Only speaking personally, but I actually enjoy cutting the grass. It’s a sort of zen-like pattern game. I feel like this is a common sentiment.
Sweeping and vacuuming, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as interesting.
Sweeping and vacuuming, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as interesting.
20 years ago, when I bought my Atco Balmoral lawnmower, the user guide said 'change the oil every 25 cuts'. So I started a small logbook to count the cuts. Now, even though I'm on a newer machine, I have 20 years worth of grass cutting data. Recently I digitised it and cross-referenced it with some local climate records. I proved to myself that in years when it rains more, the grass gets cut more. I wish I'd started logging my use of the BBQ at the same time.
I've also integrated grass cutting with leaf management, to get good mulch. One day perhaps I should blog about my overall compost management strategy.
For myself, every second I mow the lawn (shovel snow, etc) is a moment of my finite life forever lost :<
I suspect it _may_ be related to growing up in condos/apartments until a few years ago, and having my residence historically be a "low-maintenance base of operations" from which I do fun/interesting things; and not a "black hole of maintenance and cleanup where I spend all my time & money" that a house now seems to be :P
I don't enjoy any housework and used to use a robot vacuum cleaner more or less exclusively, but it can't have been off its dock more than twice in the last 6 months. I actually enjoy doing it myself when I don't have to lug around a big heavy device with a power cord trailing out of it. Never thought I'd see the day.