# How often do you guys get haircut? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111 "2012-10-08T18:07:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/61 "2012-10-11T12:24:18Z")
A haircut is only $8 where I go. $15 a week is a hell of a lot to spend on hair. Get a girlfriend that knows how to cut hair. ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/62 "2012-10-11T12:42:25Z")
> [@Stephen18](#): > > Anybody get there hair cut once a week cmon? I sense you have an agenda. Are you trying to tell your mom “but everyone else gets weekly hair cuts!” so that she’ll keep funding your $80/month preening habit? Without making you choose between a haircut and a sweater? ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/63 "2012-10-11T15:07:10Z")
Enjoy your coddling while it lasts. It’s really not good for you but I’m sure it’s nice. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/64 "2012-10-11T15:20:36Z")
About every five weeks. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/65 "2012-10-11T15:31:45Z")
I go about every three months. If I had more free time, I’d go about twice as often. My hair grows fast, and starts to get heavy and hot after about two months. I can’t really get away with a crew cut or anything that close to the head. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/66 "2012-10-11T16:33:23Z")
About once a year. I’m due for one soon, as my hair is pretty long and spring is here. ---
**Author:** ![heathen\_earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/13edae/32.png) [@heathen\_earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heathen_earthling)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/67 "2012-10-11T19:37:01Z")
I’ve stopped going for professional haircuts. If I ever want my hair trimmed, I’ll do it myself. Aside from being a cheap guy, I’ve always hated going to get my hair cut because they’ll ask me what I want, and I have no idea. They’re the experts on hairstyles, not me! ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/68 "2012-10-11T20:00:55Z")
Uh… dunno. Probably works out to 3-4 weeks. I go by when it’s starting to go over my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/69 "2012-10-11T21:34:12Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > On a side note; am I the only one who was thinking the OP needs to learn how to use punctuation? Yeah, I’m trying to figure out what a sweater has to do with the barber shop. It sounds like he refuses to go unless he can wear the brand-new Ralph Lauren sweater he couldn’t get mom to pay for… which doesn’t make sense because it makes him sound like a petulant toddler throwing a tantrum, right? Also, $80 a month for hair care is _insane._ If you need it that short, get yourself a set of clippers and do it yourself. No one but you is going to notice an eighth-inch of growth from week to week. Me, my last cut was over a year ago, and before that it had been… well, somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 or 6 years I think, although in the middle of that it all fell out from the chemo, so I was growing my hair for about 4 or 4-1/2 years before I trimmed it. And then only because for some reason, all of the longest hairs fell out seemingly all at once, and I ended up looking very ragged suddenly. Sadly my hair isn’t growing as long as it was, now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/70 "2012-10-11T21:34:51Z")
I get a buzz-cut about once every 9 months. ---
**Author:** ![CEOofPolar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@CEOofPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CEOofPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/71 "2012-10-13T00:30:55Z")
i hope not making the barber rich ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/72 "2012-10-13T00:55:42Z")
Not sure precisely but I would estimate every 5 or 6 months. I can certainly say that since 1st Feb I have had two cuts but I am not sure what my hair status was on the 1st Feb (I moved for the 1st Feb and have had two cuts since then). I tend to grow my hair from silly short to silly long, it’s at the point I need to keep flicking it over my head like I girl that I get it shorn again. Everyone loves my hair, by the way. Seriously, even full straight blokey men will spontaneously play with it. I use head and sholders exclusively, even though I don’t suffer from dandruff. I don’t know what it is in the stuff but it makes my hair super duper silky in a way no other shampoo will. ---
**Author:** ![nion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nion)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111/73 "2012-10-13T06:52:44Z")
I DO have my hair cut once a week! BUT, I do it myself. Paying a barber for that would rival what I used to spend on cigarettes in a month before I quit! For clarity, I use electric clippers, and give myself a number one cut. I started off a number three once a month. Go back farther and my hair was halfway down my back! I wonder, shall I be shaving myself bald twice a week soon?! :eek: I doubt it. I sometimes feel a number one is too short. It’s just amusing how the time between cuts AND the hair have both shortened over time. And add me to those blanching at an eighty-dollar barbershop bill. My grandfather would have described it as “rich peoples’ disease”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-guys-get-haircut/637111.md?page=3)