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23 Tips to Save on Haircuts, Hair Color and Hair Products

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23 Tips to Save on Haircuts, Hair Color and Hair Products

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Perhaps, like me, you want to hibernate through this recession. Sort of put it out of your mind until -- miraculously! -- it goes away and the news starts getting better. Until we start hearing positive job and housing reports and the stock market go up for a full week straight, here are 23 tips to save on haircuts, color and care:

Let's start with shampoo...

1. Buy a jumbo size bottle of shampoo (cost per ounce is cheaper). Instead of buying a bottle for each shower, divvy up the jumbo bottle among bottles of shampoo you already have on hand. It doesn't really matter if you mix shampoos.

2. Add water to shampoo, conditioner, liquid soap to make it go further. Businesses do this all the time in public spaces.

3. When you're down to the last bit of shampoo in the bottle, add water and shake it vigorously. You'll get a couple washings out of it.

4. Take all those mini shampoos you or your husband collected over the years on business trips and combine them into one bottle. Again, it really doesn't matter if you mix shampoos. Or place the mini bottles in the bathroom in a gorgeous bowl and work your way through them.

Next, let's talk haircuts....

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