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View Poll Results: Do you routinely shave your legs in the winter?

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  • Yes

    50 54.95%
  • No

    31 34.07%
  • I NEVER shave my legs, summer or winter!

    10 10.99%
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  1. #1
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    Apr 2005
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    I just wax. Sort of year round. But my hair and weak is so thin now that it's actually hard to pull it off except with hot wax, which is rarely available. So it's sort-of-waxed most of the time.

  2. #2
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    Jan 2009
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    Northwestern Connecticut
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    I keep shaving regularly throughout the winter...it helps me not feel so dumpy during the cold weather...and i do realize it's a totally psychological thing, but it works

  3. #3
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    Aug 2002
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    Sillycon Valley, California
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    Pretty regular shaver here, for massage etc it's much nicer. I can tolerate hairy legs, but I draw the line at hairy pits.

  4. #4
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    Apr 2006
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    I don't shave during the winter hardly at all. I should, but it's not essential to my life. I have very dry skin and it seems to get worse the older I get.

    When I worked and wore pantyhose, I shaved every day in the shower, like clockwork. It took less than 5 minutes.

    Karen
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  5. #5
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    Dec 2005
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    New Jersey
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    I shave every day, all year. I hate fuzzy legs. Drives me crazy.

  6. #6
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    May 2004
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    Southern California
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    I work in an office, wear dresses, suits and I live in sunny socal. So I shave all the time.

  7. #7
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    Mar 2006
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    I had to vote no, although if I had any hair on my legs I would shave every day. When I was in Jr. High, I wondered what all the girls were talking about when they shaved their legs and I would say "Why?". They looked at me like I was an idiot, but honestly, I have just a few blond hairs on my leg and twice a year gets them. I can count them on one hand. Hair under arms, though, and that gets shaved at EVERY shower. Turns out it's a family trait, but my mother told me I wouldn't have any hair on my head when I was 40 either. Yeah, she said a lot of nice things to me. She was wrong. My legs are smooth and hairless 24/7, but when the body traits were being passed out, I should have run faster to the "thin and willowy" line.
    Claudia

    2009 Trek 7.6fx
    2013 Jamis Satellite
    2014 Terry Burlington

  8. #8
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    Feb 2008
    Location
    San Antonio, TX
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    I shave my legs once a week, year 'round. I don't have a lot of hair on my arms or legs anyway, so I don't need to shave more often than that. But I do wear shorts to work every day, so I gotta keep at it all year long.

  9. #9
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    Aug 2001
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    Tucson, AZ
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    No shaving for me in the winter. I only bother when I have to show my legs in the spring and summer.

    I do have a hard time getting past the prickly, stubby feeling until it finally gets long enough to lay down, ugg!
    Life is like a 10 speed bike, we all have gears we never use.
    Charles Schultz

    "The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community."Ann Strong, Minneapolis Tribune, 1895

  10. #10
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    Jul 2006
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    Stubble is nasty. I found when I stopped shaving altogether the hairs grow back with wispy soft ends so that they are not nasty and stiff like shaved stubble. Unshaved body hair feels softer!
    Lisa
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  11. #11
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    Jul 2008
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    I am blessed with fine blond hair so I get away with shaving a few times a week from the top of the knee down. I shave year round too.

  12. #12
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    Jul 2007
    Location
    Rhode Island
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    Nope.
    I can do five more miles.

  13. #13
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    Sep 2008
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    hubby can't find any hair on my legs so i don't shave them.
    I like Bikes - Mimi
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    Dahon 2009 Sport - Luna
    Old Raleigh Mixte - Mitzi

  14. #14
    Join Date
    May 2007
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    If I weren't on the bike and at the gym, I would stop shaving my armpits. No, it doesn't smell worse, and long smooth armpit hair feels so much better (glidey and comfy) than naked sweaty pit skin sticking to pit skin. DH never minded hairy armpits, but I prefer to fit in I guess. Legs, about once a week. Menopause does lessen the hairy-ness! DH started shaving his legs last fall when I pointed out that his heavy coating of sunscreen on his hairy legs looked kind of gross (well, it did to me). and I think he likes it better too. Tokie

  15. #15
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    Jul 2007
    Location
    Bothell area, WA
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    First of all, you ladies who wax are WAY tougher than I am. I'm a pain weenie, I guess, because even the thought of waxing makes me shudder.

    Second of all, wow, I'm impressed with all you daily shavers! Here I thought it'd all be "Nah, I don't bother most of the winter," and actually most of you not only bother but bother quite often! Go figure...
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