Is It Rude to Mow Your Lawn While Neighbors Have Guests Over??

I don't think it's a question of what type of neighbors/people you want to be. I think that you'd just want to treat people with general kindness and consideration. If you had guests over and your neighbor saw that, wouldn't you think it would be pretty nice and terrific if they stopped? Or, you could just wave to them and say - So sorry to do this now, but I won't be able to do it later. I'll get this done in a jiffy. It's just kind.

This society is so lacking in general kindness and consideration - what happened to that? I have neighbors who let their yappy dog bark at 11 p.m. - just plain inconsiderate. I wasn't raised that way.

No, you are not being rude. You (and your hubby) planned your weekend according to your needs, as did your neighbors. Your hubby planned to mow on Sun and it's not your problem what the neighbors do. I love my neighbors and we get along great. If there is something extremely special going on for them, I would expect them to contact me ahead of time and kindly ask if we could mow at another time (and, of course, we would!)

It's rude but I see that I am in the vast minority. I just try not to do things like this to my neighbors. It's how I would like them to treat me, and usually, they do. Unfortunately it's not convenient for you but I hope the neighbors respect YOUR guests enough to hold off mowing when you have guests. Same with weed-whacking or any other loud noise that you would be making, unless, of course, you just can't put off the project, then go for it. Usually, mowing can be held off for a day.

I don't think it's rude, but I think it would be a really nice thing not to mow when there's a party going on next door. You can't plan your weekend around your neighbors, but they can't plan around you either, so general consideration for each other works the best on my opinion.

I don't think it would be rude but I think it might be nice to say something about it- maybe "I hope this doesn't disturb you too much, we'll be done soon." Assuming there won't be grass flying into their food or something:)

I don't think it is rude. It would be rude if you prolonged your "work"..finished mowing, got out the weedwacker, the leafblower etc. and if your town allows burning, started a fire of all the tree debris..that would be rude.

I know others think it is incredibly rude, but I think when you mow totally depends on a lot of issues. I don't understand why it would be rude to mow at 9 am but that's me-especially if that is the only time you could. If you get along great with the neighbors and usually have no problems taking care of your property, then I would put it off. But, if this is an every weekend thing, what are you supposed to do? We had a neighbor that always complained. They lived across the street. They would complain the kids in the yard next door were splashing water from the pool. There was a tarp up so no water was landing in their own yard. They didn't like the noise. They complained about the mowing, about the kids playing in the yard, etc. And they were not really noisy. I don't think you need to keep all noise down but being reasonable helps. We also had another neighbor that had parties every Friday, Sat and Sun. They were not wild parties and really you can do what you want in your house and yard if you don't mow to be respectiful to their parties, the grass would never have been mowed.

I don't think it's actually rude, but postponing it as a courtesy would certainly be an act of neighborly kindness. Of course, if that's the only time you can conveniently do it all weekend, then go ahead -- it's not rude, just necessary.