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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
We have had this same discussion. Yard work is our relaxation and one of our creative outlets, but our place is really work intensive at this stage. It would be too much for just one of us. Our thoughts are to hire someone to help, but then there is the house itself. We could live in a lot less than 3000 square feet. I don't want to wait until I croak and leave selling the house and disposing of all my crap to her, so we're thinking ahead on that. We have started divesting ourselves of stuff, but we have a long way to go.
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Oh man, do I have the family members living for that. Its ridiculous. All could afford a live in full time illegal (lol) to do this stuff, but they have a never ending of mowing and pulling weeds, to leaf picking up in autumn. Absolute silly because they also gripe of it, sweat it out in the heat for hours. Then to include all the equipment, maintenance of that, chemicals plus storing it all..... ya know one has to get another or bigger shed, eh? Oh' the struggles
Especially odd when couples are up there in age. What happens the immediate weeks following of a death? Who's going to pick up the portion the surviving spouse was doing? I'd say unload the properties and large maintenance farms while able to.
Now when I think of it, a few years ago was helping a widow (recently lost her husband) but she too was on the way out with cancer. Huge property way out in the country that nobody would give a ratz ass about but she wanted to keep the fields behind the barn manicured to golf course like. She broke down in front of me about the damn grass growing! Barn had lots of tractors and mowers all worn out from years of the task. What a waste. My help in just mowing was 6 hours a week.