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perprocrastinate

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How often do you cut your fingernails?

on: January 25, 2014, 06:06:04 PM

I think I cut mine every ten days or so.

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thalbergmad

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Re: How often do you cut your fingernails?

Reply #1 on: January 25, 2014, 06:33:13 PM

About the same for me. Banjo don't like long nails.

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outin

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Re: How often do you cut your fingernails?

Reply #2 on: January 25, 2014, 07:16:55 PM

I try to do it weekly...after I started playing the piano they grow damn fast and are really hard

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ted

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Re: How often do you cut your fingernails?

Reply #3 on: January 25, 2014, 11:18:05 PM

About every five or six days. More important for me is to inspect daily for hangnails and snip them off before they cause bother.

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cabbynum

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Re: How often do you cut your fingernails?

Reply #4 on: January 26, 2014, 05:01:32 AM

I have OCD and cut mine everyday, small trim really. If I don't I get very anxious and start feeling terrible

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kakeithewolf

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Re: How often do you cut your fingernails?

Reply #5 on: January 26, 2014, 05:03:36 AM

Never, unfortunately. Mine grow too long to be tolerable, and too short to be clipped.

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