To Cut or Not To Cut, That is the Question

I am so sick of my hair. It is so long and takes forever to do. I think I blow dry it like twice a month and the rest of the time I wear it back in a pony tail. I want to cut it but I am too cheap to pay for my hair to just get trimmed. The way I see it is if I am going to pay more than $20 to get my hair cut, then it better be a drastic hair cut that people notice. So, I've been entertaining the idea of getting my hair cut into an angled bob for the past year, but I have always had an excuse like being pregnant. Now, I don't have an excuse and my hair needs to be cut since it has been 8 months since the last time it was trimmed. Do I go drastic and chop it all off and make a scene by crying my eyes out in the chair because I now look like a boy and the hair that took me years to grow out is now lying dead on the floor and make the stylist feel horrible? Or do I just get it trimmed and be bitter that I spent money and nobody to notices my hair cut and it still takes me an hour to blow dry my hair and be disappointed in myself for wussing out? Ay yaiy yaiy. What am I to do?