Movember

[rubiranch]

November
Movember: The Mustache and Beard-Growing Month. November, in some circles, has come to be known as Movember, after the month long event that takes place now around the world, to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer — diseases that significantly affect men around the world.

Is anyone else letting the beard grow for Movember??

I am. Partially for Movember and partially because I am tired of shaving.

 

[Golddollar]

November
Movember: The Mustache and Beard-Growing Month. November, in some circles, has come to be known as Movember, after the month long event that takes place now around the world, to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancer — diseases that significantly affect men around the world.

Is anyone else letting the beard grow for Movember??

I am. Partially for Movember and partially because I am tired of shaving.

I've had the mustache since 1975. I'll keep it on.

 

[292]

I grow a goatee or as I call it "the goat" from late summer dove season to spring turkey season.

 

[Whitwabit]

Mine since March of 1972 .. The day I got out of the USAF !!

I have shaved only once since then in 1973 and then let it grow again ....

 

[arjay]

Full beard for this winter

 

[Rudi]

I've had a stash, at least, since I was 17.

 

[Tradewind36]

Had a stash from '72 until about '06, got tired of it and shaved it off, no beard for me.

 

[Stevens]

Movember? unheard of around here as far as I can tell. First I hear of it anyway.
Steve W

 

[Ματθιας]

I couldn't grow a beard if my life depended on it, thanks to my genes,

 

[islamoradamark]

mine keeps me warm

 

[misswired]

Started in October; keeping the stash trimmed but the beard has full reign. The only reason it's growing>>>>Shaving SUX!

 

[Kurusu]

I am not growing a beard. My beard is curly and kind of low in the face.

If I'd grown a beard I would look like him.

I'm having none of that.

Also. Even if If I only have very few white hairs on the topside of my head. My beard is almost all white.

 

[walkinghorse]

Had a mustache since early 70's and a beard since the middle 70's. When the beard gets over about 3" or so, it gets trimmed down to 2" or so. Mustache varies also. Remind my wife not to trim my hair (Flowbee or similar) too much when it gets cold. All light grey to white for quite a while.
Around here in the Hills, I am considered to be trimmed!

 

[Maddog 521]

Who shaves?

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've had a mustache since after basic and a goatee since processing out.

No more AFR 35-10 for me.

 

[Marshwheeling]

I haven't seen my upper lip since 1967. I didn't grow the goatee until the early '90s, to mask a double chin. I don't think anybody was fooled.

 

[rubiranch]

I've never shaved my mustache so its been there for a long time.

I keep my beard short when I do let it grow. I shaved it off when I started doing some volunteer work at a hospital - I just thought it was more appropriate.

Now I'm letting it grow again but once again I'll keep it short - like about 1/4".

"Movember" is pretty popular out here. Even several police departments allow their officers to grow beards.

 

[Delta Expatriate]

Down here, I have heard November referred to as "no-shave November".

 

[rubiranch]

Down here, I have heard November referred to as "no-shave November".

I've heard it called that too.

 

[flip flappy]

I am doing the Movember thing again this year. We also, as some have pointed out, call it no shave November. I like dragging others into it with me so we have a small group from our church doing it too. My pastor and 2 other guys. We had our 40th Homecoming on November 4th so I shaved that day with plans to let it go after that. One of my no shave buddies stopped me and asked me in serious tone had I forgot our deal. I have tried to get some of our older members to join in but they will have nothing to do with it. Two were career military men that are both 76 years old and I have never seen either one go a day without shaving. I always have illusions of letting my beard grow out super long but never quite follow through on that part. I did shave it off too early last year as we had a super cold winter by NC standards.

 

[rubiranch]

I have never seen either one go a day without shaving.

My dad passed away when he was 92 and he shaved every day. I never saw a single whisker on his face.

 

[Grayfox]

I've had a mustache for more than 30 years. After I retired, I let the full beard grow out. Darn thing grew out in about 30 different directions. It was an out of control fur ball that absolutely refused to be tamed. I looked like I had just been rescued off some desert island somewhere I finally gave up and shaved it off.
But since I am retired, I only shave when I need to go somewhere and need to look halfway decent. Usually I'm walking around with a couple of day worth of stubble.
I still have the stache though.

 

[rubiranch]

But since I am retired, I only shave when I need to go somewhere and need to look halfway decent. Usually I'm walking around with a couple of day worth of stubble.
I still have the stache though.

Other than this month I shave once every two weeks for my volunteer work.

 

[two-bit cowboy]

Yip, I stop shaving on Halloween every year. Been doing it for more than a dozen for Movember.

Next month I'll go in and have Shane at Whiskey Cuts (a snazzy new bar-ber shop in Lander) straight razor shave around my goatee and mustache -- they ain't goin' nowhere!

 

[Erich]

I caught a cold last weekend and didn't shave while I was home with it. When the time came to go back to the office yesterday, I liked the grizzly beard enough that I just shaved it into shape, trimmed it back to one length and left it.



Since then, I've had two people ask me if I was doing No-Shave November. No, I don't do group things - I may just go shave the thing when I get home, even though I'm kind of liking having it (first time in a couple years I've let it go this long - I've had them from time to time before).