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April 19, 2005
More "back to nature" whackiness...
Yeah, that's right... I bought a push mower... no, not a gas mower without automatic drive, a push "reel" mower. My mower broke down last summer and I managed to limp through borrowing from neighbors and paying people to mow my lawn. Let's take a look at my options...
1 - I could spend about $300 and buy a new gas mower - investing a large sum of money in something that will never appreciate in value - contributing to noise and air pollution - increasing my dependency on fossil fuels while contributing to their depletion... etc. etc.
2 - I could spend about $500 and buy a new electric mower - investing an even larger sum of money in something that will never appreciate in value - getting warm fuzzies knowing that I am not polluting or using fossil fuels.
3 - I could spend $80 and buy a new push reel mower - investing much less in something that will never appreciate in value - forcing myself to get exercise when I mow - getting warm fuzzies... yada yada yada...
4 - I could pay a crew to mow my lawn $20 a week and never worry about it - investing MUCH more than even the most expensive mower in something that will never appreciate in value - contributing to green house gasses etc. etc. etc. This is really probably the worst option.
I opted for #3 and after the first mowing, all I can say is WHOA! That was definitely a good workout. It wasn't that is was so much harder than pushing around a much heavier gas mower, it was the fact that there is no momentum. It is a more constant effort - when you stop pushing, it stops. It doesn't roll to a stop... it STOPS! It doesn't even roll by itself on the downhill...
...I originally stopped mowing my own lawn when I decided that my time could be better spent "cutting deals" and "doing biz," well, I think that for the exercise value alone this was a good purchase.
Posted by CDogg at April 19, 2005 06:17 PM
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