It's Not What You Know ....

In the past six months since I've stopped going to the hairdressers and have been having my hair cut by the local mobile hairdresser (recommended to me by the ever-lovely next-door neighbours), I calculate I've saved somewhere in the region of £100.  As it only costs £5.00 for a cut now as opposed to £25.00 per visit to the hairdressers I've not only saved a wad of cash, I've also been tempted to get my hair cut much more frequently.  P also gets his hair shorn at the same time and he pays £4.00 instead of the £10.00 per shearing he was paying at the hairdressers, so he must have saved approx. £40.00 too.  Plus we don't have to bother going down to the high street, plus I don't end up with a frightening hair-do which I then have to walk around with for a day or two.  Do you know what I mean?  Having a wash, cut and blow-dry always ensures you walk out of the hairdressers looking very 'done' in the hair dept.  Which is just not me at all.

Anyhoo, you may remember that some joker came a couple of weeks ago and quoted £500 to get the garden into shape!!!!  Since then I've been chopping, slashing and ripping-out like a dervish and although things look much better, there is a limit to what I can achieve with just a pair of Asda value secateurs and a two-step step ladder.  Now it just so happens that the very nice mobile hairdresser's son-in-law does a bit of gardening on the side.  He's just been round to give a quote and he's reckoning on 4 hours or so @ £10.00 per hour to rid the poor old shed of most of the engulfing ivy, and to do some other bits of heavy pruning and weeding too.  Now that's more the price I was expecting to pay.  He's coming back tomorrow afternoon to do the work.

Which, hopefully, means the shed may at long last reappear from beneath the ivy coat it has been wearing for the last few years.

Having slated Oxfam charity shops for their exceedingly high prices more than once on this blog, I think I'm going to have to revise my opinion of them.  Last week I found the wonderful eiderdown for £2.99 in the Oxfam in Billericay.  Today in my local Oxfam shop I found two tubs of brand-new unopened 'Moon Sand' for DN - 99p each (£4.00 each on Amazon) and two brand-new pairs of Next boxer shorts - Wallace and Gromit ones - also 99p each (these types of character boxers seem to sell for approx. £11.00 for a pack of two), also for DN.  Whilst I was in there I gave their rack of cards a good perusal and ended up with two very suitable Easter cards - one was 99p and one 49p.  With cards being SOOOOOO expensive I was really pleased to not only find nice cards at a good price but also ones where the profit goes to a good cause.

Comments

[Shoestring]

Thanks for the comment. I'm fairly new to the blogworld and am loving finding so many people on the thrifty path! Fancy going on each others blogrolls?

By the way, I think you've got the most gorgeous shed I've ever seen!

[gill]

I haven't been to a hairdressers for years, they are so expensive and as I have colour in mine (which would cost £85 in my local salon...eeekkk!)I've long used mobile haridressers. My current one's not as cheap as yours (£9 for a cut) but better than £25 anyway.I could do with hiring a man for the day to do lots of jobs around my house, wish I could find one charging £10 an hour....