No more haircut

[me_no_boss]

Hello folks - I have been unemployed for 2 months and enjoying it.
My goal was to RE before 50, I did it.
Didn't see the point in getting a haircut, as my new dress code is to wear pants outside the house.
But my DW is starting to make noises about my new look.
I will wait til it bugs her enough to the point she kicks me out of the bed.
Or maybe she'll get used to it.
This forum is great. I learned a lot from it.
My RE outlook is to do the homewok, aim and fire.
Don't over analyze. Adjust plan as necessary.
Failsafe cost too much.

 

[Nords]

Welcome to the board, MNB.

Didn't see the point in getting a haircut, as my new dress code is to wear pants outside the house.
But my DW is starting to make noises about my new look.
I will wait til it bugs her enough to the point she kicks me out of the bed.
Or maybe she'll get used to it.

Maybe you could share the savings on all the haircuts you won't be getting over the next few years.

Be ready for the situations where it 1) stops growing or 2) you decide you're ready to cut it but your spouse thinks it looks fine the way it is.

Oh, and be ready for major hairball patrol-- floors, tub/shower/sink drains, and all other kinds of surprising places.

 

[me_no_boss]

Yes, no hc - saves money for propecia and viagra.
Nords, you are the man. I may show DW your picture in Fortune.
Ooh, I can add to her hairballs in the sink.

Everytime we see a guy on tv with a ponytail, I say, "Great hair".
She is IT type, so I emailed her Sunw's ceo Jonathan Schwartz's picture.
No reply.

 

[mickeyd]

Didn't see the point in getting a haircut,

Prior to ER I got a clip about every 30 days or so. After ER I do not even consider it until 90 days, but 120 is not uncommon. My savings go into my Jack Daniels Olde No.7 fund.

 

[pfpelican]

Didn't see the point in getting a haircut, as my new dress code is to wear pants outside the house..

I'm afraid to ask what the relationship is.

 

[Webzter]

I'm afraid to ask what the relationship is.

Apparently they're still curly but no longer short... thus the need for pants

Edit: Although, it seems that long & curly would obviate the need for said pants.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

my new dress code is to wear pants outside the house.

We dont have that code at La Casa de Bunny. My new neighbors are already learning to avert their eyes.

 

[Life_is_Good]

Haircuts

Before ER.... I always had it cut by the barber. When I got home, there was always one piece longer than it should have been which the wife trimmed off.

Now the wife does the whole thing whenever it needs to be done - FREE!

I tip her of course.

O0

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

I cut my own and gabes, so we have the same haircut. My wife for some reason still wants to go to the salon.

She was also unenthusiastic when I told her I was pretty sure I could come up with a system involving cardboard paper towel tubes, the vacuum cleaner and my dremel tool with a cutting disk on it.

Weird. Seemed perfectly workable to me.

 

[dumpster56]

Clippers from walmart 19.95, cutting your own hair with clippers every 6 weeks easy. Not cutting your hair in the 50+ age range, not so nice. In fact kinda disgusting. Old guys with unkempt hair are a turn off.

 

[donheff]

I cut my own with a pair of beautician's shears. It looks the same as the $20 cut to me. People are surprised when I tell them I do it myself. The hardest part is the back.

 

[wildcat]

That's funny me_no_boss. Personally, I would give up shaving and run around the neighborhood in nothing but a loincloth.

 

[me_no_boss]

DW doesn't complain about down there getting long...

When I was 25, making slave wages, I happily paid $20 for hc. But they were called hairstylists. As overhill wage slave, I went to my local vietnamese nail place and get $12 cheapies. The result is about the same.
But I do notice, former hairstylists are much more pleasing to the eyes.

No scissors/razor on me for 2 months, I think I get worse service from professionals, realtors, bankers, that type. But fast food workers and the like are friendlier to me. So all in all, it is beneficial.

My former gf told me more guys hit on her when her hair is long, down to her waist. Maybe hair-fetish guys are desperate.

 

[Nords]

Not cutting your hair in the 50+ age range, not so nice. In fact kinda disgusting. Old guys with unkempt hair are a turn off.

Hey, I'll keep it combed!

 

[me_no_boss]

Hey Nords, I resemble that.

DW laughs in her nasal, mocking way when the cavemen commercials' on.

 

[Tiger]

I stopped cutting my hair when I retired in 2003 and my wife likes it. Even if she didn't I keep it the length I was happy with.

I've had a full beard since 1976.

 

[HobbyDave]

Old guys with unkempt hair are a turn off.

I personally find old guys a turn off in general, but everyone is different I suppose.

As someone else mentioned, when I made less, I'd go for nice $25 hair cuts every month or so when my hair got long. Then I noticed that I was usually saying something like "#7 in general, and then trim around the sideburns" or something simple.

So I bought a nice $15 hair trimmer from Target/Walmart, and have been using that for a couple years now. Switch it to setting #5-7 for my head (depending on how I feel, I go crazy sometimes), and #5 for my beard/mustache/goatee (I'm a crazy man and accidentally shave parts off sometimes, making it into a new hair style).

Anyway, figured I saved at least a few hundred over the last couple years ($25 * 12 = $300), and I don't have a reason to change. I like short hair, I'm lazy and I like how it's easy to wash

 

[pfpelican]

I personally find old guys a turn off in general

I represent that remark

 

[dumpster56]

Old guys who don't take care of themselves. You know the type, don't cut their hair, wear idiotic mis matched clothes those wrap around thick sun glasses, white socks pulled up high with dirty old sneakers. Uncut toenails and or fingernails. A long beard untrimmed, too much cologne, or too little deoderant. there must be more.

 

[Cb]

Old guys who don't take care of themselves. You know the type, don't cut their hair, wear idiotic mis matched clothes those wrap around thick sun glasses, white socks pulled up high with dirty old sneakers. Uncut toenails and or fingernails. A long beard untrimmed, too much cologne, or too little deoderant. there must be more.

We're called "musicians".

Cb O0

 

[Dawg52]

So I bought a nice $15 hair trimmer from Target/Walmart, and have been using that for a couple years now. Switch it to setting #5-7 for my head (depending on how I feel, I go crazy sometimes), and #5 for my beard/mustache/goatee (I'm a crazy man and accidentally shave parts off sometimes, making it into a new hair style).

Anyway, figured I saved at least a few hundred over the last couple years ($25 * 12 = $300), and I don't have a reason to change. I like short hair, I'm lazy and I like how it's easy to wash

I got a $12 haircut today and it looks just as good as the more expensive ones. All he used was an electric trimmer. I would buy a trimmer too but can't figure out how I would get to the backside. I don't want a buzz cut so I guess I better stick with this guy.

I wouldn't mind letting it go several months but mom says she will cut me out of the will. $12 is cheap.

 

[Martha]

I have cut Greg's hair for years. I used to scissor it, but for the last 10 or 15 years I have used a clippers. We just bought new clippers from Target yesterday because most of the old attachments were broken on our old set. The new set has a one-inch attachment. I took the leap and let Greg cut my hair. It actually came out pretty nice. A little shorter than I would like, but not too bad at all. The back is really nice.

 

[two4theroad]

Flowbee

Flowbee factory direct $59.95. Also Flowbee deluxe with vacuum

I bought one of these over 15 years ago and use it on my husbands hair monthly.
Let's see.... $15 per haircut X 12 per year X 15 years.... =$2700
Getting to approach husbands throat with sharp scissors...priceless.

 

[pfpelican]

My DW has cut my hair for almost all of our 44+ years of marriage. I got one commercial haircut, which she watched. Her aunt ran a beauty school, where DW worked in her youth and learned how to cut hair. I've saved a bunch. She sez it gets easier every year.

 

[me_no_boss]

Cool.
So many ways to save money in ER.
Thats why I don't worry about SWR much.
Trout fishing for dinner, refill inkjets, grow vegies, brew beer.
Just be careful of expensive hobbies that masquerade as savings.