Hair Dyes

Today’s Blog post is for women and teen girls. How many of you dye your hair? How much do you pay to have your hair dyed? What color do you want your hair dyed? There are so many different colors to pick from, how do you know which color to pick from?

Since this blog is about saving money, I will give you options and what I do when I dye my hair. Some people would say why dye your hair and just live with the color you have or don’t worry about the gray hair. I agree but sometimes I just want to look younger and feel pretty. So I find ways to have my hair dyed cheaper.

Most people will just go to their local beauty shop and have their hair dyed. My daughter did this her first time and said she had to pay over $50 dollars to have her hair dyed. My husband would shoot me if I paid that much money to have my hair dyed. I told my daughter there has to be a cheaper way to have your hair dyed.

The next time she had her hair dyed she tried a beauty school. It cost her $35 dollars. Yes, it was cheaper but not by much, plus she was not happy with the results. I said there still has to be a cheaper way to dye your hair.

Most beauty shops and beauty schools dye your hair with a permanent dye, what happens if you do not like the color? Now you are stuck with that color for quite a long time. I still think there is a better way and much cheaper way to get your hair dyed.

I found a much cheaper way to dye your hair for under $12 dollars, and if you do not like it, it will wash out a lot sooner than the permanent dyes. Go to your local Walmart, Target, Walgreens, stores and buy a cheap box of hair dye. There are so many different colors to pick from. The directions are easy to follow and the dye is easy to put on. My daughter dyed my hair in under 2 hours with great success. And this was her first time dying anybody’s hair. She even trusted me to dye her hair, and it turned out really nice.

My daughter paid $7 dollars for her hair dye and I spent $3 dollars on my hair dye. I have my hair dyed 3 times a year for under $10 dollars. Compared to let’s say $50 dollars for dying my hair, I save over$100 dollars a year.

Dying someone's hair is easy and very inexpensive if you buy the hair dye yourself. If you do not like the color it washes out very fast and you can always try a different color next time. This is one way I splurge on myself to make myself feel pretty.

Dying your hair does not have to break the bank if you find a friend or family member to do the work for you. For under $10 dollars and 1 hour of your time, you can have your hair dyed cheaper than a Beauty shop or Beauty school. Find a nice color and enjoy how much you have saved by doing it yourself, from Suzie Homemaker. 

Do-It-Yourselfers

This post is for all you Do-It-Yourselfers! This is another way to save money. If you are handy with a hammer, screw driver or paint brush, why not do it yourself. Today I will show you a few things that I do myself or with a little help from my husband and children. Knowing you can do the project yourself and save the cost of a professional coming out to do the job, gives you a sense of accomplishment. Here are a few things we as a family do, as a Do-It-Yourself project.

Oil changes for your car can be expensive if you take them into a shop to be done. Here is where my husband and including my daughters have changed the oil in the car. Yes I have changed oil in our cars too. Just go to the store and buy your own oil and filter. My husband has car ramps, he just drives the car up on the ramps and puts a pan underneath to drain the oil. I wasn’t  kidding when I said my daughter can change oil, the school she goes to has a mandatory shop class. I think this is a great idea because they are taught minor maintenance of a car including changing a tire. Besides when you go to a shop they always try to tell you need more done, like your air filter is bad. Buy this in the store and replace it yourself for less than half the cost that they will charge you. If you feel you can’t change your oil yourself, try finding a neighbor or home mechanic.  Try going to a local school that has a shop class. My daughter’s school is always looking for cars to do minor repairs and oil changes on, for free. All you have to do is buy the oil and filter. With the teacher watching, the students learned how to do minor repairs on cars as part of their homework assignment.

                Repairs inside the house can be costly if you have to call a repairman. Most service calls start over $50.00 dollars. I recently had my control panel go out on my stove. I called a repair person to see how much it would cost and he told me over $300.00 dollars. Yikes! So I did a little research on the internet, found the part I needed and watched a how to fix and replace my control panel video. With the help of the internet , I was able to buy my part cheaper and also watch the video on how to replace the  part. This whole project took 3 days for the part to come in and 1 hour to replace the part. By ordring the part online  it only cost us $75.00 to repair my stove.  All the things that break in your house can easily be fixed by yourself at the fraction of the price.

                This one my daughters don’t like to well, but mom rules on this one. Doing dishes by hand or dish washer. Yes I have a dish washer but it does not get used. We have 4 sets of hands that can do the dishes. The dish washer cost money to run and uses to much water and takes too long to dry. As you can see I wash all my dishes by hand and air- dry them. This is another reason I don’t use my dish washer, my youngest daughter decided it was for hiding all her goodies.

                Don’t get me wrong, sometimes you have to call in a professional.Some projects you can’t do yourself.. We found this out this last summer when our septic system decided to collapse. We were going to try and do some of the digging with our tractor to save some money, but this was way too much work and time we did not have. So we did our research and found a company that did a great job at a reasonable cost. Doing the big projects are sometimes better left for professionals, but the other jobs can be done by D0-It-Yourselfers like you. Do your research and save money form Suzie Homemaker.