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[Dr. Who]

To a ten year old, back then .25 seemed like a million dollars. And the lawn was close to an acre on a hill no less.

My parents bought their first house when I was 10. My first memory is my mother handing me a pair of scissors to cut the grass in the back of the house.
They eventually bought a handmower, which never seemed sharp enough. IIRC they bought a gas mower when there were no kids left at home to mow the grass! They did a lot of things like that after the free labor moved out.