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Topic: How often do you cut your fingernails?  (Read 1506 times)

Offline 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.

Offline 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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Offline 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  >:(

Offline 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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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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Offline 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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