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Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.

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Well... it actually is quite easy to do with the right tool.

When Covid lockdowns and rules came to our town my choice was to either start shaving my head again or growing it out. Now it's just been over 2 years without a haircut for me.

I went about 2 years without a haircut back during the drinking days by shaving my own head. That was a bit tricky to do at first because I only have a single pane medicine cabinet mirror and the previous time I did it there were 3 panes, but I was able to manage with a 2nd mirror I could hold in one hand while I shaved over the sink with the other.

The biggest problem of doing it on my own was that there was no way I could properly trim and blend the "fuzzy" hair down by my neck on my own since everything gets reversed and weird in mirrors, so I had to shave the whole head EXTREMELY short in order to get them. So short that I didn't want to even go out of the house for a few days because besides the fact I have no tattoos, I looked like a neo-nazi, so I'd always plan to do it when nothing was pending and I'd stocked up on stuff. (This was like scratchy short, not the cool plush toy short you're talking about. And yes, I love that feeling, not just on the fingers but how it feels on the head too. When I wrestled back in high school the girl I was dating loved playing with it when the whole team shaved their heads and I could just let her rub it all day long).



If I could manage to shave my own, I'm sure it would be quick and easy if somebody were doing it for you. You'd just have to make sure they took care to properly trim and blend any neck hair fuzzies if you've got them so you can get a longer shave than I was able to do for myself.

I'd recommend a good pair of hair clippers like they have at the salon. I had a very old one of my mom's, probably from like the 70's or something. It had seen better days and would sometimes PULL instead of cut. Ow.



I hear you about how easy it was. I miss those days. I was too tired to shower after the long day yesterday and now I have to do it this morning before my dentist appointment. Showers are about 3 times longer now that my hair is down to my shoulder blades, and I have to let it dry for a long time before going out.

What a pain.

Glad to hear that your hair is coming back. That's never a question though, is it?


P.S. I know it will be painful, but I can't wait for my bi-yearly root scaling and plaining today. Without walking out of the haircut place and having that good feeling after getting a good haircut, my only similar experience these days is walking out with a clean mouth. But it is like 100 times a better feeling, so it kind of makes up for it.



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Might have gone just a little bit overboard yesterday. I was up at 6AM, but knew I needed more sleep and didn't get up until 9. Little bit achey right now.

I'm going to head up to the hardware store and pick up 3 2x4's and a few more junction boxes.

These shelves I'm building are awesome. I've already made 9 of them for my basement from scrap wood and they're built like tanks. This is the first time I've had to buy any extra wood to do any of them, and the only other money I've spent on them so far was using wood-screw sets that I picked up back in the day for only $2.00 after rebate. I could probably use other wood I've got instead of buying new 2x4's but it's what I build the legs and the underside supports out of, and I think it's best I continue with that for stability rather than try to save a few bucks and use 1x1's, 1x2's or 1x4's to do that job.

Three 2x4's probably won't be enough for everything, but once I'm done I'll have the entire side of my deep garage lined up with shelving units I made myself for no more than around $30.

If you want GOOD metal shelving, you're paying around $150 for just one unit if you don't get it on sale. Even cheap ones are going to cost you close to $100.

And they're not nearly as deep or sturdy as these are.


My end goal is to be able to dismantle some very large metal shelving that I installed to the studs in the over-head door side corner of the garage on the "half" part that doesn't have the door in front of it. That will give me a huge nook to park my snow blower and trash cans out of the way instead of making a super-narrow path to park my car like I've done forever now.

There's also some unfinished (abandoned) electric receptacles in there that I'll be able to tie back into. The light over the overhead door has never worked, and there is an external electric outlet at the front of the garage that never had any juice to it either.

And since I will end up putting my hands on every single thing in there during this process, I will also use this as an opportunity for a 2nd de-hoard. It's been nearly 3 years since I did it last time, and I guaranty you that at least half of the stuff that I just couldn't part with has not been used in that time.

I'm going to have so much space in my fully electrified garage when I'm done that I won't even know what to do with it.

Oh yeah... that's right. I'll be able to build stuff on my work bench instead of kneeling on the ground and building it.



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SIGNYM:
Just as an aside, my hair is visibly growing in. It's at the stage where it looks and feels like a plush stuffed toy. Daughter likes to rub my head bc it's so soft. In fact, I do too! If there wa an easy way to keep it this length, I would- it's so easy to care for.


SIX: Well... it actually is quite easy to do with the right tool.

When Covid lockdowns and rules came to our town my choice was to either start shaving my head again or growing it out. Now it's just been over 2 years without a haircut for me.

I went about 2 years without a haircut back during the drinking days by shaving my own head. That was a bit tricky to do at first because I only have a single pane medicine cabinet mirror and the previous time I did it there were 3 panes, but I was able to manage with a 2nd mirror I could hold in one hand while I shaved over the sink with the other.

The biggest problem of doing it on my own was that there was no way I could properly trim and blend the "fuzzy" hair down by my neck on my own since everything gets reversed and weird in mirrors, so I had to shave the whole head EXTREMELY short in order to get them. So short that I didn't want to even go out of the house for a few days because besides the fact I have no tattoos, I looked like a neo-nazi, so I'd always plan to do it when nothing was pending and I'd stocked up on stuff. (This was like scratchy short, not the cool plush toy short you're talking about.

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haha! You know, too!
I wear slouchy beanies and watchcaps when I go out so I don't scare the neighbors, and indoors and at night, too, if the weather is cool.

That's the one downside to real short hair: a cold head. Honestly, I don't know how guys stand it.

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And yes, I love that feeling, not just on the fingers but how it feels on the head too. When I wrestled back in high school the girl I was dating loved playing with it when the whole team shaved their heads and I could just let her rub it all day long).

If I could manage to shave my own, I'm sure it would be quick and easy if somebody were doing it for you. You'd just have to make sure they took care to properly trim and blend any neck hair fuzzies if you've got them so you can get a longer shave than I was able to do for myself.

I'd recommend a good pair of hair clippers like they have at the salon. I had a very old one of my mom's, probably from like the 70's or something. It had seen better days and would sometimes PULL instead of cut. Ow.

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Oh, yeah, ow! is right. I had a pair of scissors like that.

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I hear you about how easy it was. I miss those days. I was too tired to shower after the long day yesterday and now I have to do it this morning before my dentist appointment. Showers are about 3 times longer now that my hair is down to my shoulder blades, and I have to let it dry for a long time before going out.

What a pain.

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"Back in the day" ... when I was younger... the texture of my hair was "medium" (each strand neither real thick nor real thin) and "wavy", but I had about 2-3X the amount of hair on my head as most people ... maybe more. When my hair was shoulder-blade length and I was playing racquetball nearly every day and doing field work, my hair never really dried from one day to the next, even in SoCal weather. It WAS a pain. Eventually, I had it cut shorter.

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SIX: Glad to hear that your hair is coming back. That's never a question though, is it?

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It took so long to be visible that I was beginning to wonder! SOME people (rarely) never get their hair back, but it IS rare.

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SIX: P.S. I know it will be painful, but I can't wait for my bi-yearly root scaling and plaining today. Without walking out of the haircut place and having that good feeling after getting a good haircut, my only similar experience these days is walking out with a clean mouth. But it is like 100 times a better feeling, so it kind of makes

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