Beth Chapman

My granddaughter for the second time has let her hair grow long and had it cut, donating it for wigs for cancer patients who have lost they're own hair.
She is fourteen and im very proud of her
Id like to think Beth maybe received some of that hair.

I couldn't add that to the thread as the moderators decided to shut the thread down.

My daughter has done the same thing Steve. Until she discovered the foundation she was donating her hair to charged there patient's.

What a noble gesture from your granddaughter, she is a wonderful human being sensitive and care for others, be very proud of her.

Roger63 said:

My daughter has done the same thing Steve. Until she discovered the foundation she was donating her hair to charged there patient's.

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Always someone somewhere takes a great thing and screws it up for everyone else... what has happened to our moral compass today? I can remember when we actually tried to do the right thing for the right reasons, now it's the wrong thing for the wrong reasons. I find this troubling that some people find this acceptable

I heard that they don't use or accept real hair anymore...maybe only here up North.

Wonderful to see kids giving back to those in need. Good for her!

They still get/accept real hair from donors. We went to such a shop last year when my wife was just beginning her chemo treatments. To buy a real hair wig off the rack it was $2500+. We elected to have all my wife’s beautiful black hair cut off and be made into a wig of her own. That costs $1200. The donor hair wether purchased or given free to a foundation must be processed into a real hair piece. That costs money. Ours was sent to China (where else) to be processed. That was a big part of whAt the $1200 was for. My point is - even using donor hair there’s a cost in putting these pieces together. It’s pretty painstaking work. I wouldn’t stop giving hair because they charge recipients - but I’d need to know how much they charge and find a foundation that does it for the lowest cost.

Nice Steve. Thanks for telling us about this.

Yup, about ten years ago when my girl was about ten she had long, thick, Crystal Gale hair. It was so much that it made her neck hurt. She went to a professional and had it prepped.
There’s a process that they have to go through, it’s not just swept up off the floor. They essentially make a big pony tail, put an elastic on it to hold it together, and cut it off. We had to send it to some place that we found online.
On a separate but sort of related note, when she was about thirteen she and a buddy decided to set up a lemonade and cookie stand, and send the money to this place that drills water wells in Africa. I told her to treat it seriously, no clowning around, be clean etc. As nobody will buy anything from them if they don’t seem clean. I then gave my crew at work a dollar each and told them to buy a cookie, so that at least they would make about ten dollars. Expecting the worst, I asked her at supper how much money did they make. They sold out in an hour and a half and made $350.00. That lesson always stuck with her.