Sometimes I feel like a turdball on here.

Heifergal · June 2011

When I read about people getting all butthurt because their neighbors don't rake their leaves, or have unsightly crab grass or dandelions in the lawn, or what have you.

We mow when we have time, we never rake leaves, and I think dandelions are pretty. I don't care what my neighbors think. We also live in the country with one close neighbor. I'm just glad I'm not living next to YOU.

rimjob · June 2011

I feel the same way. Plus I will never bltch at my H about mowing the lawn simply because I don't want to. I grew up with an older brother and 2 SB, I have never mowed the lawn in my life

MySallyGirl · June 2011

We live in the country and have an ABUNDANCE of dandelions and our lawn consists of weeds that grew in and look like a grassy lawn. We just don't have the money right now to put in a real lawn with real grass. I think it looks cute though most of the time anyways.

beckslea · June 2011

Lol it's a fine line. We live in the City and it drives me crazy when people park directly in front of our front walkway or don't clean up their trash areas (it then blows into our yard) or steal our trash can lids.

But then H doesn't always mow our yard or trim the hedges or rake as often as he should so oh well.

Helix07 · June 2011

You will change your tune if you ever live in a neighborhood and are trying to sell your house when your neighbor has not mowed their grass in 3 weeks, and has a yard full of dandelions, weeds, and bare spots.

Heifergal · June 2011

Helix07:
You will change your tune if you ever live in a neighborhood and are trying to sell your house when your neighbor has not mowed their grass in 3 weeks, and has a yard full of dandelions, weeds, and bare spots.

This is why I don't ever plan on living in a neighborhood. I've never gone three weeks without mowing but dandelions just aren't a big deal to me. I like my country living with no lawn pressure.

OliveBaby · June 2011

Helix07:
You will change your tune if you ever live in a neighborhood and are trying to sell your house when your neighbor has not mowed their grass in 3 weeks, and has a yard full of dandelions, weeds, and bare spots.

Negative ghost rider.

AggieBeth06 · June 2011

Helix07:
You will change your tune if you ever live in a neighborhood and are trying to sell your house when your neighbor has not mowed their grass in 3 weeks, and has a yard full of dandelions, weeds, and bare spots.

What gets me is that our POA is threatening to issue violations for dead grass. Uh, hello! Major, historic drought here, people! Even watering my lawn every other day doesn't help the parts that get full sun.

In normal circumstances I agree - we bought in this neighborhood to protect our investment. But I will say that we havent been good about it lately, and the house next door finally sold - crab grass and all after months of good landscaping.

taggiecb · June 2011

I will never ever live in a place where anyone but my husband, myself, or my kids care whats on/in/around my lawn.

nene82388 · June 2011

OliveBaby:

Negative ghost rider.

I have nothing to contribute, but that is so funny you say that. I have never heard anyone say that before besides my husband. He says it all the time.

erind0213 · June 2011

This is the one reason I am happy I live in the city with no grass of my own to care for.

However I am usually the one on the block with the decorations up forever, for the wrong holiday and with the dead plant out front because I haven't the best green thumb.

As much as I would love to live away from the city, I do not look forward to all the lawn and outside care would include.

Heifergal · June 2011

erind0213:

This is the one reason I am happy I live in the city with no grass of my own to care for.

However I am usually the one on the block with the decorations up forever, for the wrong holiday and with the dead plant out front because I haven't the best green thumb.

As much as I would love to live away from the city, I do not look forward to all the lawn and outside care would include.

You could buy a herd of goats.

Jenniferk08 · June 2011

Mow the lawn.. hmm what is that?? oh yes the thing H does about twice a year. since the house next to us is falling down and our other neighbor is never home I dont think it matters to anyone.

OliveBaby · June 2011

Heifergal:
erind0213:

This is the one reason I am happy I live in the city with no grass of my own to care for.

However I am usually the one on the block with the decorations up forever, for the wrong holiday and with the dead plant out front because I haven't the best green thumb.

As much as I would love to live away from the city, I do not look forward to all the lawn and outside care would include.

You could buy a herd of goats.

OH! And you could milk said goats as well. Lower your grocery bill. BONUS!

wannja01 · June 2011

Since we live in suburbia, we keep the yard trimmed and hubby is going to battle the dandelions. But that's his thing not mine. We moved to our neighborhood because people do manage their yards etc. Our last neighborhood was kinda in the "hood" and we got tired of being one of the few people that worried about it and our home value. Yes we are that couple, reporting broken down cars that have been in front of the house for months and not registered. If we lived in the country, we wouldn't care though.

JerkStore213 · June 2011

wannja01:
Since we live in suburbia, we keep the yard trimmed and hubby is going to battle the dandelions. But that's his thing not mine. We moved to our neighborhood because people do manage their yards etc. Our last neighborhood was kinda in the "hood" and we got tired of being one of the few people that worried about it and our home value. Yes we are that couple, reporting broken down cars that have been in front of the house for months and not registered. If we lived in the country, we wouldn't care though.

Yep, me too. Our neighbors across the street have cars in various states of disrepair stretching all the way down the block. Their garage is full to the brim with garbage and they have pickup truck bed covers and other bullshiz up on blocks half painted all over their lawn. To my knowledge they have never mowed the lawn in the 4+ years that we've lived across the street from them. The brown christmas wreath on their front door has seen 3 christmases so far. We live in a lake community and are required to pay dues on top of our property tax. We take care of our house and are proud of it. Our yard looks nice, and it sucks to have people come over and have to drive over their tools that they leave all over the street. PLUS, the dad works in a factory somewhere and he's constantly bringing home stray cats and letting them run loose in the neighborhood.

I think it's incredibly rude to not take at least basic care of the outside of your home if you have neighbors in close proximity. If you're out in the country, go for it.

jenna3016 · June 2011

Heifergal:
When I read about people getting all butthurt because their neighbors don't rake their leaves, or have unsightly crab grass or dandelions in the lawn, or what have you.

We mow when we have time, we never rake leaves, and I think dandelions are pretty. I don't care what my neighbors think. We also live in the country with one close neighbor. I'm just glad I'm not living next to YOU.

Meh. We take care of our yard. We'd really appreciate if our neighbor would, too. We have to rake leaves - we have a bunch of trees in our yard.

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