How I’ve saved 4000$ by cutting my own hair (kind of?)

TDLR at the bottom

$4000, really?!? Let me start with some background. I grew up always going to cheap Asian salons, so my haircuts as a pre teen and teenager were, by and large, haphazard. In 2019, before Covid struck, I came up with the brilliant idea of growing out a man bun. After paying a friend 15 bucks to cut my hair in November 2019 and being semi disappointed by the results, I decided to just let it grow. And now looking back 6 years, that was the last time I ever payed someone to touch my hair.

Now how has that saved me $4000 you may ask? Well, after talking with my coworker about his hair style,I decided to do some rough math given what he said he payed for a barber. He said he goes normally once a month for 65 bucks. You xtrapolate that times 60 months, and wow, $3900 dollars saved.

Now obviously most people don't go every month, or pay someone 65 bucks, but still, it's the little things that add up. Of course my coworkers hair looks better, but for me embracing the ugly but functional has basically become my brand at this point. Rocking my bushwhack surfer cut has become a symbol/testament of my frugality. Sure I look scruffy, but every dollar that doesn't go towards a haircut for me goes towards my savings. And waving around the long hair still makes me feel like a rockstar. So yah, one little choice 6 years ago amd now I'm here, but it's that choice that reminds me of all the other choices I've made to be frugal, and why I stay frugal.

TLDR: I started cutting my own hair past 2019, which doing rough napkin math has saved me close to 4000$(kind of) and has now become a symbol (at least to me) of my pride in my frugality.