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.
I’m pushing to get people to call it a Nabashin, but that only works with people who have seen Excel Saga.
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.
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.
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.
Consider that a few people likely spent $1000 on their last hair cut.
Why not find a barber who will cut it for $12 a pop, then you could get it cut *three *times a week, and have enough left over for 208 one-dollar lottery tickets. With a little luck, you could come out ahead!
i think the average for a guy is once a month for 15$, so the average a guy spends on there haircuts is 180$ thats a small expense.
It’s certainly a lot cheaper than the psychotherapy needed to get to the bottom of the OP’s obsession with short hair.
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.
What we need is a psychotherapist who moonlights as a barber. 
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.
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).
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.
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.
Here’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.
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? 
Wow! That’s my system too!
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.