I happen to be a woman who spends hours each week working on my hair/makeup, just so I can present myself to the public and appear 'natural', like I've not done a thing. I've colored my hair myself since I was thirteen. I once had a youth pastor tell me that his thoughts on hair color and makeup were simple: If the barn needs paintin' then you'd better paint it!
Good idea to sacrifice elsewhere in your budget. If I'm ever faced with that dilemma, I know what will be the first to go. Lunch. It's way overrated anyway...

Ew, is THIS what I have to look forward to? DRESSING on SATURDAYS for the kids' games? Yikes!

They may just have to take me as I am.

I'm a sweats and socks girl, myself. I can get away with it now because my kids aren't old enough to be in spectator sports yet. I dread the day I have to actually look presentable on the weekends.

Weekends = sweats/tennis shoes...it's the law.

not only is it the law...it's against nature to look any other way! (at least, in our house, it is). ya know? iit seems to me one way to save money is by not building up your weekend/basketball game wardrobe! (but that's just me... and i, like my husband, strickly adhere to the "weekend dress code" of sweats & tennies) getting a good color job on your hair is wa-a-a-y more important than looking chic on gameday! : )

Hot damn! Flip-flop shoes and blonde hair: The New You!!!

Wait. A gym...with a dress code...to watch??? For pete's sake. SugarPlum has just started playing b-ball. And now I might have to dress for it?

::rushing to find another winter sport for daughter::

i've seen such things occur when my one son was in soccer. soccer moms with their volvos (everclear song anyone?) looking as cute and well matched as their kids.

not i,

i was the soccer mom that forgot her chair and when someone insisted i used theirs i broke it.

*sigh*

football parents are another animal altogether. they wear "their" team colors or their child's team colors and act like insane people (myself included) yelling and jumping up and down on the sidelines.

honestly, i prefer the football people, they're far less pretentious, or they just didn't risk pissing off the mom of the biggest 12 year old offensive linemen they'd ever seen.

Time to dust off the capris?

I'm getting ready to donate my very hip, very 1980s vest collection (photo posted on my site) -- let me know if you want me to save any for you. You'd be a sight!

Do you mean I really DO have to dress for tomorrow's swim meet? It's not the kids are wearing real clothes, so why should I?

I refuse to pay the $ to have someone else color my hair, but if it works for you, go ahead and cut out a few Starbucks every week to pay your colorist.

It's pretty bad when you have to give as much attention to your wardrobe on Saturdays as work days. Thankfully we're still in the jeans, sweats, and old faithful khaki shorts years.

I swan... I see people at the 9 a.m. basketball games that must have gotten up at 5 a.m. on a Saturday to get the bouffant and and all that make-up "just right" to watch their child run around the court.

I am usually contemplating if anyone would notice that I'm carrying a pillow with me!

Have you learned nothing from reading me for 2 years BB?? How many different hair colors have I had by coloring it myself?

Spare your hair and cut back somewhere else!!!!

PS I couldn't bring myself to type BM because we all know what comes to mind when I say that in my head, lol.

So BB is Busy Babe.

From someone who tried going from salon coloring to do-it-yourself last Fall, you made the right choice. It was such a relief to get it professionally done again with some birthday money. I've decided I'll find a way to make it fit into the budget from now on because it's now classified as a necessity!