1. Take a paper bag, cut two holes in it, put it over your head.  This will hide those pesky layers until it is long enough to bun, braid or ponytail.

2.  Let your nails grow.  This is especially effective if you are taking hair vitamins.  Your nails will grow to a beautiful long length much faster than your hair will and this will also keep the scissors out of your hands, unless you are very dextrous.

3.  Eat popsicles.  This won't make your hair grow (I don't think) but they taste good and it kills time.

4.  Shop online for all the hair toys you can afford.  Put them in a pretty basket and play with them until your hair is long enough to use them.

5.  Make a list of all your hair toys/products.

6.  Make a list of all the hair toys/products that you want but don't have yet.

7.  Sign up on several long hair boards and visit your invisible cyberfriends with long cyberhair often.

8.  When you can't sleep, check all your message boards to see if there are any new posts.

9.  Check your email.  Check to see how long it has been since you placed that order you are waitiing for.

10.  Put down the scissors!

11.  Donate your blowfryer to charity.  Then donate all your other heat appliances such as straightening irons, curlings irons, hot rollers, hot air brushes, etc.

12.  Think of all the money you are going to save on electricity.

13.  Think of all the new hairtoys you can buy with that money you saved on your electric bill.

14.  Make a list of all the new hairstuff you will order now that you have disposable income.

15.  Ignore the increase in your water bill as a result of all that rinsing, rinsing, rinsing.

16.  Check the mail to see if you got any packages/hair toys today.

17.  Count the days until payday so you can order some more hair stuff.

18.  Try to find a hair buddy online with your hairtype-good luck!  You'll probably find lots of buddies but none with your maddening hair type.

19.  If your hair is straight, try to decide if it is really curly.  If your hair is curly, try to convince yourself that it is really straight.

20.  Measure your hair.

21.  Put down the scissors!

22.  Measure your hair again.  If you're very skillful, maybe it will measure longer this time.  If it measures shorter, disregard and accept the first measurement.

23.  Get rid of all but the most cherished neck chains.  Get rid of all clothes with a button at the back of the neck.

24.  Oil your hair.  If inexperienced at this you may wish to shampoo and then oil again, this time with less oil.

25.  Figure out how old you will be when your hair reaches your longest goal.  Then decide not to color it when the grey/silvers appear.  If you already have grey/silvers, stop pulling them out and start counting them.

26.  Again, if you can't sleep, count sheep; sheep with long flowing curls.  Or count Persian cats; lovely long haired cats.  Name the cats.  Name the sheep.  (You could substitue dogs or rabbits or hamsters, etc.)

27.  Put down the scissors!

28.  Get a new paper bag.  Decorate this one with cut outs of your choice.  Paint on your bag.  Paint long curly eyelashes above and below the eye-holes in  your bag.  

29.  Put down the scissors!  Don't make me come over there.

30.  Make a list.  Then measure your hair again.

From Bikerbraid--

31.  Practice french/dutch braiding your hair.  Learning when you hair is shorter makes it MUCH easier when it is longer!

32.  If you must pick up the scissors - dust your hair.

strawberryfine

Great list - I'd add just a couple of things:

31.  Practice french/dutch braiding your hair.  Learning when you hair is shorter makes it MUCH easier when it is longer!

32.  If you must pick up the scissors - dust your hair.

Thanks, Leia, for the sweet compliment!
Thanks to Bikerbraid for #31 and 32.  Consider them added!!!

Babyfine, you seem to know EXACTLY where I am on the page!  My hair is very fine, shoulder length with a few leftover long layers and chin length bangs-plus I bleached it last summer so I/ve got that going on too.

Put the scissors down!

I won't cut if you won't,

strawberryfine

Yes, strawberryfine, I have bleach on my ends, too
which I'm trying to slowly trim off, little by little, so I
know where your comin' from. And condition, condition
condition.   The more recent highlights were done with
regular color so I don't have much line of demarcation.
I haven't had any highlights since early May.  I'm going
through a "hate my hair " phase but- I CANT cut it, I
spend too much money on all the long hair things.
BBB, satin pillow case, new comb, jojoba oil, ect,ect. Thankfully my hair is now all one length except the
bangs, which I'm growing out.

Thanks Autumn! You made my day !

Babyfine, I'm going through the I hate my hair (IHMH)phase, AGAIN, too.  But all the money I've spent on long hair stuff tells me I can't "afford" to cut my hair-lol!!!

And that is my favorite rationalization for buying more- to keep me from cutting my hair!

Anais! Your additions are grand!!! As soon as I figure out how to edit my post I'm going to add bikerbraids and yours to the list.  I may even start another list-please feel free to contribute!!!

strawberryfine

Strawberryfine, I absolutely LURRVED (word stolen from FB) your very first one about the paper bag!! 
And you're not alone with the longhair spending rationale-- That's how I prevent cutting too. Because if I cut my hair now, it would be too painful to sell all the lurvely hair toys I've grown to love (I also keep an old pixie picture by the bedside to make myself cringe, LOL...)

Hugs,
Anais

Anais, Anais, Anais...
ROFKLAC(not sure if that really is one or not, but "rollin' on floor kicking like a cockroach"

The long hair dance has real possibilities-I used to teach ballet and tap and  gymnastics....

-one more for the list:
Have someone (you'll need help here) take a permanent laundry marker and starting at the base of your neck make a series of 1" horizontal lines, at 1/2" intervals all the way down your spine, either to your hair goal or as close as you can get; you may have to divert to your legs if you are real ambitious.  Then number each 1/2' mark.  This way you can keep up with your hairgrowth and if you are lucky the permanent marker will wear off with time.  But if it doesn't your hair will cover it anyway! lol
strawberryfine

These are good - really, really good 

I have serious plans to bail out the bathroom before X-Mas visitors come.  I also hope that by then I'll have stopped putting my hair up and down all day with various hair toys.

If Hubs sees me coming with the tape measure he always disappears  ??? ...g