A few things...

Today was a wonderful day here in the Inland Northwest.  We all got up and got out the door at 8am to hit a few garage sales and drop off a bid to a potential client of The Hubbs.  We've been in the market for a weed eater and finally found one today for $30!  It runs great and really whacks the crap outta those weeds and tall grass, hooray.  We then came home and started looking for a reel mower again.  It has been hard finding one.  Every time we call on one from Craigslist, it's already been sold.  However, today was our lucky day.  We got a Scotts Classic 20" for $25!  I still can't believe it was only $25.  I would have easily paid $50-$60 for it.  It's barely been used because they thought it needed sharpening.  Once I got it home and saw that it didn't cut very well, I asked The Hubbs to Swagbucks search "sharpening a reel mower".  He found a site that said that 95% of reel mowers don't need to be sharpened, just adjusted.  Boy were they right!  That baby purrs right along and cuts grass like nobody's business.  I got about 1/2 of our .5 acre done this afternoon.

Reel lawn mower

So, this past weekend Dave went to start up our Craftsman lawn tractor to cut down the proverbial forest in our back yard.  Well, it didn't want to start.  He started tinkering with it and pulled the starter and it's a mess.  He called Sears and they want $130 for a new starter *cough*.  Yeah, um that's a lot of money for 1 part, especially for a LAWN MOWER.

(Ours looks like this one but it's green)

So today as I was outside with the kidlets and I decided I want to get a reel lawn mower.  It won't need parts (well, likely) and it's free to use besides the initial investment.  There are 2 nice ones on Craigslist that I've emailed about.  This will allow me about 2 hours each week to myself with my iPod plugged in.  I need some alone time and this will be the perfect excuse, plus I'll get plenty of exercise.  Did I mention that Dave laughed/scoffed at the idea at first?  Well, he shut his yap once I told him that I would be cutting the grass from now on if we could buy one of these.  He liked the idea of that :)

So, what kind of lawnmower do you have?  Do you like it?  If you don't like it, what would you rather have?