There are some small pleasures I’ll never experience.
christy recently commented about one of hers:
“taking my hair down at the end of the day.”
My quarter-inch buzz cut doesn’t allow for combing or taking down.
But I do like cutting my own hair.
It’s a small pleasure I started about 10 - 15 years ago after Barb the barber charged me $15 for 5 minutes worth of buzzing around my head with electric clippers and one attachment.
I calculated that at $60 per hour I could save myself a lot of money over the years.
And I have, not even counting the tips.
Pleasure comes from not only saving myself about 20 bucks every month but from a lovely feeling of self-reliance that comes over me as I clean hair from my head and beard out of the sink.
And knowing my wife won’t have to say (for a week or two), “Your moustache is too long and it tickles my nose when you kiss me.”
Sorry, that’s a small pleasure I won’t get into at the moment.
[I’m working hard to keep a PG rating on my blog.]
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Hair today - gone tomorrow! Is self-reliance a small pleasure for you?
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4 comments:
Self reliance is a very LARGE pleasure for me, and I seem to be losing it fast. Yes. It makes me feel very good.
And by the way, I cut my own hair too
Yes, a year ago I started to cut my own hair and my children's. Maybe my husband should invest in this. Sometimes his mustache gets a little too long for me too!
bobbie and christy, you likely have a harder time trimming your own that I do with easy to use clippers.
you're brave ladies.
my brother trims his own using comb and scissors in front of the mirror. fortunately i like 1/4 inch buzz cuts.
cheers,
gord h.
Oh, I don't always do it very well, but am learning!
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