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Are the having a laugh? What do you pay for a boys haircut?

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PureBloodMuggle · 07/04/2011 12:05

Up to now I've cut DSs hair, something I said I'd do untill they got old enough to realise I'm rubbish at it not a professional.

So that time has arrived and I was planning on taking them to the barbers today however I've just checked out the prices and it's TWENTY-SIX euros EACH Shock

This is WAY too much surely?

There is another barber about which I haven't checked out yet (need to get over the shock of the first one before I venture there!!!

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ShatnersBassoon · 07/04/2011 12:07

£4. Take them in the most old-fashioned barbers you can find, they're always cheaper and don't put wax on their hair Smile

Grumpla · 07/04/2011 12:08

Bloody hell no way would I pay that. Buy yourself some clippers and carry on doing it at home.

topsyturner · 07/04/2011 12:08

Wow ! We pay 10 pounds for my sons hair , and I thought that was steep .

Olihan · 07/04/2011 12:09

What's that in pounds? I pay £6-8 for my boys, depending on whether I take them to the real barbers or the hairdressers.

26? sounds like an awful lot, even not knowing the exchange rate.

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PureBloodMuggle · 07/04/2011 12:10

OK so the other one (bog standard barber with bog standard insides) is ?10 (weekday special price)

Oh god £4 - I could cry.

Stupid overpirced country that this is.

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Kewcumber · 07/04/2011 12:14

London prices around £12 regardless of old fashioned barber or poncey salon around here.

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PureBloodMuggle · 07/04/2011 12:16

?26 is around £23 (and it's a barbers - hairdresser would be more)

?10 is about £8.70.

I'd be happy with it being around the £4 (?4.80)

I'm off to price clippers and a barbering course

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ZZZenAgain · 07/04/2011 12:16

that's expensive for a straight-forward dc's haircut. Where are you?

notcitrus · 07/04/2011 12:19

I'm in London - local hairdressers is a fiver, as is place in Surrey. Except when they give up having done 80% of a hysterical toddler in which case it's free (but bath needed to remove snot and loose hair...)

Next time will book and do it at place in Surrey near Grandma's - they have huge leather sofa to put toddler on, TV screen, and lovely staff who will rotate round the toddler! (Designers, Church St, Walton-on-Thames)

MaryAnnSingleton · 07/04/2011 12:22

ds's hair is £13 - at hairdressers-although he is 13 he is terrified of the idea of clippers,so no barbers for us. I do tip the hairdresser as well as she is very patient (am not made of money but it's worth it as he is gradually getting more relaxed,and one day may even tolerate clippers !)

MaryAnnSingleton · 07/04/2011 12:22

oh,am in Hampshire.

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PureBloodMuggle · 07/04/2011 12:23

I'm in Dublin.

I'm tempted to hack into the Irish tourist board site and change their opening lines to

"There?s so much to choose from when you want to take a break in Ireland. So, where do you start? In the bank asking for a loan"

Except I don't know anything about website hacking...

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Rhian82 · 07/04/2011 12:25

I pay £5 for my two-year-old DS's haircut. The first hairdressers we tried was £6 while it was still baby hair, then went up to £10 when he had a full head of 'proper' hair, so we found another.

I get my hair cut at the local college so it's less than £10 for my long hair, layers etc! But they don't do under 5's there :-(

ZZZenAgain · 07/04/2011 12:27

Dublin?! Wow that's a lot. I thought you were in the centre of Milan or something

When we were in Berlin it was anything from 6-12 euros maximum in a normalish place (not the very very swanky ones where you'd pay an equivalent price to the expensive adult haircut prices). Here (Cz) I pay less (but you'd expect to I suppose) for dd - and they do a great job.

Think you could do with shopping around a bit. If it is more expensive than central London, it is a bit steep

ZZZenAgain · 07/04/2011 12:29

do they charge more forboys than girls?

LisMcA · 07/04/2011 12:29

I'm only £20 for my hair cut! Local village salon in Scotland. But I used to go to an Aveda Salon when I lived in a city and was robbed of paid £75 for a cut.

Kids at my salon are free until they are 5 I think, if the parents go there.

My hair looks better now than it ever has!

munstersmum · 07/04/2011 12:30

Pay £7 and he always goes to barbers with Dad. It's just turn up & they sit them in adjacent chairs so DS feels 'grown up'. Price includes cunning bribe lolly which I don't object to at all as he foes without complaint Grin

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PureBloodMuggle · 07/04/2011 12:35

Ha!! You're all mocking me know with your cheap and free prices!! Wink

But everything is just so stupidly expensive here (we'll blame the rent prices shall we)

I'd say (hope) that ?26 is a high price even for Dublin as it's looking like a tenner is the standard for Mon-Thurs.

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PureBloodMuggle · 07/04/2011 12:36

*now not know

T'sk

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AliSheedy · 07/04/2011 12:36

Local barbers does it for £7.

AliSheedy · 07/04/2011 12:36

In London, btw.

roundthehouses · 07/04/2011 12:42

free at our salon because dh and i both go there. 6euros at specialist kids´ salon.

BellaBearisWideAwake · 07/04/2011 12:47

£6 is the cheapest i've found in st albans

amberleaf · 07/04/2011 12:48

£5 local old fashioned mens barber.

mousymouse · 07/04/2011 12:51

in germany it's 1? per year of the child in many places.
anyway dh does his and the dc's hair himself with professional hair clippers. he is really good at it.

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