A Penny Saved Is Not Always A Penny Earned…

Yesterday my husband and I celebrated our two year wedding anniversary which just so happened to mark another milestone; two years since my husband had last had a professional hair cut…not joking.

This is not to say that he hasn’t had his hair cut in two years, quite the contrary actually.  He’s actually been cutting his own hair for the last two years to my disapproval.  We’ve been through two years of nicks on the back of his head, weird fading, short spots, military buzz cuts, grown out frizzy ends and not to mention a hair collection on our bathroom floor that I can’t seem to completely terminate.  You might ask yourself why he doesn’t just get it professionally done and save himself the effort and by asking this question you would be making a valid point.  But, Scotty would tell you that it’s not worth the money and that he’s saving $40 a cut.  Okaaaaay.

For the last two years I have bit my tongue, but the other day I finally suggested going to get a hair cut by a professional.  I told him that it wasn’t really necessary to go to a hoity toity salon since his choice of hair cut is quite simple, so I suggested a place like Super Cuts, Sports Clips (he doesn’t watch sports…another reason to love him!) or even the well-loved Great Clips.  And you know what?  He caved!  I promised him that if he didn’t like how it turned out and if he thought he could do better, then he would never have to get a professional cut again and he could go back to cutting his own hair in our bathroom.  We had a deal. 

So, tonight we walked (it’s literally walking distance from our house) over to a place called Smart Cuts and in less than two minutes he was in a chair and I was giving instructions to the lady…”not to short on top, keep the sides clean, no buzz cuts, he doesn’t wear product…”.  You get the idea.  A few sweeps of the razor and a few clips with the scissors and a few awkward glances from Scotty later and all of the sudden we had a whole new look for the bargain price of $14.95; shampoo would have cost $3.95 extra (we’re trying to save here!) and if we would have come in tomorrow it would have been “Men’s Day” and the cut would have only cost $12.95 (put that in my pocket for next time).

As soon as we walked out and Scotty started running his hands through his hair I knew that I had got him.  He was loving his new cut and already admitting how much better it looked.  He even stopped to check himself out in the mirror when we walked in the front door.  That was enough reason for me to snap a few pictures of him and put him on my blog for the world to see…after all, it’s been a while .