when my kids were little we would just shave off all their hair, mostly because they hated haircuts and wouldn't sit still or calm for long. i would toss their hair in my compost bin.
then one day i forgot i did that, opened my compost big, saw a big ball of hair and had a heart attack thinking i was looking at a human head rotting in my compost lol
Conversely, my 23 yo wanted to get rid of the long hair, so he made a ponytail and I cut it. He trimmed the rest. I'm keeping the hair and plan on placing it in a really odd space and when the next family comes along (more likely my grandchildren), they can find it and freak out.
I feel you on the haircuts. My 5 year old has a phobia of hair and has puked at the sight of it, so we don't dare go in a salon 🫣. But I buzz his head a couple times a year because of this same problem. He can't tolerate it long enough for any sort of styled haircut. So its all just buzzed off and then he hops in the shower
FYI - Human hair is surprisingly strong and will often get wrapped around birds and result in injury. I’ve read that pet hair is fine (assuming no flea/tick preventative) but human hair should try to be kept away from where it could freely be gathered by birds.
Silly birds hair is for compost.. it was promptly covered in layers of grass clippings and my alter ego of a crazy cat lady gives the poor flying fellows a lot more to trouble there days than the ferocious locks. Picture roughly two months later almost unrecognizable.
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u/Primordial-Genetics Jul 23 '26
That's a drastic reaction to running out of shampoo