Is pursuing the perfect yard a very wasteful middle class thing?

[eddiehaskell]

Fertilizers, seed, chemicals, soil analysis, weed killers, mowing routines, watering, time investment, etc -- is this a very middle class thing that's also wasteful?

A yard full of grass and native weeds can look 80% as good from the street if all you do is mow it. It's mostly self healing and requires no watering or chemicals...just a cut every week.

[wisezeppelin]

Probably wasteful and very time consuming for vanity's sake.

Its the quintessential Boomer thing to do.

[GaryRidgway]

It always seemed really dumb to me

[eddiehaskell]

Probably wasteful and very time consuming for vanity's sake.

It's the quintessential Boomer thing to do.

seems like one of things mostly men (often married) do to signal they've solidly arrived in the middle class. big box stores sell a lot of stuff to these people

[HateLiberals]

White men always have the nice yards it's in our DNA

[GooBaaa]

Incredibly gay

[TheParish]

It's cope for the fact that their neighbors are 8 feet away from them

[eddiehaskell]

It's cope for the fact that their neighbors are 8 feet away from them

never got how people would buy nice homes so close to each other. walk outside and people in 15 different homes can basically look at right at you. i'd gladly give up some house for distance.

[IlChosenOne]

It’s an absolutely retarded boomer thing

[blissful88]

You don't need to analyze your fukn soil..



Just cut the grass; if grass is missing, lay seed

Edge every few weeks & weed-eat



Fine line between obsession & looking unacceptable

[Unstumpable]

Yeah it's too much effort if you can't afford a landscaping company. A cut once a week is good enough for me.


That being said I do mire those yards where the guys obviously put a ton of effort into it.

[mikeditka]

Sorry OP, I enjoy doing pull-ups in my garage on my ultra-choice bar (which I put into the studs with 3” lag bolts), next to my 475+hp sports car, while looking out towards the street across a 1/2 acre of lush green lawn. My neighbors are 150’+ away on either side.

Feelsgoodman

For the record, I absolutely will tolerate some clover. I’m not chemical bombing to death on grass that my dog and son play on. But, yeah I keep that **** mowed and edged and pretty on-point. I pay a high school kid $60 to mow it every two weeks and then I push mow it every two weeks. Stagger it that way. So, I do a little mowing but not dealing with it every week.

I also rock some natural wildflowers native to this area along the woods in the back as well as some wildflower garden beds…these are all bordered by large rocks that I have carried form the forest by hand (no wheelbarrow, it’s great exercise and I enjoy seeing what I’ve placed on the property by hand.)

Now get off my lawn OP
LOL at saying some

[eddiehaskell]

Sorry OP, I enjoy doing pull-ups in my garage on my ultra-choice bar (which I put into the studs with 3” lag bolts), next to my 475+hp sports car, while looking out towards the street across a 1/2 acre of lush green lawn. My neighbors are 150’+ away on either side.

Feelsgoodman

For the record, I absolutely will tolerate some clover. I’m not chemical bombing to death on grass that my dog and son play on. But, yeah I keep that **** mowed and edged and pretty on-point. I pay a high school kid $60 to mow it every two weeks and then I push mow it every two weeks. Stagger it that way. So, I do a little mowing but not dealing with it every week.

I also rock some natural wildflowers native to this area along the woods in the back as well as some wildflower garden beds…these are all bordered by large rocks that I have carried form the forest by hand (no wheelbarrow, it’s great exercise and I enjoy seeing what I’ve placed on the property by hand.)

Now get off my lawn OP
LOL at saying some

back in my day 20 years ago 475hp meant something. i had a ~370hp ls1 camaro back in high school and wished i had 400+hp to beat the few kids around town with faster cars. nowadays electric cars are doing 0-60 in 3 seconds and i don't even think about hp.

[Redfish225]

Sloots be mirin hard when your name is in the display entering the neighborhood “Yard of the month”

[r32gojirra]

Idk but hating on homeowners is a very pleb class thing

*checks who the OP is*

Carry on

[eddiehaskell]

Idk but hating on homeowners is a very pleb class thing

*checks who the OP is*

Carry on

brother you always owning people on forums!

[leoaa777]

Very middle class move. Gross.

[r32gojirra]

brother you always owning people on forums!

Not people, just haters

[atgbrahsrs]

Idk but hating on homeowners is a very pleb class thing

*checks who the OP is*

Carry on

Even a bogan cares more than OP



Brutal

[eddiehaskell]

Not people, just haters

git 'em brother

[regl8r]

Live in a 3 story townhome with no yard but what do you want people with grass to do? Just let it grow not cut it? Most yards take 30-60 min to cut, get out fresh air and brainless work like that is great to take your mind off things.

[eddiehaskell]

Live in a 3 story townhome with no yard but what do you want people with grass to do? Just let it grow not cut it? Most yards take 30-60 min to cut, get out fresh air and brainless work like that is great to take your mind off things.

i do enjoy cutting/trimming my yard and my parents yard...occasionally a rental that comes open. they look nice when cut and edged weekly.never done anything to them but cut and weed eat

[Paul Kreul]

Yea never having to buy vegetables & fruit filled with toxins is such a drag lol.

I can live off my yard for years, how tf would anyone think it’s a wast of time to grow your own food??SMH.

[blissful88]

back in my day 20 years ago 475hp meant something. i had a ~370hp ls1 camaro back in high school and wished i had 400+hp to beat the few kids around town with faster cars. nowadays electric cars are doing 0-60 in 3 seconds and i don't even think about hp.

What no one ever mentions is how after that 0-60 they fall flat on their face; in the quarter mile the LS1 would win

[plebmaximus]

yeah mainly a brokies-type activity

[kengriffeyjr24]

yeah mainly a brokies-type activity

It's cope for the fact that their neighbors are 8 feet away from them

Probably wasteful and very time consuming for vanity's sake.

Its the quintessential Boomer thing to do.

I can tell everyone is poor in this thread

ever go to a REALLY nice upper class suburb

every lawn is immaculate. beautiful landscaping and detail (flower beds, hardscaping, and of course nicely trimmed grass/lawns).

perfect lawn is more of an upper middle class/upper class thing boyo. middle class areas are full of zombie drones too lazy unmotivated to clean their house, put their kids bikes away, or take care of their lawn.

[PatchouliMusk]

I can tell everyone is poor in this thread

ever go to a REALLY nice upper class suburb

every lawn is immaculate. beautiful landscaping and detail (flower beds, hardscaping, and of course nicely trimmed grass/lawns).

perfect lawn is more of an upper middle class/upper class thing boyo. middle class areas are full of zombie drones too lazy unmotivated to clean their house, put their kids bikes away, or take care of their lawn.

it's only cool if you have F U money and can just pay a landscaping company to do it cuz w/e why not

now running to home depot on the weekend and loading bags of fertilizer into your minivan?

geeky as fuark

[kengriffeyjr24]

it's only cool if you have F U money and can just pay a landscaping company to do it cuz w/e why not

now running to home depot on the weekend and loading bags of fertilizer into your minivan?

geeky as fuark

as opposed to running to the grocery story to load milk in the minivan? whats the problem?

why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an asset and just decide "who gives an F about my property, Ill just take the easy way and not take care of it because its "geeky""

[PatchouliMusk]

as opposed to running to the grocery story to load milk in the minivan? whats the problem?

why spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an asset and just decide "who gives an F about my property, Ill just take the easy way and not take care of it because its "geeky""

you need food to survive. terrible example

your property doesn't depreciate or appreciate based on the lawn. just clean it up when you plan to sell. terrible example

[eddiehaskell]

I can tell everyone is poor in this thread

ever go to a REALLY nice upper class suburb

every lawn is immaculate. beautiful landscaping and detail (flower beds, hardscaping, and of course nicely trimmed grass/lawns).

perfect lawn is more of an upper middle class/upper class thing boyo. middle class areas are full of zombie drones too lazy unmotivated to clean their house, put their kids bikes away, or take care of their lawn.

still unnatural, wasteful and bad for the environment/ecology regardless of the peer pressure to fit in....and yes even people with money aren't immune from doing things to fit in/be accepted