Do you consider yourself as high maintenance?

[Danugh]

toothpaste,

Speaking of which i havent brushed my teeth in 4 weeks.

I think thats why that guy didnt call me back. Ah well his loss.

Good news is i did take a shower 2 days ago so i am not funky.

 

[arieliam]

Yes, without a doubt. Proudly I fit into that label. One of the only ones I wear proudly.

 

[Danugh]

No i think it was the hygiene because my breathe tastes and smells like a dead rat and he kissed me. I thought he liked the kiss because he kissed me again.

Then he said he'd call when he got home and he never did. We hit it off so it had to have been my oral hygiene that turned him off.

Too bad too because he was hot.

 

[taccky]

lol, i have toothpaste, face scrub, wax,

my true maintenance comes from the food i eat, i make my own meals, and i try to eat a variety of food

 

[Golliwog]

Interesting the different takes on the question. When I refer to a person as being high maintenance, I am talking about the emotional stability (does he have to be jacked up constantly/)
Do I have to have some big ticket item to give him, does he expect when I ask him out to eat, to be taken only to high end places, four and five star rated. If I leave him unattended in order to go someplace to catch my breath from the heavy load of trying to stay in his good graces, then he is definitely high maintenance. Not many people are willing or even able to relate for a long time to someone that needy. It's the sort of craziness that makes one say, "Get a life, and let me get on with mine." And even while I am thinking these things and writing them, my inner voice is screaming, HYPOCRITE, HYPOCRITE. For I fear I have become one of the hm guys.
Anyway, that is how an old man views it.

 

[RationalLunacy]

Not me. I use Lava soap and hydrogen peroxide for everything.

 

[ronboy]

Ummmmmmmmm........yeah, I guess that I am.......(but my Dave doesn't mind. In fact, he's often amused by how much I fuss over everything!)

 

[hotdog1846]

^ You two sound like a cute couple.

I'm not high maintenance. I'm easy-going and low key. But I do have my quirks ... I like to have things tidy and organized, mainly because if things are in disarray, I can't find anythiing!

 

[Michael Luc]

Hmmm. Soaps and astringents are not what I think about when I hear the phrase "high maintenance."

 

[Homoerectus]

Soap, razor, toothpaste, deodorant and toothbrush, off the rack clothes and decent shoes. Hell, I wash my hair with bath soap.

 

[Eagle653]

Nope. I'm about as opposite of "high maintenance" as you can get. So is my partner (thank God). Except when I get in one of my clingy moods and I start whining. Does that count?

 

[Croynan]

There are various Clinque products which i have bought but for some reason have not used them.

And i mean, i need all the help i can get.

A bit of irony here, there is a young man in China i am in contact with. Over the period of the last 2 years we have known each other, he has become such
am expert regarding care of the skin and especially the face. He too is big on Clinique - he can even get one item I i cannot get here in the states. Macy's has not been able to get the product for over a year now. Tis fascinating to messenger with him when the subject matter comes up.

eM.

 

[trawler69]

I pretty much maintenance free

 

[Joshua_me]

Ehh...

Not really.

I'm a simple kinda guy.

My morning routine consists only of brushing my teeth with Crest w/cool peppermint Scope, then flossing with Cinnamon dental floss, followed by
a quick shave with Menthol Edge with a razor that hasn't been used more than 3 times.... Then off to the shower to wash my hair with one of about six shampoos I keep in rotation (never use the same one for more than 3 days to prevent build up) followed by a light apricot facial scrub.

Then, with hair wet, I turn off the water and 'lather up' with an organic oatmeal soap, followed by a special shower gel to keep my heals from cracking.

Then, it's water back on, a rinse down and a dry off with an Egyptian cotton towel, followed by a light hair dry with an positive ion hair dryer.

After which, I moisturize my face with a pro retinol facial creme, slap some
deodorant on the pits, dry off a little more, then get dressed.

The final step being a little Neutrogena under eye creme to keep those 'bags' in check.... Then a brief 'spritz' of cologne, depending on the season... (Fall/Winter...Tommy Bahama works nicely...)

Just basic guy stuff....

(Gawd, I wish I was making this up...)

Joshy

 

[Soilwork]

I dread the day my BF wants to move in with me and finds out just how high maintainance I am.

 

[blackbeltninja]

Hmmm. Soaps and astringents are not what I think about when I hear the phrase "high maintenance."

Me neither.

Nope. I'm about as opposite of "high maintenance" as you can get. So is my partner (thank God). Except when I get in one of my clingy moods and I start whining. Does that count?

Isn't this the classic sort of high maintenance? As in, requires massive/excessive amounts of emotional maintenance and support? (Just using your comment here as a reference, btw, averageguy)

-d-

 

[NickCole]

Very low maintenance with grooming. Soap, razor, toothpaste, floss and q-tips is all I ever need at home or traveling. I shave in the shower without a mirror. I towel-dry my hair; haven't owned a brush or comb in 15 years. I hate hair products. I have tons of skin care products I get in gift bags, which I divide among our guest rooms and friends take them home after a visit. Once every five years or so someone eggs me on and I try an after-shave or something and all I want to do is wash it off my face. I use deodorant when I have to -- like if I go to a big event and will have to speak before a crowd-- but most days I don't bother.

Emotionally I'm very low maintenance except when I'm going through a rocky period -- and then I'm a mess. My tendency, though, is to pull back and go through it alone -- my closest friend calls that "turtling."

I prefer low maintenance men but a couple of times when I fell in love and he turned out to be high maintenance, I found that endearing.

 

[treanir]

Soap, shave, toothpaste, shower, deodorant, bit of cologne every once in a while. That's about it.

 

[Nonimus]

Soap, shave, toothpaste, shower, deodorant, bit of cologne every once in a while, hunting techniques, creating flint arrow heads, skinning wild elk rape pillage and plundering...That's about it.

 

[belamy]

kimihiko, I find rather silly calling "high maintenance" spending like a couple/few hundred dollars a month in simply taking care of your health (present or future) and looks.
What I would call high maintenance is partying every night or even just every weekend, having the daily need to buy drinks or substances that your body doesn´t really need, only because "they feel good"; buying more or less expensive gifts for people you don´t really appreciate; paying monthly for what some strangers may or may not do with you when you are not alive any more; spending money in traveling to places just for the sake of having been there, or investing/asking for money in/for a comfortable place lost in the middle of nowhere, or paying more for it for being in a more prestigious rather than in a more convenient location, or simply full of fashionable shit that fulfills more your sense of social pride and self-love than any other need.