Dinghy
Veteran Member
Hi All,
I'm sure a lot of you will think I'm crazy, but I do not want a pool. A guy we work with told my husband he wanted to get rid of his. Said we could have it FREE because he just wanted it out of his yard. I fought tooth and nail not to get it. We have very little yard left after planting gardens and putting up our grandaughter's swing set and sand box and our fire ring. I would have had to look out my kitchen door and instead of seeing my rock garden and berry bushes and nature, I would have been looking at a big, ugly pool! It's bad enough having the swing set plopped in the middle of it. The back yard has always been my refuge because there is woods and birds and deer, where the front yard is TOWN and cars and people. And I would have been the one fighting off the neighborhood kids and just know I would have gotten hung with being the one to take care of it. Plus the cost of sand to level it and the water to fill it. We're both laid off right now.
Any way I reluctantly agreed to go look at the pool yesterday. My husband really wanted the thing, so I went with him. Well what a surprise he got!!!! The pool was huge, like 28 feet. Almost twice as big as the yard we have left. Our yard isn't flat, it's in two levels, so the space that is left is only about 15 feet deep. And it all of a sudden went from being free to the guy wanting at least $600. Plus, he said it needed a new liner!!!! I felt bad for hubby, but was so relieved that I didn't have to be the bad guy by saying no. Thank God some things just work out on their own!
The only good thing I could come up with as far as having it was, if TSHTF we would have had a lot of water to use. The chances of that happening didn't out weigh the fact that I would be looking at "UGLY" for years!! If we had a bigger yard, I wouldn't have had as much of a problem with it, but the way it would have been we wouldn't even have had room to put a fence around it. Way to much responsibility with all the kids we have in the neighborhood right now. Too many reasons not to get it, versus reasons to get it. I still feel like a meanie, even though Hubby knows it wouldn't have worked. Guess I'll buy him a carton of ice cream today and try to make him feel better!
I'm sure a lot of you will think I'm crazy, but I do not want a pool. A guy we work with told my husband he wanted to get rid of his. Said we could have it FREE because he just wanted it out of his yard. I fought tooth and nail not to get it. We have very little yard left after planting gardens and putting up our grandaughter's swing set and sand box and our fire ring. I would have had to look out my kitchen door and instead of seeing my rock garden and berry bushes and nature, I would have been looking at a big, ugly pool! It's bad enough having the swing set plopped in the middle of it. The back yard has always been my refuge because there is woods and birds and deer, where the front yard is TOWN and cars and people. And I would have been the one fighting off the neighborhood kids and just know I would have gotten hung with being the one to take care of it. Plus the cost of sand to level it and the water to fill it. We're both laid off right now.
Any way I reluctantly agreed to go look at the pool yesterday. My husband really wanted the thing, so I went with him. Well what a surprise he got!!!! The pool was huge, like 28 feet. Almost twice as big as the yard we have left. Our yard isn't flat, it's in two levels, so the space that is left is only about 15 feet deep. And it all of a sudden went from being free to the guy wanting at least $600. Plus, he said it needed a new liner!!!! I felt bad for hubby, but was so relieved that I didn't have to be the bad guy by saying no. Thank God some things just work out on their own!
The only good thing I could come up with as far as having it was, if TSHTF we would have had a lot of water to use. The chances of that happening didn't out weigh the fact that I would be looking at "UGLY" for years!! If we had a bigger yard, I wouldn't have had as much of a problem with it, but the way it would have been we wouldn't even have had room to put a fence around it. Way to much responsibility with all the kids we have in the neighborhood right now. Too many reasons not to get it, versus reasons to get it. I still feel like a meanie, even though Hubby knows it wouldn't have worked. Guess I'll buy him a carton of ice cream today and try to make him feel better!