My 10 year old daughter has been growing her hair all year long in order to donate it to Locks of Love. Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that uses real hair, mostly donated by children, to create wigs for financially disadvantaged children (under 18) with cancer or alopecia. These hairpieces cost about $3000-5000 to make! You need to donate at least 10 inches of hair at a time -- they use two inches to make the hairpiece. My daughter was able to donate 12 inches! When I heard about Locks of Love months ago, I took a look at their website and found out that participating salons will cut the hair for free, package it properly and sent it in for you. I took note of the salon and I'm glad that I did -- the salon page is no longer on the Locks of Love site! They suggest that you print out the hair donations requirements and bring them to your local salon.

Donating your hair to children who need it is such a worthy cause and I am very proud of my daughter for persevering -- through all the tangles, hat weather and other hair issues. Whoever gets her hair will be a lucky child. I wanted to grow my hair at the same time, but she told me very bluntly that no one would want my thin, straight hair. I can't say that she's wrong, though the web site says that it accepts all types of hair!