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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What I find more disgusting than house prices is the cost of services in this area. I can do much more for 1/2 the price elsewhere, and get a better job done. $2,500 to have people come, [b]cut the tops off of weeds and mulch,[/b] leaving me with the same darn issue in a month's time? Just no.

I am now hand-weeding every bed and hand-mulching with cedar. Got done with one side, only to have the mowers cut the grass and throw grass-clippings all over the newly mulched beds. GRRR.[/quote]

Boomer here.  We never had people doing our lawn work growing up and we don't now.  We also paint and do maintenance ourselves (like our "greatest generation" parents did).  Heck, I'm 58 and my husband is 60 and we just did our own mulching and weeding.  We don't pay for fancy gyms . . . we get our workout in the yard.  Our parents (the Depression/WW2 kids) showed us how to do all of that.  We also didn't grow up with fancy windows (we had to change the screens and storms in the fall and spring---it was a big job).  So maybe you can understand why we think the millennials are a bit "whiny".  You all need to learn to do things for yourselves.  Believe it or not we cleaned our own houses too.  Among many other things.  [/quote]

Gen X here.  My husband and I do our own yard work, our own maintenance, clean our own house, etc.

When I was growing up, I was blue collar, but of my friends' families, EVERYONE paid for lawn service and chem lawn and what have you.  Where I live now, there are a lot of Boomers.  They ALL pay for chemlawn.

They also run sprinklers in the summer (and half the water goes onto the sidewalk or driveway).   The most wasteful generation I've ever seen.

We bought out house from Boomers.  They paid a lot for the precious lawn's upkeep (we couldn't care less about the lawn), but after living here, we realized they skimped on the actual maintenance of the house.  They were all about the superficial stuff.

Anecdotal experience yes.  But you are spouting anecdotal experience as well.  [/quote]

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