I try to always be on the lookout for ways to save big amounts of money. For instance, if you take the time to shop around, you can usually save money on things like car insurance, clothes, or furniture. However, there is one eye-gouging expense that I have yet to find a cheap alternative to: the haircut.
For girls, it can cost as much as an extra car payment 4 times a year! Guys are another story. Guys on the other hand, only cost about 20 bucks a year. How does that work? 20 bucks is how much a baseball cap costs. In case you don’t want to want to go the hat route and you are wondering what it might cost, I used to pay 15 dollars per cut (that is the bottom end). I have since forsaken the barber shop, gathered my courage like a man, and (gulp) let my wife start cutting my hair. Guys, for less than 40 dollars you can pick up a pair of clippers and do it yourself or have your wife or friend do it. If you botch it like the kid in the picture, revert back to plan A (the hat).
Ladies, I understand longer hair is harder to manage and you want to look nice. But is there a cheaper way to do it? I heard in college that Cool Aid can dye hair, will that work? If anyone out there has a money saving secret in regards to hair cutting, I am all ears (pardon the pun).
A quick story regarding haircuts…one of my friends has his wife cut his hair as well. Except that one time she forgot to put the blade guard on and ended up buzzing a strip down to the scalp like the kid in the picture. Rather than shave his whole head, he simply buzzed a symmetrical strip to match on the other side. The moral of the story is that if you decide to do it yourself, you might need a good sense of humor…