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It's weird whatever trend is going on now.

My parents just got new neighbors who destroyed the entire garden, paved it over and just sit there, talking, smoking, giggling, playing music, like it's their living room.

Some other new neighbors further down the road bought a house with a beautiful garden and killed everything to replace it with tiles and gravel. They're never even outside.

People actually complain when their neighbor's trees fall onto their property.

And it's as if people don't remember how it was in the 90s and before. They freak out when there's a bug. The world used to be full of bugs before. And it's the people who have nothing but grass who actually water their gardens.

I do what I can with the little balcony space I have. It's messy but it's green.

No. Lawnbrained is weird like carbrained. Lawns are a wasteland. Kill your lawn today!

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Front yard needs to be trimmed or I get letters from the city. It gets trimmed once a month… or two. Or three. Whenever I feel like I might get a notice.

Backyard grows to 1m+ every summer and dies every winter, only to become a lush jungle each hot season. Love looking out there.

What is a yard but a third bathroom? I don't clean it either

I used to have a neighbour that would wash his driveway on a weekly basis. It was coated asphalt. It wasn’t “nice”. Nor was it ever dirty. Oh, but it had a giant ugly orange traffic cone at the end to deter people from pulling in and turning around.

I used to constantly fight with two different relatives because they insisted on putting all their yard trimmings into a paper bag before putting them in the giant rolling bin. That gets tipped into the truck on collection day. Why? “So the can doesn’t get dirty.” I don’t understand why a GARBAGE CAN that SITS OUTSIDE ALL THE TIME ever needs to be kept pristine ON THE INSIDE.

People like to create work for themselves that I will never understand. I’m certain I do the same thing and leave people shaking their heads.

lawns are very polluting, water intesive plants, most people around my area have ripped it up and use succulents mostly, also kinda expensive hobby too. our nextdoor neighbor has hired people to mow the lawn, and stuff. depends if one is a hoarder, they much dump whatever stuff they buy out into the yard and forget about it. plus lawns like that use pesticides, herbicides to keep pests and weeds away.

Yes I walk around as naked in my yard as I do a room in my house. Man the neighbors are always hasslin and its like stop lookin into my house.

Definitely not, in fact it's my biggest pet peeve. I hate when people (or HOAs) get chemical bullshit sprayed all over their lawn, which they then scalp with their lawnmower every week, and then it always dies anyways around mid to late summer once it starts getting hot and dry. Meanwhile the people who don't give a shit about their yard always have green grass. It's almost like thicker vegetation and biodiversity are good for the environment. Like who could have ever guessed?

Nah dawg, that's just a slice of wildlife that I get to modify. I mow the front, and just cut the tall shit with the string trimmer every couple weeks. Working on reducing grasses and increasing natives. Gonna make this bitch biodiverse as fuck.

The less I do to the yard, the better it looks to me. I like having some areas mowed but I like having stuff live in it even better.

I maintain my front lawn at the absolute bare minimum to not get fined by the HOA. I don’t even irrigate anymore and let it turn uneven brown in the summer. We are in perpetual drought restrictions and it’s against the law for HOA’s to fine for brown grass. So no, I treat it as an outside space that I don’t even use, since I’m not an outdoorsy person and avoid the sun as much as possible.

No. I never once thought to vacuum my yard.

Not like that, no. But we do live out there to some extent, have a nice back deck and garden. Not the sort of lawn that is the monoculture carpet and no, we don't rake, want bees & butterflies, dragonflies, lizards, snakes, all sorts of other creatures use the yard and no, perfect is not the goal.

To be fair, I'm not that crazy about the inside of the house, either.

The lawn for those people is a signifier of wealth. 'I'm so wealthy I can afford to spend absurd amounts of money on maintaining land at the level it would take to harvest a crop from it, but I do not harvest a crop from it.' Idiots imitating boomer age idiots who were imitating mid-century idiots, who were imitating old-world, old-money assholes.

No, the yard is outside.My lawn is fairly wild though and a good portion of it is edible

I treat my yard like a room in my house where I use it as much as possible. This mean being out there and using it rough if needed. When it gets too hot (like now) or two cold (in 6 months from now) I get a little ansy because I am missing one of my favorite rooms in my house. The back yard

That being said I don't treat my grass like its som precicious thing. Its meant to be used and abused.

I treat my yard like a room as in I like to spend time out there and make it nice for that purpose. But at the same time, I'm doing my best to maximize native biodiversity and natural darkness.

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I don't have a lawn atm, but last time I did I made a very low key campaign to replace the grass with clover.

ive always seen the lawn as a burden forced upon me by rich people, which is what it is. back when i had a house with a lawn i pretty much only mowed to avoid conflict with the city/nosy neighbors. i basically never used it for anything so it was literally just a thing that cost me time and money. my preference will always be whatever is the lowest maintenance option, which would usually be local plant species. id still probably do some kind of mechanical treatment every once in a while if i started to get trees or woody shrubs growing.

Our yard is a play room

Leaves get raked. Weeds get removed or I wouldn’t have grass (weeds would over take the grass). The grass is not one type of grass, it’s multiple types. It’s better that way. Survives winter in Minnesota,US. As for bugs… honestly I’m not sure what you mean by that. I’m not sure how you’d get rid of bugs in general. My bushes .. those I do pay attention to certain types of bugs that will destroy the bush. Those bugs I get rid of, or I wouldn’t have a plant. But bugs in general yeah not sure how you get rid of them.

Driving on the grass that would piss me off. But walk and run on it all you want.

There's a few plants that have nice flowers and don't grow tall enough that I'd get fined for, so I try to mow around those

We spend a lot of time in our yard and have many many plants that require near daily maintenance. We've put rocks in waking/seating areas so those spots don't get worn and muddy. So, yeah, we treat it like living space and we want it to be nice, but we're not crazy. It's covered in leaves and dog poop 6 days per week.

I live in an apartment building, but...I treat the outdoor space as a separate, communal space. So naturally I pick up any man-made garbage (I don't leave my own as well). Leaves or whatever else, yeah, those solve themselves over time!

No, I treat it like a yard with stuff that shouldn't be there kept out. Leaves get raked in the open grass so it doesn't kill the grass. Cars don't drive through it to avoid creating ruts. Sure, grass grows back, but until it does there is erosion and moisture issues.

I treat the lawn like any other outdoor plant. I don't walk on bushes or sit in decorative pots with plants. It isn't immaculately manicured or anything, but it is cared for as the plant type that it is.

Caring for it means it is in great condition for running around on, setting up a temporary inflatable pool that is taken down before it kiĺls the grass. Nets and stakes are used because they don't cause a lot of damage. It isn't treated like a delicate flower, just enough to keep it healthy and for the intended use.

My yard looks just as messy as my house, though I would like both to be neat and orderly. Those perfectly mowed crisscross lines in the grass give me goosebumps!

No, I don't treat it like that and i think people who do are nuts.

I also don't freak out if there my rooms are aren't magazine photo perfect.

And people who think that way think I'm a massive horrible asshole.

To me, it's really about control. people who think/live that way are anxious-controlling personalities and they HATE what they can't control. I enjoy nature and more natural landscapes and I prefer homes and rooms that look like people actually live in them. I find the ultra-manicured thing really off-putting if not downright creepy sometimes.