Need a new sheitel but don’t want to mortgage your home? Here’s everything I learned about buying a good sheitel on the cheap.

P eople work on heuristics — rules of thumb — and two of them in the sheitel world are costing people a lot of money:
1. You get what you pay for.
2. If this is how everyone does it it must be the right way.
I’m telling you these “hairistics” are as dated as your mother’s teased bangs.
I was desperate for a new sheitel but didn’t have time for the process. Plus I’m cheap. Then a friend told me her sister had purchased a wig from AliExpress. Yes that AliExpress where you buy cute moccasins and headbands for your daughters for pennies and wait three months for them to arrive. If you look you’ll find wigs too. Put “Kosher Jewish Wig” into the search bar and you can get lost for days.
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