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How many of you mow your lawn? Or does your DH do it? Older DS? Lawn service?

DH is in China for a month so now it is my job. I don't really mind doing it once I am out there, but I just dread getting started. I keep putting it off. Looking out at it right now, I see it is TIME!

I used to help DH mow. Then they all started making fun of the way I mowed. I'm SO type A and needed it in a pattern. So I quit mowing and still refuse to even help at all. DS1 took over for a few years now DS2 does it. DS2 loves to mow. I figure for a couple more years the kids will do it then it will be back to us.

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My TIme, do you pay your sons to mow? Or is it just considered a chore as part of the family?
I would like my 12 yo DS to start but DH doesn't think he is mature/responsible enough.

I have never mowed a lawn, not once. My Dh is semi-obsessed with the lawn and always does it. We have a rider. I tried to mow it last year after Dh's surgery, or at least pick up all our pine needles with it, but DH insisted i would break it as we have some inclines he claims are quite tricky.

I used to have to do it as a teen because we had no boys and I was the oldest. I swore that when I grew up I would never cut another lawn and I've stuck to that. When DH is out of town I have a lawn service do it.

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I mow our lawn. It takes me about two and half hours to do the entire lawn. Its hard work. The hills are the difficult part. But, on a good note...I get my exercise, the lawn gets mowed and I manage to get a little sun, so it works for me! During the summer, I was having to mow it about every five days, now that fall is fast approaching, I can get by doing it once a week. I don't complain about mowing the lawn, because dh cooks dinner at least three nights a week. I am hoping for a new mower next summer. Not a rider, just a regular push mower like we have now....

comes as part of the rent, when we move next month and it's our job again the oldest or dh will do it, it's part of the chores

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I cut the grass or my 13 DS, neither of us weed wack though!

My oldest DS and I both cut the grass when DH is away. WE have 2 mowers. DS is 12 and just started helping this year. Neither one of can weedwack though and according to DH we arent very good at cutting the grass either. WE leave streaks and make crooked lines lol

My ds 13 & I cut the grass today. Usually my 13 yr old & 18 yr old share the job. When one is busy, the other picks up the slack. I chose to do some today because I needed the workout & my 18 yr old has been swamped with work & school.

I'll do the weedwhacker sometimes, d/h sometimes, or the 18 yr old. Depends how particular we feel about the results!

As for payment, they get a roof over their heads & food in the stomachs...and the food alone for 2 teen boys means they get the better side of the deal!

Dh or Ds does the lawn, but we have considered doing a lawn service because our lawn is so big and needs some help with weeds, etc.
However, with all of the boys going off to College, we have scaled back on excessive spending (and I consider a lawn service excessive). Our next door neighbor lives in a mini mansion and he has always had his lawn serviced even with having kids. His lawn looks very nice. I am sure it drives him crazy that our shabby lawn butts up to his! LOL

I love cutting the grass. Since I had my 3rd back surgery a few years ago I have not been able to do it at all and I really miss it. I used to love to do it. Very relaxing!

I will just come out and say it. I am 37 years old and I have NEVER mowed grass in my life.

After my dad died, mom was just a tad overprotective and would never let me. When we first bought our house years ago, DH was a bit anal about the lines and whatnot, and he would never let me mow.

It's one of the jobs I absolutely love and, as DH says, obsessed with! I do NOT want anyone touching it! So, yes, I proudly mow myself and weed-eat the whole thing (5 acres is mowable and the other 5 is pasture). Takes me 1 hr 15 minutes to mow on our zero-turn and about 2-3 hours to weed the whole thing.

Mow the lawn and break a nail???? I have offered (its very small) but my SO says "NO its a man's job!" If something happens and he can't mow the lawn my son comes over and does it.

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I mow....and dh weedwacks only because I HATE that machine! I can never get it started and then the stupid string always unravels for me....

I like the mower, put gas in, pull cord and GO!!!!!!!!!!

I love to mow!!!

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I mow once in a while to help DH out but he does it 90% of the time. It hasn't been done in several weeks because it's been so dry here -- the grass just stopped growing and turned brown --but we just recently had two days of good rain so now it's green again and needs to be mowed. I think I will do it later today after the dew dries. We bought a new mower this year so it's a much easier job than it used to be.

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my husband does it, I'm allergic to grass~

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I cant ever find a place to mow when DHs is away- how do you find someone to do a once in a while mowing?

I love to mow grass but DH wont let me because I "broke" his mower once.
I really didnt break it- I misaligned the wheels and he couldnt figure out how to get them back. He is not a handy guy- not one callous on his perfect hands!

Around here, a lot of the lawn mowing service companies do not do any "once-in-a-while" jobs. You have to commit to the entire season. Maybe you have a teenage boy in the neighborhood that can do it for you?

I mow the lawn the majority of the time. I don't mind; the deer, rabbits and birds keep me company.

My Husband and Son(almost 12) do the yard work then daughter and I go sweep off all the patio and brick trim.

I do most of the yard work and my husband does most of the cooking. We each do the chores we like the best.

I guess it all depends upon the size of your yard. On our little 60x100 plot, there isn't much grass and I am the one doing it now. Used to be my DH, but with his arthritis, I like to do the yard work, and I enjoy it. I am more fussy about it and happier doing it myself. It takes no more than 15-20 minutes I guess (maybe less, I never timed it).

But my best friend has a huge property with a slope. Her in shape husband takes hours to do it. That I would never volunteer for, lol!

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My son will probably look for summer mowing jobs this coming summer, or maybe a bagger, my favorite cashier here has had him in part time "training" each time I go in, shows him how to put stuff in the bags and not overload or put the soft stuff at the bottoms

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My mom gave me this advice before I got married. "Don't ever learn to cut the grass"
Being older now, i really get it, because the more I do, the more my husband expects me to do.
My mom was a very wise woman.

I actually like to mow the lawn, electic edge and trim the bushes. When my husband was at Ft Bragg for 2 years I was not thrilled that I HAD to do it though.
Funny thing in our new neighborhood in Virginia is that we are the ONLY people that mow our own yard and I suppose it gave the neighbors something to talk since not only were we doing it ourselves but I was mowing it since my husband was inside painting!!!

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When our kids were little 1,2, & 3 my DH and I would bicker about who's turn it was to do it. We both loved to do the yard and it took 5 hours of straight cutting on the mower to do it. Whoever wasn't cutting had to stay in with the kids and I was a stay at home mom so I would always look for a way to get a break!!! Now I can't do it and I miss it.

We have a lawn service -- that is the best money we've every spent. DH even gave away our lawn mower to his brother when he bought his first house earlier this summer.

Sarah.......mom to Jason & Devin