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My husband used to get his hair cut at least every six weeks. Sometimes he would go as little as four weeks, and very rarely he would stretch it out to eight weeks. So let’s see here…52 weeks in a year…divided by every six weeks…is about every eight weeks. Eight haircuts a year doesn’t seem too bad. He pays about $20 per haircut, give or take depending on who he goes to. That’s a total of $160 per year, just for him.
Now I realize this is not a lot of money, but when we combine everyone in our households – it gets better.
Hubs is not overly loving the receding hairline shown in the picture at right. Yet this is what 90% of his haircuts looked like when he went to hair cutters – whether barbers or salons!
After that first haircut he received quite a few compliments from kids at school, family, and friends. People seemed impressed that I cut his hair. After four or five haircuts this way, I decided a trimmer would be a good idea. We invested in this one from Amazon. It seriously split the cutting time in half. I was able to do the entire back of his head in about five minutes. I still used the “style” mentioned in the article above for the top of his head. We’re looking into a longer attachment to make the top just as easy – but so far no luck.
I figure he’s going to need at least five haircuts a year if his hair grows like his daddy’s – so that’s another $100 a year, minimum. Add in the fact that I let Andrew do my last hair cut. (Yep – I figure turnabout is fair game!). My haircuts run about $25 three time a year.{Now – don’t get me wrong – if I plan to go with a new hair style, I’ll go to a salon. But for right now I’m totally good with my long hair getting cut a few times a year by my husband. I have curly hair, so it’s not like he has to cut a perfectly straight line. The curls will cover it up for us!}
I think you are underestimating your savings, Heather. We started the at home haircuts with my husband cutting my hair shortly after we first started dating. It had been nearly a year since my last haircut in the salon where I got a badly cut, too short haircut. He offered and I took a seat and got my locks trimmed. He did a great job, so I told him he was now my stylist. I have finally been able to grow my hair out as I always wanted, my husband listens when I say a quarter to a half an inch, he doesn’t chop off five to six inches like the scissor happy stylists did. He picked up the task of being the barber for my two children after they each received two bad haircuts in a row at the barbershop. I asked him to help me do their haircuts, we bought a set of Wahl clippers, a child size hair cape and watched a number of YouTube videos. He coached a nervous mom on the techniques on using the clippers and blending the different lengths of hair. The haircuts turned out great, my mother commented how much better they looked than the barbershop hacks. The next time my older child fired me, he just wanted my husband to do his haircut and my younger followed suit. So he has been doing my hair and my children’s haircuts ever since, always great haircuts. I get mine trimmed every six to eight weeks to remove the splits and keep the ends neat. The children gets theirs monthly as their hair grows so fast. I was paying $15 each plus tip and transportation costs were $50 a month. Mine was $55, plus tip and transportation every 3-4 months, about $75 dollars. So I calculate my savings at close to a thousand a year. Our reason for doing them at home was to avoid getting and paying for bad haircuts. The savings are an added bonus.
Cheryl – I’d rather underestimate than over. 😉 We really have no gas expense since we live in a small town of 800 where we can literally walk to get our haircut. And even my haircuts were maybe $25 with tip (I’m a 2-3 haircuts a year type of girl). Things are less expensive here in SD. But I definitely agree with your point that no longer having poor haircuts makes this worthwhile in itself, and the added savings are a great bonus! Thanks for the comment!
Where we live, we have to drive at least 20 miles to go shopping as we are rural. So I calculate the mileage as part of my costs of purchases of goods and services. I figure fifty five cents a mile, as that is what I get when I have to travel somewhere for work. So twenty miles each way is twenty two dollars in transportation costs. I’m on the east coast where things are more expensive. So I try to consolidate trips. Having my husband give my boys haircuts last night was fast, we did not have to go out, wait for the barber and then the haircut. One was doing his homework, while the other got a haircut. Afterwards he got his shower and pajamas on after. Then the other got his. About ten minutes each. I hate the hassle of the salon on a Saturday, it kills the whole morning or afternoon. My husband takes about 20-25 minutes to section, pin up my hair and trim it properly. My neighbor who worked in a salon has stopped by a couple times while I was getting a trim, and said I was lucky that he does such good work and it doesn’t kill a Saturday. And of course it saves me a lot of money.