Mrs. KDB and I had reached a bit of an impasse. There are two words in her vocabulary which are not in mine. Cut and Color.
When I created our family budget this month, I set aside some money for hair cuts...ladies, please don’t shoot me...but I allowed what I thought at the time was a generous $50.00 per month!
Boy did I set off a maelstrom two days ago when the Mrs. decided she was overdue for a "cut and color." My son’s hair grows like kudzu, so we had him touched up in early January for a reasonable $18.00, leaving $32.00.
Easy. Simple. "Here honey, take the $32.00 and go get your cut and color." Needless to say my eyebrows are still singed with the heat from her retort! She practically choked on her chewing gum when I told her that was all that was left.
Her argument makes some sense; she doesn’t get a hair cut once a month, but her cut's and coloring for her long hair is waaaay more than $32.00. I was originally hoping to roll the January balance in to February’s new budget and then maybe on in to March for a "major" hairdo – but the whole point for her quick desire to get her hair done was the need to get “ready” for a bid presentation we were invited to give at another local soccer club.
The story behind the story is that Mrs. KDB just started her own promotional marketing, custom embroidery, and screen printing business late last year and the thing has actually grown pretty large in a few shirt months. This club invited us to propose taking over their spirit wear and promotional marketing business and my wife was going to be doing a lot of the public speaking. She felt a new look was in order and I pushed back a bit. Well, I actually agreed to tweak the budget accounts to come with an "appropriate" amount of cash and she made it to the salon.
Not a bad conflict to have I know and I fully expect the extra money her business brings in (or at least the moving of our former personal expenses such as her car and petrol which is now used 80% for the company, on to the business) to be a huge weapon in our debt battle.
So she did get her hair done. She looks great. She had that salon confidence. Oh, and we won the bid!
5 comments:
I forget who's blog it was that I was reading awhile back. They were an african american family and the wife's hair for every month was around $150! A month!
The husband would get a lot of negative comments when he posted his monthly budget for her hair. But he stressed it was a normal expense for the upkeep African American Female hair can require.
So it could be much worse :)
My friend bought a hair-cutting kit and learned to give haircuts to her two sons so that she could use the saved haircut money to get a cut and color for herself at the salon.
This works for young kids but once they get to be pre-teen or older they get pickier and might reject mom's homemade haircuts.
I color my own (well it's actually the absence of color in my case, platinum blond) and just blunt cut it. I have a hair salon phobia, can't go near the places. In LA a cut and color is $400, so I'm saving money too. But, for most women it's an absolute must and yeah I wouldn't want to be you telling your wife to get her hair done for $32!
Thanks for the moral support ladies...to my wife's complete credit, she pulled out all the stops to try and find the least expensive, highest quality hairdresser.
By asking some of the high school girls who hang around courtesy of our son, she found some hair dressers who were cheap enough for high school girls to afford, yet good enough for high school girls to use!
Good job on the bid and the reduced-price hairdo.
Someone tagged me for one of those "fun" games so I'm passing along the pain and I tagged you. See my blog from yesterday for details.
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