# People with hair: How much money would it take to get you to shave your head? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798 "2006-10-17T17:02:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/61 "2006-10-17T22:15:00Z")
I’d do it for a thousand. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/edb3f5/32.png) [@Freudian\_Push\_Up\_Bra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Push_Up_Bra)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/62 "2006-10-18T02:49:15Z")
It’d have to be a considerable amount because I’m in the middle of growing it out of a pixie cut from about two years ago - it’s now shoulder length and my mum’s wedding is in three weeks and my year 12 formal is about a week after that. Maybe afterwards, but now, I’m too vain. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/63 "2006-10-18T02:56:30Z")
Would this be a one-time thing or would you have to keep it shaved for a certain amount of time? It would be nice to be completely debt-free and have some extra money to play with, so a minimum of $20,000 sounds good to me. [QUOTE=Eureka] Female, 31, with bumps on my head which I do not want to make the centerpiece of every conversation I have with people until the bumps get hidden by my naturally wavy hair again. [/QUOTE] Female, 48, with two big cysts on top of my head just a smidge to the right of the occipital bone. I have to part my hair to the side to cover them but for the right price, I guess I wouldn’t mind baring them to the world. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/64 "2006-10-18T02:58:21Z")
not too much. maybe three hundred bucks. Less if it were for some kind of purpose like a part in a play or donating it to bald kids or something. Aside from the fact that I’m sure it would emphasize my cancer patient/concentration camp look, I could probably pull off short hair/no hair. I don’t have an abnormally large, pointed, or lumpy scalp. And I’m 15 and female and have shoulder-length hair dyed brown ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/65 "2006-10-18T03:11:50Z")
28, female, hair below my waist. Maybe $500,000. If someone were actually offering me the cash right now, instead of it being a message board poll? Maybe $10,000. Maybe. I’d look terrible with a shaved head. Just awful. My husband would cry, too. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/66 "2006-10-18T03:54:16Z")
Female, mid-40’s. I’d do it for free if it amused me. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/67 "2006-10-18T05:46:55Z")
Female/26 At least $10,000. My hair is coppery red (my grandfather says it’s the color of pure gold. I’ve never seen pure gold so I don’t know). It’s about 5" below my shoulders, thick, straight, and very healthy. I love my hair and I have no delusions about my body. If not for my hair, the only thing anyone would ever notice about me is my big tits. My hair grows fairly quickly but I look really stupid with even mid neck length hair so I can only begin to imagine how bad I’d look shaved. Also, I have scars on my scalp from a very bad bout of lice (when I was 10). I don’t really want to broadcast those. AND, I have traditional red-head coloring. I am very pale, my skin has a bluish tint to it. I also have very light eyelashes and brows. I also have blue eyes. Without hair, everything above my neck would disappear. $10k would give me the ability to pay off my debt and have some money in the bank so I think I could suffer for a year or so for that amount. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/68 "2006-10-18T06:25:15Z")
I wouldn’t need money. I’d need to know that it wouldn’t influence my situation at work negatively. Being a female in a profession that people still think of as male (engineer), I’m expected to look boringly conservative. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/69 "2006-10-18T06:30:19Z")
Male, 39. I’d shave my head for a strong cup of coffee or a sandwich… backrub? A good joke? Hell, I don’t care. It’s only hair. My hair doesn’t make me who I am. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/70 "2006-10-18T06:41:03Z")
[QUOTE=Tikki] Would this be a one-time thing or would you have to keep it shaved for a certain amount of time? . [/QUOTE] One time thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/71 "2006-10-18T07:34:06Z")
Since my usual pattern is ‘grow it for four months then cut it really short’, I’d probably go pretty cheap. My beard would take a bit more persuading. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/72 "2006-10-18T08:02:19Z")
Male, 48. I shave mine from time to time, usually once a year. Around here is goes pretty well unnoticed. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/73 "2006-10-18T09:13:59Z")
Male, 39. Cheap - make me an offer. I accept PayPal. Back in my late teens/early twenties (can’t remember), I shaved off my shoulder-length hippy locks and raised a few hundred quid for charity. Caused me no end of trouble actually, because, as a poor manual worker, I used to buy clothes at the army surplus store and the combination of shaven head and khaki made people mistakenly assume I was a neo-nazi - I was challenged aggressively several times and beaten up once. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/74 "2006-10-18T10:09:37Z")
I’d never do it. The sort of money that would have to be on the table for me to even _consider_ voluntarily shaving my head would finance several concurrent guerrilla wars or rebel insurrections in various third world countries. I’ve got medium length hair, and I like it that way. Male, 25. ---
**Author:** ![Zerc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/82dd89/32.png) [@Zerc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zerc)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/75 "2006-10-18T12:15:42Z")
Male, 40 I paid R50 (about $8) to have mine shaved as part of a shave-a-thon to collect money for a cancer charity. Since then I kept my hair short as now I don’t need to comb it anymore. ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/76 "2006-10-18T13:01:20Z")
Male, 22. I have middling-long hair, halfway down my neck right now. My ex calls it Japanese Rockstar Hair. It takes about four months to grow out to proper length, but about seven for it to recover its texture from a chop-and-go haircut. I wore a flattop for about eight years, and then a buzzcut for two more, up until I was 20. I will _kill_ the person, man, woman, or child, who tries to put me back there. Like **Martini** , if someone can put me in the Nine Zero Club, I might start negotiating. It means a lot more than hair to me. Growing my hair out is something I associate with growing up, away from my parents and into the world at large, like not wearing long shorts with calf socks, or not wearing sweatpants when I’m going out. I imagine in ten or fifteen years I’ll shorten it up, but not that much. ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/77 "2006-10-18T16:32:10Z")
I had my head shaved about half a dozen times when I was a kid for brain surgery, so I’m used to the look. I also look horrible with long hair so I’d go pretty cheap, just make me an offer. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/78 "2006-10-18T18:10:32Z")
$12. That’s what it cost me the last 2 times the barbers cut too close the the scalp… Idiots could not fathom, “I want my hair 1/2 inch long.” ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/79 "2006-10-18T18:36:04Z")
Probably at least $10K, maybe more like $20K. I look too masculine with too-short hair, and I’d have to wear makeup and maybe even earrings every day to make up for it. Female, 32. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798/80 "2006-10-18T20:01:52Z")
1. Female. My hair is 14" long, naturally curly, and envied by many. But if someone handed me enough money to cover my college loan and misc debt (about $25K total) I would shave myself bald in a heartbeat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-with-hair-how-much-money-would-it-take-to-get-you-to-shave-your-head/376798.md?page=5)