Get a goat. It will keep your lawn mowed plus give you milk

Anonymous wrote:Curious how others would handle this situation:

I'm a SAHM with young kids (one not yet walking.) My husband works long hours, sometimes not returning home until 7-8pm. Getting him to cut he grass is like pulling teeth. On his days off, he doesn't want to do it. "I'll do it tomorrow." But that never happens. Meanwhile, the kids can't even play in the backyard because the grass is so tall. He won't let me hire a lawn service, even though all of our neighbors use the same service, because he's so cheap. I can't cut it while he's at work, because I'm alone with the kids. If I attempt to cut the grass myself when he's home, he gets upset and ends up cutting it himself, but is mad and pouts the rest of the night.

It always gets cut before it looks horrible, the in the meantime, we can't enjoy our yard.

Do I hire a lawn service and be done with it? He will be mad.

Do I try and coordinate the kids naps and cut it myself while they sleep? He will be mad.

I'm so over it.

On Saturday afternoon put on your bathing suit and go cut the grass. He'll get pissed , come out and cut the grass.

Sorry hiring a yard guy is a waste of money in my opinion. What your husband lacks is motivation to cut the grass. Given that you are keen on having the grass cut, provide him that motivation.

Just tell him that a guy cutting grass makes you horny and blow him every time he cuts the grass.

You will have a great looking lawn!

My DH cut the lawn for many years. Our first home had a big lawn and he had a sit down mower and it took him two hours to cut the lawn. I think he enjoyed it because it was his only real break from work and dealing with our three young children! When our son reached 12 he and my DH would each mow half the lawn to enable our son to learn how to mow and take care of equipment. When DS went off to college my DH immediately gifted the mower to a neighbor's child who's Dad had recently passed away. Over a few weeks DH taught him how to mow his own lawn to help his Mom save money. DH hired a lawn service to take care of our place and never looked back!

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand where you people find these "men". Don't they take pride in the way their lawns look? My DH works long hours in a stressful job and still finds time to take care of our yard. We have a lawn service, but my DH insists on cutting between their visits because he can't stand for our lawn to even begin look shabby.

I can cut the lawn, but he worries I'll get hurt (ridiculous) so I don't do it. I just cannot relate to being married to someone too lazy to cut the damn lawn.

I can't relate to being married to someone so judgmental, but there's someone out there for everyone, I guess.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand where you people find these "men". Don't they take pride in the way their lawns look? My DH works long hours in a stressful job and still finds time to take care of our yard. We have a lawn service, but my DH insists on cutting between their visits because he can't stand for our lawn to even begin look shabby.

I can cut the lawn, but he worries I'll get hurt (ridiculous) so I don't do it. I just cannot relate to being married to someone too lazy to cut the damn lawn.

Amazing...different people have different priorities. Just because these husbands have different priorities than yours does not mean they are horrible spouses. There are plenty of guys who don't want to care for their lawns, but aren't as belligerent as OP's husband about her either mowing the lawn herself or hiring a service.

I used to mow the lawn and did for the first 7 years we owned the house. However 5 years after we moved in, we had twins. I continued to mow (although I actually dislike mowing the lawn) until they were about 2 years old. That's when my wife decided that enough was enough and hired a service. Why? Because we have almost a half acre lawn and it takes about 2.5 hours to mow and trim the lawn. In the spring, it takes a whole weekend for mowing, trimming, weeding and mulching the beds edging the house, etc. I'm the only driver in the house (my wife is visually impaired and doesn't drive), and it meant that errands were not being run, and no one could go anywhere. She finally wanted to have my time back so that the family schedule was easier to maintain without having to block off 2-3 hours for lawn maintenance. We're much happier having a lawn service and frankly, I don't miss mowing my lawn.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand where you people find these "men". Don't they take pride in the way their lawns look? My DH works long hours in a stressful job and still finds time to take care of our yard. We have a lawn service, but my DH insists on cutting between their visits because he can't stand for our lawn to even begin look shabby.

I can cut the lawn, but he worries I'll get hurt (ridiculous) so I don't do it. I just cannot relate to being married to someone too lazy to cut the damn lawn.

Pretty much. No pride in their house, kids or wife. Just their office work and making sure their Mom thinks they're really something.

Anonymous wrote:My husband is our of the house from 8 am to 7 pm. He has no interest in the yard and I have outsourced the mowing and lawn treatments. Every once in a while, I give extra money to my lawn mowing guy to trim the bushes, mulch the flower beds and do general cleanup of the yard. Money well spent. I am a SAHM with school going kids

If you can afford it and don't want to do the work yourself, that's OK. Personally, I'd keep the money and do the lawn myself.