Ellis
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£150/year 
£8.99 for a huge pot of weed killer & feed at the local garden centre.
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James
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Originally posted by Ellis
£150/year
£8.99 for a huge pot of weed killer & feed at the local garden centre.
It's the time element for me.
Scarifying the whole lawn and aerating it all would probably take me a whole weekend. Then each of the other treatments they do would probably add up to another whole weekend. I'd rather pay £150 and get those 2 weekends back TBH.
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James
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Originally posted by Steve
Jesus wept, you probably pay people to wash your clothes too
It's not really any different to people that put the car through a car wash.
I have no interest in gardening but would like my garden to look nice, so what's wrong with paying someone else to make it look nice?
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Ellis
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Understood; each to their own.
I find it quite rewarding doing these things myself.
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Steve
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Must spend all weekends trying to locate his balls in his mrs handbag if he hasn't got time to do that.
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James
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Originally posted by Ellis
Understood; each to their own.
I find it quite rewarding doing these things myself.
We only moved into our place at the end of last summer and the garden is in a right state. I'm going to use Green Thumb to get it back to it's best and then I might think about doing it myself.
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Ellis
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Originally posted by Steve
Must spend all weekends trying to locate his balls in his mrs handbag if he hasn't got time to do that.
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whitter45
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Originally posted by James
Had Green Thumb out yesterday to do an assessment on ours. Signed up for the enhanced programme here:
https://www.greenthumb.co.uk/treatments
Costing me £12.75 a month but I get 4 treatments, plus aeration and scarification. I'm sure it's something I could do myself but for £150 a year it's really not worth my time.
[Edited on 28-04-2016 by James]
ours is per treatment at £17 for 4 - summer, autumn winter and spring
can't see the value in the monthly one
[Edited on 28-04-2016 by whitter45]
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Ben G
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Wants weekend to sit on his sofa and watch telly all day.
Proper weirdo if you don't want or aren't able to do man things at weekends.
Would you call someone out to hang a picture frame on the wall?
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VegasPhil
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Going on the green thumb fleet of immaculate vinyl wrapped vans and TV adverts I can only assume that it was pretty expensive!
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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James
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Originally posted by Ben G
Wants weekend to sit on his sofa and watch telly all day.
Proper weirdo if you don't want or aren't able to do man things at weekends.
Would you call someone out to hang a picture frame on the wall?
I'm a weirdo because I don't want to spend all weekend raking my lawn and putting holes in it? I'd rather see my friends and family or go away for the weekend...
Hanging a picture takes about 10 minutes so I'm pretty sure I can spare the time for that.
I have a cleaner too, am I a weirdo because I don't like running the hoover round?
[Edited on 29-04-2016 by James]
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Ellis
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Out of interest, can I/we ask what is it that keeps you so busy over the weekend? What other domestic tasks have you subcontracted out?
I wouldn't say you're a weirdo at all. Having a person care for your lawn and cleaning is, IMO, somewhat upper class. One could stretch the stereotype to lazy if pushed. Maybe even Tory.
I'm almost certain the majority of users on here hold down a full time job yet manage to clean their houses and maintain their garden to a respectable level.
Each to their own as I've said previously but I find it very hard to understand indeed.
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James
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During the week I'm out of the house from 7am to 7:30pm, so I don't have much in the way of evenings, by the time we've made/eaten dinner we are both too knackered to do anything else.
Weekends vary, we tend to either go away, see friends/family, go out for the day, I play squash for a couple of hours most Sundays too. This year I have 4 weddings and 3 stag dos. One of the weddings is my own, so that is consuming ridiculous amounts of our time. This summer my fiancé's parents are staying for 6 weeks, they aren't from the UK so we will be taking them out places.
On top of that, we are planning an extension and some renovation work, so meeting builders to try and organize that. I also have a couple of buy-to-lets which take up some time.
The only things I pay for are a cleaner and the lawn guy. It's hardly a huge amount of money for either of them.
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James
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I think you'd be surprised how many people have a cleaner. The lawn guy is probably less common, but like I said in a previous post I will probably stop using him once he has got the lawn to a good state. I wouldn't say it's upper class either. There's probably an element of laziness, but if I had more spare time then I would be more inclined to do this stuff myself.
[Edited on 29-04-2016 by James]
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Ellis
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I guess you could simplify it; one could say you are actually buying time. Can't argue with that.
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Graham88
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To be fair for that price it's not bad. I'll get pictures of my lawn when it grows back I cut it today but the weeds are getting stupid. With this warm weather i guarantee 4-5 days they'll be back. They're still there obviously but I just don't really know what to do to get rid of them as if you pull them out its going to leave holes everywhere
[Edited on 15-05-2016 by Graham88]
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Ellis
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I put some feed and weed killer on over the last couple of weeks. Absolute FA change, convinced the stuff was out of date or something.
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IvIarkgraham
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Jesus fucking Christ! Some right knobs in here!
If he doesn't want to do it and can afford to pay someone then that's his choice! If I could afford to pay someone to dress me every day I would do it!
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Generation
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Car wash thing was a great comparison. How dare somebody spend their money on what they want to.
jumped up people on this site
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pow
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£12 per month on having his lawn looking awesome, bet some people are strapped up for over £400 a month for a car they won't even own!
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Ellis
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As always, it will split opinion.
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Steve
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Cleaner
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Ian
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Technically everyone who is on more money per hour than a cleaner should have one, its only maths. Depends whether you want to be bored in work or bored under your sink.
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willay
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James stop justifying yourself to the likes of Steve and Ben
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Steve
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Originally posted by Ian
Technically everyone who is on more money per hour than a cleaner should have one, its only maths. Depends whether you want to be bored in work or bored under your sink.
Rather not pay for a cleaner and not do the cleaning which is currently how it works.
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