Does anybody actually mow their own lawn anymore?

[JL8Jeff]

Just wondering if any of you guys actually mow your own lawn or your parents lawn if you live at home. All I see in my neighborhood are lawn service trucks. I've been mowing for 27 years and I still actually use a small push mower. I started cutting the lawn for my parents back when I was 13 and I still did it until I bought my own house and moved out. I don't see any kids cutting grass anywhere in my area. I just can't see paying somebody to do something I can easily do but it surprises me that people with teenagers don't have their kids do it for them instead of paying a service. So who actually mows their own lawn?

[Tsar]

my parents do it.

[j0n]

i mow mine and my neighbor's...neighbor pays 40 bucks

[Savage_Messiah]

Ever since my dad messed up and put the mixed gas/oil into the lawnmower instead of straight gas, nobody really does unless he goes and borrows a neghbors mower :lol:

[NJSPEEDER]

i cut mine yersterday. hopefully for the last time this year, although it is still green so it is prolly still growing.

[V]

i do mine, our other 2 houses, and my church.

[JL8Jeff]

i cut mine yersterday. hopefully for the last time this year, although it is still green so it is prolly still growing.

I remember having to mow mine the last weekend in Nov last year and then the first weekend in Dec we had snow! So I think we still have a few more mows to go.

[WayFast84]

i cut mine, I was thinking the same thing 3 days ago, when the landscapers where across the street at like 8..

[V]

oh, and i used to be a landscaper

[quasar34]

i mow my lawn for the parents, but im probably the ONLY house on my block that doesnt hire people to do it for them..

[bad64chevelle]

Me and my dad switch off. We have 6 acres to mow, and taking turns helps.

[69RSZ]

Just wondering if any of you guys actually mow your own lawn or your parents lawn if you live at home. All I see in my neighborhood are lawn service trucks. I've been mowing for 27 years and I still actually use a small push mower. I started cutting the lawn for my parents back when I was 13 and I still did it until I bought my own house and moved out. I don't see any kids cutting grass anywhere in my area. I just can't see paying somebody to do something I can easily do but it surprises me that people with teenagers don't have their kids do it for them instead of paying a service. So who actually mows their own lawn?
Yes Jeff,I do and must do it tomorrow

[JerzLT1]

my dad owns a landscaping company..... we love lazy people lol

[camaro2you]

ive been cuttin mine since i was 7.

[baddest434]

i stoned my front yard with 2-4 inch delaware river bed rock. i had more weeds than grass when i had a lawn. but i cut my own in the back yard. there must be 15 landscapers that live in my neighborhood.

[Untamed]

Mow my own. Still using the same Honda push mower I bought when we bouhgt the house over 8 years ago. *shrugs* Just takes an hour for a quarter acre lot so not a long time.

I do the trimming, edging (with edging shovel) and weed whacking as well. *shrugs* Good exercise and gets me some sun (farmers tan anyone?)

[Slow 88]

I do and will always because I can't fathom when a capable person or (persons) that live in a house hire someone else to do it....I am also always busy but still find time to get it done before someone uses that line...

[foff667]

the cord on my mower broke so eventually I'll probably be calling on Matt to help me swap in the new one there :lol: but yes I mow my own.

[Brando56894]

my mom cuts ours, i used to cut my grand mothers when i was younger

[Bandit]

nope, landscapers

[unstable bob gable]

I smoke all my grass...

[bitchincamaro]

i usually cut about 12 a week, including my own. i help a landscaper out.

[98tadriver]

cut the grass?? ha! i use my mower for wheelies!

[camaro2you]

shakes head, ron what are we gonna do with u.

[Teds89IROC]

I did mine along with my grandparents...now my 16 year old brother does ours and both of us do our grandmas property

[97slpss]

I smoke all my grass...

thats the best way to get rid of it

[chrisfrom nj]

im a landscaper i cut 90 houses a week

[Savage_Messiah]

cut the grass?? ha! i use my mower for wheelies!
yea, I can see your wedding turning otu something liek this one...


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/bbible/pond_links/camocouple.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/bbible/pond_links/camoLetter.jpg



:D


oh and is this your next project??

http://mudfacemarge.com/Reelytr.jpg

[enRo]

:funny:

Its a good thing that people are starting to hire outsiders to cut grass and blow leaves. Not like it matters to me this year cuz im out of work on injury til at least new years, which means I wont have to pick that **** up anyway! 45-70 bags of 50+ pound leaves and grass at almost EVERY house in Roxbury is absolutely harsh on the mind and body. lol

The hippy strikes again. Go throw red paint on lawns of people that use biological chemicals to grow and green their grass :lol:

[BonzoHansen]

I mow my own lawn. BFD. That $$ is better spent elsewhere, at least for now. If I doubled my salary, I would rethink that position,

I'm always surprised how many people live at home but don't mow the lawn, but their parents do (and guessing from a comment like that they are still living at home). Free rent (or even reduced rent) & no hose work? Nice deal. And I've seen it for years. Guys I knew in HS said 'it ain't my house'. Nice. Maybe mommy & daddy shouldn't have bought them that new car. I mowed my parents lawn from age 10 until 2+ years after I moved 45 minutes away. When my first son was born I just ran out of time (plus I blew out my back then). They helped pay for most of my college - I think owed them.

[maroman88]

i used to do mine until 2 years ago, the parents do it now, but i still do our other house and my grandmas house

[Rob WS6]

Nope, my buddy is starting his own business so I let him do it. Works well for me and him! 8)

[ar0ck]

I still mow my lawn just about every other weekend. If its a nice sunday I have absolutely no problem doing it. We have a decent push mower and I occasionally break out the electric weed wacker to clean up around the edges. Once in a blue moon my dad will mow the lawn.

[79CamaroDiva]

i mow my lawn, my grandmas lawn and all the grass that surrounds Island Dragway (60-70 acres?)... im usually mowing something 4 days a week throughout the summer :?

[V]

melissa, i should be hired as a full time grounds keeper, ill even use my own equipment, lol

[79CamaroDiva]

melissa, i should be hired as a full time grounds keeper, ill even use my own equipment, lol

paul.. uhh... we don't use a regular lawn mower for the vast majority of the grass. it already takes roughly 15 hours/week to mow... if we used a regular mower it would be well over 5x that long :lol:

[V]

ill make a mustang mower like on monster garage, itll take me 1/2 a day

Actually, im thinking about starting a lawn/grouds maitnence business in NC

[Ian]

Actually, im thinking about starting a lawn/grouds maitnence business in NC

let me know if you'd need help with that. I have family down there and am considering moving.

[V]

well, i was down there in the beginning of sept, and checked into the housing market, not too bad, I also stopped by a chevy dealer right on the OBX and talked to them about hiring and all.

I am definately moving out by dec 2007, it just isnt a 100% as to where..
50% NC(OBX), 40% mainland NC, 5% Clifton area, 4% NY, 1% My current area.
and with my ex recently breakign up with me....NC seems to be a more realistic destination

[Rich189]

i used to manage my friends landscaping company since i was 15.... he sold it a year ago but im still stuck cutting my parents and my grandparents lawn... on a side note it musta sucked having a 15 yr old boss

[PBodyGT87]

Phil mows our lawn, or Dad does. And then Phil mows the neigbbors lawns so he makes some money and charges less than the lawnservices.

[amargari]

I mow mine, but it seems like I am one of the few left in the area that does.

This also brings up a small pet peeve I have about some of the services that do mow lawns. I wish the some of the services would be a little more considerate about how they park their vehicles when they stop at a house. It seems like every other week there is a convoy of trucks and trailers parked in the middle of the road with a few cones before and after the convoy of vehicles. Some of them park in the middle of a curve where you don't see them until you come around the turn. It can be dangerous.

[Tru2Chevy]

I mowed our lawn for about 8 years both with a riding mower (when we had a working one) and a push mower. My brother took over for a few years, and now my cousin (Precious Lawn Service) does it. He's selling the business though, so I don't know how much longer that will continue.

- Justin

[qwikz28]

my father and i would mow our lawn, until our mower broke. then my emo neighbor who i ride quads with asked us if he could do it for money. so that works well for all of us i guess.


i still shovel the snow though. i enjoy it for some reason :shrug:

[12secondv6]

I do it

[enRo]

then my emo neighbor who i ride quads with asked us if he could do it for money. so that works well for all of us i guess.

So what your saying is... he doesnt use a mower to cut the lawn... instead he talks the grass into cutting itself :lol: [/lame joke] har har harrr

[88BluBird]

LOL im a landscaper..i have no choice...last thing i feel like doing when i get home let me tell ya...

[Fast92RS]

I mow my own lawn. I have the best lawn on the block. I just got a new sprinkler system put in this year.

[Ian]

I mow my own lawn. I have the best lawn on the block. I just got a new sprinkler system put in this year.

its true, he does have the best lawn on his block :nod:

[Fast92RS]

its true, he does have the best lawn on his block :nod:
thanks Ian

[Savage_Messiah]

i still shovel the snow though. i enjoy it for some reason :shrug:

I avoid it at all costs