Another Post Got Me Thinking About Shaving.

Updated on October 22, 2011
ღ.. asks from Detroit, MI
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How often do you shave? Usually in the winter I will only shave my legs and the garden about twice a week. In the summer I usually shave everyday.
No matter what season, I shave my armpits every single day. I was really shocked to hear people go weeks without shaving their pits!!

Go ahead, throw rocks at me!

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These are so funny!! You guys are making me want to grow my armpit hair out to see what its like! I might try it. My husband will pass out!! haha!

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D.S.

answers from New York on

I shave daily I can't stand my legs or armpits in the prickly stage lol!! I feel dirty if I don't shave.

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S.Q.

answers from Los Angeles on

Armpits twice a week. Legs weekly in summer, monthly otherwise. Bikini line as little as possible. This past summer I invested in the little mini swim minis from Lands End to help avoid shaving there. I wish the fashion for body hair was like the 70s when everybody let it all hang out! I HATE doing the bikini line! When I finish it looks like I've been squatting over a mosquito nest!

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G.T.

answers from Redding on

Once it gets really cold and I know I'm not going to be wearing skirts or short capris, I go awhile without shaving the legs.... but I have to get over the hump where they dont itch me at night in bed. If I let it go long enough the itch part stops. Husband will look at them now and then and gasp, but I just tell him it's too cold to shave even in a hot shower, shaving goose bumps sucks. I do shave my underarms every other day tho no matter what.

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E.D.

answers from Seattle on

Oh, I'll throw 'em Molly ;-)
(And when I do, you'll catch site of my BUSHY armpits.)
Ha ha ha ha.

In all seriousness, my pits have a month's hair right now. It's been rainy and I haven't found myself caring about hair.

Back in my more rhetoric filled days I NEVER shaved anything. I went au natural, baby. Now I prefer being (mostly) hairless, but darn it...this rain has me down. No make up. No hair styling. No shaving.

Ugh. October. The rock that's thrown EVERY fall.

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R.J.

answers from Seattle on

If I want sexy smooth legs, I have to shave 3 times a day. Apx every 6 hours.

My hair (on my head) grows fast (about 1-1.5 inches a month). So. Does. The. Rest. Of. My. Hair.

Which is why I LOOOOOOOVE waxing. Lasts for 2 months.

Which is also why I hate being broke. Because waxing from toes to navel, and all the bits above my collar (eyebrows, ever so sexy 'stache, etc.) costs about $200.

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L.U.

answers from Seattle on

If I don't shave I stay warmer during the winter months!
I shave whenever I feel like it. Sometimes it's every couple of days, sometimes it's every couple of weeks. I know it's time when my kids are sitting next to me and they are caressing my legs. I don't even think they know they are doing it! It just feels nice to their little hands, I guess. lol
L.

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S.B.

answers from Redding on

Fortunately, I'm not a very hairy person. I shave under my arms with every shower as a matter of course. This might sound bad....but I never shave my legs. I mean, if I'm going to a special event or something with bare leg, yes. I don't really have hair on my legs.
When I was going through physical therapy after breaking my leg, I thought, "Hmmmm, I have these nice looking guys at the physical therapy facility focusing on me, I should shave."
Big mistake.
That afternoon my son came home from school and I still had blood dribbling down the front of my leg even though I'd been dabbing and tried bandaids. He was like, "What did you do now? Why are you bleeding?"
I explained that I thought maybe it was appropriate to shave my legs for physical therapy and he was like, "Are you crazy? You have 10 hairs on each leg and they're blonde. No one can even see them. Now you're going to have a huge scab!"
He wasn't kidding about the scab. I sheared a nice chunk of skin off my shin.
The guys at physical therapy were flattered but not amused because I couldn't use the whirlpool or the ice boot until that wound healed.
So no...I don't shave my legs. As a general rule. It's a health hazard.
:)
I don't really need to. Thank goodness. I'm pretty bad at it.

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J.S.

answers from Albany on

I shave my air pits daily, i cant handle any stubble in there.... My legs are every other. and the garden....well id like to do it everyday but i get bad bumps. and the cream crao they have dont help, just makes it burn more.....so the garden is about once a week. if my son is not in the bathroom sometimes its twice.

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E.B.

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Um I wont shave again until the mood hits me.

This summer I shaved more then I ever have...and was wearing a swim suit more then I ever have...We were given Water Park Season Passes.

NORMALLY I am someone who shaves her legs every few months(yes I get it...There are people like me out there though...Eh what can you do)....My Pits....When I feel like(some times weekly...sometimes not. and the down and dirty gets it the most......Like once a month....and that is always about the time span in between.

I am an to busy to even get to shower daily....Shaving would make my 5 minute rinse.. a fifteen minute indulge. And with my youngest that is just not even something to risk....I consider myself lucky that my hubby LOVES me hair and all...

Ephie...hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha I am right their with you on the arm pit hair!! I can not afford razors at the moment...So I am currently in uncharter hair territory up there.

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V.W.

answers from Minneapolis on

I shave when I know that I am going to have sex (Which is at most once a week, but lately has been more like once a month) or when I have a drs appointment that would require me to get into a down. I always wear long sleeves and jeans, even in the summer, so I don't feel the need to shave unless I'm getting naked. Lol

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R..

answers from Chattanooga on

I shave my pits every day, maybe every other. I wear tanks a lot, so I need to keep them shaved.

I'm really bad about shaving my legs though. I usually only shave them once a week... sometimes less, sometimes more. In the winter, I will start looking like Chewbacca before I get motivated enough to shave. lol. I share a bathroom with 3 other girls, and 2 men... so I really don't get as much bathroom time as I would like.

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J.D.

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When I feel like it in the winter. I wear pants and long sleeve shirts all the time. In the summer, when the stubble starts showing up. the garden only gets done in the summer 1-2 times per week. Last time I shaved was in August. My husband says a 13 year old boy would be jealous.

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S.W.

answers from Minneapolis on

I'm pretty hairy. I shave my pits whenever I think of it, usually once a day, in the shower. In the summer I shave my legs almost every day, every other day at least. In the winter, my skin gets dry and easily irritated. I shave when I'm going to have a "date"... I wear pants, so it doesn't matter. I went an entire winter once without shaving, and ya know, it stops growing at a point and it's really soft, not all stubbly...

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R.B.

answers from La Crosse on

Once a week all year long. Usually Friday so they look descent on the weekend if we go out or have an event or something.

The hair on my legs grow so fast that after a week it looks like I haven't shaved for a month on most people ( gross I know) but if I shave more than once a week my legs break out so bad!

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A.G.

answers from Houston on

I shave my armpits every time i shower.....my legs about once a month. youll never catch me hairy though.Im actually quite hairless, i lucked out in that department.

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C.M.

answers from Washington DC on

I shave under my arms everyday. My legs in the winter once a week, and summer 2 times a week. I have very fine blonde hair on my legs so you can't even see it. Also no matter how hot it is outside, I refuse to wear shorts or a skirt. I don't like my legs so I'd rather be hot and wear jeans

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H.W.

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luckily for me, it takes a while for my hair to grow back, so I can go a week before you can see little stubble on my legs, mystery women parts and pits. I usually shave all three once a week. In the winter though when I mainly wear pants, I might go a bit longer with my legs but again since after a week there is only slight stubble I don't feel bad lol.

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S.R.

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I shave my armpits every other day unless I happen to forget or my shower gets unexpectedly interrupted and I don't have time. Legs, on the other hand.... well... I WILL say that since moving so far south, I have kept up with it much better. Still too warm for pants most days, so I try to keep up with my legs at least somewhat. Although I will admit, I only shave from the knees down... :) I will go MONTHS at a time without shaving my thighs, and you can't tell unless you literally get down and LOOK at them. Bikini area gets neglected somewhat. Only every 2-3 weeks because I just don't make the time to shave it. Plus, I have to really plan ahead for it since I wear glasses and REALLY prefer to be able to see what I'm doing down there.

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V.W.

answers from Jacksonville on

Every time I shower, usually. In the winter months when I probably will have my legs completely covered all day and night, then I might skip my legs for a day. Never more than that. After 48 hours it makes my legs itch when I wear long pants if I haven't shaved.

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