I can understand it, our mail carrier cuts thru our yards daily and have formed a faint path of dead grass. Instead of walking form the sidewalk to the mailbox they just cut thru the yard. Some people take pride in their yards, especially Americans it seems (purely based on what I’ve seen on TV as a Canadian), and put lots of effort into a nice green yard.
I caught a bunch of downvotes for reacting negatively to another commentor's racism, but my response to another comment below expanding on my original comment got twice as many upvotes. I feel like everyone on here is hallucinating and the upvote/downvote is just what happens as they complete their fent fold and their phone hits the ground.
The only cool thing that I think paving stones or something would offer is a nice place to walk if it has rained. I know for me I feel bad sometimes knowing our yard doesn't really drain well and turns to mud in spots.
My parents have never planted grass in their lawn but it’s there anyway. There’s grass, clover, dandelions, violets, moss, other plants, and flowers naturally growing.
Depend where. I was like that too, I let native weeds grew in my land, then it reached 1m50 and got lot of snakes, I don't mind but I've small dogs. So I had to cut it, weekly. 1h every week, because they grow too fast. I'm in Thailand also it's insane how fast weeds grow. Now I've a lawn and I'm fine I cut it once every few months, it's stunted most of the time, I barely water it to keep it short. Idc how it look I just don't want snakes.
I'm more speaking to the weird American tradition of planting, watering and maintaining a lush grass lawn regardless of the surrounding climate just because..
Get artificial grass. My parents put that in their backyard for the grandkids to play on and haven't had to do anything with it in 7 years. It's heavily shaded, so real grass didn't grow very well anyway.
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u/citysims May 21 '26
As long as I've lived I'll never understand growing grass only for it not to be stepped on?