What are your Old School practices, other than wet shaving?

TomG

TomG

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I'm pinching this topic from another Forum, as I found it really interesting.
Irrespective of age, appreciation of Old School practices is very common amongst us.
So, what else do you do that it Old School? To kick things off, here is my list:

  • Hand sharpen and hone all my knives.
  • Clean, condition and polish leather shoes and boots by hand.
  • Write with a number of different fountain pens.
  • Wear a mechanical watch, or on occasions a mechanical pocket watch.
  • Have mechanical clocks in various locations around the home.
  • Cook all meals from scratch.
  • Maintain a handwritten leatherbound cookbook with original recipes.
  • Order knives from blacksmiths, with my own design and metallurgical specifications.
  • Look strangers in the eye and wish them good morning or good evening.
  • Use Collinite to protect the paintwork on my car.
  • Use a 35yo high end turntable and valve amplification to play my vinyl collection.
  • Listen to albums from start to finish to get the complete experience, rather than cherry-picking tracks.
Looking forward to your lists!
 
Our neighbours call us 'The Amish'. Been a joke for years about our sustainability and the fact we've never driven a car in our life.

Taken years to achieve our 'new' 70s house but each day as I pour a home brewed beer from my ghetto brewery of recycled items on my orange vinyl swivel chair I smile.

And fair to say we are keen growers of our own food etc. The kid seems to get all that fame.

I'm always amazed at how much waste people produce.
 
rbscebu said:
I haven't had a TV for decades. I don't watch movies. I read books and listen to the wireless for entertainment. I write letters with a fountain pen and post them. Never used "social" media (which is very much antisocial).
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That's all good but I disagree about sections of social media. I'm involved in the gardening world on Instagram and barely had a bad moment in years. Instead it's full of inspiring people sharing and looking out for one another. Really making the world a better place. Like all things it's how you use it.
 
Brew my own beer
Distill my own moonshine
Write letters with a fountain pen...
...on Post Quarto paper, not A4
Harvest eggs from my own chooks and ducks, not a supermarket
Use handtools for carpentry
Walk into a bottle shop without my car
Grow my own veggies and fruit...
...and eat any of same that the possums leave me
Attempt to catch trout with hand-tied flies...
...and watch while said trout swim around me laughing their heads off
Do calculations with a slide rule or pencil and paper
 
StratMan said:
nice topic...

catch my own bait for fishing
use my own bait to catch fish for eating
brew my own beer
write the number 7 with a line through it
grow my own herbs
grow my own fruit
have no social media
offer my seat for older people
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write the number 7 with a line through it
have no social media
offer my seat for older people
act gentlemanly when around women
visit my parents every weekend for 'quality' family time
 
  • Polish leather shoes and boots by hand.
  • Write with a number of different fountain pens.
  • Wear a mechanical watch, or on occasions a mechanical pocket watch.
  • Look strangers in the eye and wish them good morning or good evening.
  • Use a 30yo radio/amp/record player.
  • No social media
  • Grow herbs and veges
  • Get eggs from my chickens
 
Some cool lists there guys. Glad you instigated this thread @TomG . Very interesting. Fountain pens seem to be a common denominator? Says something about the values of people that are likely to be interested in wet shaving?

My list includes:
- Making soap (apart from shave soap)
- occasional making of candles but definitely without candle making fragrances, just EO's:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
- render my own tallow
- like to use a fountain pen where I can
- grow and buy herbs for cooking and medicinal purposes
- make our own kefir
- sour dough bread
- run chooks and other menagerie
- mostly cook from scratch
 
Cufflinks
Fountain Pen
Spit shine my shoes
Listen to the radio, a great french jazz station and Classic FM Saturday Baroque.
Actually attend live radio plays.
Wear a fedora
Wear a pair of trousers and jacket out, yes even in summer. I have linen and a Panama hat, well 3.
Wear a fedora
Press my own suits/jackets
Cook all my own food.
Roast my own coffee
Walk when I can instead of drive.
Do my own repairs etc, those that don’t cost more in tools than the actually job.
Service my own watches, make my own leather watch straps.
 
Pbgoose said:
Some cool lists there guys. Glad you instigated this thread @TomG . Very interesting. Fountain pens seem to be a common denominator? Says something about the values of people that are likely to be interested in wet shaving?

My list includes:
- Making soap (apart from shave soap)
- occasional making of candles but definitely without candle making fragrances, just EO's:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
- render my own tallow
- like to use a fountain pen where I can
- grow and buy herbs for cooking and medicinal purposes
- make our own kefir
- sour dough bread
- run chooks and other menagerie
- mostly cook from scratch
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Used to do Kefir, changed to Kombucha.
 
Cufflinks
Fountain Pen
Spit shine my shoes
Wear a fedora
Cook all my own food.
Roast my own coffee
Make
Chad said:
Our neighbours call us 'The Amish'. Been a joke for years about our sustainability and the fact we've never driven a car in our life.

Taken years to achieve our 'new' 70s house but each day as I pour a home brewed beer from my ghetto brewery of recycled items on my orange vinyl swivel chair I smile.

And fair to say we are keen growers of our own food etc. The kid seems to get all that fame.

I'm always amazed at how much waste people produce.
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Lot of homebrewers here. I put down a Hoppy pale ale on Monday. Trad ale/Munich grain bill and magnum, cascade, calypso and mosaic hops.

Rack to secondary next week so I can dump an IPA onto the yeast cake. 6 keg home bar set up 😁👌
 
Not as industrious as some P&C members but I have dabbled in self sufficiency with homegrown veggies and chooks (bring on retirement 🙏)
-kefir
-make own bread
-make own cheese
- DIY as much as possible
-use manual tools whenever possible (incl. kitchen)
-don't own a microwave
-straight shaving
- honing
-own a manual birthyear watch
- polite, courteous, chivalrous
 
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StratMan said:
nice topic...

catch my own bait for fishing
use my own bait to catch fish for eating
brew my own beer
write the number 7 with a line through it
grow my own herbs
grow my own fruit
have no social media
offer my seat for older people
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"write the number 7 with a line through it" - me too!
 
Really interesting topic, great idea.

-Wear a suit with pride and accessorise with cufflinks, lapel pins, pocket squares and tie bars.
-Own a tuxedo and follow the traditional rules of wearing it properly and when appropriate
-Keep all vegetable stalks, skins etc to make our own stock
-Cook from scratch most of the time
-Wear mechanical watches most days (with Apple watch on the other wrist because I'm a geek too)
-Ride an old bike that I rebuilt and do all work on myself (93 Harley XL1200)
-Oh, and respect people! :)
 
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