# How do you mow your lawn?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mow-your-lawn/617904>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 5, 2012, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mow-your-lawn/617904 "2012-04-05T12:21:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mow-your-lawn/617904/41 "2012-04-06T01:52:03Z")

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with a checkbook. Sometimes it is the best tool for the job.

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**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-mow-your-lawn/617904/42 "2012-04-06T02:12:29Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> Man, I can’t imaging having my yard own me for that much time every week or so.

I don’t mind the time so much (since I am now and forevermore unemployed) but burning that much gas on something that does nobody any good pisses me off. The part we leave natural “for wildlife” gets bigger every year. This year we’re trying to put some cash away so we can dream of fencing the whole thing in and getting some goats, but as we all know, this will merely cause the refrigerator/well/car/water heater to fail catastrophically.

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