I Have Cash till Payday

I Have Cash till Payday Because I Don't Water My Lawn

My neighbors are afraid of me because I mow my quarter-acre yard with a push reel mower – the kind without an engine. I never use my automatic sprinkler system. I do not fertilize my grass.  I rake by hand several times a year. I'm not really a foreigner, but my neighbors really are xenophobes. My yard care methods frighten them. I carry a trowel with me and weed by hand every time I mow, and this scares them more than all my other unorthodox practices put together.

My neighbors spend cash today

I live in a high-desert city and because I don't water, my grass turns brown right when the chemically-addicted and irrigation-saturated lawns of my neighbors are at their spongiest green. Mine turns green in very late winter or early spring, when theirs are still brown and waiting for  mid-spring, chemical wake-up calls. By the time the dandelions are wreaking havoc in my neighbors' yards and waiting to be doused with broad-leaf killer, I've dug mine out by hand and have not one yellow pom-pom or gossamer white seed head to show for my efforts.

I don't need an online payday loan for my summer vacation

I mow like crazy in the mild mid-spring weather, but by mid-summer when temperatures begin to soar and rain is a distant memory, my grass crop is winding down for dormancy. That's when I take my summer vacation by relaxing in a comfortable lawn chair with a good book and a cool beverage while I contemplate my neighbors' vicious cycles of watering and mowing and watering and mowing and watering and mowing ad nauseam. And they hate this.

I don't need credit cards for lawn equipment or a health club

When I moved into my place three springs ago and broke out the brand new reel mower I'd just paid $69 for, my neighbor to the east asked me if I thought I'd still be using it in August. Minutes later, my neighbor to the west (who is at least 100 pounds overweight and gaining) warned me that I'd 'get buff if I kept using that thing.' I didn't see any reason to tell him that 'buff' would require more than walking behind a reel mower a couple hours per week. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "I Have Cash till Payday"