It's great owning your own house. You don't have the feeling that you are throwing your money away with rent. Every now and then I'll check out what the houses in the neighborhood are selling for to see if my house is appreciating. So it's nice knowing you can put holes in your walls and not have to worry about covering them up when you move.
I'm spoiled because I live in a townhouse and have an association. I gladly pay my dues every month knowing that they will mow the lawn every Thursday, pick-up my garbage and recyclables on Friday, and shovel in the winter when necessary (aka over one inch of snow).
In the last months bill we got the "spring time notice". This noticed went on to state little reminders about noise and lawn care. I've never had an issue with noise in the neighbor besides a barking dog every once in awhile so that was no problem. The lawn care is something that I get to handle. My wife and I have a little beagle and she has left our yard mark with little dead spots. In the spring time notice, we were reminded that lawns need to be fixed before June 1. No problem, I thought. I'll buy some sod and dig up the spots and lay down the good stuff.
We decided to go a different route though. We thought that if we seed the dead stuff now we wouldn't have to worry about the expensive sod later. We traveled out to the local WalMart to look for a list of items: guinea pig bedding, dog toys, grass seed/soil, and tropical skittles. Unfortunately, I forgot about the tropical skittles until now. There is more to that story but it's not going to be told now.
My wife and I have never been outdoors/gardening people. We walked up and down the seed aisle getting angry with one another because neither of us knew what we were doing. Finally we decided on the grass seed that came in some blue mulch type stuff. I've heard some people talk about how easy it was to use so that's why we got it. We needed some soil since I was going to be doing some digging. Potting soil, plant soil, Miracle grow flower soil. The back of the seed bag said I needed Scott's Lawn Soil. I have to follow the directions since I want the "Best Results". We could not find anything down the soil aisle that said anything about being top soil, lawn soil, grass soil. We finally gave up and planned to go to Home Depot to find some.
After check out we are pushing the cart out of the WalMart garden center and my wife spots a bunch of pallets sitting out in the parking lot. Sure enough she finds a pallet of the Scott's Lawn Soil that I need for my "Best Results".
