re: Do you pay for someone to cut your yard?

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It is relative; the more money you have, the more valuable your time becomes

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False. I have wealth. More than I need. My free time is still worth no more than another's.

What you meant to say was

"The more pretentious you are, the more you inflate the value of your time".

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In fact, many take pride in maintaining their own lawns and gardens. If someone else does it for you, its not your work to take pride in.

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I made a point to note that in my post. People who enjoy lawn work and do it as a hobby use a different cost-benefit calculus. I build furniture as a hobby. It takes me roughly 80 hours to build a Maloof rocker and over 150 hours to build a Boston Bombe chest, I could buy the rocker for $4500 or the chest for $14000 from a boutique furniture craftsman. My time is worth much more to me than $60-90 dolllars an hour but I still do it because I love it and the sense of accomplishment that comes from complteing something very few people could even approach.

In no way shape or form is my time worth only the $50 per hour I pay for my lawnwork. It takes me 2 hours to do the entire lawn correctly and they charge me $100. Over 2 months that runs me $800. I can bill and extra 1.5 hours at work over that 2 months and net enough to pay for the work.

Outside of the enjoyment derived doing a task the more disposable income one has the more valuable their disposable time gets. Someone can also derive joy from being a miser, that works too.

I have a piece of property where my rifle range is about 40 acres are basically pasture. I Bush Hog it twice a year. I actually enjoy that, in that case I value my money less than my time because I am getting more out of it that just getting the grass cut. It is a zen thing, something I don't get from mowing a lawn with 100 trees and beds everywhere.

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Totally unnecessary unless you have multiple acres to cut.

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Agreed, but it's more common than not.

I assume a lot of folks are financing this equipment and actually think they're "saving money".

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However, most on my street have ~$4,000 mowers and at the end of the day, they aren't really saving much of anything and also have to do the work

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Most of your street lost 4 grand trying to keep up and impress those Joneses.

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It is a zen thing, something I don't get from mowing a lawn with 100 trees and beds everywhere.

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I get this now by hiking, though yard work used to be my therapy.

Nature is more soothing to me in my older years.

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Most of your street lost 4 grand trying to keep up and impress thkse Joneses.

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It really isn't smart, when you look at the numbers.

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I’m also going to take my wife out for dinner and drinks tonight

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Enjoy.

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In no way shape or form is my time worth only the $50 per hour I pay for my lawnwork

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It is your off time. Your free time. Yes, yes it is worth only $50/hour. Actually since you get paid $0/hour for your free time, $50/hour is quite inflated

But I am just here being obtuse.

Money aside, I think a push mower gives a cleaner cut plus it takes up far less space. Also good for some exercise.

Mine isn't a true push mower though, I have a Honda self propelled 21inch. Have thought about getting one of those Toros with the larger deck but I'd probably regret moving from the Honda.

$50 a week. It usually takes 3 hours to do mine. It’s too hot and I don’t have time for that shite.