When I was young I used to go to those discount hair saloons that cut men’s hair. I hated making appointments every 5 or 6 weeks and having some girl I didn’t know shampoo and cut my hair. They would always cut it too short and everyone would notice that I just had a haircut. Then I saw an ad in a magazine for a do-it-yourself hair cutting device. I think it was around 1988, right about the time the Flowbee first came out. For those that aren’t familiar with the device, it connects to a vacuum cleaner accessory port and has a cutting head with attachments to trim your hair to various lengths. All of the hair trimmings go into the vacuum so there is no clean up. Just put a few drops of oil on the blades each time and you are good to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think I paid about $60 for it back then. But, I figured I would save a ton of time and money by doing it myself. I could control the length so that no one noticed that I had a haircut, I could trim it whenever I wanted, and it only took a few minutes. That was 30 years ago and I still have the same Flowbee today! Lets say it costs $20 with tip each time at a typical hair saloon, and lets say I needed a trim 8 times per year, that comes to $160 per year. Over 30 years I saved $4800. I use the Flowbee less now that I’m unemployed. I just don’t need to look as presentable these days. You can still find the Flowbee on Amazon, or factory direct at https:\/\/www.flowbee.com<\/a> for $89.95 plus S&H. You can even buy Flowbee replacement parts there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was young I used to go to those discount hair saloons that cut men’s hair. I hated making appointments every 5 or 6 weeks and having some girl I didn’t know shampoo and cut my hair. They would always cut it too short and everyone would notice that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.budgethomepage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}