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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. #16
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    I'm in the why bother club - but I don't have a significant other and the dog doesn't mind

    I only shave below the knee anyway because my hair is so light. If I shave once a month in the winter I'm doing good. In the summer it's weekly unless I mtb - I always shave before mtb because I always fall.
    Dar
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  2. #17
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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. #18
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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. #19
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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.

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  5. #20
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    I shave every day, all year. I hate fuzzy legs. Drives me crazy.

  6. #21
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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. #22
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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

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  8. #23
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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. #24
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    I shave my legs at least once a week during the winter. If my legs get too hairy they get all itchy and drive me nuts.

    My pits, I had lasered. No more hair. Ever! Best thing I ever did. Now they're smooth and nice year round. bikerHen

  10. #25
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    I shave my legs all year, even if no one sees it. My legs are VERY hairy and when it's long, it drives me nuts. I can't stand how it feels in the sheets of my bed or against my pants legs after about 3 or 4 days.

    Oddest sensation ever? Standing on a mountain top, in shorts, and feeling the wind rustling the hair on my legs. (I was in the mountains for a month with no razor) To this day, I can imagine how it felt and it freaks me out a little each time.
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  11. #26
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    I went to college at a very hairy time and place. I took to it naturally.

    Now I live in a conservative state and shave or wax enough to be (mostly) socially acceptable. (I'm 'other' enough where I live and work that I don't need to call attention to it.)

    Every now and then it works out that we're on a tandem ride and DH's legs are shaven smooth and mine are hairy as can be.

  12. #27
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    I also had to vote never. At least for leg shaving. Blessed with a few scattered hairs on my legs that you can't see, courtesy of my father with the hairless legs.
    I think I shaved once, in Grade 8.


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  13. #28
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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.

  14. #29
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    Quote Originally Posted by malkin View Post
    I went to college at a very hairy time and place. I took to it naturally.
    LOL! Me too. I still remember sitting out on the porch with one of my friends in law school, showing her my legs, freshly shaved for the first time in 10 years.

    Now, I can't go more than 4-5 days tops without shaving. I was proud of my leg hair when I had it, but stubble is just irritating.
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  15. #30
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    I admit rarely that I do kind of like the "blowin' in the wind" feeling. Hair is afterall, a sensory organ.

 

 

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