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Home owners cost of beautication

  • Belly35
    Home owners who care about the visual appearance of your property and your image of a responsible neighbor how much have you invested this year with flowers (perennials or annuals), mulch and other beautification items?

    this year been costly: between mulch 20yard, hanging flowers, ground flowers and potting flowers ...... .????.??
  • Pick6
    I steal flowers from other people's yard and plant them in mine.

    And patio furniture, too.
  • justincredible
    Pick6;1615571 wrote:I steal flowers from other people's yard and plant them in mine.

    And patio furniture, too.
  • justincredible
    We've spent a little more than $100 so far on our front yard, but not all of it was for "beautification." About $70 of it was for building two additional raised vegetable beds. The rest has been on mulch and flowers. We are putting a decent amount (probably $1500-2000) in to our back yard this season on various projects.
  • friendfromlowry
    Belly35;1615568 wrote:Home owners who care about the visual appearance of your property and your image of a responsible neighbor
    ...wat?
    Nevermind, don't care. Guns, Obama, blah blah.
  • Glory Days
    Home owner? I rent and I've spent over a thousand last year because my landlord is related to Honey Badger.
  • salto
    Didn't Belly post this same thread like less than a month ago?
  • ZWICK 4 PREZ
    There's no such thing as curb appeal

    /con_alma'd
  • Belly35
    salto;1615623 wrote:Didn't Belly post this same thread like less than a month ago?
    this is a annual thread...
  • ts1227
    We just moved in last fall, so of course this year is pretty high in costs for us. Between patio furniture, mulch, grass seed, garden, flowers, soil, grill, etc. I'm easily north of $500

    Not all necessarily beautification, but you get the idea
  • Devils Advocate
    Belly35;1615625 wrote:this is a annual thread...
    But I'm planting perennials.
  • SnotBubbles
    We mulch every year, mow our grass and trim our bushes. Low maintenance but clean is our approach.
  • Fab4Runner
    Our house was vacant for almost two years, so the yard was very overgrown and out of control. A lot of it was cleaned up a few weeks ago, but there is still a lot more to do. We need to move some plants, plant some others, and we want to build a deck and put in a patio and fire pit. Should be fun times. JK.
  • Devils Advocate
    SnotBubbles;1615636 wrote:We trim our bushes.
    Start a manscaping thread you sick fuck.
  • ernest_t_bass
    Plan on fire pit. Just need the bricks.
  • vdubb96
    Don't really think we are going to do much this year to ours. Already looks good.

  • Devils Advocate
    vdubb96;1615651 wrote:Don't really think we are going to do much this year to ours. Already looks good.

    Nope. Y'all need a cement pond.
  • Con_Alma
    ZWICK 4 PREZ;1615624 wrote:There's no such thing as curb appeal

    /con_alma'd
    Never said such a thing.

    Let me corret it for you..."why should I care about curb appeal?"
  • Con_Alma
    ...followed by, "I don't care about curb appeal".
  • Manhattan Buckeye
    About $200 since our lawnmower has moved on to the great lawn and garden show in the sky and needed to hire outside help. We stopped planting flowers on the front patio since they would just die anyway.
  • sportchampps
    We just moved here in Feb. We are easily over 2k since then. Next year once the ground settles we are gonna spend about 5-10k on a patio or deck with a built in firepit or fireplace and a fence. I also need to pay someone to remove 2-3 trees along the edge of the woods on my property.
  • baseballstud24
    Fab4Runner;1615643 wrote:Our house was vacant for almost two years, so the yard was very overgrown and out of control. A lot of it was cleaned up a few weeks ago, but there is still a lot more to do. We need to move some plants, plant some others, and we want to build a deck and put in a patio and fire pit. Should be fun times. JK.
    I'm in the same boat...My house is also built into a hillside and is in the woods pretty much..My back yard consists of 30 trees and a very steep hill..It's really fun to mow.
  • thavoice
    Local town has free mulch for the taking so I took 4 scoops so that saved about 140 bucks.

    Have rose bushes that dont need planted every year, so no cost in that.
    May do a few flowers that dont come up from last year.

    Looks like I do need to replace 2 bushes though so that may cost me something.

    Does a garden count?
  • thavoice
    Manhattan Buckeye;1615663 wrote:About $200 since our lawnmower has moved on to the great lawn and garden show in the sky and needed to hire outside help. We stopped planting flowers on the front patio since they would just die anyway.
    Goodlucks...those old time mowers were built much better than the newer ones!

    Got a brand new one last year and the carberatuer went bad and they said it was the gas used and not covered under warranty.
    Pissed me off.
  • Pick6
    thavoice;1615720 wrote:Goodlucks...those old time mowers were built much better than the newer ones!

    Got a brand new one last year and the carberatuer went bad and they said it was the gas used and not covered under warranty.
    Pissed me off.
    Maybe use the right gas? Dumbass.