# Do you think $1040 is too much for haircuts for guys? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771 "2012-10-24T22:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/41 "2012-10-25T01:08:31Z")
I’m a seasonal cutter as well (4 times a year is plenty) - varying between a #4 in winter and a #1 in summer. My brother-in-law ‘borrowed’ my clippers a few years ago, he’s a #1 all-year-round kind of guy (and wears a hard hat) so I have to pay the barber $15 a time - a massive overall outlay of $60 a year. $1040 a year sounds a lot to me. Still I’m not a young man about town anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/42 "2012-10-25T01:10:48Z")
> [@sugaree](#): > > Ah, I’ve never heard the term Caucaso, but I like it. Is there an Asio option as well? I’m pushing to get people to call it a Nabashin, but that only works with people who have seen Excel Saga. ---
**Author:** ![Bartman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bartman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bartman)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/43 "2012-10-25T01:11:16Z")
I used to do about $15-$20 a month. But I have found going to a better stylist than a strip mall CostCutters actually did make a real difference in how I look. So now it is about $40 a month. And I consider the $500 a year I spend on that as an unnecessary but worthwhile extravagance. I can’t imagine spending double that. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/44 "2012-10-25T01:33:00Z")
Between cut and tip it’s $20 per trip for me, and depending on busy workload or vacation time it’s every month or month and a half so I put in at best $240 per year. But I acknowledge that I’m not particular about the haircut, just want it out of my eyes mostly. I could easily see someone going for two or three times that either from increased frequency, higher-cost shop, or both. ---
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/45 "2012-10-25T01:52:45Z")
It’s $11 per week ( including tip ) for the boyfriend, who’s a Marine and adheres strongly to the “high and tight” part of the dress code. Can’t be a long-haired hippy if you’re a Marine, even if “long-haired hippy” means a decent dusting of fuzz. 😃 That includes a good working-over with the clippers and a shave on the back and sides with a straight razor. Plus a nice neck/shoulder massage at the end. So that’s $572/year, but that’s on-base price, so YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/46 "2012-10-25T01:53:06Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I haven’t spent $1040 on haircuts over the last 10 years of my life. Consider that a few people likely spent $1000 on their last hair cut. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/47 "2012-10-25T02:10:08Z")
Why not find a barber who will cut it for $12 a pop, then you could get it cut \*three \*times a week, and have enough left over for 208 one-dollar lottery tickets. With a little luck, you could come out ahead! ---
**Author:** ![CEOofPolar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@CEOofPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CEOofPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/48 "2012-10-25T02:38:13Z")
> [@Kozmik](#): > > Consider that a few people likely spent $1000 on their last hair cut. i think the average for a guy is once a month for 15$, so the average a guy spends on there haircuts is 180$ thats a small expense. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/49 "2012-10-25T02:50:00Z")
It’s certainly a lot cheaper than the psychotherapy needed to get to the bottom of the OP’s obsession with short hair. ---
**Author:** ![BuzzSaw101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a3d4f5/32.png) [@BuzzSaw101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuzzSaw101)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/50 "2012-10-25T04:34:06Z")
My grandfather, who still has a full head of hair at 82, goes to the barber and spends $20 every Friday when he goes into town for his weekly supplies (he’s a farmer). It’s not so much for the haircut, I think he just likes to hangout with his elderly barber and buddies. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/51 "2012-10-25T05:10:05Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > It’s certainly a lot cheaper than the psychotherapy needed to get to the bottom of the OP’s obsession with short hair. What we need is a psychotherapist who moonlights as a barber. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/52 "2012-10-25T10:30:09Z")
It is actually common to the point of mundane for black men and boys to get weekly haircuts here in Trinidad, the style they are going for is not a shaved head but very short hair that apparently requires weekly cuts to look attractive.🆒 Which explains the barbers shops on every freaking corner, also they ALL have a line to the door on saturday. Its just a silly ritual. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/53 "2012-10-25T10:40:30Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Why not find a barber who will cut it for $12 a pop, then you could get it cut \*three \*times a week, and have enough left over for 208 one-dollar lottery tickets. With a little luck, you could come out ahead! Or even buy that Ralph Lauren sweater his mum won’t buy him (because it’ll get lots of little 1/32nd-inch lengths of hair all over it once a week). ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/54 "2012-10-25T12:59:55Z")
I can’t imagine getting it cut weekly, much less twice a week. I have a clipper and my wife does it for me about every 5-6 weeks during the summer, maybe every 8-9 weeks in the winter. So my cuts cost me nothing above the cost of the clipper. I could round out my tool collection nicely with the extra $1000/yr. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/55 "2012-10-25T13:16:03Z")
I used to get haircuts. Maybe once a month. After a while there was little enough there that just buzzing it down once a week or so myself made more sense. I still went a while afterwards though; the conversations were fun. I miss it a little. While I am not Black it was a local barbershop that otherwise has an exclusively Black clientele. And you don’t have to go to Trinidad to find men whose short haircuts require regular upkeep to look _just_ right. Once a week or more though? For an 18 year old whose mommy is paying for it and who worries about his Ralph Lauren so much? Gotta be a whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/56 "2012-10-25T13:23:07Z")
[Here](http://spiffnyc.com/services.html)’s a place where you can get unlimited cut and style with manicure and shoe-shine for $785 a year. $1040 for being limited to “once a week” is a rip off. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/57 "2012-10-25T13:31:34Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I wonder what the OP does about his pubes. You’re probably old and don’t have to worry about that anymore. Everyone today shaves. Who wants a mouthful of hair? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/58 "2012-10-25T13:42:13Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > You’re probably old and don’t have to worry about that anymore. Everyone today shaves. Who wants a mouthful of hair? That is clearly incorrect, especially for men. Light trimming, perhaps, but full shaving is by no means something “everyone” does. Besides, who wants shaving rash? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/59 "2012-10-25T13:56:32Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > My system is to wait until my wife tells me I \*really \*need a haircut, and then put it off for another month or so. That means about 3 or 4 haircuts per year, give or take. > > It seems to work. Wow! That’s my system too! ---
**Author:** ![bahimes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bahimes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bahimes)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771/60 "2012-10-25T14:01:46Z")
I get a haircut between postings, which means every 2-3 years. Had a series of seriously bad haircuts in Japan, and just quit. Never did like wasting the time, anyway. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-think-1040-is-too-much-for-haircuts-for-guys/638771.md?page=4)