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The First Beardsgaardians

September 2, 2014 By //  by The Beardsgaards Leave a Comment

{This is one of our old-time archived posts, as in any time-specific details are likely no longer relevant. Might as well keep the memories though, right?}

Hail, countrymen!

Beardsgaard is nearly a reality, with only six more to days to go until we fling open our doors at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 9th, 2014. We have now worked our final days at the shops we have been cutting in for years, and are hard at work with the last of the shop buildout.

Tyler & Devin Built A Wall

Tyler and dear neighbor Devin totally built a wall the other day.

With only six more days to go, we want to make this opening suitably epic. And for that, we need you, the First Beardsgaardians. Will you rally to our cause in a contest of great feats? For the rewards are vast.

What rewards, you ask? Why, how about *a shave or beard service in our beautiful old 1920s barber chairs with a haircut, shampoo, Beardsgaard T-shirt and other surprise goodies for you and a friend?

There are plenty of ways to enter this contest, feats to complete, if you will. Each of the following earns you one entry. If you have already done one of these, that is yet another entry!

  • Make an Indiegogo contribution  In exchange for your contribution you get our world-class services, shave parties, Beardsgaard gear anymore.
  • Make your first appointment  With our Square online booking system you can book multiple services back to back, but for a shave and a haircut, for example, you will need to book each service individually. It is a newer service and will have more advanced functionality soon, so bear with us.
  • Join the Gaard  The Gaard is Beardsgaard’s inner circle. When you join, you will receive our monthly newsletter on the last Sunday of each month with news, updates, special offers, and a sneak peek inside the life and times of the Beardsgaards.
  • Follow us on Facebook
  • Follow us on Instagram
  • Follow us on Spotify

With all of this going on, we are also enlisting friends, neighbors, clients and fans to help us spread the word of the building of this fortress of beards. Problem is, with the kind of work we are doing right now, we are both tired and disgusting. Kind of like this:

Ready For the Camera

See, not fit for human consumption.

Except lately, rather chalky and pale, being covered in the detritus from cutting wood and drywall, mudding, sanding and painting. All the grossest stuff is happening at the moment.

So, reasonably clean friends, if you know someone who is beardy, has hair so good it deserves a great barber, or would just dig what we are doing over here, let them know about us and the contest! See, we even gave you these handy little share tools right below this post.

Six days to go and we are like little kids counting the days until Christmas over here. Let’s make this a big one!

*Because this is an in-shop service, the winner will need to be in a geographic locale near enough to claim the prize. If the first draw lives elsewhere, prize will pass to the next draw.

See You Soon

Kindest Regards-01

Filed Under: Beyond the Barbershop, Blog, Shop News Tagged With: Present

About The Beardsgaards

The Beardsgaards are a pair of mom-and-pop barber nerds with a shared obsession with perfection. We built this old school barbershop to feel like home to everyone who enters beneath the Elvish script above our door. If we and the Gaardian army can give you a better handle on your grooming routine, all the better.

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With several recent, very public examples of the c With several recent, very public examples of the continuation of police brutality in America, it's hard not to feel helpless. And frustrated. And tired. But just like actively being anti-racist isn't an option, neither is taking a break. There are countless grassroots organizations that are doing the difficult work of changing legislation, hearts and minds every day. Even when the big stories have faded, and the cameras have left. They don't stop when they're tired, because it's not an option. So what can you do?

First: donate to those tireless organizations that benefit people of color and marginalized individuals.
Second: outwardly show your solidarity.  Did our solidarity with Black Lives Matter lead to us losing clients, and aggression towards us as a business? Yes. Do we care about that? No. Because for every loud person that yelled at us for our BLM fist and pride flag in the window, there were people that saw it as a head nod that said, "We see you. We're with you."

People passed our shop and felt safe, and that feeling of home and safety is why Beardsgaard is the shop that it is. We will continue to show solidarity because at the end of the day, everyone deserves to have basic human rights. People deserve to be able to sleep in their own bed, walk down the street with a sandwich, talk on the phone to their mom, unlock their own front door, hold a bag of skittles, sit on a couch and eat ice cream… 

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PHONE: ( 630 ) 454 - 4820

EMAIL: shop@beardsgaardbarbers.com

Parking

Loads of free parking here, both on the street in front of the shop, with an even more substantial parking lot in back.

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