We not only share our time and expertise and tools with each other, we also often combine forces to bargain for more buying power.
My wife is an avid gardener at our second-home lake house, and has made a wonderful alliance with a neighbor who also loves to get her hands in the dirt.
“I’ll come over and garden with you at your house tomorrow afternoon,” one of them will suggest to the other.My wife is also known among her gardening circle for her chainsaw — a small electric one I bought for her a while back, mostly so I wouldn’t feel guilty about not helping her saw down the invasive bushes that drive her crazy. Her 12-inch chainsaw is easy to charge, without the smelly gas and oil and noise of my old gas machine. It’s a lot lighter, and easier for her to handle.
The septic company jumped at the idea, and gave the two homeowners each a substantial discount. The homeowners saved money, and the company got more business with fewer expenses. Its workers spent more of their day emptying septic tanks — what they are paid to do, and how the company makes its money — instead of driving back and forth to jobs spread out across the county. It was a win-win.
One note: this probably works best in more rural areas, and for communities like ours that are out of the way and not as quick or easy for service people to reach. One neighboring house owned by an elderly couple has a large rock at the head of the driveway, next to the road. The couple’s young grand-daughter is obsessed with frogs. When the grandparents learned that another neighbor is a talented illustrator, the grandparents with the driveway persuaded the illustrator to paint a playful, fanciful image of bright green frogs on the large stone at the top of the driveway.
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