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GentlewoodFarms
May 22, 2012

New Mower

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You have to understand my husband. He can pinch a penny until it squeals in agony. He hates to spend money. He always looks for the best deal. He always buys cheaper if he can. It can be very frustrating when cheaper also means junk, but I really do appreciate his saving nature. It's a nice counter balance to my being willing to spend us into the poor house.

When we moved into this house, Tom mowed the entire yard with a push mower because a push mower is what he had. He did not want to talk about a riding mower. He wanted to level the yard first. That involved hiring a bulldozer guy and then reseeding the grass. That involved spending a chunk of change. That involved opening his wallet. So the yard got mowed with a push mower. All two acres of it. For ten years.

A couple of years ago, I hired a guy to do some chores for me - building fence, constructing a chicken pen, weed eating the pasture fences, and other assorted odd jobs. He took on the lawn as well, even though I did not ask him to. I felt so horrible about his using that push mower that I spent some of my scrapbook money and bought an old second hand riding mower for $100. It wasn't a great mower, but it worked, and John kept it running with spit and prayer. Last fall, John finished up the projects I needed done and started working for another lady, so the yard became Tom's job again. This spring, his old push mower refused to start, and the riding mower needed a belt that was no longer findable. It was official. Tom was going to have to get a new mower.

I guess two years of someone else doing the mowing, or maybe seeing that the yard did not HAVE to be level for the riding mower to work, or maybe it was just the idea of mowing that two acres by hand was too daunting a task...whatever it was, it helped ease my darling husband into the idea of getting a riding lawnmower (which relieved me because I was having visions of his having a heart attack mowing the grass).

True to his frugal nature, he put it off for a couple of months while he tried to decide whether or not he wanted to spend that much money, which mower was the best buy, and who he wanted to buy it from. Meanwhile the grass was growing up around our ears - or at least around our knees. The day I came home to find a trailer in our driveway with a new Hustler mower was a happy day for me. I was honestly beginning to worry about losing the dog in the grass.

Tom hopped on his new toy and began tooling around the yard, with the biggest smile on his face I've seen in a long time. Will this experience change his penny pinching nature? I doubt it. I hope not. Somebody in this house needs to be frugal, and it's a sure bet that it won't be me.


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