I've been going to the same old fashioned barber shop since 1971. He just told me he's closing shop at the end of the year. How are the national chains?

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Most of the time my wife cuts my hair. She just use`s a pencil sharpener.
A friend told me the other day that he doesnt pay for a haircut. His barber charges him a "finders fee".

What is this "hair" of which you speak?


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Tim

Tim's on MLK (9th St No) in St Pete.
The barberettes all wear T-shirts that say "don't you wish your barber was hot like me?" Cheap hair cuts for cheap old fat guys.

Cut my own. Wahl clippers using no attachment.

Once a week while taking my morning constitution I also cut my hair.

I remember the old barbershop, getting my flat top and neck shaved with a straight razor and the brush on the neck for the fallen hair. I stopped going years ago and started cutting and shaving my own head while on the job. I buzzed my head for 25 years until the day I retired. I told my wife I'm not gonna cut my hair for the rest of my life just because I was forced to for all that time. Now I'm sporting my ponytail !
I attempted the beard but I looked like the Geico caveman and it itched like crazy.

Sport Clips!!!!! home of the $25 dollar Haircut!!!

$25.00 for a haircut? That's an hour's pay for me! Forget that.

My alias say's it all
The little that was left, get's it with a razor

I look forward to that every month...



Jim

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Remember back in the days sitting in the barber shop waiting too or getting a haircut reading a Playboy Magazine?

I get mine cut at Hair FiveO. $13 to cut hair and trim beard. Don

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When I was a kid in the 1950's the neighborhood barber charged $1.00 and didn't expect a tip. Due to union rules he never opened on Mondays. Now I get charged $12.00 and I usually leave a $3.00 tip just to make things even. They still close on Mondays just for traditions sake. Union is caput.

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USASA 1965/69

I have a great uncle that is the local old fashioned barber. He has a red and white pole out front, playboy magazines on the waiting chairs, warm foam, straight razor, and dum dum lollipops for the munchkins. He does a good job and doesn't charge family a dime, luckily he considers me family. He also is located maybe a couple hundred yards away from my house. Even with this great resource at hand I choose not to get my hair cut from him.

I go to one of the "salons" down the road and pay $12 plus tip to some twenty something girl that looks great and smells better enjoys running her fingers through my hair. Some things are just worth $12 plus tip.


I explained my situation to my uncle and he understood 100%.

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Back porch, hot blonde, perfect every time!

Yup -- she's my wife.

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5 years ago a "good ol' boy" cut my hair for $3 or 4 in an old time barbershop-jokes and girlie magazines.Where my grandson first showed an interest in females at age 5.He died and now I go to a shop with one guy and several nice looking women.$12.
The magazines are another thing entirely-they are directed to
the female clientel with articles on having multiple orgasms and how to seduce your lover and having him in your grasp.I am too old for that!
I keep dropping off Handgunner,G&A,Amer.Rifleman and Gun Week Newspaper.Somehow they quickly disappear.

I don't remember what a haircut cost when I was a child, but I remember paying 75 cents as a young adult and everyone thought it was outrageous when they jumped all the way up to a dollar. Our little town once had three old fashioned barber shops and all are long gone. Now it's either drive 15 miles to a neighboring town for a 7 dollar haircut in a genuine old fashioned barber shop (and those barbers are getting old) or go to the local hen parlors (with no Playboy to "read" and pay 15 bucks.

I think the last time I had a haircut it was 1993!

In a chair.

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My wife does 3 out of 4 for me. Years back I was recovering from a wreck. I decided to grow a beard as I couldnt on the job. When I was to return to work I thought just once in my life I want to get shaved by a barber. I played heck finding a barber to do it. After aids got to be a threat none will shave you anymore.
I finaly found a barber to do it. It really turned out to be one of the best treats to myself that I ever had done. This guy knew what he was doing. After hacking my full beard off, he put wet towels in a microwave and put them on my face. Then he shaved me with a straight razor. I got my regular haircut in the deal. Generaly I have always hated haircuts since I was a boy, but this turned out to be the best treat of my life.
Once I got talked into getting my feet done on a dare. Pedicure? The shave was far more pleasurable. I think barbers are missing out on a huge money makeing sideline by not offering shaves anymore! Sounds dumb, but once you ever got one many wouldnt have a problem paying $30, $40s or so for the full treatment! AND, I am cheap! I didnt need to shave for the next 4 days or so.

Do you put your feet in the stirrups??

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Last shop-bought hair-cut was 1988. Shaved-head ever since, at home, in the bathroom, every two weeks. With the money saved, I bought myself my Model 65 with 3-inch barrel.........

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Clyde the barber passed away two weeks ago, the same day they sold his chairs and hot lather machines. He was 81 and cut Dad's hair for years.
One barber left in town.
Dad let me cut his hair once. I used the cow clippers. He may be ready for the second one now.

Hair cut ... never heard of it.
I just tie ye olde mop back and what ever encounters with combustion and or power tools subtracts from the population I just call a trim.

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I've used the same real barbershop for almost 15 years now. When I started going there, a haircut was $7. Now it's $9. I've been telling him he needs to raise his prices, but he doesn't listen to me, so I tip him instead. He likes that a lot better.

Frankly, the haircuts aren't very good. But he's such good company that I refuse to go anywhere else regardless of whether Mrs. BuckeyeChuck likes the haircut or not. (She doesn't.) Besides, there's this neat thing about hair: it grows back. If the cut is particularly bad, well, in six weeks I'll be back with shag at which they may hack yet another time. God made me a skinny, dorky guy sans strength, athletic ability, or good looks, but at least He let me keep a full head of hair. And at 40 I haven't even a hint of gray, but neither does my dad, and he's 68, so it may be a while.

Lately the barber's wife's daughter accepted a buyout from Honda in Marysville and resumed cutting hair in the shop. Her haircuts are much better, so now she gets all my business. He doesn't seem to mind, and my wife is happier, so now everybody is a little better off.

As for letting my barber shave me? Nah. Far too cheap for that. I think most facial hair is either ostentatious or downright gauche, but I'm content to handle its removal myself.

I went to "Judy's" barber shop for years, but gave it up. She only charged $9. but would get involved talking to other customers, all the while keeping the electric trimmer moving, to the point where I hardly had any hair left. Now I go to a different barber shop. The owner, Cindy, charges $11., but trims my hair just the way I like it. Her fantastic smile, directed at everybody in the shop, also keeps me coming back.

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I got my haircut on Saturday at Great Clips for $7.99 (special sale price) usually they charge $12. Now that I'm retired I only get a haircut every other month. Mostly young woman who cut the hair and they do a good job.

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Got to go with the old time barber shop. Been going to A.C.s
place for a good number of years, its kind of a local gathering place for a bunch of old timers with countless jokes, stories about the war, fishing lies, and tall tales about nearly anything you care to bring up! Probably not as good a haircut as one would get in the higher priced places but the magazines are good, the conversation is better and you leave only 12 dollars poorer.

I like that shirt!

As for what's left of my hair , when I start getting 'wooly' , I just pull it back into a tail and cut about 2in off.

The lady down the road has a shop in her basement and cuts hair for mostly old ladies and me. Brenda does a good job at a fair price and I get a grin out of her old ladies that think I'm just a youngster at 58.

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on the back porch. Wife is a barber.

I have a place by me that charges the same as the chains called "The Men's Shop". Pretty women and they shave youre neck with a straight razor. : )

Ms Maria has been cutting my hair for almost 20 years...used to be 8-then 10, 12 and now 14 bucks....I get it cut once a week....

Last haircut I got was in Oct 2005. donated it to Locks of Love. Me and my barber after the shearing.




My hair now.

Lakota, that's one nice lookin' barber!

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USASA 1965/69

Ft Bliss PX: $6.75.

When I was at work there was a real qball in an office down the hall. He had a sign on his desk "Why waste all those hormones growing hair?" Maybe he was on to something.

At the bathroom sink with a razor. My head has become a continuation of my face. I started doing this after standing in line at 7-11 and laughing at the bald spot on some poor guy I could see on the monitor until I realized it was me

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We're getting ripped off from PX here at Ft Carson. I got a haircut last weekend and had to pay $7.85. Must be a regional thing.

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I've only been in a barber shop, twice in my life. My dad cut it, then worked construction and somebodys wife always cut hair. just bring a six pack. Then my wife, she didn't want to try but I told her you cut it and I'll wear it. After a few times it looked good, that was 40 years ago. I've always been a, if you don't like the way I look , either do something about it, or stop looking kind of guy anyway.

Different military bases will charge different rates for haircuts. There's a formula for figuring such things out, it takes into account the most common pay grade at the base, the local economy, yada yada. It's around six dollars here on Parris Island, for some reason I recall it being 10ish at Quantico.

I've only bothered to have it done on base once here. The trick to getting a somewhat better result is to say that you want a Navy haircut, since they only conceptualize two kinds - Navy and Marines - and the Navy variation allows more hair.

These days I just let my wife do it. It always turn out horrible and looks terrible. But it is free. I just use the money that I save on haircuts to buy hats. I'll get mine cut every two or three months, whenever the heat becomes unbearable or it gets too mangy.

Back in Lansing, I used to go to the Barber's College. Five bucks or so and the apprentice barbers would cut your hair. It was a great deal, even if the ambience and clientelle did seem to be a bit prison like.

I remember when hair cutting was an event, albeit a somewhat dreaded one, as a child. My grandfather would generally take me. Red the Barber (I have no idea what his real name was) used to give a discount for cutting the hair of other redheads (hence the nickname) and my grandfather had been a redhead before it all turned white. I remember the ashtrays on the chairs and copies of Guns and Ammo. There may have been Playboys, I don't know, I was just a kid so maybe those were hidden.

Red died while I was in college. I'd had a haircut not long before he died, best one that I ever had. I didn't get my hair cut for over a year afterwards since I just didn't know where to go. I remember he was still smoking in his shop, even though it was against the law by then. He had a collection of hats on the wall. (Only now do I realize that there may have been some irony present in that.)

Years early he'd worked with Slumkowski the barber, who last I knew was still alive. They'd had a shop together. Then something happened and they had a falling out. Each ended up running their old barber shop. I never did find out what happened, from what little I gathered, I think that a woman was involved.

Red had been an MP stationed in Oklahoma guarding something or another during WW2. He would tell politically incorrect stories about Indian girls of the time. Slumkowski had been an infantry Sgt. during the Battle of the Bulge and would talk about freezing while riding on the back of a Sherman tank. Maybe they just liked different styles of anecdotes.

Before I got married, I toyed with the idea of attending barber college. You had to purchase your own tools, but you got to keep them. (And yes, being a barber is far more involved than being a mere stylist/cosmetologist/etc). Seemed a steady income, and the oldest of the old timers spoke of still having fed their families by cutting hair even during the Great Depression.

My wife cuts my hair now that most of the top has turned loose. Saves me $30.00 a month, $15.00 every two weeks.
Money that I now spend on Guns and Gun supplies.

Rule 303

Hair Saloon, Webster Groves, it's okay....

Hair Saloon For Men - The Premium Men's Haircutting Franchise

Tisha's. A local one gal shop. $9.00 a pop, with tip...$14.00.

She does a good job, provides good conversation, and is not bad to look at either.

I've been through that -- went to the same shop for 25+ years and then we both retired. From personal experience, the chains suck. A lot of local shops suck too.

I found a new barber, a 1st Inf Div Viet Nam vet. He chews tobacco while cutting what's left of my hair. He leaves it thick over the bald spot.

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What hasn't gone away has turned gray... I get what's left cut at Doc's on S. Boulevard... a man's barber shop... where you can get politically incorrect jokes and insults at the same time... and all for ten bucks! What a deal - only in America!

Old fashioned barber shop on Main Street. It even has a striped pole.

I used to go to Miramar when it as an NAS but their standards have really slipped. If it ain't high & tight most of the "barbers" have no clue.

Exactly... thats why I search out an actual barber.
I am figuring that the pretty lady barbers a lot of people go to are stylists/cosmetologists.
I have never had a stylist give me a cut that comes close to a barbers cut.
Thus... I dont seek out their services.
Also, the wife loves the way I smell when I come back from the barber.


Jim

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You know the difference between a bad hair cut and a good one?

Six weeks.

I get mine cut at "Hair Cuttery." It's cheap, quick, and the young ladies who work there don't want to bore me with sports, cars, politics, etc. They want to cut my hair and get me back out the door. Which is what I want them to do.

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My tonsorial artiste' is a rather buxom blonde about 5'10' that wears a shirt about one size too small and always seems to forget to button the top two buttons. I love it when she leans over to wash my hair

Big bounus is that she gives great......haircuts

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