The area where I live has just gone through dangerously high temperatures for the last couple of days, and yet I've had three separate boomers talk to me about how they had to go out and mow the lawn in this heat. Why? It's just grass! The world won't end because it grew an extra inch during a heatwave. My 82 year old father did yard work and then went to the hospital for heat exhaustion symptoms. When I ask him why he was outside in this heat, he says somebody needed to take care of Mom's flowerbeds. I want to hit my head against the wall. Why can't boomers understand that yardwork and grass cutting are not so fucking vital?
Why are boomers so obsessed with mowing their lawn?
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This. Practical has nothing to do with it. Have to keep up with the neighbors, don't want them talking.
Let's see, rip out ecosystem, plant non native grass. Add tons of fertilizer, pesticides, and water to make it grow so well, you have to buy a mower, add fuel, and cut it weekly.
If you know how soon the dead are forgotten, why do you care what anyone thinks about you now?
This is so funny because I'll let my grass grow just a little bit long before I cut it. Allows me to mow less often (great!) helps the bees (great!) and lets me be lazy a little bit LOL
My neighbor literally goes out and mows his lawn every day once he thinks mine is "unacceptable." Every. Single. Day. (Unless it's raining) until I cut it, then he'll stop for like a week or two.
We do not live in an HOA, and we don't have regulations on lawn height in our town AFAIK other than it actually looking like it's out of control and overtaking things. There's abandoned houses that have lawns that haven't been cut in 3 years. My lawn is very nice and is mostly clover at this point, so even with it being a few inches high, it doesn't look bad.
I ignore mine until it's long enough that I worry about velociraptors hiding in it. Then I mow it with my cheap-ass push mower on the highest setting, and ignore it again. So, it gets mowed about 4-6 times a year, depending on how much rain we get.
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