Fuck, I wish I could pull out my bag of hair that came out during combing... (that I saved for some strange reason) But it is far piled away. I had about 5x your amount. also +1 for nondreaded regulars
I hope you're going to hang around still to chastise the newbs for not reading the faq I may well be doing the same thing as well, maybe not until the spring though.
I was actually planning on something similar to you, i.e. burning them, but maybe I'll save one I'll probably bottle it and won't cut anyway though.
I cut the ends off (the bits I remember and like most) and kept them, then brushed the rest out. Cutting the ends off was the start of it really, first step, then I started brushing the back ones out one by one to get some hair to play with. Then I just sort of carried on xD I do gradual changes with a lot of things, you don't have to say RIGHT I'M GONNA DO IT .. if it happens slowly nd without you realising it's probably the way things are gonna go anyway ^^
... Still. It's okay to change your views about being a vegetarian, but it doesn't mean you grew up. You just changed. And people don't have dreads because they don't eat meat.... I just fail to see the logic, that's all.
Oh yea By "grew up" I mean matured in terms of professionalism. I have a full time office job, where I meet people everyday. I will be looking for jobs in schools, where they are pretty tight on appearance. Eating meat has nothing to do with "growing up", my job situation or dreads ... it was just a btw Lots of people keep commenting and saying I look better with straight hair ! Pretty sure I got winked at by a cute girl on the deli counter in tescos xD