No, it’s laziness. |
Yes. It’s the outsource-entitlement mentality so common to most millennials. The same attitude that prevents them from changing a flat tire or replacing a car battery, fixing a leaky flapper valve in a toilet, and a myriad of other common household tasks that people used to just handle themselves. We are rapidly becoming a country full of people who can’t do sh!t for themselves. |
No, millennials just learned about comparative advantage. Just because I can do it, doesn’t mean there’s not tremendous value in paying someone who can do it in a fraction of the time at scale, freeing my time up to do something that makes me money or that I am more skilled at or benefits my family. |
I’m in Rockville and it seems like every company requires a contract for the season at $40 a week for our 1/3 acre lot. Sometimes they skip a week and they might just do edging or something. Sometimes depending on rain/heat they might come every 10 days. The price is fixed either way.
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Nope. I make too much money to waste time on mowing laws with I can pay someone 35 bucks to do it and maintain all the equipment. Less time with kids and wife. Also - mowing a lawn isn’t exercise. It is breathing in lots of gas exhaust and dust. |
OP you have to stop comparing people who come to your house to work to what you think is a reasonable hourly rate for a full time job.
1) small businesses have considerable overhead so what they charge you isn’t just labor, even if it’s a one man band 2) they can’t stack jobs perfectly like Tetris to bill 8 hours a day Think of more as a fraction of a day. The business has a target of $x/day and each job booked takes up some fraction of a day. A lawn guy can probably do 3 lawns a day. Maybe 2 depending on how strong his back is. |
No, almost certainly not. It might include spraying weeds in a mulched area with glyphosate from a backpack. |
+100 I know, it’s crazy. We are one of the very few on our street that mows and edges our lawn. We save sooo much money. It takes a little over 1 hour to mow, edge and bag. We look at it as exercise. It’s worth it to use to save the money for other indulgences. |
And other people might choose to use their time differently. No need to act holier than thou. |
You don’t save “sooo” much money. You save around $1300-2000 per year based on what people are saying on this thread. That’s not that much money. |
6000 sq ft lot Arlington. Not all grass. Maybe half.
Guy and kid. One mows one blows and edges. 20 minutes. $60 |
And yet here you are.... SO busy, lol! |
It’s more in the neighborhood of $4000-5000 where I live. My spouse and I can take a ten day trip to Europe for that amount, so, yes, well worth it. |
You need to shop around for a new mowing service because you’re getting ripped off. I pay 35 bucks for .35 acres in McLean. Even the fanciest company would charge 50 max. |
The costs are so much higher in NW DC and in close in Montgomery County. Most require contracts of 3000-5000. We've gotten tons of estimates over the years. |