Why do guys 'get off' so easy?

Last night my friend Shannon and I were having our weekly Wednesday date night complete with wine while watching our fav summer show, “So You Think You Can Dance” and we started talking about why haircuts are so expensive, how much we pay for waxing and the new work clothes we “need” but don’t want to spend the money on (would much rather buy something more fun!).... and we couldn’t help but wonder why do guys get off so much easier than girls… now I’m not talking about what your dirty mind thinks I am – but why do we end up spending so much more money than guys? Why is being a guy so much easier than being a girl?

During my daily IM chats with my friend Kristan we both started thinking more and more about this topic and here’s what we came up with...

Our TOP 15 REASONS why guys get off so much easier than girls!

15. Gift Buying. Why is it that guys buy gifts only for their immediate family (or the girl in their life) while girls buy for anyone/everyone they've had a conversation with in the past year?

14. Shoes. I am convinced that guys only have 2 pairs of shoes. 1 pair for work and 1 pair of sneakers, yet girls have 2 for every outfit (of course as Kristan says, “it's because we have to mix it up a bit!!”).

13. Underwear. While we are spending $50 or more now a days on bras and $15 on underwear, these guys get away with $2.99 on a pair of boxers and that’s if they are even wearing any!!

12. Formal Attire. Excited to go to that wedding next month and looking for the perfect dress, shoes, bag etc and wondering how you are going to afford it all? Well, have you ever thought about guys – how do they get so lucky to get away with the SAME suit every time!! I mean if we girls wore the same dress every time we’d be laughed at! The only thing a guy “might” do is to mix it up his outfit is add on a new $20 tie when we’ve already spent $300! Not fair!

11. Gray Hair. When men have gray hair it’s looked as though they are “distinguished,” you know that Richard Gere look we all love – while girls… well, we’d just look plain “old.”

10. Mani/Pedi's. The most attention guys give to their hands and feet are the once a month nail clippings and that's only because you've threatened they are not allowed to touch you until they're cut while we spend the money and time perfecting our look! (They should too ps)

9. Toiletries. A guy has at most six items in his bathroom - a toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of Dial soap, and a towel from the last hotel he stayed in. The average number of items in a typical woman’s bathroom is 437!

8. Weight. If a guy gains a couple extra pounds, no big deal. Now God Forbid a girl does and it’s the talk of the town! And then on the flip side, why is it so much easier for a guy to loose weight??

7. Haircuts/Color. $300 vs $25… need I say more?

6. Hair in General. If guys don’t like the way their hair looks they throw on a baseball hat and look completely normal and somewhat cuter. Girls on the other hand, we are just outta luck!

5. Money. Girls spend so much money a month keeping up their appearances… makeup alone is a fortune! But what about tanning, hair, wax, manicures, new outfits – you name it… we probably spend an average of $400 more than men a month!

4. WAXING! The most pain guys have to endure while removing hair is the occasional knick on their face because they are too lazy to go buy a new razor while we are enduring the pain of wax!

3. Hormones. It’s uncontrollable – it takes us girls over! We can’t control it!! And just you wait for menopause…. Guys are so lucky that they have nothing that takes control of their bodies like that!

2. The 'monthly' visitor. (.)

1. Child birth. Not drinking for 9 months! Enough said!!

There are so many more reasons in which a guys life is so much easier than a girls. I didn’t even mention that guys have it so much easier when going to the bathroom – they don’t have to sit down and they can go anywhere (if they need to) or how about the fact that going topless is completely acceptable for these guys!

So I think the debate is settled.... Guys DO get off easier... Now the question is, what do you think?

(Thanks for your help Kristan, I won’t tell Mark!)

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Carrie: "Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be."