This ad is mocking hipsters (maybe not hippies per se) but I think the humor still applies!
From
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/for/5616169580.html
Push Mower- Be green and save the earth!!! - $150 (West Seattle)
condition: like new
make / manufacturer: Fiskars
model name / number: StaySharp Max 18
Tree hugging, bicycle loving, fossil fuel hating, Prius driving, Bern feeling hipsters rejoice!! Another opportunity has arisen for you to save the world yet again and judge others for the wrongness of their ways. How do you ask? Well put down your organic kale and kombucha smoothie and stop googling how to grow the perfect organic hops for your home brewed IPA (lets be honest you just really can't in W WA) and turn your focus to your lawn.
Yes, that poor patch of green that you, the 1%'er owns, or rents from the 1%. Although we love to say that the nitrogen running off of the patch of grass will get into the watershed and suffocate all the salmon , we would be damned if we didn't want to keep it green during the summer right? Who doesn't want to keep our grass green for our ultimate Frisbee games, or even better yet, to lay out on while reading a how-to book on keeping our stache's nicely waxed with organic-sustainable bee's wax from our favorite independent bookstore? I mean common!
To be a true Seattle hipster you must, absolutely MUST be green or at least greener than your neighbors when it comes to taking care of your lawn. What better way of showing your contempt of their street cred than to own one of the greenest pieces of modern tech for your lawn? Although this was not constructed from recycled illegal fishing trawlers, it is a push mower that is fancier than most. Not only does it use inertia to help cut your grass faster and easier, but it also mulches! MULCHES!!! Unfortunately I did not buy it from a local business run out of the back of grandpa's garage with a price tag tied to it with hemp twine. I bought it from a big box store. Because I did, you can use your newest iPhone to look up the information in the link posted below.
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Fiskars-StaySharp-Max-18-in-Push-Walk-Behind-Non-Powered-Non-Electrical-Reel-Lawn-Mower-6201-62016935J/202563265
Why am I selling this wonderful piece of technology in this environmentally friendly city? Because I work and care more about bloody convenience than using a push mower. Does it work? Yes. I've kept it in good shape and maintained it during the past 2 years that I have owned it. No rust and the blades are still sharp. But like all push mowers, unless you mow your damn lawn weekly, it will push the grass down and require additional passes. Why does my grass grow so fast you ask? Because I fertilize the shit out of it.
What will I cut my grass with now you ask? The biggest baddest fossil fuel powered mower that I can find. There is nothing like the smell of gas exhaust wafting through the neighborhood after feeling the rumble of the powerful two stroke engine shake a person's bones on a Saturday morning to let people know who is really part of the counter culture in this town.
So if you like buying used stuff and saving the environment, hit me up. Otherwise this just might be disposed of in the least environmentally way possible. YOUR MOVE hippie...
Yeah, the usual CL deets: Must pick up, cash, and I have all the manuals still. If I wanted to give it away for free then I would have said that so no need to ask.