I took care of all the birthday parties and medical appointments (which in my family turned out to be a huge job), my husband does all the yardwork. All of it.
We moved into our current home in 2005 and we couldn't quite afford it. It was too much house for us and we were house poor to the point of worry. As we have moved up in our jobs we can more easily afford our home, plus a friend of mine said to me about five years back that with renovations our house was too nice for me to do such a crappy job in the yard and I needed to pay someone. It hurt my feelings a touch and he was correct. I cut that check and it is professionally done and looks fantastic.
I took care of all the birthday parties and medical appointments (which in my family turned out to be a huge job), my husband does all the yardwork. All of it.
We’re on about 3.5 acres and it’s either go all in on a 4x4, zero turn with a big deck, and a whole lot of other equipment or outsource. We outsource. We probably underestimated the land care when we purchased so if we move we’d probably bump it back by half and look for a more tended lot. Ours has some overgrown areas that don’t bother us but could use clearing.
I pushed a mower as a kid and don’t mind mowing but definitely didn’t grow up in a gear house and wouldn’t enjoy all the machine care at all in owning.
I grew up knowing how to attack odd vs. Even front zones and three schools of thought for how to defend a ball screen. We had a push mower and I love the physical labor. I chop wood with an axe at least every other week. Mine is less a labor issue and more a skillset issue. I can put needles and breathing tubes in babies but lack the dexterity to edge my walkway properly.
I only look down on the lawns that are more weeds than grass. Which happen to be both my neighbors. One has his kids mow it, the other appears to pay lowest price available on some of the lawncare apps. That along with never running her sprinkler(all homes in this sub-division had sprinklers installed) or doing any kind of fertilization and weed eradication leaves a mess that likes to encroach on my lawn. I take care of the other neighbor's side yard, a deal we cut years ago when he agreed to take care of the bushes that are rooted in his portion but hang over my yard. I have minimal encroachment issues there as I weed, fertilize, mow, etc. There are only two things that don't happen there, aeration and I think watering. Because he, like my other neighbor, just doesn't appear to believe in it.
You are correct, sometimes the way he does the yardwork is to delegate it the kids. They only ever mow though and the amount of yard we have that needs mowing is . . . not much. We do not have a gas-powered mower and it usually takes whichever kid less than half an hour to mow. Hubby takes care of the other plants, be they bushes, trees, or flowers.
Sunday evening. Sigh.
There is a thread for that: https://forums.dukebasketballreport...estment-Thread
This is very true. And there always seems to be someone with expertise on a given subject. The strangest thing, I usually trust someone on this board when they say they're an expert on something. Maybe I shouldn't, I don't know, but a lot of people seem like they know what they're talking about.
Ha! One thing I always say when I am talking about taking care of a baby when people call for help is they will know in a few minutes whether or not I'm right. And when I'm wrong about something I say something along the lines of "Well...looks like I screwed that up. Now let's see what else we can do."
Bobby Bicuspid getting a little grace from it's namesake, takes another.
What happened to Tony Tonsil?