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[Inquiry] The future of the Buena Vista Wetshaving Social Club (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PorkButtsNTaters666@sub.wetshaving.social to c/wetshaving@wetshav.ing

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As the winner of the March edition of the BVWSC, I was duty-bound to send soap smushes to my fellow shavers across the pond. Alas, as I am writing this, there is no legal and/or financially viable way of getting soap samples (or any letter, for that matter) from France to the USA.

Therefore, the BVWSC in its current form is dead. There has also been a notable decrease in interest, so maybe this is just the right opportunity to say farewell.

On the other hand, we might find a way of continuing the community event, but in a different form. Our go-to has been the Tabac edition – which seems to be the only type of gear every self-~~hating~~respecting wetshaver has. Or we could do something else.

So, what shall we do?

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[–] DaveWave94@wetshav.ing 2 points 1 week ago

Late to the party, but anyways here are my thoughts: I think BVWSC is a really cool idea as a kind of wetshaving book club, but I know/see that the current tariff situation is making it straight up impossible. Now that we're moved to PieFed, we could all vote again for our soap of choice, but unfortunately this is out of question for now. I'd advise that we don't fully let it go, but put it on hold until - sounds more optimistic than I usually am - better times are coming again.

What I'd like to advocate for though in the meantime, just so we have a little community project going on at all: monthly themed shaves, kinda like "Theme Thursday" used to be in the Reddit community. We could vote for different theme suggestions at each month and still have a group effort to look forward to. I think our community is too small to justify weekly themes and tbh, everyone of us got lives, jobs, family, appointments, duties etc. - monthly shaves sound like a good compromise and we could simply use what we personally see as fitting for the chosen theme from our den. That way, we also avoid any trouble with tariffs, postage, delays in mail delivery and lost envelopes. It's just a suggestion, depends on what you folks think - I believe it would definitely be a fun activity with almost no risks!