What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

We are moving from a condo to a house, and we need stuff like the lawn mower, garbage cans, hose, etc. Am I forgetting anything? We have shovels, and won't invest in a snowblower....

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

You got the basics.

Add a rake (for spring clean up)

Maybe a small hoe if you plan to garden/plant flowers.

Garbage bags for leaves/twigs, etc

We bought 2 garbage cans. One for typical household garbage with a lid and one large brown one we could put twigs/leaves, etc in when we did lawn maintence.

Maybe pick up a few bags of fertilizer to get down on the grass for spring growing. Thus, you'll need a fertilizer spreader. We got an inexpensive one for about $20 at HD.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

Maybe an outside broom, especially if you have trees that shed crap on the front steps, driveway, and patio & walkways if you have them.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

A rake and a four prong rake. Come in real handy when cleaning up around the yard.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

Since we just made a list too, here was ours for the outside/garage:

Garbage Cans
Recycle Cans
Lawn Mower
Weed Wackers
Leaf Blower
Rake
Hoe
Hedge Clippers
Gardening Spade
Hose / Hose Holder / Faucet Sprayer
Shovel
Ice Chopper
Snow Blower
Pressure Washer
Pool Supplies (chlorine, testers, etc)
Black Contractor Bags
Push Broom

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

a ladder too!

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

Posted by nov04libride

ice chopper=DH+metal shovel!

Thanks so much--this is a great list.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

lawn mower, leaf blower
power washer
snow blower
deck box
that is all I can think of (besides the smaller stuff)

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

At first we bought the following items:
garbage cans
lawn mower
leaf blower
edger
hoses & holders for hoses
sprayers
sprinklers
gardening tool

Later on we bought:
power washer
spreader
shovels

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

Something we already had which came in handy was what I can only describe as a gardener's suitcase. It came with different size spades, a foam kneeling pad, hose connectors, hand rakes, etc.

Also, consider if you need padlocks for wherever you're going to put all this stuff. We needed two - one for our shed and the other for our basement.

Everyone else pretty much covered it. The only thing we bought ahead of time was the ladder because we knew we would need it to paint. We moved in in November so we didn't even buy the lawn mower until much later.

Also, a bucket and something to coil your hose in/around.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

ALWAYS have salt available from Fall through end of Spring. DH didn't tell me we ran out of salt because he 'forgot' and for the big snowstorm I was walking on ice for 2 days. This weather is so unpredictable these days. First day of Spring we had snow flurries.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

We bought:
A mower, garbage cans, rakes, shovels, hedge clippers, gardening tools, a chain saw, weed whacker and an axe. But we had a lot of yard work to do.

Re: What outdoor maintenance things did you buy when moving to your first home?

Shovel for digging through dirt
Power washer
Snow blower