Posted on 05/12/2025 9:50:16 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Being a female, I don't have any personal experience with barbershops; however, I wonder how many modern men today visit one. (Yes, I know that some shops cater to women, but for the purpose of this post I'm talking about the barbershop as a male-centric business.) Back when I used to get my hair cut regularly at a local Supercuts (before I finally realized that they didn't know what they were doing and were butchering my hair) I noticed that the place was loaded with male clientele. It was always a little surprising to me, because in my opinion there's nothing manly about the inside of a Supercuts--there are screaming kids, perfume-y styling products and (often, but not always) incompetent stylists who don't know how to cut hair.
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I found my barber shop in Redmond OR. It accepts cash only. It offers a special welcome to those carrying handguns. It has a picture of John Wayne.
Cool.
I haven’t visited a barber since I left the Navy. My wife took over that job saving us thousands over the intervening years.
They are everywhere in my town.
You can’t get one of those cool beard trims unless you get a barber to do it.
And yes, these new barbers are making a living in this work.
And I don’t mind paying them for good work.
The days of the $10, 10 minute haircut are long gone.
I bought a deluxe Remington Electric trimmer on sale at Target.
I buzz 100% of my (remaining) hair right down to a quarter inch, every two weeks.
That must be a savings of thousands of dollars, but I have never added up the total.
Agreed. Have no idea what the author is blabbering on about. Shave, haircut, chatter on men's topics, combs in Barbasol...
Wear a style you can cut yourself.
Until I got a wild hair (ha ha) a few days ago, I’d been sporting a very nice DIY blunt bob for years.
Tried to get an a-line bob not long ago and got a newbie who had a tough time with my less than cooperative wavy, fine hair.
Paid way too much for something I could do much better sticking to my old style.
Gave the kid a very nice tip for trying, but I won’t be back.
I’ll let it grow out and will go back to DIYing it.
I still go to one but it is all women barbers. My barber retired.
I was Raised a Barber’s Kid.
And the stories...!
YES! The cough drop guys. LOL
I cut my own hair with a bayonet.
Aflac used to have a commercial where the duck goes into a barbershop and Yogi Berra is getting a haircut, and he delivers one of his signature Yogi-sims. But I haven’t seen it on TV since Yogi died.
Indeed for something that looks like you did your self in the dark on a self dare can’t be any worse.
WAY back in the day when i was a little kid, my father took me and my brother to a tiny, flat-roofed concrete block barber shop built on a concrete slab ... said shop was owned and run by a barber whom my father called Propes, a barber who could have been the twin brother of Floyd the barber on the Andy Griffith Show ...
Propes was dirt cheap, which is why we went there ... i was fascinated by the “literature”, namely a weekly named “Grit”, but i hated going because Propes always managed to nick my ear and draw blood with his electric clippers ... i always thought it must have been because the clippers were dull, but later when i bought some clippers myself, i realized that Propes was nothing more than a sadist who got his jollies by deliberately nicking little kids on purpose ...
I think that’s a great idea. My dad used to go to the Base to get his hair cut. I think it was ten bucks. A few years ago, I attended a small business seminar and a black guy showed up who wanted to start his own barbershop. After a couple of hours of hearing him talk about what he wanted to do, it became very obvious that he knew more than the SBA facilitator and had learned his business knowledge from working in various barbershops. I hope he got his business going.
Indeed the man who knew everything about everyone in town.
A place opened next to my restaurant that caters to kids haircuts
I’d tend to frequent barber shops more often if they had extended hours.
All the ones in our local town are 9-4 m-f. I can’t take off work once a month to get a haircut.
Closest big town (45 minutes away) has Saturday hours. I have to make an appointment at least two weeks in advance to get in, but they do a better than average job.
But if I drive 45 minutes the other way into the nearest city, I can go to Best Cuts or equivalent all day Saturday or all day Sunday, no appointment necessary.
I’m not sure why you’d go into a service business like that and expect to work 9-4 hours. Maybe there are enough people in town who either don’t work or are close enough that they can get a cut during the day to keep them afloat. Seems like the first barber willing to work, like 2pm to 8pm would make a killing once word got around.
Ah you just tip 100% because you like to see an Asian cat fight😁
Also Aids caused Barbers to quit using razors to finish out the Haircut. The last haircut I paid for was awful and a nasty tempered barber to complete it. Bought myself some Clippers and have cut it myself for over twenty years, wear a cap when I go out so if I mess it up no one will ever know.
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