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How did people mow their lawns before lawn mowers?

Spiderman

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Oddly enough I was thinking about Ancient Egyptians not having to keep their lawns mowed in most of the country.

I could google what it was like before lawn mowers. I'd rather just go to RF for my education like I always do.

Living without lawn mowers or toilet paper sounds like a nightmare to me.:eek:
 
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Stevicus

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ADigitalArtist

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Lawns are a sort of modern thing. Nobody maintained grasses until modern suburbia. But people used scythes for clearing brambles and hedges and grasses for a long time.
 

Shadow Wolf

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People really didn't have lawns then. At most a noble might have one in a courtyard, with what we know as lawns today being a more of a modern vanity.
 

The Hammer

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Oddly enough I was thinking about Ancient Egyptians not having to keep their lawns mowed in most of the country.

I could google what it was like before lawn mowers. I'd rather just go to RF for my education like I always do.

Living without lawn mowers or toilet paper sounds like a nightmare to me.:eek:

They didn't have lawns afaik.

That was a medieval invention of the ruling class to show "look how much arable land I have and can do absolutely ****all with; farm for me plebes."
 

Suave

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Oddly enough I was thinking about Ancient Egyptians not having to keep their lawns mowed in most of the country.

I could google what it was like before lawn mowers. I'd rather just go to RF for my education like I always do.

Living without lawn mowers or toilet paper sounds like a nightmare to me.:eek:

Great grandpappy Suave used a blade reel push mower to cut his lawn.

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Suave

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Living without lawn mowers or toilet paper sounds like a nightmare to me.:eek:

Just after being freed from quarantine in April 2020, I was very fortunate enough to get the second to last roll of toilet paper at Target. I would have also taken the last roll, save for the one roll per customer limit. I was then thinking what would I have done, if none of the stores had any T.P.. I've heard of people wiping themselves with Sears catalogues , but of course, I had no Sears catalog. Pre-C.O.V.I.D. when people used to greet each other with shake hands, I'm guessing the custom of using the right hand may have derived from our ancient ancestors using the bare left hand for wiping.
 

lewisnotmiller

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Oddly enough I was thinking about Ancient Egyptians not having to keep their lawns mowed in most of the country.

I could google what it was like before lawn mowers. I'd rather just go to RF for my education like I always do.

Living without lawn mowers or toilet paper sounds like a nightmare to me.:eek:

My 11 year old has been enjoying watching a show called 'Back in Time for Dinner' and the sequel 'Further Back in Time for Dinner'.
They pick a decade, and a family lives as they had to back then for a few days (roughly 1 day per year of the decade, skipping the boring years...lol)

She was watching the 1900s the other day, and there was no plumbing, an outside toilet, and cut up newspaper was used in place of toilet paper. So nevermind ancient anything...go back a little in your current culture, and things get messier...lol

Further Back In Time For Dinner : ABC iview
 
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