We just hired a gardener to come mow our postage-stamp-sized lawn twice a month.
My husband came from a place (New Jersey) where his backyard was over an acre in size and they mowed their own dang lawn. Him and his mom came out to LA and both laughed at how everyone in LA hire gardeners for their teeny tiny lawns.
After 3 years of trying to maintain our lawn ourselves, we gave in and hired a gardener today.
It is not the size of the lawn that makes lawn mowing on the regular basis hard. The hard part is finding the motivation to pull the gardening appliances out of the garage (which is located in our backyard), then push them through our driveway, which is completely blocked off by our 2 parked cars, to the front yard. This motivation wasn't extremely hard to find before we had a baby, but now that we have baby Caitlin, when we have a couple minutes to ourselves, dealing with the lawn is the last thing we want to do.
The final "push" that caused us to hire a gardener, is that our neighborhood is not entirely thrilled with our "overgrown" lawn. Last week, the guy that maintains the church grounds (across the street from us) politely brought up the topic of referring a gardener to us. And this morning, he was banging our front door at 8am wanting to introduce us to his gardener. After a quote of $40 per month (pretty good!) we hired him on the spot.
Our "overgrown" postage-stamp-sized front yard that our neighbors have a problem with.
There isn't more to our front yard. That is seriously how small it is.
There isn't more to our front yard. That is seriously how small it is.
We previously had a gardener for 1 month, when we first moved into our house (apparently he was hired and I didn't even know about it). He charged $90 per month and he came once per week, which was completely overkill. I canned him as soon as I realized he was hired and draining us almost 100 bucks every month.
Based on that experience, I am more than happy to pay $40 per month for this guy to come twice per month and not have to worry about our lawn (and neighbors) anymore.
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