Women who can't or won't use a lawnmower!

[Bettercallsalli]

Just cut my lawns. Neighbour in her 40s commented she has asked her husband to do hers forr 3 days.
Woman up and do it yourself! What am i missing?

Lawn mowing and doing the dishwasher are the two jobs my husband does without prompting and without asking me stupid bloody questions. Why would I change that if I didn’t have to? I’ll learn to mow if I need to.

This is why I'm not 'allowed' to use the lawnmower. I tried it once a few years ago, promptly ran over the cord (we'd only had the thing a few weeks) and have been banned from touching it ever since. DH has just bought a new cordless one though so I'm hopeful he might let me have a go!

Always been DH’s job here. I have hay fever too.

It doesnt matter who does the mowing, or hoovering, building the furniture, making tbe beds eyc. It only matters that everyone does a fair share.

Exactly this. And for most couples, I'd assume lawn mowing is generally the man's responsibility.

DH cuts the grass. I power wash the patio and the car. I do the laundry, he cooks dinner.

Nothing to add except that i am currently chilling in a hammock in the late afternoon bank holiday sun with a beer and MNing while DH mows the lawn. Bliss!

We have ‘favoured’ tasks in our household but both of us do each one occasionally even if it’s the other persons favoured task. I firmly believe it’s good to do everything in the house as I have seen people completely helpless in older age when the other person has died as they have no idea how to do things and then seem to be incapable of learning. As it stands I used to do most of the mowing when we had a petrol mower but hated filling it up as I used to spill the petrol 😬

I don’t mow our lawn, it’s DHs job. If he decided not to do it one day it can wait until he does it, I have zero interest in using a lawn mower

It's been my job for 35 years as DH is disabled. I have found someone who is going to do it for £20 and this week he did it for the first time. I feel like I've won the jackpot

I don’t do it, chronic hayfever, also can’t get the mower out from underneath all the shit that dp piles on it.

we definitely have our own set jobs here, it works.

1. I never iron. Maybe this is her version of ironing?
2. Maybe her husband literally does nothing else at all in the house. so maybe this is the one who she wants to die on because he makes no effort otherwise.

I don't mow our lawn, I used to when we had a Flymo, then DH wanted to get a massive petrol mower and it's kept in the back of the shed, I said to him I can't lift that to get it out so if you want it you'll have to cut the grass. He said fine and does. There are plenty of things I do that he doesn't. He also does 90% of the ironing simply because I hate it and he's better at it than me

My friend was telling me that her DH gets absolutely awful hayfever when he mows the lawn. I said that must be horrible for him and asked her if she or her adult DCs could do it instead. Apparently, they are too short to do it. Is that a thing ? Friend is probably 5’1 or 2” and DCs we slightly taller.

Lawn is DH job. We do have a robot lawn mower than I know how to use in his absence, but it's his responsibility and I do enough without adding that to the list

Oh sod that OP. Why add it to your extensive list, which is no doubt longer than your DH’s. If it isn’t longer, and there are a few, fair enough.

Are you saying there are women who don’t know how to or won’t mow the lawn?
That’s ridiculous!

Who cares if it’s not her ‘job’.
Surely even if the washing up was her ‘job’ he wouldn’t just leave a sink full of dishes.

Surely it’s just whoever has time and thinks it needs doing.

If he thinks the lawn needs cutting, then she should do it.
If he thinks the dishes need doing, then he should do it.

I’m 5’1 and work part time as a gardener, and do lots of mowing (for other people, I don’t have a lawn myself).

No way I’m cutting the grass. That’s DHs job.

My cousin's husband won't let her cut the grass. Even if it's driving her mad. He has to do it his way, he's a bit particular.

Occasionally I feel jealous of that...dh never
cuts the grass.

I can't be trusted with heavy machinery, I'll take a toe off or something. Our lawn is so lumpy and bumpy I have tried in the past and just got the sheer rage so it's best I avoid it. Plus hayfever.

It's possible she has been watching the weather forecast and knows which is the best day to mow. DH always plans his mowing for a dry day.

I did suspect my friend was making up excuses but I am tall so wasn’t sure. She has quite a long list of things she can’t or, I guess, won’t do.

I live alone so if I didn't cut my own grass it wouldn't get cut. However, it would be the first job I'd ask someone to do for me if I was in a relationship because I have to lift my lawnmower over a fence before and after cutting and it's heavy. I don't believe in men and women specific jobs and I can do 95% of things for myself and I'm a firm believer that even in relationships people shouldn't get pigeon holes into jobs as it causes helplessness should that person no longer be able to do it e.g. illness, bereavement etc.

When my Grandma died my Grandad didn't even know how to turn the microwave on.
When my friends husband has to travel abroad for 4 weeks for a family bereavement, I had to go with her to top her car tyre up with air and show her how to do it. Jobs should be mixed up so everyone can chip in and no one grows resentful at being relied on.

I have never used a lawnmower in my life... mainly because I have suffered with horrendous hay-fever since childhood, and freshly-cut grass is the worst thing for it! I'm fortunate that my elderly neighbour's gardener is kind enough to cut mine when he does hers.

However, I can use a topper (one of those huge lawnmower-type attachments to mow fields for silage) on the back of a tractor, for work. Does that count? 😁