What Do You Pay For A Haircut?

[The Brain]

It's not a competition.

[Tonitrus]

He didn't want to pay the premium for a Kim Jong Il-style cut.

[Caliga]

Got one yesterday.  Paid $15 including tip.

[The Brain]

Got one yesterday.  Paid $15 including tip.

Haircut or anniversary dinner at the gas station?

[Warspite]

£20/$30 for a haircut. It's near work so I don't have to worry about finding time on a weekend or getting home before the place shuts.

[mongers]

Interesting results so far even allowing for the Languish skinflintery, maybe one of our  economicalist type dudes should make a past-participial-parity-purchasing(thingy) index as a replacement for the big mac one?

[HisMajestyBOB]

I usually go to Haircuttery ($18 + $4 tip). I tip well for haircuts.

[Capetan Mihali]

Here, I've been paying a very laconic and grizzled old gay farmer (ex-Air Force, natch) $20 total, and I tend to tip on the high side.  So I think the list price is $15 or $16. 

Really glad I found his place.  Before Mike's, I used to go to a real shitty barbershop/hairdresser combo type place where the lady's enormous stomach was pressed against my neck the whole time and she kept coercing me into letting her use horrible "thinning shears," this huge jagged key-looking thing, in a vain attempt to tame the shock of bushy un-combability presented by my scalp.  That experience would set me back $17 plus tip.

Or else if desperate I'd go to the guy by my house, who would really nastily insult his wife to me while she sullenly scrubbed the floor in the same room and gave me death stares, and to drag me into pretty unsubtle racist conversations about the "new people" in the neighborhood coming up from Springfield and Hartford, with their "difficult" hair and unruly kids and bad manners.  His was only $10, though.

[Richard Hakluyt]

In my experience racist barbers routinely offer a 30-40% discount 

No racism in the barber I go to, the barbers are a mix of races and religions as are the customers. Nevertheless it is a pretty un-pc and outspoken place..........a pleasant relief from the internet where one so often seems to be dealing with either bigots or ridiculously sensitive folk.

[Caliga]

Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

[Martinus]

I usually go to a chain barber/hairdresses shop in my nearby shopping mall. 

[The Brain]

Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

What a horrible place.

[Eddie Teach]

Yes, that's why he moved to Kentucky.

[The Brain]

No one celebrates Mass.

[Capetan Mihali]

Ha, when I lived in Massachusetts I used to call the place I went 'Racist Barber Shop' (it had no sign saying what it was actually called), because the two guys in there told each other racist jokes constantly.

What a horrible place.

Where The Brain comes from, when you sit down for a haircut, you get to tell the racist jokes at your own pace and the barbers are expected to laugh courteously, not talk over the customer.  That kind of intrusive informality is an Americanism that just doesn't fly in the real Sweden.