While it may cost a little more than lawn mowing, it is completely liberating.
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The local shoe store, the lawn mowing business, the photographer, the single store Subway franchise owner and so forth.
Ideas around our office ranged from Ben-Hur-like chariot races with blade-studded wheels to Segway polo to, more mundanely, Segway lawn mowing.
It seems like every profile of The Black Keys mentions that you guys had a lawn mowing business at some point in Akron, Ohio.
The FTC says Countrywide charged homeowners who were in default excessive fees for services like lawn mowing, property inspections and other services that were meant to protect the value of the property in default.
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Before joining the Colorado Stars, Schmitz tended bar, waited tables and ran a lawn-mowing business.
He owned a lawn-mowing business and was a junior corporate executive before becoming a swim coach.
"They mow lawns, and now I can buy ETFs for them with their lawn-mowing money without paying a commission, " he says.
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Now we're visible as pretty ordinary, lawn-mowing, PTA kind of people.
Maybe they don't want a lawn that does not need mowing, watering, and fertilizing like a regular lawn.
That extra work may not be as obvious as doing the dishes or mowing the lawn.
"Mowing the lawn is a lot better than plowing snow, " said Robert Fayda, of Cold Spring Hills.
As he said, his first job at 14 was mowing the lawn for his grandfather in Houston.
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Unlike mowing the lawn or cleaning gutters, which only happens in suburbs or rainy climates, food is universal.
In the meantime, we'll never feel the same about mowing the lawn again.
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Dr. Danckert first tried a YouTube video of a man mowing a lawn, but subjects found it funny, not boring.
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And that might mean something as simple as mowing the lawn for a family in your community or shoveling the snow.
"Baby boomers are downsizing and getting tired of mowing the lawn, and many are looking for a place where they don't have to drive for everything, " said Christopher Leinberger, a Washington urban land-use strategist and partner in developer Arcadia Land Co.
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