How Many of You Are in Charge of Mowing the Lawn?

Not me! Not since I was a teenager have I mowed a lawn.

In my house that chore rotates between The Man, The 19y/o, The 16y/o or The 15y/o!

*One of the benefits of having all these boys...they are like built-in lawn boys, pool guys and grocery carriers...along with many many many other useful things!

I have never pushed a lawn mower in my life... true story.

I had 2 little brothers growing up, so they did it (or my dad did). Ditto with taking out the trash. It's men's work. There are 2 things on this Earth I pull the sexist card out for, and that's cutting the grass and taking out the garbage. Seriously! When it was just me and the girls, I would pay my next door neighbor in food or cigarettes to take out my trash ;) Call it what you will, but this is my one and only way of pulling out my 'girl card'... I won't do it!!

Now, in all fairness, I do believe certain things are better done by a woman, which makes it 'woman's work'... like laundry. Otherwise I'd have shrunken clothes all a lovely shade of pink ;)

My husband is REALLY picky about the mowing--so he does it.

I would gladly trade laundry, cooking and cleaning for weekly mowing duty!

My husband does for two reasons. One I am allergic to bee stings, and we have a lot of bees and wasp around, even though we spray for them. The second is I am the designated plumber. I fix the toilets and unclog the sinks, and I figure if I have that nasty job than the lest he can do is mow the lawn. He agrees.

Ha ha ha, I love your "what happened"! I mow for the exact same reason, I get some great thinking time to myself! Plus, we have a large yard and even though my hubby enjoys yardworks, for some reason when he mows, he just mows a little tiny circle around the house and it looks half-done and it drives me INSANE. He did it on Sunday so yesterday after he went to work I got out there and mowed to the fences. Whew, now I can relax, it looks done and it took me a whole extra half hour! :-)

The lawn gets mowed by both myself and my husband. it wasn't supposed to be like that! It was supposed to be me taking care of the inside of the house and my husband taking care of the outside. But, he works a ton and sometimes in the great northwest you only have a day or two that it doesn't rain so it MUST be cut on those days! lol So, out I go, with my 3 kids, and mow the lawn. I have a 4 month old, so sometimes it's a bit difficult, but she seems to be pretty happy in her swing as I quickly mow our HUGE backyard!

Well, I really love gardening, and am a freak about the way the outside of the house looks, so cutting the grass loosely qualifies.

However my GUY is threatened by this and gets indignant if I do it while he's not here. This is one of those ego compromise situations where I just backed off and let him have his delusion that he is somehow manlier because HE cuts the grass, not me. Thing is he clearly HATES to cut the grass, and does a lame job, sigh.

Sometime I get lucky and he just can't do it, out of town, too much rain, sore back whatever.

When he gets home he will always say....so you had to cut the grass, huh? Sadly, remorsefully, as if it's a negative reflection on him that his woman had to cut the grass. Even though we've been over it a zillion times.

But I LOVE to cut the grass! It's very important to me!

Anyway, yeah, not really your question,tehehe.

:)

I'm not in charge of it but, I often do it. I do a lot of the yard work because I just like to have it done and not take up the whole weekend.

I do my best thinking when I'm vacuuming and doing the dishes...

In my 20's and 30's, we took turns mowing the lawn...now in our 50's, it's hired out.

I mow, weed eat, weed flower beds, prune shrubs and trees, etc... for not only our own property, but also 3 other neighbors' properties as well.

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My husband mowed the lawn at our old house when we had 1/4 of an acre and he could do it all in an hour.
When we moved to our current house, we got 3 acres to mow and we didn't have a riding mower.
Our neighbor is retired and mows lawns around the neighborhood for cash and he offered his services.
He mows roughly every 10 days (depending on how fast it's growing) from April through October, it takes him about 4 hours, he also trims around the house and the ditches and he charges roughly $110 per session - which is a real bargain considering a lawn service would not touch it for under $250.
I pay the neighbor to do it so my husband doesn't have to.
Our neighbor's a nice guy and calls himself our lawn boy but I think of him as our grounds keeper.

I always mow the lawn. I like to do it! It is like my own little time away. I always put in the headphones and listen to MY music as loud as I want it. The only time my husband has done it is when I broke my foot and to be honest he did a horrible job!

I would love to, but would have to get someone to watch the kids. Before children, I would do it in the Summer when I was off school. Now, we usually take turns while the other watches the kids. We have a large yard. Not including trimming, it takes almost 3 hours to mow.
I also think that it is Therapeutic!! I love to turn up my IPod and mow away!

My husband is probably in charge of yard work if either of us is really in charge of that particular chore, but both of us do it.
My husband mows more often than I do. Since we have a 16 year old son he does is too. I think my husband enjoys mowing, so he does most of the riding lawn mower stuff. Our son does most of the smaller areas that we use the push mower for. And I usually do the little stuff, like edge around the house and such.

When I was growing up we had 3 acres and a riding mower and I used to do it most of the time. The first few years we were married we were in apartments with no yardwork, then bought this house and I used to mow. But I hate yard work so I stopped and let him, but he seems to be at work or golf all the time so we hired a neighbor kid. Kid moved away so hubby is doing it again, but he ust mentioned hiring a guy he golfs with who does yard stuff for a living.

My husband and I both will mow the lawn. He likes doing the front yard, and I do the back. If my allergies are really bad then he'll do it all. Our yard's not big enough for a ride-on, so we have an electric mower. I love that it's so easy to start and stop.

me! but that's because i'm a single mom. i would love NOT to mow my lawn! LOL

MEE!!! my 2.5 yr old can't do it yet - lol! :)

We live in AZ, we don't have grass, we have rocks and cactus! :o)

I like to mow and work in the yard, but DH says I'm not aloud to mow with the baby outside so I'm stuck. The little guy loves to have his bare feet in the grass while in his walker when i work in the garden though.

and ok while we are on this subject, would you let 2 older kids sit outside, with a 5 month old safely contained on the other side of a waist high fence while you mowed? I totally don't see the issue but my husband is adamant that I can't.

Most of the time I cut our grass.

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We share this one. We have a huge yard so usually split it in 2 days or between the 2 of us because one person would take at least an hour--and that is without taking the time to empty the bag. Usally we have the kids help too by going through the grass picking up any sticks, toys, etc that might be a problem and then the kids get out of the way. He takes care of trimming the bushes though--I do not touch that, besides he is taller and can reach the top better. And I don't get blamed for crooked trimming. :)

I do most of the time, but my husband does sometimes. We have several acres, so we have a riding mower. I also love the time to myself, but it's awful hot in the summer. My husband does all of the weedeating. I have never done that.

He loves doing it. I've done it in the past but he snoopervises so I handed the duty back to him.

MY contribution was buying the mower for him with prize money. :)

We pay someone to do it. We decided a long time ago it was one of the chores that neither of us really enjoyed. We have a neighborhood kid do it for $20. He gets paid on the first of the month.

My husband mows the lawn with our kids. We don't have much, but we have a riding mower from our last house, and the kids LOVE to help daddy mow the grass. My neighbor right next door mows her lawn (her husband travels 60% of the time) and my neighbor up the street who is pregnant with her 7th also mows her lawn. Otherwise it's the guys. The mom of 7 is a nut and does ALL of the housework and child rearing so her husband will "let" her have more kids. It's rather nausiating! But I do most of the inside house work and my husband handles most of the outside stuff. My weird fear of bugs makes the outside work anything but fun for me!

I love to mow. Put on my ipod and go. Total right brain activity and I come up with my best creative ideas while mowing. Also, I do a better job than my husband.

I have never mowed! I grew up with two older brothers (8 and 10 years older then me) so they or my dad would do it. Then I lived in an apartment for years. Now my husband does it. . .er, sort of.

Our grass is about at tall as our chocolate lab right now! Our lawn mower broke and because it rained so much the last three weeks we didn't fix it. My husband bought the part to fix it yesterday so hopefully it will be done soon. . .

I wouldn't mind learning how to do it. I don't know how I would keep an eye on all three kids (8, 3 and 1) while I did it though!