Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).

For any of you playing along with our home game here on MOFK (Mobile Order For Karen) you will know I like to shop. Sometimes it’s a straight out hunt for the perfect item.

I’ve been known to spend hundreds on handbags and clothes. I love to scroll through my pins on Pinterest and locate a few fabulous outfits each season. I’ve also developed an addiction to skin care so it is not uncommon for me to drop a good amount of cash on certain beauty lines that I’ve been following for years.

When I think about the biggest amounts I’ve spent though I have to say it has been on my hair. The salon prices here in New York are astronomical. It has gotten to the point where I literally have to plan out my finances based on how many gray locks will sprout up every 6 to 8 weeks! I feel like I’m scheduling my hair for service at the dealership. A half head of highlights with a cut and blowout plus tip is a little under $400. This practice four times a year is slightly under what my mortgage payment is.

Lately though I found this little hair shop run like a Chinese nail salon. I don’t know what their annual revenue is but when you walk in you are hit with white clouds of product from the 50 hair dryers whirring each hour. They treat me like a Princess for a fraction of the cash. Admittedly the quality is not top tier but for what I need now, I’ll take the reduced price ticket of just under $200. Maybe I can put the saved rubles for a new handbag that I clearly don’t need.

Happy Sunday everyone!

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Author: KikiFikar

Kiki Fikar is a native New Yorker who is passionate about taking the day to day life we all experience and sharing it in her tales from Suburbia. She will often be found at the gym, writing snippets each day for future story lines, listening to her two children create their lives, and building the perfect beachfront home and writing retreat in her mind.

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  1. Wow Kiki! 😍 Your hair care game sounds truly next-level! Hearing those NYC prices, it feels like hair has become a luxury item. But discovering that little salon where you get princess-level treatment for a fraction of the cost is amazing! 💇‍♀️✨ Now, the money you’re saving can go toward a new handbag or anything else you love. Honestly, that’s smart shopping at its finest!

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  2. Wow Kiki! ヾ(≧▽≦)o Your hair care regimen is truly transcendent and phenomenally meticulous! (^_^)v Hearing those exorbitant NYC prices, it almost renders hair a veritable luxury commodity (O_O). Yet discovering that quaint salon, where you receive princely-level pampering for a mere fraction of the expenditure, is utterly extraordinary! (≧ω≦) Now, the capital you’re conserving can be judiciously allocated toward a new handbag or any other coveted acquisition — how absolutely splendid is that? (≧︶≦)) Honestly, 🙏 that’s strategic consumption at its apogee and unequivocally awesome! ＼(^o^)／🙏

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  7. Expensive, but your hair looks great. I’ve been cutting my hair (now shaving it since I don’t have much) since 2000, and my son’s all his life, so we’ve saved a good amount of money over the years.

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