re: 7:00 am on a Saturday. Do you cut grass?

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You’d be surprised how many people in their early 60’s that want to retire but can’t afford to since they spent all of that money for several years on lawn services instead of investing it.

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This is some of the silliest shite I’ve heard in a while

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Let’s say it’s $100 a month. Put that into a brokerage account and see what that would have turned into in 20-25 years. They could have probably retired in their late 50’s and definitely before 65.

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You still have to spend some money either way. I also remember my dad saying it was worth his while to spend an extra hour at work and pay someone vs doing himself. You should always outsource anything where cost of service < value of your time.

ETA: unless of course, you enjoy doing yard work

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They’re not poor, they are financially responsible and smart. You’d be surprised how many people in their early 60’s that want to retire but can’t afford to since they spent all of that money for several years on lawn services instead of investing it.

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Time is money, son. I do well because I don’t piss away my day on time wasters like cutting grass.

My elderly neighbor and I made a deal that he cuts the grass (riding lawn mower) and I edge, clean up what he can't get to and blow the clippings off the sidewalk... So I have the more labor part and that's fine. But during the heat of the summer I want to start earlier. But he wants to have his coffee and I guess take a shite before cutting. This last summer was hard with that damn heat wave. We were starting at 8AM and be damned if the other neighbors were pissed. I am not as young as I used to be and had to take a break or two...

It's too wet where I am and wet clippings don't help the equipment by making things rust, corrode, shrink or stretch faster.

I wouldn’t start before 9:00am on the weekend. 7:00am is definitely too early imho.

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7:00 am on a Saturday. Do you cut grass?

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no, you wait for the dew to completely dry or it will take years off the mowers life always being caked up with wet grass

i never cut before 10am and often wait for lunchtime to cut it

as for the time being too early for the neighbors, 7 is way too early, if the gheat is an issue then do it at 6pm, but whether the neighbors are going to be bothered by the noise, that doesnt even enter any part of my concerns