jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Funny

Bear123 Loc: Wild & Wonderful West Virginia

Mustache since the early 1970's. Brown for the longest time now salt & pepper.

sjb3

Full beard since retiring from the Army in '93.

Mark Goostree Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

I have worn a mustache since 1970. My family has never seen me without it. I had a beard, once, for about six months for deer season... then I cut it off.

tgreenhaw

I like having a beard but my wife hates it. I shave often…

Mr. SONY Loc: LI, NY

35 years ago, I carpooled with a colleague.
One morning as he got into my car, I caught a glimpse, but thought I was seeing things.
John screwed up and shaved half his mustache off!
Yes, just half.
The jokes all day were plentiful.
The worst for him was later after I dropped him off back home.
He forgot to shave off the other half and went shopping.
He realized his mistake after strangers were laughing at him.
Wildman, (the nickname we gave him, before this incident) had a good laugh.

Hydro47 Loc: NW Indiana

I can't remember when I didn't have a beard and/or a mustache. My Aunt Kaye always said "A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt". If shaving takes about 5 minutes per day, I now have 30 hours per year to do something else with. Not only that, but, if I go bald, I can turn my head upside down, How cool is that?

Jon Erdmann Loc: Kalispell, MT

Since I don't have any hair on top, I do have a goatee

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

You and me, both!

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

From the time I could grow a mustache in high school till after my oldest was born, I had a mustache. Then I went clean shaven for a couple of years, after I turned 30 and lost my left leg below the knee, I started going as a pirate for Halloween every year and needed a beard so I started not shaving between the start of Fall and the beginning of Spring so half the year I'm clean shaven, half I have a beard.

Leo Perez

I grew one in the service in 71 and just took it off a year ago. Why,

Leo Perez

Now I thinking of growing it back since all my hair is white. Seems to grow faster, my beef is razor blades. Why are they so expensive even before the inflation problem? Gillett blades,3 for 7 bucks that's crazy.
" By Mennen "

OldCADuser Loc: Irvine, CA

I've always used an electric razor, from high school on. I think I'm on only my fifth or sixth razor in 60 years.

Santa Clyde Loc: Salem, Oregon

Yesterday. I haven't shaved since I left the military in 1975.

paulrnzpn Loc: New Zealand

I generally prefer to be clean shaven, but these days I'm often not. That is because I no longer shave regularly like I did when I was working. I am not retirement age; however, I choose to no longer work because being made redundant and/or being treated badly by middle managers annoys me too much.

I own my own home, which is well above the average home in terms of its value, location and quality, and I have no mortgage or other debt. I also own some rental properties, again with no mortgages. And my wife still works. So now I can spend more time on photography instead of working for jerks and instead of shaving every day.

Each time I hear in the media that many employers can't get enough workers here in New Zealand I have a laugh to myself these days. Anyway, so I don't need to look clean and tidy for a job anymore, so I usually only shave for weddings and funerals now, and occasionally at other times if I feel like having a shave, but other than that I can't be bothered to have a shave. It has nothing to do with going through the Covid lockdowns for me, I was doing this prior to Covid. Sometimes I joke with friends about sometimes looking like a homeless man, which of course I am not a homeless man, but looking this way a lot of the time is great to keep the vultures (sales people) off my back.

Also, here in New Zealand we have the annual 'Movember" month , where some blokes temporarily grow a moustache for some sort of November fundraising or men's issues awareness campaign.

During Covid lockdowns, with people stuck at home and working from home, I guess people could let themselves go a bit, shaving included, and so men have discovered that it saves them time and money to not shave every day, and in some cases some men look better with a moustache or a beard. Fashions come and go though, and they come back again - we've had times before where beards have been the 'in thing', and that has been in my lifetime.