Home haircutting funds my ADs!

[Greglam]

OK, Chaps, stick with me on this one.

I had been going to the barber every 3 or 4 weeks and spending $12 on a ten-minute hair buzz with the '000' blade. As I'm a poor graduate student who would actually like to be able to afford to marry his fiancee at some point, this was starting to cost real money.

Solution: I went to Rite-Aid and spent approx $36 on the most expensive Wahl home haircutting kit and have been doing it myself ever since. That was well more than a year ago and the Wahl has looooong since paid for itself.

So, it occurs to me that that previous $12 every three or four weeks can now be considered my DE shaving budget, right?? And I'm not REALLY spending any money that I wouldn't have already been spending on haircuts.

Of course, with what I've spent on wetshaving over the last year I am now spending against the haircuts I would've gotten sometime in 2019.

Cheers!
-Greg

 

[Texas Don]

I married my barber years ago. She still cuts my hair but just buzzes me now. I hadn't thought of using the money I save on haircuts to fund my shaving AD. Nice idea, thanks.

 

[Shoki]

how do you clean up the neck and ear area?

 

[VT_Hokie]

I do the same thing with the Wahl color coded set or whatever.

I figure I'm saving $15 plus tip every 2 weeks.

 

[Topgumby]

I fund my ADs by selling Lilac Vegetal to school kids in nickel bags.


Since I started doing this, my purchases have slowed way down....

 

[FL shaver]

Looks good!

 

[Rivguy]

I will have to think about that. Do I want Rivgal near my neck and throat with anything sharp?

Cheers,

Doug

 

[Greglam]

I married my barber years ago. She still cuts my hair but just buzzes me now. I hadn't thought of using the money I save on haircuts to fund my shaving AD. Nice idea, thanks.

It's a bit of "Enron accounting" I know, but what the hell...

how do you clean up the neck and ear area?

Honestly the blade is either '000' or '00000' so it gets the neck and ears down so close you can barely tell anything is still there. No, it's not str8 smooth but more than acceptable.

The whole process was very awkward to start with but now it's pretty quick and simple.

 

[grizzly]

Wahl clippers are amazing. I had two other brands before and they were junk.

 

[mkc1mjb]

OK, Chaps, stick with me on this one.

I had been going to the barber every 3 or 4 weeks and spending $12 on a ten-minute hair buzz with the '000' blade. As I'm a poor graduate student who would actually like to be able to afford to marry his fiancee at some point, this was starting to cost real money.

Solution: I went to Rite-Aid and spent approx $36 on the most expensive Wahl home haircutting kit and have been doing it myself ever since. That was well more than a year ago and the Wahl has looooong since paid for itself.

So, it occurs to me that that previous $12 every three or four weeks can now be considered my DE shaving budget, right?? And I'm not REALLY spending any money that I wouldn't have already been spending on haircuts.

Of course, with what I've spent on wetshaving over the last year I am now spending against the haircuts I would've gotten sometime in 2019.

Cheers!
-Greg

I had a flowbee years ago while in college until it broke after 7-8 years of using it monthly. It saved me a lot of money

 

[The Last Chimney]

...when a kid from the USAF honor guard who came to work in my shop showed me how he did it.

Those ceremonial billets can get a bit crazy. They know more about cutting their own hair and shining and cleaning uniform items than anybody else in the world.

I knew a former silent drill team member who would tell us about sewing pockets shut to keep them flat and standing on plane flights to keep from creasing the old-style cammies. He showed me a plated metal frame that he made for baking his eight-point in the oven until it was so smooth and stiff it looked like it was an entirely different shape than the rest of our covers.

He faded his own hair, too, of course!

 

[M80]

I cut my hair with a flowbee.

 

[Arrow]

I also cut my own hair. Have been for 15 years or so. #3 guard, buzz it all to the same length. #0 guard, back and sides of neck by feel.

"Good enough for who it's for"

 

[bbarton713]

#2 attachment all over and every couple times SWMBO cleans up my neck. I use the same setup to keep my goatee trimmed.

 

[GDCarrington]

I am in a quandary on this thread.
Since I head shave, does my radical hair cutting methods fund or fuel my ADs?

 

[WinstonSmith]

how do you clean up the neck and ear area?

Just pull the guard off and use the bare blade. My Oster clippers heat up quite a bit over the course of a haircut though, so we let 'em sit for 10-15 mins before popping the guard off and going in for the cleanup.

 

[Greglam]

Just pull the guard off and use the bare blade. My Oster clippers heat up quite a bit over the course of a haircut though, so we let 'em sit for 10-15 mins before popping the guard off and going in for the cleanup.

I actually use the bare blade for the whole cut. Since I'm not styling or blending or anything mine doesn't get unbearably hot. I notice the heat more after I'm done than while I'm actually cutting.

 

[Granaura]

Although in University I did it myself with a number 2 all over (which is great for early classes!), I now with a medium length would never do it myself!!! Seems if I get it wrong I end up like dennis the menace!

 

[Jim]

Looks good!

I think that carbon steel knife pattern is called a lamb splitter.

 

[WinstonSmith]

I actually use the bare blade for the whole cut. Since I'm not styling or blending or anything mine doesn't get unbearably hot. I notice the heat more after I'm done than while I'm actually cutting.

I think these Osters heat up more than most as well. I don't style or blend, it's more like just mowing the lawn. They're not great clippers and cost maybe $15 about ten years back, but they still work fine other than the heat.