Dying grey roots. Luxury or necessity?

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Whilst trying to sort out our finances dh and I clashed on this. He says it is disposable income of my choice, I say it is essential.

Which one?

Absolute necessity. He IBU.

necessity

A necessity for sure. I think they look scruffy.

Absolute necessity.

If I had to stop dyeing my hair and live with my greys DP would have to live with a miserable and self-conscious harridan rather than the chocolatey-haired sexpot he currently enjoys. You can't put a price on that

Know this is off topic slightly, but how about mobile phone? He gets his from work, I pay for mine

Necessity both.

Hair for the reason Bunny stated and mobile because if you have children you need it so that school or anyone else looking after them can contact you in an emergency. Also so that if you find yourself in an emergency you can call police/ambulance/him.

It's a necessity to dye grey roots yourself at home with a kit, but a luxury to pay for someone to do it at a salon.

A mobile is also a necessity, but it should be the cheapest PAYG you can find - anything else is a luxury.

That's a good point Darrowby. I agree that salon hair dyeing is most definitely a luxury. I do mine at home so it's a tenner every 4-5 weeks. And I cut my own hair so there's no way in hell DP could moan about my hair-related expenditure.

Vintage dresses and t-bar shoes would be a slightly different matter though...................

absolute neccesity

I stopped doing mine then got a cropped cut! My hair is about 80% grey and I love it ( I'm only 33)

OhBurger, I'ld love to see your hair.

I personally don't think it is a necessity, natural grey hair can look really lovely, but half died/half grey is not so good.

I am in similar boat although dp knows better to clash with me about it. I get my hair coloured at hairdressers and I should do it myself but I'm not very good at it. I would rather forgo other things to hold on to that luxury

I did my own for years and eventually ended up with over processed dull hair. You cannot help but overlap it when you do it yourself.

I have an agreement with a salon now,if its just roots you will find alot of them will give you a regular price,i get mine done every 4 to 6 weeks,it would be one of the last things id stop.

Dh told me a fortnightly cleaner was an unecessary expense the other day we both work and have 5 dc.

I had sky sports cut off to make up for all that unecessary expenditure

I will put a pic on my profile later, haven't changed it since I started on MN ten years ago

I go to an aveda salon training night. £20. Takes longer

I have tried dyeing it myself. I ended up paying £70.00 quid to sort it out, it looked awful. Anyway have got him to back down

I used to go to training days, but all trainees are qulified now

Loving the sky sports

absolutely essential!!

That would be one of the last things to go. Essential.

Absolutely essential ! I too did a home dye kit in the interests of economising but after 6 months or so my hair looked terrible so back to the salon I would rather economise on other things !