# Guys, how often do you get a haircut? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 21, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374 "2006-10-21T22:13:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/21 "2006-10-22T04:03:28Z")
About every three months or so. I tend to get it clippered rather short, and it looks fine longer, so both are acceptable. It isn’t until it starts curling and my hardhat doesn’t fit anymore that I’ll go back in. My stylist is amused by this, but then she thinks everybody’s hair looks better with gel, mousse, or other “product” in it, too. If there’s a S.O. in my life at haircut time, they get an opinion, but not a vote on the matter. ---
**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 22, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/22 "2006-10-22T04:23:44Z")
[QUOTE=Enginerd] Every five or six years, on the average. [/QUOTE] Ted? Ted Kaczynski? How the hell ARE you? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/23 "2006-10-22T04:27:01Z")
Usually about once a month. My alopecia aerota made a comback a couple of months ago, so I’ve been postponing my usual trip to the barber shop until the bald spots fill back in. I’ll probably go to one of the neighborhood’s several old-school Italian-American barbers sometime next weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/24 "2006-10-22T04:35:49Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Ted? Ted Kaczynski? How the hell ARE you? 😛 [/QUOTE] Heh. I was Kaczynski for halloween a couple of years ago. ---
**Author:** ![FRDE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e68b1a/32.png) [@FRDE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FRDE)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/25 "2006-10-22T10:58:50Z")
About every eight weeks - a Cypriot barber - tip him well and hope he does not get Alzheimers The beard gets nuked every four weeks, using a Remington mains powered hair trimmer, battery powered beard trimmers just suck. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/26 "2006-10-22T11:09:33Z")
[QUOTE=interface2x] I get mine cut about once a month for $15. [/QUOTE] Me too. And the $15 includes the tip. “Buzz it on the sides with a 1.5 clipper, shorten it up on the top, see you in a month.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/27 "2006-10-22T16:11:31Z")
Whenever I get to the point where, whenever I look in a mirror, I think, “I could really use a haircut!” Which is usually every couple of months. Probably not quite as often as I should, but it’s one of those “when I get around to it” kinds of things. Lately, the price of a haircut at the **barber** I go to (I’m not nearly metrosexual enough for a [exaggerated French accent]salon[/exaggerated French accent]) is $9 (plus I give a $2 tip). ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/28 "2006-10-22T16:25:07Z")
Once every two months or so. Small-town barber, $8. My girlfriend likes my hair short, I like it somewhat shaggy, so we compromise with short for a month, shaggy for a month. My hair grows incredibly fast. After getting a haircut, I trim my beard down to stubble to match. ---
**Author:** ![MilTan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@MilTan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MilTan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/29 "2006-10-22T19:11:26Z")
Wow… I’m clearly the outlier here. I get my hair cut once a month or so, and pay about $30 for the privilege. I find that I get a much more consistent cut now than when I was paying $15 per cut. Also, it’s more entertaining for me, as the stylists are attractive women instead of overweight men. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/30 "2006-10-22T19:30:42Z")
Anywhere from the one month to the three month mark, depending on how shaggy I feel like getting. $15 with tip, either way. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/31 "2006-10-22T19:33:57Z")
I usually get my hair cut once every four months or so. Though the last time I went about seven months. I’ve got the shaggy hipster hair look so I had to grow it out. I pay about $17 including tip. The girlfriend likes it long so it works out well. ---
**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 22, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/32 "2006-10-22T20:11:54Z")
[QUOTE=MilTan] Wow… I’m clearly the outlier here. I get my hair cut once a month or so, and pay about $30 for the privilege. I find that I get a much more consistent cut now than when I was paying $15 per cut. Also, it’s more entertaining for me, as the stylists are attractive women instead of overweight men. [/QUOTE] For $90 a pop, I would want AT LEAST a shampoo, cut and blow job. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/33 "2006-10-23T01:34:42Z")
Cut it myself to 3/4" length every 4 to 8 weeks, depending on how fast it grows. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/34 "2006-10-23T01:37:13Z")
Every 5-6 weeks or so. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/35 "2006-10-23T02:19:03Z")
4-6 months. When it gets into my eyes, it’s time to get it cut. ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/36 "2006-10-23T02:21:02Z")
Every six weeks. I also get my eyebrows waxed, because I absolutely can’t go any longer than that without my horrible mega super unibrow growing back in. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/37 "2006-10-23T02:32:32Z")
Every 3 or 4 weeks, whenever I’m near a barber, need a haircut and have the time. Nobody ever asks more than about $10 – basic cuts on short hair are apparently easy to do. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/38 "2006-10-23T15:20:03Z")
Whenever I can’t stand it anymore… about every 6 to 9 months. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/39 "2006-10-23T15:27:14Z")
Twice in the past year and a half, and the last was just a trim. About $15-20. My wife’s say in it is that when she gets to the point where she’s just about to go nuts, I’ll get a trim. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374/40 "2006-10-23T15:43:58Z")
Every two weeks. We’re on 9/80 so every other Friday I’ll go to SportClips midmorning when it’s routinely empty, watch a sports show, read a car magazine and be out in 20 minutes for $14 and a 5 spot tip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guys-how-often-do-you-get-a-haircut/377374.md?page=3)