Every Monday in 2015, I’ll be sharing a different idea to help you save money! Add all of these tips to your frugal repertoire and you’ll be able to save a lot of money this year! I hope you’ll gather a few new ideas or at least some inspiration from this series.
One of the ways we like to save money at home is by doing at-home hair cuts for my husband. (I’m not willing to let him have a go at my hair quite yet :)) While I’m not an expert in the least, no one has ever said anything bad about his hair! After all, I simply cut his hair the same length all over, then trim his neck with the trimmer and around his ears with a pair of scissors. Simple! I estimate were saving at least $20 every 6 weeks or so.
I think it also helps that we have a decent hair trimmer to work with! We have the Wahl 3231 22 Piece Home Pro Haircutting Kit which we purchased after reading the reviews on Amazon. So yeah, if it weren’t for this great $18 tool, we’d be spending a lot more on haircuts throughout the year!
While I’m not quite brave enough to cut my own hair at home, I have cut my own bangs. I’ve also trimmed my daughter’s bangs. (Which I’ve now decided to grow out.) Here are a couple of tutorials I found that may me useful for you:
Do you cut your own hair at home? How did you learn?
I cut my children’s hair and my boyfriend cuts mine. I received far too many terrible haircuts and spent way too much at the salon. And my children got really bad haircuts from the barber. So this frugal lady will take a home haircut over a terrifying and expensive trip to the salon anyday.
I have cut my hair own many times. Now, my hair is long enough to be able to do this, so it’s not too difficult. When I was a poor single girl I was doing it sometimes because I didn’t have much extra money floating around. But I’ve also done it several times over the last few years when I can’t stand how long my hair is and need it gone asap. I cut everything and then get my husband to get any stray hairs that I didn’t quite get. Later I’ll go to the hairdresser to clean it up, but every time they’ve said that it’s pretty darn spot on. I also cut my three-year-old daughter’s hair too. Why would I pay someone to cut a toddler’s hair? When she’s older, I will splurge a bit here and there, but not until she’s much older. It really does add up when you factor all of the people in your family who need a hair cut.