I’ve been fortunate that many years ago I started to lose my hair. Yes, I said fortunately. Most people would probably disagree with me seeing as though they want to keep their hair. I don’t. In fact, I’m plenty happy having a bald head for many reasons.
First, I make it look good:
Alright, making it look good is awfully subjective. 😉 By the way, my wife HATES this photo and really wants me to change it but it’s who I am.
Anyway, the point is that I’m sure I’ve saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars over the years choosing to shave my head instead of getting monthly (or perhaps bi-monthly) haircuts. At $15-20 for a basic haircut that’s hundreds of dollars per year. You can do the rest of the math. Granted, it’s not like razor blades are free but ever sine I learned to use a doubled edged safety razor I’ve saved a lot of money NOT purchasing disposable Mach 3 blades! That said, we still do buy some Mach 3 blades but not nearly as many as we did.
If you have young children–especially boys–you can shave their heads with an inexpensive set of hair clippers and save the cost of haircuts too. In fact, I’m lucky in that my niece lives with us and she willfully shaves my kids’ heads about once a month easily saving us money we would have otherwise spent on haircuts… or I would have just tried to shave their heads like mine…. so long as my wife wasn’t looking! Certainly, most men’s hair can be cut relatively well with a pair of hair clippers depending on the style. And if you’re so daring then perhaps a little education in hair cutting is in order.
As for the ladies’ hair, I’m at a loss there. My wife wouldn’t let me within ten feet of her hair if I dared to cut it, and I wouldn’t blame her either. 🙂 Unless your a confident person perhaps the best strategy is to simply let a ladies hair grow out longer than usual and purposefully not get it cut as often, especially since most women’s cuts tend to cost more than men’s… what a sham!
When you add it up for a family of four, let’s say, a typical month of haircuts could quickly add up to nearly a hundred dollars or more. Multiplied over a year, well, that’s quite a sum of money that maybe didn’t have to be spent but only YOU can decide that.
What say you? What have you done to save money on haircuts?
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