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There is 60 homes in this development and i only seen 2 people mow their own grass. Everyone else hires lawn service.
What does that have to do with anything? If your lawn takes 5 minutes to mow, it seems silly to pay someone else to do it. In my area most people have larger lots and most people mow their own lawns. There are some with a service, but I’ve even seen people with large yards doing their own aeration and over seeding (which I paid someone to do although I mow myself as a fortysomething female next to two other houses with women around my age who also do their own mowing).
What does that have to do with anything? If your lawn takes 5 minutes to mow, it seems silly to pay someone else to do it. In my area most people have larger lots and most people mow their own lawns. There are some with a service, but I’ve even seen people with large yards doing their own aeration and over seeding (which I paid someone to do although I mow myself as a fortysomething female next to two other houses with women around my age who also do their own mowing).
I guess it's the culture. Not sure how to explain it. Homeowners just don't seem to want to do their own lawn maintenance once they have the money to purchase the property. Unless you purchased house over 15 years ago, you're paying 1 mil+ in this area.
What does that have to do with anything? If your lawn takes 5 minutes to mow, it seems silly to pay someone else to do it. In my area most people have larger lots and most people mow their own lawns. There are some with a service, but I’ve even seen people with large yards doing their own aeration and over seeding (which I paid someone to do although I mow myself as a fortysomething female next to two other houses with women around my age who also do their own mowing).
Same here except now with the new generation moving in who wouldn't be caught dead doing a man's job (I thought that mentality vanished a long time ago - well it's back) the 2 other single women on my block have started hiring it done because they were pretty much shamed into it. What? Go ahead and try to shame me into it. I can afford to hire it done (that's what it's all about - people like to think if you do your own you can't afford to hire it) but I prefer to do my own. I use to hire it out but then you have to deal with them not showing up or it's raining and when are you coming - I have dogs so I needed to know when to have the gate unlocked and the yard cleaned up, etc... It got to be more work than just doing it myself.
Thanks for everyone suggestion, I told wife i will get the recommendation not that I would agree to drop lawn service In all seriousness we got new neighbor and they are having their kids do it. At the end of the day if boss absolutely wants me to drop the service, i will have no choice
LOL, I am retired and mowing lawn is sort of mindless, yet productive work. Small sense of accomplishment. As kid I remember mowing lawns for $4, BIG lawns.. with my push 3.5hp mower and gas. Now fairly small modest lawn where I live is around $30. And some want $100 or such for size lawn I mowed for $4 as a kid. Yea unless I become physically unable to mow, not be hiring it done. If its too big for me to mow, then I need a smaller lawn..... or a four foot finishing mower behind a tractor. I saw posting somewhere showing a rather cool homemade one. Instead of deck spindles and belts and larger engine, he used three lawn mower engines mounted side by side by side. Ran them off a common gas tank. Pulled it with 4 wheeler I think. Anyway it was thinking outside the box, for price of three cheap mowers off Craigslist. Rather that than some crazy expensive riding mower.
Well, I'm physically robust and more than capable of mowing my own yard, yet I pay more than OP per month to have a guy do all the mowing and edging (1/5 acre, so a standard smallish city lot). Right now in my life my time is worth more than my money; I find mowing and edging to be very boring; and what time I have available for yard work I'd rather spend on the things I find more enjoyable - trimming bushes, planting flowers, fertilizing, and so on. It also means I'm not spending time wrestling with small IC engines, and I don't have to make room for a lawn mower.
After retirement I fully expect to take up mowing and edging the yard myself.
For me there's nothing status-symbol about hiring someone to mow the yard; I can't speak for my millennial neighbors.
Please explain how they are able to run over the plants if they don't show up.
Pup.
Probably when they do show up.
Here's one for ya - I had one guy run over a bag of mulch. "I wonder what will happen if I run over this bag" I think that's the day I ordered my mower.
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