Smartcookie, I totally understand!
It is both normal and crazy as we strive to look good in a modest way and not waste money. My family traditionally have always had long hair when married which we keep well styled but covered up under scarves/snoods,idea being to look good at home for our husbands but be modest in the street. But now my married daughters wear sheitels which are both very expensive and very nice, their husbands are always amazed by the prices, but want their wives to be happy. Goodtip though, now looking at sheitel prices which are so high, think tzedeka, we have started to give 10% of what we pay for a glamorous sheitel to tzedeka, especially those medical charities that pay to help victims of illness or terror recover from scars birthmarks. As my girls go looking for a cadillac of a sheitel to buy they have now think about someone living less fortunate, good discipline all round. Sometimes they come home, and think they might just stick to a scarf for weekdays.