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post 1663862673 07-04-2022, 06:44 AM
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Having Your Own Pool Is Pretty Great

For you young boyos, if you have your own place, or when you get your own place, if you have the room and $$ to put a pool in it's pretty great. Now it is expensive AF in some areas of the country (like the people's republic of Maryland) and you do have to commit time and $ on it's upkeep, but not much better than chilling in your heated pool with your gal or friends, drinking, laughing, watching tv, etc.

Plus it gives you a specific outdoor space to get creative with lights, gardens, hardscape, etc. I'll post up some pics of my pool later on, but I have a very modest, 1950's rancher that's nothing special. Just a small, functional house where my high school sweetheart and I raised our 2 kids. However when you walk around to the back you enter an almost resort like setting that's just really cool to call your own.

Now if you don't like to swim, obviously a pool won't be for you. And it's a terrible investment. I put mine in around 2010, during the height of the great recession when pool builders were getting crushed. We'd had an estimate 3 years earlier for an all-in price of $90k. When we had them out during the recession they came down to $50k, still a lot of $, but way more doable than the $90k. Hell handy boyos may even be able to do some of the work themselves. And the pool is only open from May to October where I live. And only the heater makes swimming in May and October enjoyable. So I'm not fooling myself into thinking it was some wise investment, but among other things, taking a swim after a workout is all kinds of awesome.

Anyways, just thinking about enjoying the pool on this hot July 4th made me think to post this.
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post 1663862833 07-04-2022, 06:48 AM
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I thought about it, but I honestly prefer just a hot tub. Yes a home pool is nice, but nothing beats swimming in a natural lake or river in good ole' Texas. (Ded fkn Srs)
post 1663862883 07-04-2022, 06:49 AM
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post 1663862993 07-04-2022, 06:51 AM
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Originally Posted By gmenfan40⏩
I thought about it, but I honestly prefer just a hot tub. Yes a home pool is nice, but nothing beats swimming in a natural lake or river in good ole' Texas. (Ded fkn Srs)
We vacation at this place called Smith Mountain Like in Southern Va, and if it weren't 5 hours away I'd buy a vacation place there cause you're right, jumping into a lake off your boat doc and swimming around in warm lake water that you'll fish in later is pretty cool.
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post 1663863013 07-04-2022, 06:52 AM
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Had an above ground pool in the backyard growing up. It was definitely a lot of fun in the summers in the 90s. Pool parties, water balloon fights, etc. I'm planning on getting an in-ground one put in in a few years. I wonder if I'll use it as much as an adult.
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post 1663863043 07-04-2022, 06:53 AM
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Grew up with a pool in my dad’s backyard and I used to bring girls over and slay back in my 20s. I remember texting my dad to give him a heads up I was bringing a girl over and when we showed up he would have lit the tiki torches and turned the pool light on lol. He was a great wingman
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post 1663863233 07-04-2022, 06:58 AM
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Originally Posted By lightsarefallin⏩
Had an above ground pool in the backyard growing up. It was definitely a lot of fun in the summers in the 90s. Pool parties, water balloon fights, etc. I'm planning on getting an in-ground one put in in a few years. I wonder if I'll use it as much as an adult.
My advice would be don't get one for your kids or anyone else. You and wife have to like to swim or it won't be worth it. There was a nice above ground pool at my poverty house when we moved in. It was 27' round with a nice deck around it. We enjoyed it for several years until the freaking cicadas came in '05 or thereabout, tunneled out of the ground under it and undermined the sand berm (?) that gave the liner the angle needed to transition from the wall to the ground. We wake up one day and the damn pool is empty and the walls collapsed. We didn't have a pool for a bit which made us start to look at in the grounds.
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post 1663863263 07-04-2022, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted By MattyMiscer⏩
Grew up with a pool in my dad’s backyard and I used to bring girls over and slay back in my 20s. I remember texting my dad to give him a heads up I was bringing a girl over and when we showed up he would have lit the tiki torches and turned the pool light on lol. He was a great wingman
Have had many a sex session in the pool with the wife. Feels kind of naughty being outdoors but we have great privacy. Skinny dipping is fun as well.
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post 1663863273 07-04-2022, 06:59 AM
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pools are too much work, but the woman demands it.

I can't wait for my cold tub
post 1663863293 07-04-2022, 07:00 AM
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In for pics later. OP do you heat with natural gas, propane? Around here propane has tripled in price per gallon.
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Originally Posted By MattyMiscer⏩
Grew up with a pool in my dad’s backyard and I used to bring girls over and slay back in my 20s. I remember texting my dad to give him a heads up I was bringing a girl over and when we showed up he would have lit the tiki torches and turned the pool light on lol. He was a great wingman
What an awesome dad
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Originally Posted By SillieBazzillie⏩
Have had many a sex session in the pool with the wife. Feels kind of naughty being outdoors but we have great privacy. Skinny dipping is fun as well.
very telling
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Originally Posted By Cleveland33⏩
pools are too much work, but the woman demands it.

I can't wait for my cold tub
I installed a pool for multi function use.

1. Kids enjoy it
2. I love chilling in the hot tub to relax
3. I installed a heat pump instead of a heater so i can cool the hot tub and with a few bags of ice it also services as a cold tub
4. I installed swim jets to get a work out in the pool if i desired
post 1663863493 07-04-2022, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted By NYPat⏩
In for pics later. OP do you heat with natural gas, propane? Around here propane has tripled in price per gallon.
Will post up day pics and night pics tomorrow.

And I live in civilization so naturally I have natural gas piped right into my house. Propane tanks not even once.
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post 1663863583 07-04-2022, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted By Cleveland33⏩
very telling
Very telling? Like that I still enjoy banging my wife? Or that we enjoy the occasional "potentially risky" tryst?

I think both are pretty good for us both being old AF and having been only with each other for like 30+ years.
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post 1663863743 07-04-2022, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted By SillieBazzillie⏩
Will post up day pics and night pics tomorrow.

And I live in civilization so naturally I have natural gas piped right into my house. Propane tanks not even once.
Lmao somehow our street got skipped for some reason when the gas company ran the lines decades ago. They can't bother themselves to come back and finish for some reason. Huge pain in the ass.
post 1663863873 07-04-2022, 07:20 AM
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I have a large in ground pool here in South Florida. I do all the maintenance myself and I definitely would rather not have a pool. When my kids are older I'm sure we'll get more use out of our but I'm not much of a swimmer. It is great to just jump into after a long morning of sweaty yard work though.

Edit: just took this picture out my kitchen window

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post 1663864853 07-04-2022, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted By yeshli2nuts⏩
I have a large in ground pool here in South Florida. I do all the maintenance myself and I definitely would rather not have a pool. When my kids are older I'm sure we'll get more use out of our but I'm not much of a swimmer. It is great to just jump into after a long morning of sweaty yard work though.

Edit: just took this picture out my kitchen window

You definitely need to enjoy the pool yourself to make it worthwhile. Plus in S Florida I'd be concerned with having to wrestle the occasional gator.
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post 1663864903 07-04-2022, 07:54 AM
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Meh

I had one

And a hot tub on deck

and a saltwater reef tank

And a lawn

And a wood stove

Nothing but fkn work

You can have it
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They’re pretty sweet

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Been thinking about selling my boat and putting in a pool. Young kids have kind of ruined the fun of the boat. When they a little older, ill buy another one.
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I looked into but like you said, even for an above ground (done right, not one of them Walmart pools) in the gay state of MD costs a ton.

Good news is I've already got the electric infrastructure in place (old owners must have had a pool once upon a dream) so maybe in the next year or two I'll finally bite the bullet and put one in.
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Wife insisted we get one. Lot of time and money to maintain, plus power to run pump all day. We use it maybe 15-20 times a year; total.
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Have a pool and hot tub... definitely been a lot of fun. I've gotten pretty efficient at maintaining the water quality without much work now.

Sloots love the idea of banging in both. They all secretly want to do things that are "naughty".
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It would be sweet to have a pool but I probably would not do it unless I could afford a pool service company to take care of it.

And even then I would probably use it once a year. I have a boat though so I can always take that out if I want to swim.
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Can confirm.

The pool doesnt belong to me but its confined to residents in my area only.

So no riff raff refuge terrorist trash to come and chit& piss in the pool
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Ughhh that's like the only thing my house is missing. I looked into it but my yard isn't that big and it just didn't really make much sense, and cost alot also.

But my girlfriends dad lives right near the beach so we swim in the ocean alot and there's lots of places for kayaking and stuff.


But Def not the same as just walking into your back yard and plopping into the pool on a hot day

Damn I'm jelly
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Originally Posted By yeshli2nuts⏩
I have a large in ground pool here in South Florida. I do all the maintenance myself and I definitely would rather not have a pool. When my kids are older I'm sure we'll get more use out of our but I'm not much of a swimmer. It is great to just jump into after a long morning of sweaty yard work though.

Edit: just took this picture out my kitchen window

Pools go so much further in SoFla. You actually get to use it anytime of the year outside of a few weeks during Jan/Feb. Wouldn't be worth it to me if I lived anywhere else including the northern part of the state.
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Originally Posted By SillieBazzillie⏩
Very telling? Like that I still enjoy banging my wife? Or that we enjoy the occasional "potentially risky" tryst?

I think both are pretty good for us both being old AF and having been only with each other for like 30+ years.
I've always found sex in water pretty much impossible since there isn't sufficient lubrication.

maybe ol' Sillie doesn't need it
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Jelly of everyone with an in ground pool. I've always wanted one.
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