Do You Have Trouble Weedeating?

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Thanks to my recent diagnosis, I now know why it is I take forever to weedeat around my home. I become so entranced with the details and making everything look level that what should take a few minutes can take hours. Anyone else have an issue with this?

yea but my problem is putting the string in

Used to. A few years ago while living at a friends place when my symptoms were much much worse I had exactly this problem. He (my friend) would have a laugh and kinda frustratingly say it shouldn't take nearly as long to do as I was taking.. that I was getting way too caught up in details when I should be focused on the bigger picture and just zipping through the job in minutes. And he was right. Now that I'm functioning better than ever I'm sure I could pick up a weedeater and race through the job like I did it every day for a living.

I can't do it at all. In addition to being allergic to grass, the noise, vibration, and smells are too much for me.

what weedeating?

why would u wanna eat weeds?

Yeah.

I had to google the phrase too. And I still dont know what he means.

There are two meanings on the net- one is "trimming weeds in your lawn with a power cutter." The other has to do with pleasuring a woman orally-nuff said.

I think he means something akin to the first of those two- getting bogged down in detail-or something.

only time I had problem weedeating (string trimming the weeds) was when it was too hard to pull the rope on an older weedeater I had, (redmax, not sure what model it was) now I use the Echo SRM-210 (easier to pull rope)

now for physical problems, sometimes shaky hands for at least half hour or so after i got done, but other then that, only other thing I would have to remember is where the poison ivy was, as I would find myself itchy as heck a couple days after weedeating.

-Jess

Being a perfectionist has caused me problems. Most people want speed over perfection and I am not wired that way. Even when I try to not be a perfectionist I spend a lot of time agonizing over what to skip.

I like doing almost any sort of gardening. I get frustrated with bad tools, but the activity itself is usually enjoyable.

Some weeds are easy to pull up, and once they are then others of the same wont grow back. Some weeds thrive on being pulled up, and bits left in the soil will create new plants.
Other weeds spread seeds when they are pulled up. I know that first hand after an old lady asked me to pull up some marigolds at the top of her garden. I pulled them up, and carried them to the bin at the front of her garden. The next season her lawn was a MASS with marigolds, as unknowingly I'd walked over the lawn and the marigolds I'd pulled up scattered their seeds.
I thought they looked nice. The old lady wasn't impressed.

anyone ever use a scythe? I find that pretty enjoyable
I use one to cut fields of stalky weeds im like a machine when I do it and can clear a large area faster than I could weed eat it

I use an electric one,I like to weed eat but worry I might hit something alive with it,like a frog or toad.I try to disturb the area first so hopefully any little critters will get out of the danger zone.
I don't like the gas ones,noisy and stinky.