"Cost Cutting" Haircuts

Our boys seem to have hair that grows like weeds.  Caleb, has the same fine, stick straight hair that Brian has that just grows out it seems.  Kind of like a baby duck.  Over his ears seems to grow the fastest, causing him to rapidly get, what we lovingly refer to as "Ben Franklins."  This term started in our family back when Caleb was a baby.  Each of our boys have been pretty bald as babies and the first place their hair really started to grow was over their ears.  It would stick out over the ears, well kind of like this.  But a whole lot cuter.

Anyhew.  So Caleb gets Ben Franklin hair.  And Noah, who has more of my curl and texture in his hair.  His (like mine) when it gets long, just gets bigger.

As we looked at our budget, Brian suggested that one small area that we might "trim" some dollars was on haircuts.  The boys were needing to go in about every 5 weeks to the tune of about $30 (total, for both of them) each time.  Not to mention, we didn't exactly think they were being given stellar cuts either.

So I headed to Target and found the "Conair 19-piece pro hair cutting" kit.  I figured, heck, even if we got one haircut out of it and hated it, we earned back our $14.99, right?

Since then (about three months ago) Brian has been cutting the boys' hair.  As he joked, when he dies, we can now put on his gravestone "Husband, father, optometrist, barber."

Last night was what I have fondly now termed "Time to shear the sheep" night at the Snyder household.

And so it goes:

Caleb hates it and relentlessly complains about the itchy hair all over him.  And Noah thinks it's all pretty funny.  Didn't get any shots of the end results, but fair to say this is one "cost cutting" measure we will stick with.

Also, for the latest discretionary spending update.  I didn't get a change to blog yesterday, but Brian spent:

Menards: $20 (supplies for the clinic)

That said, I was able to sell Caleb's old booster seat for $25 on Craigslist, so we ended the day up $5 :)

Today however is grocery day:

Target: $36.62

ALDI (91 grocery items and diapers): $147.22