Yikes–I hate to admit it, but that is so me. I’m not good at the monetary conversions…but even just the amount of time women spend on their hair is amazing. According to a Daily Mail article,
Talk about going back to your roots…
The average British woman spends an astonishing £36,903.75 on her hair in a lifetime, according to new research.
She will spend the equivalent of just under two YEARS of her life washing, styling, cutting, colouring, crimping and straightening her locks in salons or at home.
A whopping 650 days will be dedicated solely to creating a ’salon look’ in her own bathroom. The average woman splashes out a monthly average of £10.08 on shampoos and conditioners, £14.03 on home styling products and £301.14 a year on haircuts and colouring.
She spends the equivalent of 41 minutes at home every day washing, styling and restyling. A third of women say their hair is the most important part of their appearance, and they spend more time styling their hair than doing their make-up.
I hate to admit it, but I don’t even really know what my natural hair color is.
Ok…I know that title isn’t really news to anyone who lives in WNY, but an article in today’s Buffalo News shows that the problem may be even worse than we thought.
When a Rochester think tank asked thousands of New Yorkers this spring how they viewed state government, it found an overwhelming number are plain mad at the ways of Albany.
But in Western New York, respondents to the poll are more than angry. They’re downright seething.
On issues like taxes, the power of public employee unions, managing debt and combating corruption, the level of disgust in Western New York far surpasses the already notable concern elsewhere across the state.
“The volume in Western New York just seems to be turned up,” said Erika Rosenberg, research associate with the New York Matters Project sponsored by the Center for Government Research in Rochester. “It’s different from the rest of the state.”
Indeed, the poll of 2,492 residents statewide and 362 in Erie, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties found the westerners in a far surlier mood than their already fed-up neighbors:
• While 27 percent of voters statewide rated state government as “poor,” that jumped to 45 percent in Western New York.
• When asked about quality of life, 27 percent statewide said it was worse over the past five years, but 42 percent thought so locally.
• Sixty-nine percent of Western New Yorkers say the economy has worsened over the past five years, compared to 40 percent of statewide residents who feel that way.
• A whopping 58 percent of Western New Yorkers rated the state poor on keeping taxes from hurting growth, compared to 36 percent across New York.
I couldn’t agree with my neighbors more on their disapproval of our state government…what I don’t get is how so many of these people think that Spitzer is the answer. Hunh? The article interviewed several area residents…this interview in particular really confused me:
Debby Swift, 51, who lives in Limestone, also says state government has failed to do enough to create and retain jobs in Western New York, while taxes are unbearably high. Both of her children have moved to other states, her son to Colorado and her daughter to Florida.
“The government doesn’t do right by everybody,” she said. “My taxes keep going up and up and up.”
At the same time, the value of her home keeps going down.
“I don’t think I could get out,” she said. “I want to move away from here . . . New York State, I want to say, stinks. That’s putting it mildly.”
Swift says she sees a ray of hope in the possibility of Eliot L. Spitzer becoming governor. As attorney general, he helped her family get money back from a propane price gouger.
“We got our money back,” she said. “I’m going to elect him. I think he’s good.”
I believe that this is more proof that the public is in dire need of some economics lessons. I think it also proves that Spitzer has done an excellent job of appealing to the emotions of New Yorkers without really telling them what the hell he wants to do.
Maybe it’s time for me to start looking into the Free State Project again.