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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Anyway I told him I can do EFT or cash, his choice. He is a Junior in high school and lives in my neighborhood. We got home and the yard looked good, and I asked just how much did I owe. He said 20 bucks. I said no way, and gave him $40. It takes me 90 minutes to edge the concrete, string trim all the flower beds, mow and blow the sidewalks.

I used to do that all for $2 to $3 when I was a kid, but that was when I could get a gallon of gas and a Coke for 25 cents.

Wow! I remember making $5 for postage stamp townhouse yards when I was 12-13, then larger yards the size of an average neighborhood yard earned me $20-25. That was all back in the early/mid 80s.

10 years ago when we were in our previous home. We were paying a business $100 a month to mow/edge/blow. That's once a week. They would show up in the neighborhood with a truck and trailer and 3-4 guys would hit your yard and be done in no time. I timed them more than once and it generally took them 7 mins to do the whole thing. We lived in that home about 17 years, and I think we had a kid knock on the door to mow maybe 5 times the whole time we lived there.