"Cutting Costs"

All day, every day, I am surrounded by people who make poor financial decisions. There are a million ways to "cut" costs in your life. Commodities, gas, everything is so damn expensive and people aren't making any more money. What to do what to do? If so many people are willing to shell out dollars for those Rich Dad books, or Dave Ramsey's "Total Money Makeover," I suggest ya'll save your dollars and buy a trimmer.

That's right, the easiest, most convienent way to save money is to be your own barber. I cannot say that I will never pay for a barber again, but what I will tell you is that for the past six years, I have owned a clipper of some sort and figured that I have saved anywhere in the neighborhood of 500-1,000 dollars.

Cancel your cable: maybe, carpool to work: sure if you can; but that 15-30 bucks you spend on your hair every 3 weeks can be spent on groceries. I spent 5 years in the military, where you pretty much need a cut every 3 weeks or more. I wish I would have cut my own hair every time I needed it, but I can say that about half the time I was in the Army I cut my own hair. That is, every other haircut was done by yours truly. Averaged out say 52 weeks a year, say you need a cut every 3 weeks, thats 52 divided by about 17 hair trimmings needed. So about 17 times 15 bucks is 260, and say $260 times 6 years, shit that's $1560 buckaroos!

Damn, next time you think you need to cut costs somewhere, think about cutting them on top of your head.