Tips for lawn mowing, first know how to start the thing, second stay away from the blade and rocks, third (as crown has noticed and we all know) be careful when mowing off camber.... Am I missing anything? I feel like weed whacking is far more dangerous, in terms of the worst possible thing no its not, in terms of risk of getting hurt, yea.
Speaking of mowing the lawn and safety... anyone else do it barefoot? I quite enjoy cutting the grass in bare feet... have been doing it for 30+ years. Weed eating as well. Never had a problem, because it's a finely manicured lawn, not an unknown field.. no rocks or any other debris to worry about. It's incredibly therapeutic.
No I prefer good shoes and jeans. When I was a grunt at a golf course weed whacking was the shit job del dia and we mowed down some serious heinous patches of weeds. And even if we werent doing that, its really easy to get a twig, rock, whatever whipped at the shins.
Never had it happen... I wear shorts and bare feet. As long as you stay on the "upstream" side of the rotation with the weed whacker, anything it hits gets flung away from you.
Eh, I just do shorts and sneakers, never really put too much thought into it. Maybe I should try the bare feet thing though.
No more stained shoes... just stained feet, easily washed off with the hose. I also wear the 3m WorkTunes bluetooth headset while listening to podcasts, etc. (I actually wear them a lot when working in the shop or on the yard... very convenient and comfortable).
We do, but mostly for seasonal agriculture work such as fruit picking, etc. Most Mexican Segways are being driven around by white guys/girls.
True. Up here it's small towns like Exeter and Simcoe that are crammed with migrants. If you want a high-paying city job here it's simple: be the reative of somebody who already works there.
I thought you all may appreciate this (I get it I'm late to the tattoo thing, oh well...) ...however I like how purposeful this one is
So I recently (temporarily) moved in with my girlfriend. We're looking for a bigger space and my God this woman hasn't thrown away anything in her entire life. In lieu of the nightmare of Craigslist and Ebay, any suggestions for a good yard sale? I've got kitchen stuff I don't use (foreman grill? somehow I have 3 coffee presses?), a ton of dress clothes I don't wear and a pile of books. She has literally a house filled with shit from 8 years ago that needs a new home. How do you put all your shit in the yard and get more than sunburnt for it?
Personally, I don't consider the time and effort of having a garage sale to be worth it. The hours to sort, set up and get ready, never mind to sit there all day arguing over a $1 price on something you paid $50 for to a bunch of cheap strangers, then having to tear down and throw out that shit anyway... count me out, and call it "lesson learned" for buying it in the first place. Expensive shit that I could get a couple hundred bucks or more for I'll put up on CL or something similar, but everything else goes to Good Will or Restore. I'd rather let someone down on their luck benefit from my hoarding. Otherwise, it's off to the dump in the back of the truck.
Thirded. With all the tools to sell items (CL, Letgo, FB Marketplace etc) it doesn't make sense to ruin your whole weekend to make $60 and then still deal with all the shit that didn't sell. Advertise anything worth a few bucks and then donate/toss the rest.
Take the nice stuff the goodwill, throw the rest in a dumpster. Then dump her before she hoards you out of house and home.
Just do what my mom did the last time she had a garage sale. Plunk everything down on a table that you want to get rid of, and don't price it. When you're asked how much, ask them what they want to pay. Accept that, exchange money and you're done. My mom found that generally most people would offer pretty close to what she expected to get for the item. She cleaned out an entire basement/garage full of crap in 2 days and made a few hundred dollars in the process. Took the remaining items to the dump after.