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Gardening

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts) Thu Mar 29, 2012, 09:30 AM Mar 2012

Now that I think about it, I used to mow lawns for as little as 50 cents. [View all]

Townhouse yards, but still. I'd use hand trimmers around the edges and make it look sharp and haul away all the clippings (stacked on top of the mower). I paid for my first mower that way. Bitch of a way to make a living, but I had a killer tan.

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Now that I think about it, I used to mow lawns for as little as 50 cents. [View all] HopeHoops Mar 2012 OP

Hopefully you got of doing the old mow and go thing ... ... bayareaboy Mar 2012 #1

Gas wasn't $4.19 a gallon back then, either. Denninmi Mar 2012 #2

And to think that I can't afford a kid to do it these days! Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #3

I wouldn't mind tru Mar 2012 #4

I agree that kids are not out looking for jobs anymore, Curmudgeoness Mar 2012 #5

disagree tru Apr 2012 #6

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