Preparedness for when

smileyt_2

Can I join in? Been lurking for while and probably won't be a regular poster but am intrigued by the hairdressing conversation!

I have alopecia and my hair refuses to grow properly, so eight years ago lopped the whole lot off and have had a buzzcut ever since. I do it myself. A bottle of shampoo lasts at least year, I replace my shavers when they get worn out (currently on set number 3) and must have saved hundreds of pounds on hairdressing costs. It was a bit of shock at first but now I never have bad hair days. I'm hardly Miss World but I don't care! It's definitely worth a go, and if you don't like it you can always cover your head with scarves until your hair grows back again.

nuatha

smileyt wrote: »

Can I join in? Been lurking for while and probably won't be a regular poster but am intrigued by the hairdressing conversation!

I have alopecia and my hair refuses to grow properly, so eight years ago lopped the whole lot off and have had a buzzcut ever since. I do it myself. A bottle of shampoo lasts at least year, I replace my shavers when they get worn out (currently on set number 3) and must have saved hundreds of pounds on hairdressing costs. It was a bit of shock at first but now I never have bad hair days. I'm hardly Miss World but I don't care! It's definitely worth a go, and if you don't like it you can always cover your head with scarves until your hair grows back again.

Always good to see you post SmileyT.
I just avoid hair dressers - though its starting to thin, so I suspect it won't be another year before I go from long hair to buzzcut.

Frugalsod

jk0 wrote: »

Anyone see this on zerohedge?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-22/belarus-full-blown-hyperinflation-panic-blocks-news-online-stores-bans-all-fx-tradin

By the way: Anyone else's internet sluggish this evening, or are they throttling mine due to being on it all day?

Belarus was always vulnerable to collapse. In many ways it was overdue. The corruption that created the Ukrainian collapse has been on steroids in Belarus. It is even more corrupt than Ukraine was at its peak. It is run by a dictator and is about as repressive as you can imagine. It also tied farm workers to the land and recreated the serfs only this year.

DawnW

Frugalsod wrote: »

Many years ago I bought a set of hair clippers and cut my hair myself. I was only spending £7 a month for haircuts and my hair clippers cost say £70 but at that rate they would pay for themselves in less than a year, so the rate of return from them was more than 120% p.a. Add in no time travelling to and from hairdressers saved, and so there are additional savings that are unimaginable that have not even been considered. Also since then I must have saved even more as hair dressing costs rose over the 15 years since I bought them. It has probably been one of my better investments. Now that I am nearly bald I can dispense with the cutting guides and simply shave what appears.

I bought a set of electric dog clippers at the farm store years ago, to do the dog. OH has used them ever since, and so do various male family members, my brother when he visits, son in law etc. Even get used on the dog now and again :rotfl: I am no expert, but the dog ones were less than £30. Is the human version much different (given the difference in price), as the dog ones certainly do the job? I must confess that I don't let them near my hair though :eek: Not that it is anything special by any means, but it is thick and looks like this :eek: if it isn't cut properly and thinned every couple of months

jk0

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

what was the name of the other prime minister of the 70's? little guy who sounded like bugs bunny? think he smoked a pipe??

I think you mean Harold Wilson. He used to try to deny rising prices saying: 'The pound in your pocket is worth what it's always been'.

armyknife

jk0 wrote: »

I think you mean Harold Wilson. He used to try to deny rising prices saying: 'The pound in your pocket is worth what it's always been'.

He said that in the mid-60s when he was forced to devalue the pound, it wasn't anything to do with the high inflation faced in the first couple of years of his 1970s government.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

so was he was prime minister ( Harold Wilson) when 'new money' came in, and not only did the money change prices went up the same time??


can anyone remember the tell tale signs of what was happening before the high prices rises in the 70's??


History always repeats itself... so was just wondering what we are going through now as a country, when something similar in the past has happened, what will to expect next

jk0

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

so was he was prime minister ( Harold Wilson) when 'new money' came in, and not only did the money change prices went up the same time??

I believe it was still Ted Heath in 1971.

maryb

the mega inflation followed the Yom Kippur war in the Middle East and the oil embargo imposed by OPEC. Prices spiralled almost out of control. I remember people in despair because they could not save fast enough for an item to keep pace with price increases. That is when using credit became the only rational thing to do instead of a sign of !!!!lessness. The "Demon Barber" (Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber in Ted Heath's government) stoked this by loosening credit controls in a 'dash for growth which ended in tears

The government then introduced prices and incomes policies to try and stop the demand for wage increases to cope with rising prices which in turn fuelled more price rises, but employers got round it. I was training as an accountant at the time and instead of being an assistant for 3 years until I qualified, they introduced several additional grades, because you could give a payrise following a promotion. Never enjoyed such stellar progress again!

maryb

Forgot, it doesn't like f e c k lessness