeks before they noticed. Then shaved once a week. In 2019 on our Alaska summer trip I quit shaving and have had a neat beard since. I trim it once a month.

 

[Surewhitey]

Vacation, no. Otherwise 2/wk.

 

[Semi-Retyrd]

I have shaved every morning for as far back as I remember (more than 55 years) (now with a Panasonic Arc 4). Used to be before I went off to work. Now its after I come home from a morning workout at the gym. Never had a moustache or beard. Dad never had one nor my three brothers.

I recall seeing a nurse shave my Dad in the hospital in his final days. Maybe I'll finish that way.

 

[wrigley]

Nope. About every 4 days.

 

[aja8888]

Yes, electric only. And I get a haircut every three weeks as it grows fast too.

 

[wrigley]

I have shaved every morning for as far back as I remember (more than 55 years) (now with a Panasonic Arc 4). Used to be before I went off to work. Now its after I come home from a morning workout at the gym. Never had a moustache or beard. Dad never had one nor my three brothers.

I recall seeing a nurse shave my Dad in the hospital in his final days. Maybe I'll finish that way.

My brother shaved our father in his hospital bed 2 days before he passed.

 

[COcheesehead]

I shave my head and face everytime I shower which is almost every day.
I had a woman who worked for me and she said older men who have the gray stubble remind her of a creepy old man sitting at a bar. Sorta tongue and cheek, but sorta true. I don’t want to look like the creepy old man at the bar.

In regards to a goatee. I was sitting in a meeting around the year 2000. I looked around the room. Every guy had a goat. I shaved mine off and never went back. I had a full beard around 1992 for about a year. My wife thinks men who let their gray beards grow out several inches just looks so weird. Has anyone seen David Letterman lately. Yikes.

 

[Winemaker]

I have a closely cropped beard, and I shaved everyday in the shower after my shift in the coal mine. Now, 1-2 times a weeek now.

I was on the mine rescue team and we had to shave clean in order to keep a tight seal on our Drager full face respiator whenever we had competition meets and events.

 

[RunningBum]

About every 3 days I shave my head and around the goatee. I trim the goatee about every 2 weeks. If I'm mostly just hanging around the house and only going to the gym or pickle ball I might let it go longer. Seems that I might be getting a little more socially active now so I'll likely be shaving more.

No beard when working (and no shaved head) but I didn't shave daily then, IIRC.

 

[foxcreek9]

Every 5 days since retired, the last 20 years of working it was M-W-F.