#lawncare
I detest cutting grass every week. Waste of my life.
Discussion
Manual labor is good for quieting the mind
Yes, but...
It's disgustingly useless labor, in my mind
I can't express how much loathing I bear towards "lawncare."
I used to cut grass as a kid for money.
If you can put yourself in the right mood, you'll meditate while doing it. It's more rewarding than you'd think. No matter how dull a task may seem, you'll end up enjoying it if you ground yourself in the present moment.
my mowers yours anytime you want to visit the farm. I find my solace in the movement of the shovel.
people started planting grass to show they were wealthy enough to have to grow food on it. I currently mow my houses lawn 3 times a year as the “lawn substitute” takes hold
I haven't done it a long time but this should be fun. My grandparents had a little farm as I was growing up. I miss those times. 💜
True. I went for a house with garden too. Just for the kids and just to grill every now and then. But now that they're getting older, I only want a stone patio in my next place.
Round and round
If you’re working 40-60 hours a week and you have kids and/or a stay at home wife, you should never have to touch a mower other than to do oil and air filter services and touching up the blades. My Dad usually had another 20 hours of work on bigger projects to cram into his weekend on top of getting us to sports and out into the bush. Despite grumbling through it sometimes, three hours of lawn cutting with a push mower made a great first chore for teaching us how to work and earn a bit of allowance. In the winter it’d be replaced by shovelling and blowing snow and hauling firewood and chucking it down a window well chute and stacking it in the basement wood room. In the spring it would be me and my sister running a tractor up and down the fields picking rocks prior to planting. Without the benefit of growing up on a farm, lawn mowing is for today’s suburb dwelling kids one of the best and first excuses to teach them to be useful. 
This brings back so many memories. As a kid I would cut the grass, shovel and also stacked firewood after having it passed through a window into the box below in the basement. Such a common practice back then and it actually wasn’t that long ago at the same time.
sounds like my upbringing. my kids are helping out already and I will have plenty of tasks for them as the need as we have access to the farm. i recognize the fortune I have to provide that.
Yep, I loved running the lawn mower when I was a young teen. It got me out of the house away from my parents for a bit, and I could listen to my off-brand Walkman and jam out while getting exercise and appreciating physical work.
I didn't even know about the turbo function on the mower until I accidentally pressed down on that part of the handle bar and it gunned a little 😁
I was pushing it mostly myself until then, with just a bit of help from the motor.
But yeah, now that I'm older, I know lawns are bs. I also hate the fertilizer our landlord sprinkles around every spring. It reeks for weeks until a good couple of rains wash the smell away. 😭
I have been training the horseherb and chickweed to take over. I only mowed 3 or 4 times this past year and I skip various sections. I harvest any wild edible that pops up which is work I enjoy and free food. The lawn is just another of the many lies we've been told.
I don’t mind it. A good meditation and way to get some vitamin D.
agreed.
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