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Two coworkers, both female, asked me a question, first stating they love my hair. they asked if I would cut it for 500 dollars. My answer was swift and sure "No". I then shocked them by saying I would consider Five Million dollars....in advance. (I would get them on a carefully worded and lawyered technicality, Hair can mean singular or plural. If not specified, well, I win) One then said she would shave her head for 250K. So what would it take to meet your price? Frankly, the thought of cutting my hair makes me uneasy. However. is there a price?
There is no amount of money on earth that would get me to cut my hair.
In my case, since I am currently having to hire caregivers for
my mother, day shift only I do the night shift (I couldn't handle
24 hour care by myself) which is costing 5,000 per month I'd
probably sell out for a measly 100K. That would have been
unthinkable earlier.
Hi Jason,
In my opinion, even the most hardcore longhair has a price. We may not know it until we are actually presented with such an offer -- and who the hell would be rich enough (or weird enough!) to make such an offer? I don't know; but, I digress...
I think my price would be based on home ownership, since I still rent an apartment. Home ownership in San Francisco has gotten outrageously expensive, unlike prices when I first moved to this city in '77. Nowadays it's not uncommon for even modest-looking homes to be selling for around a million $$ in SF -- unless they are in very poor condition and/or in a less desirable neighborhood.
Hair also grows back - YAY!! So, go ahead, toss me a million, I'd cut mine for that price, no problem!
- Ken
I would have to disagree. Now that i'm 60 years old, and seeing a number of people I know die in recent years i'd have to
emphatically say there is no price. I don't know many years I have left on this mortal coil, but even if I live to be 100 that is only forty more years.
I would also mention that i've had my share of people offering me money to cut my hair, i've declined all of them. (Read: if you want this job you'll have to cut your hair.) I kept the hair long, walked away from those jobs and ended finding better jobs that allowed me to keep my long hair.
I would also mention that if you're genetics mean you're going to lose your hair in a few short years you may also decline. I won't have that problem, hopefully, since my relatives kept their hair.
Just like Ken said, I believe we all have a price simply because I believe none of us are rich and all of us have needs in life and money makes it easy for everyone to go through those needs.
I would probably cut my hair for 5 million dollars too. But I would CUT, not SHAVE my hair so that I can still have some hairs to attach some extensions once my hair is cut hahaha.
It cracks me up. The women liked you hair, but the first thing that came to their minds was cutting it. Why do so many people immediately think about cutting a man's long hair?
What exactly did they mean by cutting it? To shoulder length? Around the ears? Buzzing it? Shaving it?
Even though I see myself having long hair the rest of my life, there would definitely be a price that I would cut it. That price would be enough to allow me to retire. It took me a little over 3.5 years to grow it to my waist. I would have all the time in the world to grow it again after I retire! :-)
Jealousy.
Why do so many people immediately think about cutting a man's long hair?
Jealousy.
A lot of guys have hair that is in better shape than the women's hair.
So what is your price for a finger? For a kidney? For an arm or a leg? For your nuts?
Jeffrey Dahmer would have loved this thread.
Bill
OMG, Bill, I'm about to barf just thinking about that sick-o!
Reminds me of a funny story when the news first came out about Dahmer:
I was talking to my friend Lily after having seen Dahmer on the cover of TIME or NEWSWEEK magazine... I commented to her, "The scary part is that, other than looking very very pale, he's actually not all that bad-looking" Lily's comment back to me: "He looks really HUUUUUNGRY!!!"
I would note that insurance companies have specific figures on how much they pay for a lost body part.
However. is there a price?
There should be a price! It's hair. It will grow back. If you don't need the money; donate it to your favorite charity Do you know how many starving people there are in the world? Comparing hair to a limb or a kidney is just absurd. Sorry. Rant over.
And do you know how many of those people in the world are starving due to corrupt leaders in their country? Take Yasser Arafat for example. His people in Palestine were dirt poor, yet when Arafat died he had lots of money he had hidden around the world, money he had pilfered from his own people. There are so many countries where the citizens are starving to death while
leaders live high on the hog in incredible luxury.
Yes, let them eat hair! Or in Jeffrey's case, a leg!
Bill
This thread is beginning to sound like those people who try to convince you to cut your hair for Locks of Love.
At my age (60) I love having long hair, I love the idea of keeping my hair long until the day I die.
Yes hair does grow back, but at the age of 60 I don't want to
spend a good portion of the few years I have left on this planet
growing my hair back. Go find someone else, I won't do it.
Cheers to your statement LHIA! I'll never understand this fascination of donating hair to charities so wigs can be made for those unfortunate people who have cancer or some other horrible disease.I'd be more concerned with putting resources into finding a cure to eradicate the disease.This is just a "feel good" exercise that benefits no one except those who want to see long haired men shorn of their manes.End of my rant.
Mârk
I don't think I could put a price on my hair. Sure, it would grow back, but it's a long and tedious process with many months of awkward stage that I'd rather not go through again once it's long enough.
One that occurs to me here. The question is rather academic. No one would ever offer a pile of money to a long-haired man for shaving it all off.
My wife's latest ploy is claiming that my hair is thinning because I'm not trimming. I think what is happening, as I don't lose an excessive number of hairs with each wash and combing, is that it looks flatter as the weight of the hair increases. There is that recurring theme in women that we shouldn't have long hair, or if it is something like shoulder length or "page boy" style, it should be constantly controlled, tended and messed about with like theirs is. I'm sure many married long-hairs go through these shenanigans with their wives. This board has helped me not to be duped.
I remember reading about the idea that two years growth can lie on the floor of a jerk's barbershop in two minutes. As I read yesterday in Charlie Hebdo, it takes 25 years for a good journalist and satirist to learn his trade, and a 25th of a second for a terrorist to kill him. That puts a new perspective on things.
I am growing my hair for the first time. I wouldn't want to cut it all off and start again any more than I would want to smoke a cigarette and then go through the agony of quitting again! I somehow don't think it would be the same a second time - even though second-timers here on this forum will probably disagree with me.
Interesting reflections as the winter (at least here in the northern hemisphere) persists. At least, when I next take my boat out, my hair will be long enough to be held in my ponytail and resist the wind...
Keep it growing and flowing, and don't believe the 419 scams!
Anthony
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Financial independence. Enough money I wouldn't have to work unless I chose to, nor worry about living expenses or lifestyle expenses. Something like US$5 million net or a house I liked plus $100K a year? For that I would call my friend in the wig department at the opera and say "Have at it!" Shave or short OK...if short, would take the opportunity to do fun things with it before shaving and regrowing.
How much more to have it permanently short? Or maintain it in a socially traditional male style? 50% extra for the first and 100% for the second!