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How much do you spend at the hairdressers/Barbers?

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    #92
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,266 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    HBC08 wrote: »
    22e every 2nd fri. Could go to a cheaper place could leave it every 3 or 4 weeks but I like my hair looking well.

    Had the hair long for a good number of years and would cut it myself so never spent anything in barbers,i guess im making up for it now!

    I go about every month now. I used go about three/four times a year once I left it go over a year. I don't know what I was thinking.


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    #93
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,381 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Been trimming my own head for five years I'd say, so around 50euro in that time on two trimmers.


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    #94
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,559 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    murpho999 wrote: »
    22.7% tip is ridiculous.

    This is not America.

    The barber is well paid you know.

    Listen, I like to reward good service within the service industry. The reason I go to this particular barbers is that I know they’ll do a good job.

    I’m not going to insult both of us by asking for change of €3.90 from a fiver.

    You don’t have to tip if you don’t want to. I personally find things go smoother when you grease the wheels a little.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #95
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users Posts: 4,394 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    €16 so I just give them a €20.

    I then put on my sunglasses and say "keep the change homes" if it's a guy or "put that towards your next pair of shoes sweety" if it's a gal while giving her a friendly pat on the face cheek.


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    #96
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users Posts: 10,931 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Cut my own hair. Just have to bribe the kids to point out the bits I miss in the mirror.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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    #97
    Fifty grades of shay.
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Fifty grades of shay.


    A local lassie cuts mine in her house once a month, a four and a two.
    She charges €8 and I get a cup of tea or coffee everytime I go, so I always give her a tenner.
    Its not the reason she gives me the cuppa, she's just a lovely lady.


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    #98
    finla
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭finla


    €20 two or three times a year. Get 3" or 4" off the length, don't need colours any more since embracing the grey!


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    #99
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    35 euro every 6 - 8 weeks on a wash, cut and blow dry, I get my hair tidied up every couple of weeks to get rid of split ends.


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    #100
    Airyfairy12
    Registered Users Posts: 3,390 ✭✭✭Airyfairy12


    binana wrote: »
    I went from shoulder length to a pixie cut earlier this year, and ladies I highly recommend cutting all your hair off. The initial cut cost €60 with consultation included, but since then it costs less than half the price for maintainence trims. The time savings in showering/styling add up too! I might try a barbers next though.

    You need to shop around, my hair is down to my boobs and is very thick, I get layers cut into it along with my wash, cut and blow dry to get rid of split ends up the hair shaft and it only costs me 35. Independent salons are often much cheaper and just as good if not better than the likes of places like Peter Marks.


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    #101
    Wesser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    E140 three times a year


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    #102
    [Deleted User]
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    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

    I’m not going to insult both of us by asking for change of €3.90 from a fiver.

    .

    Just don't give a tip at all and stop keeping this this idiotic American practice alive.

    I love visiting the US but the tipping cuture drives me insane, alternatively main land europe has no tipping culture and there is no expectation of tips anywhere including restaurants which is brilliant.

    I really detest tipping with a passion.


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    #103
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    Brylee Nice Pimple wrote: »
    No I don't tip. It's a one man owner operated concern. He has his price list and I pay accordingly. Although I don't take the €1 OAP discount.

    Then you do tip.
    Raul Most Sorceress wrote: »
    Just don't give a tip at all and stop keeping this this idiotic American practice alive.

    I love visiting the US but the tipping cuture drives me insane, alternatively main land europe has no tipping culture and there is no expectation of tips anywhere including restaurants which is brilliant.

    I really detest tipping with a passion.

    Unfortunately, if you don’t tip in restaurants, this means that you are already thought of as a massive stinge by some of your friends and acquaintances. I don’t know you, and I can still say that with confidence. Whether or not you think that fair, that’s the reality.

    In the US, the tipping culture is screwed up and employers don’t pay their workers a living wage because of it. But I’d never not tip because the system isn’t the employee’s fault. Begrudging an employee a tip when they didn’t create the system that means living wages aren’t paid is petty and curmudgeonly. And the system is embedded there now and will be very hard to ever change.


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    #104
    dd973
    Registered Users Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Why has Steven Gerrard's scalp not aged since he was 15?, blokes in their 40's onwards having thick mad heads of hair is more weird than male pattern baldness.


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    #105
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    zero. cut it myself.


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    #106
    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    dd973 wrote: »
    Why has Steven Gerrard's scalp not aged since he was 15?, blokes in their 40's onwards having thick mad heads of hair is more weird than male pattern baldness.

    Really? Both my father and father-in-law have pretty much all their hair still. Their hairlines have only slightly receded. One is 71, the other is 67. My father-in-law’s hair also only started to go grey in his late 50s, not even mild salt and pepper before that, according to the huz. Apparently he was always getting sly comments from people, insinuating that he must dye his hair. He was relieved when it finally stared to grey.


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    #107
    ofcork
    Registered Users Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭ofcork


    10 every 2 weeks as im regular for years 12 is normal cost.


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    #108
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    About €55 every 2 to 3 months depending on how long I can stretch it. Colour, wash and cut on longish hair.


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    #109
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    €12 (was 10) at the barber each month.


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    #110
    7 Seconds...
    Registered Users Posts: 8,471 ✭✭✭7 Seconds...


    €75 ish every 2 to 3 months. Am actually over due a visit, may treat myself next week.


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    #111
    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭corks finest


    Nothing- my kid cuts mine and has gone about 5 years


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    #112
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,608 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    Really? Both my father and father-in-law have pretty much all their hair still. Their hairlines have only slightly receded. One is 71, the other is 67. My father-in-law’s hair also only started to go grey in his late 50s, not even mild salt and pepper before that, according to the huz. Apparently he was always getting sly comments from people, insinuating that he must dye his hair. He was relieved when it finally stared to grey.

    My Dad is 60 and has a thick mop of hair.

    First they came for the socialists...



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    #113
    poisonated
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭poisonated


    20 euro.


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    #114
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭cena


    I do it myself. So zero


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    #115
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,421 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Listen, I like to reward good service within the service industry. The reason I go to this particular barbers is that I know they’ll do a good job.

    I’m not going to insult both of us by asking for change of €3.90 from a fiver.

    You don’t have to tip if you don’t want to. I personally find things go smoother when you grease the wheels a little.

    I strongly disagree with all that you say.

    Just because it’s the service industry it does not mean you’re obliged to tip.

    Who is being insulted by getting your change? You don’t have to ask for it, you just get it. You pay and they give the change, that’s how it works. There’s no insults or embarrassment involved.

    The barber offers their service for a price and that’s what you’re obliged to pay. The service will be no different if you tip or not, it’s your regular custom they want not so much your tips.

    Do you feel embarrassed waiting on change in the supermarket? It’s also a service.

    What about a pub when served by a barman? Do you buy a pint and hand over a tenner and tell him to keep the change? I suspect not and then why not? What’s being done different to the barber?

    I got good service last week at my GP as they agreed to see me a short notice, should I tip the receptionist or the doctor?

    Tipping in Ireland is unnecessary as people are better paid than in countries with a tipping culture and all it does is drive up prices and put pressure on people.


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    #116
    McTigs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,032 ✭✭✭McTigs


    I always tip in restaurants and always in cash and always a good 20%.

    It comes from having done the job myself


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    #117
    Geuze
    Registered Users Posts: 13,105 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    2017 and 2018 - 18 euro for father and son deal, good value.

    2019 - the deal is now 19.50, maybe due to higher VAT, 9% to 13.5%?


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    #118
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    I haven't been to a hairdresser this century! Last time was in 1999 - I trim, style myself.


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    #119
    Prospector1989
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭Prospector1989


    €14 for hair cut and beard trim every 6-8 weeks. He has a price-list which he doesn't follow. Should be €12+€4. Generally leave the €2 as tip.


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    #120
    Gorgeousgeorge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,026 ✭✭✭Gorgeousgeorge


    10 to the local polish lady who does a tip top job every 6 weeks.


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    #121
    [Deleted User]
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    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

    Unfortunately, if you don’t tip in restaurants, this means that you are already thought of as a massive stinge by some of your friends and acquaintances. I don’t know you, and I can still say that with confidence. Whether or not you think that fair, that’s the reality.

    I very rarely if ever tip in restaurants (except in the US), as I said why should I? I pay for my food and the staff are paid to do a job, I’ve never gotten a tip for doing my job so why should I tip others for doing the same.

    I’ve had plenty of debates/arguments with friends etc over this and I will even refuse to contribute to a combined tip and will take all my change back out of the center of the table. I will make the exact same argument to as I make here, I’m not tipped to do my job, they are paid to do their job why the hell should I spend more than I already have to to pay for my food which is priced in order to cover staff wages.

    Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »
    In the US, the tipping culture is screwed up and employers don’t pay their workers a living wage because of it. But I’d never not tip because the system isn’t the employee’s fault. Begrudging an employee a tip when they didn’t create the system that means living wages aren’t paid is petty and curmudgeonly. And the system is embedded there now and will be very hard to ever change.

    In sit down restaurants in the us you have no choice but to tip but lots of burger places etc you don’t have to tip so I eat in these quite a bit to avoid the nonsense of tipping.


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