So...since so many Millenials have bought their first home....there's a few things that you need to know now that you have settled in and are getting used to the place.
You can decorate and paint the Walls and ceilings with any stencil or mural you want. However certain colors and sharpie markers do bleed through paint...even primer. So use prudence.
Lawn maintenance is important. More than just mowing. Weed and feed, preemergent for crabgrass and other weeds and most importantly to keep the wife happy....pesticides! Can't stress this enough. Apartment life is great when all this is done for you....but you went and bought a house so you is it! Ants, spiders, creepy crawlers, moths, gnats and mosquitos all are in your lawn. (Such as it is) Mice, skunks and other unwanted critters are looking for these bugs....just saying.
Do not plant: ivy, kudzu, bamboo, ball thistle, wisteria trees or even Bermuda grass without first checking with your neighbors.
Reminds me of a story...a guy in my neighborhood (new subdivision) never really learned those things that most guys do when growing up....(like don't even have a beer with guys that frequent strip clubs after work) One day he came to me for advice about the ivy he had planted. (This was before the days of the internet) and I said "you should learn to like the ivy....it's never going away" You can't kill it with roundup or other herbicide. But he had planted it because nobody could get a green lawn in our subdivision....I tried calling a professional landscaping company all great and wonderful right? but when I gave him my address he hung up on me. Apparently it was known that this place couldn't grow grass.
So to make a long story short he was getting divorced and he could avoid alimony payments if he kept the lawn green and lush. And it became a second part time job for him. Weeding, feeding, thatching by hand, pest control and i do mean he worked at it every day. I mean EVERY day. And he did end up with a lawn that was the envy of every guy in our subdivision....But then the fateful day came. It fell upon me to give him the bad news...."Ted, hate to be the bearer of bad news....but you have root rot."
Ted in tears:"How long do I have?"
Me:"Six weeks tops if you aerate....."
He broke down in tears uncontrollably....
You can decorate and paint the Walls and ceilings with any stencil or mural you want. However certain colors and sharpie markers do bleed through paint...even primer. So use prudence.
Lawn maintenance is important. More than just mowing. Weed and feed, preemergent for crabgrass and other weeds and most importantly to keep the wife happy....pesticides! Can't stress this enough. Apartment life is great when all this is done for you....but you went and bought a house so you is it! Ants, spiders, creepy crawlers, moths, gnats and mosquitos all are in your lawn. (Such as it is) Mice, skunks and other unwanted critters are looking for these bugs....just saying.
Do not plant: ivy, kudzu, bamboo, ball thistle, wisteria trees or even Bermuda grass without first checking with your neighbors.
Reminds me of a story...a guy in my neighborhood (new subdivision) never really learned those things that most guys do when growing up....(like don't even have a beer with guys that frequent strip clubs after work) One day he came to me for advice about the ivy he had planted. (This was before the days of the internet) and I said "you should learn to like the ivy....it's never going away" You can't kill it with roundup or other herbicide. But he had planted it because nobody could get a green lawn in our subdivision....I tried calling a professional landscaping company all great and wonderful right? but when I gave him my address he hung up on me. Apparently it was known that this place couldn't grow grass.
So to make a long story short he was getting divorced and he could avoid alimony payments if he kept the lawn green and lush. And it became a second part time job for him. Weeding, feeding, thatching by hand, pest control and i do mean he worked at it every day. I mean EVERY day. And he did end up with a lawn that was the envy of every guy in our subdivision....But then the fateful day came. It fell upon me to give him the bad news...."Ted, hate to be the bearer of bad news....but you have root rot."
Ted in tears:"How long do I have?"
Me:"Six weeks tops if you aerate....."
He broke down in tears uncontrollably....
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