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Lawn Care and Yard Work

Yard work has always been a sore spot for me. While I enjoy a freshly cut lawn and well-trimmed bushes and hedges, I am not one to eagerly anticipate working in the yard. However, I am either too cheap or too frugal (whichever way you want to look at it) to pay someone else to do it for me. I mow the lawn once a week when I should be doing it at least twice. If I feel like it, I'll trim the hedges and/or edge along the fences. I usually rely on the Lord's schedule of providing rain instead of watering the grass myself. Don't even talk about planting flowers or any other type of green vegetation. So, you know where I stand. How do you feel about lawn care and working in the yard? What are the tools of your trade? Any stories about lawn care that you wish to share?

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tools of my trade? .! I hate doing lawn work. I hate mowing, I hate trimming, I hate doing anything that involves yard work. One of the primary reasons for living in a town home as opposed to living in a rental house is that I don't have to do lawn work. In fact, we are considering buying a house in a year or so and I am already dreading having to do my own lawn work. I'm too cheap to pay someone else, my wife is disabled and cant do it, and my kids are too young. That leaves me alone to do the dreaded yard work.

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I hate yard work, we have a small yard but it takes like a good 3 hours to do it all, and that's with three of us working on it at once. Mainly it's because our yard needs to be cut more than once a week but we can only do it on the weekends. No interesting stories here, just monotonous yard work, lawn mowing, weed whacking, raking joy.

I envy you conquerers, you don't have to do evil yard work. Have fun doing it once you get a yard, it's tons of fun! .

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I hate yard work. I don't water my grass...if you water it, it will grow. If it grows you have to cut it...

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I'm not a fan of raking and mowing and weeding, but I love planting vegetation and things of that sort. Part of the reason I think I don't like doing yard work is because, growing up, that's one thing my parents used as punishment. If any of us misbehaved, we'd be out there raking the yard and mowing. I think I now have a natural negative association with yard work.

I love working out on my Grandfather's farm. I went over Spring Break to visit him, and I was out there planting peas and tomatoes, and I loved it. When my fiance and I went back at the end of summer, we got to eat a lot of the things I had planted. It was a cool feeling.

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After reading everyone's responses I feel somewhat out of place in this thread as I actually enjoy yard work for the most part. I find that after working all week or all day in some cases that it is very relaxing mentally to get out in the yard and sweat for a while. Yard work takes a little bit of an attention span if you pay attention to the details which gets all of the troubles off of my mind. This allows me to think about something, yard work in this case, that I can actually do something about or have control over unlike so many daily situations that I find myself in. I have never been lazy exactly even though with my list of jobs that I have worked you wouldn't notice.

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I don't mind raking, sweeping etc, but my husband mows the lawn, and fortunately we haven't got any bushes, trees or anything that needs clipping or cutting back.

I love planting seeds and bulbs, and I think I have over done it a bit this year already, as every time I dig up to put a bulb in, I find that I have already taken that spot with another bulb

Hopefully, they will grow later on this year, I have done them in stages, so hopefully we will have flowers for many months!