Use Old Tights For Headbands
One of the biggest concerns people have for me when I tell them about the Compact is,
“What about headbands!?”
I find it funny that this is the FIRST thing people think of…
I used to go through about a pack of thick black hairbands (aka ponytails, in my house) every six months because I would just lose that many. Now I don’t remember the last time I purchased them because I always put my hairbands around my hairspray can instead of just leaving them wherever they fall.
I also pick them up off the sidewalk occasionally. I don’t think this is gross, but I did it once when Spencer was with and he ripped it from my hands, shot it far, far, away, and announced that I had gone “TOO far.”. What’s your take on this? Vote: Spencer or Kayla K (I would like to add that it was clean and dry and like-new, not the greasy slime ball that Spenc made it out to be. Vote Kayla!)
For elastic headbands, I don’t even buy them. I think they are annoying because by the end of the day they pop off the back of your head anyway. My solution for this has long been to cut tubes from the legs of opaque tights. I cut them into 1″ segments and they roll in on themselves to be about the size in stores.
My version stays in place all day which should not be a concern anyway because I should NOT leave the house looking like this except for a workout! 
So if the legs of your fabulous opaque tights have a run, why not make them into headbands? Heck, for the price of tights vs. the price of headbands you could even benefit from buying a new pair of tights just for the headbands.
But you know better than that, right?
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Sorry, I’m with Spencer on this one. Ick!
I don’t see anything wrong with using hair bands off the sidewalk. You can wash it if it makes you feel better about it. Can’t be much grosser than the ones I find around the house, such as under the refrigerator where the cat pushed it, all covered in dust and dirt. I reuse those after washing them in soap and water. So 1 vote for Kayla!
Go Kayla, it’s always better to recycle.
Was it and you’re good to go. Sorry Spencer
Yeah…sorry I’m with spencer too. I have a fear of lice, I wouldn’t even let my husband buy a hat at the thrift store for fear he would get lice & give them to me! I get this from my mother, the first grade teacher, who would make the nurse check her head every day when lice were going around at school. -Kristie
Waste not, want not…I pick up anything usable. Was germaphobic in the past (OCD), but got 2 $85 pairs of SAS shoes at a thrift store for $1 each (one pair brand new)…just couldn’t pass on that deal. So, I figure if I can wear someone elses’s shoes, I can surely wear their hair bands!
I agree with the lice argument. I would not wear a hairband that had been worn by a stranger. I suppose you could wash it, but to me, it’s almost like washing someone else’s underwear and then wearing it. I love to save money and to invest it in Charles Schwab and Vanguard funds, but picking up an inexpensive, used hairband off the ground is not something that I would do.