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Originally Posted by DAVES
This is the first time in my life that I have paid someone to mow my lawn. In high school, 1960's I started and ran a small lawn mowing service. At my peak, I did about 18 lawns. It is a tough way to make few bucks. Where I did it was far cooler than Florida. I was cheaper than the,"professionals," and I charged about what these people charge today. So I was about 8x more due to inflation.
If, my back was not a mess. If, I was not this old. If, it wasn't so hot. If, they weren't so inexpensive. If, I had room to store a mower, edger etc. Surely, I would mow my own
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Yup, me too, I mowed neighborhood lawns for $0.25 with a push mower until I was old enough to build a powered mower for myself. I worked a deal with the local hardware store, I cleaned up at the end of each day - mopping floors, garbage etc. in exchange to being allowed to dig through his junk pile of old worn-out lawn mower (he did lawn mower repairs on the side). I collected enough pieces to put on together that worked. It took awhile since I had to learn how to take them apart and then learn how to put them together - LOL. I think I was 10 or 12. I then charged $0.50 per lawn using my Brandie new powered lawn mower.
When we moved here I purchased a DeWalt electric mower, and mowed for a while. Then decided that was against the code of retirees. And sold it. I have regretted selling it ever since. We are on our 4th or 5th lawn care service now.
What I want is a "time shared gardener". Someone that does everything a private gardener would do, which with these postage stamp yards would take a few hours per week.