Jlpgumbo
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Hit my local barbershop yesterday. Open 35 plus years and around the corner. $25 plus tip. A little more than I want to spend, but a good cut by experienced barbers.
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Just some thoughts...
I wear a big beard. It's difficult to find someone who knows how to trim and sculpture a big beard.
My barber is a talented girl that runs a shop. She's a Navy veteran from the Northwest. She learned to sculpture big beards on woodsmen, when growing up in the Pacific Northwest. She's the only person that I will let touch my beard.
During COVID she suffered greatly financially because of the lockdowns and lack of customers. She got COVID twice and had to shut-down a few times.
Whatever she charges today, post-COVID, she will be many years catching up financially. When I got the stimulus COVID check, I stuck back one of the Benjamin's and tipped her with it during her slowest time.
She didn't want to accept it. I told her "I admire a hard working young person with talent. You can thank Forty-Five. I got it from him."
No, I don't complain about whatever price she is charging today.
And by the way, she's charges Five-Bucks for a beard trim.
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I wear a big beard. It's difficult to find someone who knows how to trim and sculpture a big beard.
My barber is a talented girl that runs a shop. She's a Navy veteran from the Northwest. She learned to sculpture big beards on woodsmen, when growing up in the Pacific Northwest. She's the only person that I will let touch my beard.
During COVID she suffered greatly financially because of the lockdowns and lack of customers. She got COVID twice and had to shut-down a few times.
Whatever she charges today, post-COVID, she will be many years catching up financially. When I got the stimulus COVID check, I stuck back one of the Benjamin's and tipped her with it during her slowest time.
She didn't want to accept it. I told her "I admire a hard working young person with talent. You can thank Forty-Five. I got it from him."
No, I don't complain about whatever price she is charging today.
And by the way, she's charges Five-Bucks for a beard trim.
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You think your barber is expensive, mine has cost me several houses, many cars and scads of clothes. She is quite cute, and I get to sleep with her. Snores a little too.
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My wife does mine. She's also an amateur dog groomer.
Inusuit
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When barber shops closed for Covid, I bought clippers. I can mow my head myself every couple of weeks. Not looking for dates, so who cares how I look.
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I give the stylist lady a roll of Golden Dollars and a couple $2 bills for the cut and tip.
Chemo has a way of dictating hair styles. My wife has cut my hair for 30 years. Now it comes out in gobs. Time to break out the old Wahl buzzer.
MetalMan
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My local guy just went up from $22 to $24.
I gave him $30 before and give him $30 now...no complaints.
I gave him $30 before and give him $30 now...no complaints.
I believe that's also known as "topiary"
My last haircut cost Me $55. Had to replace My old clippers. Been buzz cutting for 40 years or so. Didn't like combing and messing with My hair after a MC ride and removing My helmet. Hair flowing out of the helmet while riding. Indian Joe wig glued inside the helmet.
sigp220.45
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I get my hair cut four times a year more or less. When its too shaggy even for me I see the same Vietnamese lady at a chain shop. Haircut is $22 and I tip her $20.
daveyc
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Probably an unpopular opinion, but I never understood why anyone would tip a barber/hairstylist. Oftentimes, they are setting their own prices. For the ones who work at a place where the price is set, they have agreed to that level of recompense, just like any other worker.
Yes, they are performing a service. one for which they agreed to a price. beforehand. We dont tip doctors or nurses. teachers or mechanics. I guess I dont see the difference. all are providing a service as well. It must be a cultural thing that has become the norm over time.
Yes, they are performing a service. one for which they agreed to a price. beforehand. We dont tip doctors or nurses. teachers or mechanics. I guess I dont see the difference. all are providing a service as well. It must be a cultural thing that has become the norm over time.
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When I was a kid haircuts cost a quarter....25 cents. but I haven't paid for a haircut since about November of 1971. By then Miss Pam was cutting my hair. She continued cutting my hair until it all fell out. I started shaving my head in Y2K.
One day, when I was a teenager, I walked up to the barber shop and after my haircut I handed my barber a quarter. He shook his head and said that the price had gone up to 75 cents...but I could make it up next time.
When I got home and told my dad, without a word to me he jumped in his car and went to confront the barber. Glad I didn't have to witness that conversation. When he got home he didn't say a word about it and he never mentioned it again.
Try as I might I can NOT imagine myself paying $30.00 for a hair cut.
One day, when I was a teenager, I walked up to the barber shop and after my haircut I handed my barber a quarter. He shook his head and said that the price had gone up to 75 cents...but I could make it up next time.
When I got home and told my dad, without a word to me he jumped in his car and went to confront the barber. Glad I didn't have to witness that conversation. When he got home he didn't say a word about it and he never mentioned it again.
Try as I might I can NOT imagine myself paying $30.00 for a hair cut.
That wasn't a barber; that was a "stylist." Great Clips is $16 plus tip (senior rate). The wife does it for free in-between GC visits. I don't spend much on haircuts. I'd never spend $30 on a haircut that didn't include at least a wash, dry coloring, and perm, followed up by a foot massage. That price is nuts.
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I'm waiting for a call back from my barber to see if she can get me in yet this afternoon... less than 15 bucks.. I usually tip her a buck or 2.. 10 during the holidays... I also take her cookies and or deer sausage... she is super
JohnHL
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I got my last haircut in 1991 when I was 38 years old.
I decided to just let it grow and see what happened.
I haven't cut it at all since then.
Curiously, I've grown an approximately 10" pony tail and that is where it has stayed for all these years (I'm 70 now).
Still have a full head of hair and pull out a big tangle of hair whenever I brush it.
It all grows back to that same 10" pony tail.
John
I decided to just let it grow and see what happened.
I haven't cut it at all since then.
Curiously, I've grown an approximately 10" pony tail and that is where it has stayed for all these years (I'm 70 now).
Still have a full head of hair and pull out a big tangle of hair whenever I brush it.
It all grows back to that same 10" pony tail.
John
