Budget Cuts!!

[usafcap1]

Budget Cuts WOW!! I don't know what to say. My biggest thing is are we(CAP) going to fizzle away?

[Eclipse]

Budget Cuts WOW!! I don't know what to say. My biggest thing is are we(CAP) going to fizzle away?

No.

Also search is your friend.

[Stonewall]

I thought this was a thread about cheap haircuts.

[stillamarine]

Be careful with budget cuts. I stopped at a sportsclips on my way down to the Wing Conference and they jacked me up. Of course sportsclips isn't exactly budget....

[Private Investigator]

I went to an old school barber and he was great on buzz cuts and 'high and tight' being a WWII and Korea Vet. Anyways I asked for a flat top one time and I looked like "Gumby" when he was done. Then I realize Old Joe had only one eye and told him maybe I should stick to a #2 buzz cut. 

Great war stories indeed and nothing I could repeat on a family forum.   

[stillamarine]

Ha! I went home a few years ago and realized the guy that gave me my first high and tight as a cadet was still in business so I had to get a hair cut from him. After the haircut I remembered he had been old as dirt then......imagine 20 years later......

[Luis R. Ramos]

For my shame, I have to admit I need to get my monthly budget cut. 

I am not a model for my cadets at this moment, thank God I am not a Cadet Programs Officer and I see them sparingly. And I took my promotion to Captain last week this way! Shame shame shame on me... This increased my visibility - temporarily - in the squadron since all promoted seniors have to go through a ceremony. We have a senior state "Attention to Orders" then the action is read, and the squadron commander administers the oath in the application again. In front of everyone. I went through that with long hair.

Well, as long - haired as a nearly 60-year-old can be... 

Promise all of you, that I will participate on a SAREX next week.

Will cut my hair before I go there... 

Flyer

[Duke Dillio]

I cut my own hair.  Seems to fit my budget much better than spending $20 for a stylist to mess it up...  (I haven't been able to find a good barber shop around here).

[The CyBorg is destroyed]

I cut my own hair.  Seems to fit my budget much better than spending $20 for a stylist to mess it up...  (I haven't been able to find a good barber shop around here).

You must be quadruple-jointed.  No way could I bend my arms to do that.

Fortunately, I don't have a lot of hair to deal with.

[Майор Хаткевич]

I've been cutting my own hair since turning 15. I'm on my third set of clippers...$40, $20, $30. So $90 for 8 years of haircuts.

[Walkman]

My "budget cut" consists of shaving cream and a razor. 

[Stonewall]

Blow dryers, Axe Pomade, and a visit to Mimosa, my Albanian stylist, once a month.  Sometimes I'll hit her up a second time if there's a special occasion, but I generally push the limits on grooming standards regularly.  My wife, kids, and me have been going to Mimosa for 7 years now.  Before that, it was Kim for 7 years in McLean, VA.  I have paid $20 a visit (including tip) for 14 years now.

I can't stand high n' tights and I'm not a fan of self-inflicted buzz cuts.  A clean shaven head is a good look for some, but not for me.

[JoeTomasone]

1/4" all over and then 1/8" for the ears, back of the neck, and other close-cut parts.

Takes 5 minutes to do and costs nothing, other than a kick-ass cutter I got for around $60 in Korea.

[Stonewall]

Oh yeah, I write off my haircuts each year during tax time.  I'm required to meet certain grooming standards in the Air Guard, i.e. it is a requirement of my job. I've been doing it since my second year in the Army when I was required to have a fresh high n' tight for first formation every Monday morning.

Not sure if you can get away with it for CAP since its volunteer duty, but I'll be looking into it when I retire.

[ProdigalJim]

Oh yeah, I write off my haircuts each year during tax time.  I'm required to meet certain grooming standards in the Air Guard, i.e. it is a requirement of my job. I've been doing it since my second year in the Army when I was required to have a fresh high n' tight for first formation every Monday morning.

Not sure if you can get away with it for CAP since its volunteer duty, but I'll be looking into it when I retire.

My youngest son, 20, is working his way through college as a barber. He has a cosmetology license and a barber's license, majoring in Accounting (and getting his PPL).

He cuts my hair a lot...so I guess I can't write THAT off! 

He also says that high-and-tight is pretty easy, and that what he does for me...which is very close like a high-and-tight but with a nice, blended fade...is actually pretty hard to get right. Especially since I'm so bloody bald anyway that a traditional high-and-tight would be pretty much Capt. Picard...

[Stonewall]

....with a nice, blended fade...is actually pretty hard to get right.

And that's why I hated high n' tights, because rarely could someone get it right.  It's not skin, skin, skin then all of the sudden, HAIR!  A good H&T has a fade to it.

[Walkman]

This has to be one of the best thread drifts ever!

[Stonewall]

And it's my fault 

[Luis R. Ramos]

Your fault? More like the OP and Eclipse!

But Stonewall, you added zing! and wham! that suggested the thread to all others that followed. You are a leader!

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Flyer

[Devil Doc]

Budget Cuts. I pay 12 Bucks for my Cut. Old Style Barber, Chairs are like 30 years old, buidling barely standing. There is also a old TV atop a fridge. What I like about them They know what i want, they shave your neck with the old school razor, no BS. I always tip them 2 dollars. You know what the coolest part is. The one that cuts my hair, is an Old Army Vet, always nice to give back to the Veterans.