Tired of spending hundreds of dollars a month

[pdxtodd]

I just went through a company failure (due to the economy) and am now re-employed - but at a significantly lower salary than before.   I've been wearing a hair piece for the past 10 years and have spent as much as $700 a month just to cover up the top of my head.   This website has been a godsend to me.    My decision at this point is (a) buy cheaper hair  (I'm down to $200/month for hair + $100/month for products and services),  (b) get another job to pay for hair, or (c) just get over it and shave my head.   Part of me *thinks* that I look better with hair -- but everyone's posts on the message boards makes me think that I'm the only one that thinks that way.  But I do need your opinion.  I'm attaching a picture with hair and without (I had to do my weekly cleaning tonight).   If you were in my shoes -- knowing that my the trade off is having hair = my family having less  vs sucking it up and just shaving my head -- what would you do?    Society is cruel -- but I think everyone here is saying that nobody has been cruel after shaving.   

[PBurke]

i would say shave it. but that is just me. shaving is a whole lot cheaper and the family could use that money. just my 2cents

[Dome of Steele]

I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but you don't have hair.  You have a hat. 

Your head looks good.  Show it to the world. 

You will love it. 

[Iconic]

Well, $700 a month is huge amount of money to be spend on hair... For me monthly 25 euros for a barbershop visit was much. Think about having that much more monthly (shaving stuff reduced say $680).

But this is not about money, is it? It boils down to social pressure. But, as SaintC here and has said, and many other guys too, these are good times to be bald. I can't imagine what the social pressure about having hair has been like in the seventies. Nowadays bald guys are not some freaks, shaved is just a hairstyle among others. I have even noticed that something has happened in the last ten or fifteen years in terms of how bald men are perceived. It's partly the social effect of movies and culture. We see bald actors, musicians, athletes and so on, we see them everywhere. Society may be cruel towards those who are balding (although we have Statham) but it is not so towards those who are shaved bald.

If I were you, I'd grab the opportunity to get the new look Nature is offering you!

[D.A.L.U.I.]

 Part of me *thinks* that I look better with hair -- but everyone's posts on the message boards makes me think that I'm the only one that thinks that way. 

You're right, you're the only one who thinks you look better w/ that "hair."  Ditch it, it looks like, well let's face it, a dead animal on top of your head.  You've got a fine head, cleaned up it makes you look younger, smarter.  My educated guess, everyone knows you're "wearing" the minute they meet you.  Also, you're going to get a lot of positive feed back in addition to a positive feeling in the bank account.  Do it now, don't wait, you'll never reqret it.

[GASlick]

I vote to shave it!

[andrew]

Shave it clean ...  You won't regret it.

[Mikekoz13]

Dude..... you aready know the answer. Get rid of the rug. Believe me...everyone knows it's a rug. Do you want to be whispered about behind your back as "the guy with the rug" or admired for taking control of your life?


$700 a month or about ten dollars a month for shaving goods? Hmmmm..... I'm not the brightest guy buy even I can see the answer to that one is eay.
Use that money to make the lives of your Family better.................

[pdxtodd]

Thanks for the encouragement guys.   I'm going to take it off.   RE: "wearing a hat" and "dead animal" -- that's exactly what I said when I came back to work with hair the first time -- "Fluffy died and I had to do something with her  - so I made this hat."   Its coming off!

[D.A.L.U.I.]

That's a well reasoned approach.  Now, when?  Today is a fine day to go sly!  Don't let the sun set w/o a Dome you can be proud of.  Welcome to the freedom--yeah, that's the sensation you'll feel when you dry your newly clean smooth scalp--it's wonderful.

[Nonick]

Dude, you have "the perfect reason" to shave; do it for the family, and you won't regret it for a moment!  You will be so much happier.  (Keep in mind that you're doing it for yourself too- for your piece of mind!)  It looks great shaved!   

[DaDi]

hmmm, where is my Headblade? 

 

[PeripheralxMvmnt]

::ahem::


DO IIITTTTT. haha


Im sure youll feel like a new man once its all gone.

[Larry]

I know you have a $700 a month investment in that thing but throwing it in the trash bin would be an economical move.  Forget about the social thing!  When people are willing to pay you $700 a month to wear the piece,  well...money is money.

[schro]

Hi Todd,
I'm certain you expected these kind of responses when you posed this question. I know others felt the same way when they shaved their domes for the first time. IT IS TRULY LIBERATING to be free from the worry of having a horseshoe of hair or dealing with some type of hair replacement. And as an added bonus, you'll likely get unsolicited headrubs from the hotties in your life  (I'll bet that didn't happen much with the rug  ).

Also, as Koz said, the fact that the cost of maintaining the rug is too much of a burden is reason enough to go sly. Here's a link to a post I did a while back about the cost of having hair vs. going sly. I know my initial post in this thread doesn't include rugs (I add that later), but you get the point.

http://www.slybaldguys.com/smf/index.php?topic=4670.0

Good luck with the initial shave. You'll love it!!

Schro