I saved a fish today!

Yes, I saved a fish from the massive oil spill in the gulf coast today.

Just how did I do that? I got my hair cut.  

Okay, so, how, you may ask, did getting my hair cut save a fish?

 Well, my favorite hair salon, Marigold Parlour in Raleigh, North Carolina, and it's owner Dustin Smith, are donating all of the hair they cut from their customers to the efforts to clean up the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dustin told me today human hair is one of the best things available to absorb oil from the water.  Instead of just sweeping the hair up after every customer and throwing it away, Marigold Parlour is now saving it in boxes and shipping it to where it is needed to absorb the oil from the BP spill.

So far his salon has shipped 4 big boxes down to the Gulf.  As he was sweeping up my hair, he noted that I gave enough to save one whole fish!

And I thought my hair cut was only about me! What a great thing they're doing, reusing all that "donated" hair to help save the world one snip at a time.

By the way, today Marigold Parlour was voted number 1 hair salon in the Wake County area by the Independent and it's readers!  Congratulations to Dustin and his team for an award well earned.