Poolphobia!

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Rollercoastr

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I had some construction/remod contractors at the house last week. Good guys, no issues, until I overheard a discussion about pools that went something like:

"it would be nice to have a pool"

"no way. too much work"

:grrrr::grrrr::grrrr::grrrr::grrrr:

I felt like I was eaves-dropping, so I didn't interject. Now I regret that. It's my house, and someone is propagating falsehoods in it and about it. Maybe I should start logging the time I spend on the pool, so I can challenge poolphobic comments with real data. Let's be real: poolphobia costs us all in home value.

I'd be willing to bet that I spend less time maintaining my pool than other people spend vacuuming their carpet, or washing their car, certainly on their lawns or gardens or pets... Oh, I guess I should include the time most people spend fighting their pool!

ARGH!
 
Or KIDS! I have kid phobia and I love my pool! :)

I definitely had pool phobia forever. My wife wanted a pool for years and I was skeert! Of the work, monthly electric bill, pool service, chems, leaves, all that.

Luckily one day she said, we are getting a pool. And I thought, ok I better learn how to maintain it. And here we are! :paddle:
 
I was the same way, after dealing with my parents' pool in my teens I wasn't too interested. The house we fell in love with, however, had a pool. Which after I failed to close properly led me here, and now I'm the guy rolling my eyes at people who claim pools are so difficult to maintain. Heck, now I'm the guy who loves a good challenge and goes looking for swamps to clear.
 
I had several friends growing up with pools. My best friend had one and I can definitely say I heard way more bad things about it from his grumbling dad than good (as kids, who cares what the water looks like!). I definitely would not want to own a pool anywhere in the country where closing is required...too much work for not enough swim season in my opinion (....stay out of this swampwoman with your crazy thunder-dome antics!!). But when we decided to settle in Tucson and we experienced our very first June with 40 days of > 100F daily temps, that kind of forced my hand and the wife was like - "you either get me a pool to throw those roasting little children in or I get a new husband!" So, like Danny, it was happening whether I wanted it to or not.

Thankfully I had run across TFP very early on and so I never had to deal with lousy service "professionals" or a green pool. I definitely got pool-stored once and regret buying that pair of emoji speedos but that's a story for another day ....
 
Hmmmm...That might explain the vegetation growing on my den floor....
 
(....stay out of this swampwoman with your crazy thunder-dome antics!!).
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I got the bat signal that the words Swampwoman, crazy and dome were used in a sentence and thought I'd swoop in in defense of the tundra-dome ;)

Let me put it this way. If you had to live in Michigan, would a dome and 365-days of swimming seem so crazy to you?

That's what I thought ;)
 
I’m one of those people that has cars where others feel the need to write “Please Clean Me” in the dust. I see no point to washing my car as it will just get dust-coated again within 5mins of leaving the car wash. I consider the dust as an additional protective layer against people touching my car - it’s so dirty no one wants to touch it.
 

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Swampwoman said:
I got the bat signal that the words Swampwoman, crazy and dome were used in a sentence and thought I'd swoop in in defense of the tundra-dome ;)

Let me put it this way. If you had to live in Michigan, would a dome and 365-days of swimming seem so crazy to you?

That's what I thought ;)
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Does anyone really HAVE TO live in Michigan :scratch:

Seems like just a bunch of people who love to engage in the self-inflicted torture of winter time blues....now where I live, no dome needed as we have 360 days of sunshine every year. The other 5 days are so we can get some clouds for nice sunset pictures ...
 
Yup -- had winter here yesterday, it rained. That's enough, back to sun and boating on the lake -----
 
JoyfulNoise said:
Does anyone really HAVE TO live in Michigan :scratch:

Seems like just a bunch of people who love to engage in the self-inflicted torture of winter time blues....now where I live, no dome needed as we have 360 days of sunshine every year. The other 5 days are so we can get some clouds for nice sunset pictures ...
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It is MISERABLE here right now. Can't deny it.

However, give us a few (short, please short) months and we'll have this. I could be wrong, but I think it's better than sand.

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sometimes, the months are too long and we get impatient:

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Rollercoastr said:
Maybe I should start logging the time I spend on the pool, so I can challenge poolphobic comments with real data.
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I'm interested to see how much time I spend on it too. I worked for a pool company for a season so I knew if I could do it as a hung over 21 year old pool boy I could do it as an adult (hangover or not :D). I've learned more from TFP than that job btw. People are always surprised to hear how much I spend on chemicals, electricity and natural gas each season (under $1,000, and I heat to 86 degrees w/o a solar cover). They assume it's much more. And I bet the time spent would surprise them.
 
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