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To ask how much you consider to be a reasonable price...

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 11:59

... For a 3 year old boy's haircut. It's not overly long, just needs tidying up. The last hairdresser I took him to charges £8... Hmm

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StrandedBear · 13/09/2011 12:02

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Backtobedlam · 13/09/2011 12:03

I'm afraid that sounds about right to me-we pay £10 for a trim at the local Salon or £8 from a mobile hairdresser (if she happens to be doing neighbour/friends kids). It does seem a lot, but I suppose it wouldn't be worth the effort for the hairdresser to do it for much less

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 12:04

I'm dyspraxic, and I'd probably end up taking off his head. Grin

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itisnearlysummer · 13/09/2011 12:05

Well that would save on future haircutting bills.... Wink

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CailinDana · 13/09/2011 12:05

£8 seems reasonable. Anything less wouldn't really be worth the hairdresser's time.

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 12:05

Thank you, Bedlam. Just seemed pricey for the little they took off. Oh well.

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WilsonFrickett · 13/09/2011 12:06

We're £8 but I round it up to £10 as DS is such a wriggler.

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booyhoo · 13/09/2011 12:08

i pay £7 for my 6 year old son.

ihave in the past used clippers and justgone all over but it made him look like a 3 year old thug Sad soi stopped doing it and cough up the money now. as much as i resent paying that for a child,i want him to look tidy.

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 12:08

itsnearlysummer Grin true...

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MorelliOrRanger · 13/09/2011 12:10

I think that's expensive - DD has her haircut every 4 weeks for £4 :)

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Fimbo · 13/09/2011 12:10

$6.50 (pound sign not working!) in a proper barbers shop. When I took him to my hairdresser they charge by age and it was $11 (for a 7 yr old).

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 12:11

I think the problem is I'm now living in Norfolk, yet my head is still in Birmingham. Everything seemed cheaper there...

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Scholes34 · 13/09/2011 12:11

My SIL always took my nephew to Tony and Guy's. I never dared ask how much she paid.

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LoveInAColdClimate · 13/09/2011 12:12

I noticed it was £20 somewhere I was passing the other day! Was quite Shock. Was only a cheapo looking place as well.

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 12:16

Shock Scholes, I dread to think...

LIAC £20? WTAF?

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ChristinedePizan · 13/09/2011 12:17

I pay £8 for DS (4) in the local barbers which I think is extortionate but I agree that a pair of clippers can make a lot of children look like mini extras from This Is England.

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bubby64 · 13/09/2011 12:17

Buy a decent pair of clippers and some styling scissors and do it yourself! I still do my DS hair, they now almost 11yrs are starting to want it a bit more stylised, but at the same time I am becoming more skilled at doing this for them, I also do DH, but, must admit, this isnt hard and he has a lot less hair in the first place, Grin. I have saved myself a fortune over the years.

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ThePrisonerOfAzkaban · 13/09/2011 12:17

My local Toni and guys does my 6 year old for free, I do have my hair done there thou

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DontCallMeFrothyDragon · 13/09/2011 12:21

[Grin] Bubby, I can't even trust myself to straighten my own hair without bburning my ear/neck/house down... Darne't let myself near DS's head with a cutting device... Not unless he wants to do his best impression of Nearly Headless Nick.... Wink

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mrspear · 13/09/2011 12:25

well dh's barber charged £5 to ds's hair - he is not even 2 and it took 2 minutes! btw we needed it done properly due to the fact he wears hearing aids.

The barber said the usual price was £8 so that sounds right OP sorry!

Oh and we are in South London

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4madboys · 13/09/2011 12:30

its £10 here (in norwich) but with 4 boys we bought clippers and scissors and dp does it, BUT he uses the long attachments on the clippers so they dont have short 'thug' hair :)

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Meteorite · 13/09/2011 12:33

I would have said £5 but prices for everything are getting higher quickly at the moment.

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vickibee · 13/09/2011 12:45

£5 at local barbers but it does take about 20 mins - he has a lot of hair. It is the same as an adult really - reasonable

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PizzaEmpress · 13/09/2011 12:49

£8 sounds fine to me. Hardly worth the hairdresser's time to do it for less.

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