How Do You Do Your Do?

I am just not feeling well at the moment...in fact, I am sick. I just spent $240 on my hair. I haven't had my hair "done" in the last eight months. Up until today, I was a Supercuts kind of gal...dutifully using the newspaper coupons to get my hair done at the chain haircut place where no appointments are needed. I finally decided to try something different. I figured, if I've gone that long without a haircut, then I deserve something really nice, right?

Well, I spent about three hours at this ritzy place with master and apprentice stylists. I should've known it was pricey when I didn't see the typical price list posted on the wall. There were also no gossip magazines but nice and stylish Vogues and some other fashion magazines I had never heard of. Sigh....So now I have rich brown hair, almost black with a red tinge and some totally fake-looking bleached out highlights to show for it. That's all I have to show for those three hours. My husband is going to kill me if he finds out.

My question is...I see a lot of ladies walking around...I'm talking general public here...with beautiful haircolor and highlights...some with long hair, but most with medium or short hair. I can get away, or at least I convince myself of getting away with longer periods of time between my haircuts 'cause I do have fairly long hair. How do these ladies afford this? They come from all walks of life, and they always seem to have nice hair? Are they spending $200 a pop on their hair? Do they go once a month or more...my God, that's thousands of dollars a year for haircare I just realized. Or am I totally missing something here and there is some secret squirrel kind of speakeasy where you can get your hair professionally done at a lower price? I don't think this is Clairol in a bottle stuff I typically see? Or is it?

Please, enlighten me and any other dunderheads who may be wondering the same thing!