Money saving Tip Of The Week – The Haircut
Here is the next of a little series. A quick little Money Saving Tip of The Week series.
These are little tips that you can start implementing immediately. As usual, I invite your feedback and your own money saving tips. Although many of these tips will seem so obvious, I will try to pick tips that are a bit more unusual. Also, and even more importantly, it is amazing how much we ignore the obvious until someone or something points it out.
TODAY’s TIP:
Getting Your Haircut.
First, I want to point out that some people do not get their “Haircut”. They get it “Styled”.
Right there, that is part of the distinction. Where do you get your hair cut? Do you go to a high-end stylist that is one step away from “Stylist To The Stars”, do you go to a local barber who knows nothing more than a military crew cut or the proverbial bowl cut, or some one in between?
I have two friends who at first glance lead very different lives, yet upon closer look, they are really very similar. They are both work-at-home dads with internet businesses who take care of the kids and tend to take care of most of the household chores. But the real similarities are with their wives. Both wives work corporate jobs, neither wife understands what their husband does (I won’t go into the ramifications of this), and most notably; both wives LOVE soccer. Each wife plays on at least three teams – three or four times a week. At times it appears soccer is their number one priority. No matter where they are, they have to make it back home for the next soccer game.
Now get this: Even though they live in different cities over 40 minutes apart, they both drive all the way to San Francisco to get their hair cut (er, I mean styled) at the exact same place! However, there is one big difference. Despite all the similarities I mentioned (and those that I didn’t), there is one big difference, and this is the whole point of this tip: One pays big bucks (over $100) to get her hair styled by an experienced professional while the other gets her hair cut by a stylist in training and pays less than $25.
As it turns out, the one who pays $25 is actually happier more often with her haircuts than the one who pays over $100. I kid you not.
Which do you do?