I don’t mind shaving, which I do every other day unless the occasion warrants it. If anything, if I go more than a few days, it starts to itch, as Joey P said, which is a lot worse than any (temporary) discomfort from shaving (I just use a regular disposable razor).
if I had a small pile of totally trashable cash I would remove most of the hair on my face permanently.
I would grow a beard, except for two things
The hair on my face is significantly grayer than the hair on my head.
I don’t really look terribly good with facial hair.
So I deal.
I hate it. It’s a pain in the ass task, even in the shower.
I look better without one, but like others have mentioned keeping care of a beard is just as much work. Unless you don’t mind looking like the unabomber.
I enjoy it because it is time I can usually have to myself. Though my granddaughter is fascinated with my shaving, especially when I do my head. I equate it with some people who read on the toilet. It’s not necessarily fun, but it is time to reflect, listen to NPR or just have some silence before the day begins.
Also, I use a safety razor so it takes a little longer for me to shave, which I have no problem with.
I hate shaving, my wife hates facial hair. I shave every day.
But I didn’t have a beard even before I met my wife. I grew it once in college, but keeping a beard looking neat seemed like more trouble than shaving. The college I attended (in Pakistan) had extreme standards for personal grooming.
I hate it. Luckily I grow facial hair like a 12 year old boy, so I only have to shave about every three days.
But I still hate it.
On a recent sojourn in Florida, I found a store at the rich people mall called “the joy of shaving,” where this guy dressed like some fancy bellhop or something tried to convince me that if I bought some fancy citrus scented shaving spooge and a brush made out of badger fur, that I would enjoy shaving and make it a pleasing ritual that I do every day before I go to school.
I am not convinced. I shave at night before I shower once every three days or so. The result is that on any given day, I got this scruffy House/Hugh Laurie look going on.
I hate shaving more than any other hygene/household chore I do. I cut myself in a bunch of places, make a mess, and waste a bunch of time doing it.
I hate shaving, but I hate being bearded even more.
In fact, tho, I hate hair. If there was a pill I could take that would permanently remove all my hair and prevent it from ever growing again, I’d take it in a heartbeat.
I used to hate shaving. Then I got myself an adjustable double edge razor, bought a sampler pack of blades (settled on Astra), got a good shaving soap and a badger hair brush. Now I feel neutral to good about it. I seldom cut myself, it’s comfortable, close and relatively fast even when shaving my head.
I hate neck stubble so I enjoy shaving that. It’s difficult and sensitive to shave my upper lip so I have a mustache. Plus clean shaven I look 14.
I don’t get over complicating shaving. I find the lube strip on a disposable razor in the shower works better than shaving cream. I shave against the grain until I don’t feel stubble anymore.
I like shaving. I feel neater and cleaner, I’ve been growing a beard but I just keep fiddling with the damn thing so I’m thinking it’s time to take it off.
Shaving in the shower is just a nice grooming ritual and it’s an enjoyable few minutes standing under nice hot water. I also enjoy shaving well south of my chin 
For me, it’s a lesser-of-two (or three) evils thing. I hate having a beard. I also hate having to shave. I let it grow out until I can’t stand it any more then shave it. Also, it depends on whether I want to get up ten minutes earlier to shave or not.
It’s just part of the routine like brushing your teeth or taking a shower.
Don’t knock it - you can stay a child prodigy into your '30s.
I like it. I like looking and feeling clean-shaven, even though I can never get rid of the shadow. It’s part of my morning routine, included in everything from my coffee to my clean shirt, all cathartic and crap. Helps me wake up and feel like I’m ready for the day. If I skip a day shaving, it’s like skipping a day of showering and I feel like a slob. Now my wife, she hates shaving but she has a couple acres more to shave than I do. She usually gets waxed or something or other at her spa place, but sometimes in between if we’re going somewhere or whatever it is that motivates her to get her razor, she cuts her ankles and sometimes her knees all to hell. I don’t envy her. You could braid my leg hair and I plan to keep it that way.
I shave in the shower every morning, and I do it so automatically that sometimes I don’t even realize I’m shaving until I’m almost done.
Isn’t that just the way it goes?
Anyway, I am curious how people manage to shave in the shower. It would seem to make it more difficult. Women I can understand shaving your legs in the tub or something, but your face? They have always been two separate activities for me, showering and shaving. I need a large, steam free mirror! How do you people that don’t even use a mirror that shave in the shower trim the edges of your sideburns without seeing where you are shaving?
I don’t like shaving, but I like having shaved. My face is all nice and smooth and clean and soft.
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Anyway, I am curious how people manage to shave in the shower.
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By feel. I’ve been doing it long enough, and my eyesight is bad enough (at least before my eye surgeries) that I know where everything is, and I can feel when the stubble is gone.
Regards,
Shodan
Build up a nice thick lather with Irish Spring soap, slather your face with it, and then just feel along your face – one hand to feel where the stubble is and the other hand to come after it with a Mach3 or Fusion razor. (I cringe at the thought of anything less than three blades, though.) Leave the sideburns for when you get out of the shower, it just takes a second. This method gives me much closer and more comfortable shaves than trying to do the old routine with shaving cream in front of a mirror.