How long between hair cuts Ms Fish?

How long do you wait before getting your hair cut? Whether you're in the work place or on the retirement highway, you don't want to start looking like a hippie. (or maybe you do!!) I guess one of the freedoms of being retired is not having to conform to the expectations of the corporate workplace.

I've cut Rick's hair for the past 32 years (yes, that's why it looks the way it does) and he likes to have it cut about every 4 weeks. Or at least he hopes for 4 weeks. I like to cut his hair, but I've never tried to cut anyone else's. We still have the same Wahl clippers that we purchased some 30 years ago! Whenever I cut his hair, like outside at a campground, it usually attracts a small crowd of looky-loos.

When I was a teenager my hair was long and straight. Sometimes I'd have bangs sometimes not. Long and straight was easy to maintain and didn't take any thought. Not long after meeting Rick I started getting shorter and shorter hair styles.

When I was working I went to get my hair cut about every 5 weeks. Sometimes I'd wait a little longer to try to stretch out the haircut, but this usually only worked well if I'd received a shorter-than-expected cut.

It's now been 5 months since I've had a hair cut. FIVE MONTHS! The last time I had it cut was the end of May in Oregon. I had it cut rather short then knowing I was going to be in the wilds of Montana and not sure if they had hair salons where we were going. (Just kidding! Sort of!) Anyway, it's been 5 months and I've let it grow out, making it very easy to pull back and put under a big fishing hat or ball cap. Almost back to where I had it as a teenager. Only thing is now I'm a little older, OK, older, and I'm seeing people who know me with short hair. They're all saying "You have long hair" so I know it must look quite different. And I'm at that age, won't put it in writing here, when most women start cutting their hair shorter and shorter. Really short.

There are style websites where you can upload a photo and see how different hairstyles would look on you. I've tried some "before and after" looks.

And I even tried blonde and short.

Now that we're back in Arizona, I've stopped in at the local drop-in hair places to check them out. Now I just need to figure out how short I want my hair to be. One thing is for certain, I want it to be no-fuss, no-muss. Not having to do my hair every morning at 4:30 AM is a big benefit of being retired.

If you're on the retirement highway how do you handle haircuts?