Why? I hear that it has something to do with keeping animals out of their yard. If this is true, I think I find an occasional dog poop in my yard much more attractive then 25 milk jugs strewn across my lawn. Can someone fill me in on this practice?
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Why? I hear that it has something to do with keeping animals out of their yard. If this is true, I think I find an occasional dog poop in my yard much more attractive then 25 milk jugs strewn across my lawn. Can someone fill me in on this practice?
lol... this is so funny because one of my neighbors just put a bunch of sticks with empty milk jugs on them in their yard. My mom said it's some sort of remedy that 'supposedly' keeps moles away. I don't see how that heck that could possibly work, but ya never know I guess....
Or is my mother wrong? Could they be up for another reason?
LOL, I've never heard of that Tonya. I'm with you, I'd rather have "creatures" in the yard than a bunch of milk jugs. :confused:
Of course I have Chester, so there's little chance of moles or mice.
You should come to my town, Micki...It's everywhere! Mainly in the yucky part of town, but occasionally, I'll even see it at a big beautiful house!Quote:
Originally posted by micki76
LOL, I've never heard of that Tonya. I'm with you, I'd rather have "creatures" in the yard than a bunch of milk jugs. :confused:
Huh......maybe they think milkjugs are pretty? :confused:
That is a very funny picture. You come up with the darnest questions Tonya.;) :p
I never thought of that, the only time I have seen milk jugs in a yard is at Christmas people use them to put lights under, except it goes on the edge of their driveway. But alll over the yard? I would hate to have to take them down, mow the yard, put them back up. Yes I think I would rather put up with the occactional mole and fertilization of the yard than milk jugs. I am so clumsy I woulld trip, fall and break a bone again. LOL.
Willie
LOL. That IS funny. Now, I have been guilty of having an empty milk jug (gallon sized) or two in my BACK yard...Binx likes to play with them, but the front yard? Eh, NO!
I thought I heard they were supposed to keep deer out of the garden. I've also heard it doesn't work!
We don't have empty milk jugs, but empty 2 liter or 20 oz pop bottles....they are Sadie's favorite toys!!!
Maybe they can't find enough rusty vehicles????
I have never seen that in this neck of the woods! All I can say is you sure are in a different part of the country than we are ... here, empty milk jugs would fill with water when it rained and provide breeding ground for mosquitos, lending fears of West Nile virus ...
Oh my gosh! I'm going to wet my pants from laughing! You absolutely crack me up.Quote:
Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
Maybe they can't find enough rusty vehicles????
Lol, not to be stereotypical, but it's usually the same people who have cars parked all over their lawn.Quote:
Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
Maybe they can't find enough rusty vehicles????
Around here, it means that the local punks have switched to something lighter. I am forever picking up empty beer bottles, soda bottles, McDonald's wrappers (there's one down the street)
One time we spent an entire Saturday picking up litter and filled a whole 55 gallon trash can and no sooner did we enter the house does a new bottle show up on our lawn:mad: Imagine if you will a very tired sunburned white female chasing down a gang banger and demanding him to return to my yard and pick up the bottle I witnessed him toss! The guy looked at me shocked and turn right around and picked it up... I think he respected me in as much as he could respect someone.
So, being that I live in the city (well, the outskirts) we do not have milk jugs on lawns as a common site... is this a rural thing?
Could it be the latest fad in lawn ornaments, replacing the ever popular pink flamingo or lawn jockey?????
You fill them with water, most people use plain water bottles, and it keeps the local neighborhood cats from using your lawn as a litter box. ;) And yes, for some strange reason it works.
Hmm... my neighbors have them upside down and stuck on sticks :confused: So, they couldn't be filled with water. I just don't understand, too scientific for my simple mind :oQuote:
Originally posted by luckies4me
You fill them with water, most people use plain water bottles, and it keeps the local neighborhood cats from using your lawn as a litter box. ;) And yes, for some strange reason it works.
Well all my life I have been told if you fill them with water, they keep the cats from crapping in your yard, and so far it's worked, at least for my neighbors. :p
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Originally posted by RubyMutt
Hmm... my neighbors have them upside down and stuck on sticks :confused: So, they couldn't be filled with water. I just don't understand, too scientific for my simple mind :o
Well think about it. If a mole digs a hole and pops it head out, and there's something covering his head, chances are he's gonna go dig someone else. You would think....
I have a better way, lets concrete our yards, get rid of our flowers plus the need to mow the yard! Then we can just paint the concrete green! Let a mole try to stick his head through that yard!
Tennessee has a lot of the rusted cars and cars sitting on blocks!You would be suprised how many you see these good ole boys have down here in TN. My husband has a back section of our field just filled with some of these junk cars. Think I should take the tractor and drag them up here in the yard???????;)
Willie
Well yeah, if the yard was COVERED with jugs. These people have maybe 5 or 6 making a little perimeter around the yard.Quote:
Originally posted by luckies4me
Well think about it. If a mole digs a hole and pops it head out, and there's something covering his head, chances are he's gonna go dig someone else. You would think....
Now that is a good idea! :D ;)Quote:
Originally posted by trayi52
I have a better way, lets concrete our yards, get rid of our flowers plus the need to mow the yard! Then we can just paint the concrete green! Let a mole try to stick his head through that yard!
Willie
THose aren't jugs...
they are MILKWEED plants.
:confused:
I've never heard of this....and I live in hickville...strange...;)
Believe me, I do live in hickville!;)
I have no idea. I'll ask my employee if she knows, she's from Modesto. LOL
Actually, someone did that in the next town over from here. Really. It was ... ummmmm ... interesting. :pQuote:
I have a better way, lets concrete our yards, get rid of our flowers plus the need to mow the yard! Then we can just paint the concrete green! Let a mole try to stick his head through that yard!
That's right! I bet she'll know what I'm talking about. lol. Tell her to move back, this city is full of action now! lmao.Quote:
Originally posted by Twisterdog
I have no idea. I'll ask my employee if she knows, she's from Modesto.
Very simple answer to this question.
It's there to make you ask questions, do you see how well it works? ;) :D (sorry so couldn't resist )
Concrete yards, Awww, my brother-in-laws dream yard... So he don't have to mow!! I would really like to hear the results of concreting a yard...:confused: Whew, imagine what would happen if I tripped and fell in that yard, and I am such a clumsy person!! I broke my foot, just walking across a yard with grass! Ouch!
That's exactly why she left ... a little TOO much action! LOLQuote:
Originally posted by Tonya
That's right! I bet she'll know what I'm talking about. lol. Tell her to move back, this city is full of action now! lmao.
Dang it! I have been fooled again.Quote:
Originally posted by Crikit
Very simple answer to this question.
It's there to make you ask questions, do you see how well it works? ;) :D (sorry so couldn't resist )
I'll get back at them somehow... maybe I'll hang cereal boxes from the tress and bushes! That'll show em!
My friend and I once hung tampons in a persons tree. Now THAT would inspire questions! ;)Quote:
I'll get back at them somehow... maybe I'll hang cereal boxes from the tress and bushes! That'll show em!
Just for the record this was a person we knew and they deserved it. ;)
lol i've never heard of that before, but there is a house near here that has a beautiful lnadscaping job done. then...they put up this big ceramic tower. (about 6 ft. tall) and it's hollow and has windows allup it's sides. and they put barbies, kens mcdonalds toys , and every kind of tacky plastic toy you could ever think of in those windows hanging out. and this is in thier front yard! right wheere everyone can see when they 're driving by! and it's in the really nice part of the nieghborhood (right by the water) i laughed so hard the first time i saw it! i was used to the ohio and north carolina briers with the big cheesy flamingoes and the orange painted deer in the yard and the dwarfs and stuff...lol :)
Wow I forget that people actually have lawns :) Here in the desert we just decorate our yards with giant rocks. No mowing necessary :)Quote:
I have a better way, lets concrete our yards, get rid of our flowers plus the need to mow the yard! Then we can just paint the concrete green! Let a mole try to stick his head through that yard!
Lol, that's so true. We had some new neighbors move in up the road....They decorated their yard "Arizona style". Everyone thought there were freaks. But in Az, that is how every yard is. Only the nuts try to keep grass green there. lol. Actually, my cousin has a nice green lawn, but her fiance owns a landscaping business there in Phoenix. He has the means.Quote:
Originally posted by Uabassoon
Wow I forget that people actually have lawns :) Here in the desert we just decorate our yards with giant rocks. No mowing necessary :)
I woke up this morning, went out side to pick up the paper and....
there it was, on the neighbor's lawn.....
I'll find out which one of you put it there.:p :p
LMAO! Sounds like something my mom would do. Right now my mom has these CD's hanging all over her tree and house. She thinks she is so brilliant for this idea because they look so beautiful when they reflect in the light. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally posted by G.P.girl
lol i've never heard of that before, but there is a house near here that has a beautiful lnadscaping job done. then...they put up this big ceramic tower. (about 6 ft. tall) and it's hollow and has windows allup it's sides. and they put barbies, kens mcdonalds toys , and every kind of tacky plastic toy you could ever think of in those windows hanging out. and this is in thier front yard! right wheere everyone can see when they 're driving by! and it's in the really nice part of the nieghborhood (right by the water) i laughed so hard the first time i saw it! i was used to the ohio and north carolina briers with the big cheesy flamingoes and the orange painted deer in the yard and the dwarfs and stuff...lol :)
LOL I went out with a guy once that kept commenting on milk jugs.....but they weren't the kind you buy at the grocery store.:D
What was I thinking???
LMAO! I married one like that, Slick. And he turned out to be not so bad after all. haha. He just required a little more training. ;)
We don't have milk jugs, but my mum is a little on the weird side and had an arbor built to hold her painted toilet ... I swear I'm adopted :eek:
It's just inside the driveway so visitors don't miss it. She was scared that the market gardeners over the road would steal it, so she had dad concrete it to the paving!!!
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Must get her onto the milk jug thing.
Just be happy that you don't look outside and see somebody actually using it!
Maybe you should show her some of the beautiful Milk weeds that Richard was talking about!;)
LOL Too cute MM. Maybe she just wants to keep "a head" of the Jones'!!!!:D :D
I kill me!!!!