# How many beards old are you? (AKA "How long have you had facial hair?")

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 23, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-beards-old-are-you-aka-how-long-have-you-had-facial-hair/763714 "2016-08-23T03:11:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 25, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-beards-old-are-you-aka-how-long-have-you-had-facial-hair/763714/41 "2016-08-25T20:27:25Z")

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I went back and forth in college, although never moustache-only unless as a joke while I was in the process of removing the beard. In my mid-to-late 20s I usually had the full moustache/goatee. When I got married, my new wife hated the goatee look and insisted on all or nothing, so it’s been a full beard ever since (except once when I let my cub scouts shave it off). Including the goatee phase, that’s over 20 years.

Not 40 though. I don’t think beards were allowed in the second grade.

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