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Does anyone have/had a trampoline in their backyard/front yard for their kids/themselves? How often was it used?

Posted by Krusty (aka Krustylu) Sep 8 '21, 05:09

I watch a few home shows and I notice that a lot of families with kids get a trampoline. A lot.
My understanding is they can be quite dangerous even with the netting that surrounds them.

I forget which show I was watching but it seemed like every other house had a trampoline. I'm kind of curious if the kids/parents actually use it often. I feel like it's something you use for 10-15 minutes and then move on to something else. And if that's the case it seems strange to have one. They take up a lot of space in the yard and are an eyesore.

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Ours got a fair amount of use. Nowdays I will go lay on it after I mow the grass and occasionally to look at the sky. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 07:30
I have wondered this too. I would have guessed people hardly use them. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Sep 8, 06:46
We did. Practically never. -- nm - TWuG Sep 8, 06:35
Thought about one growing up, never did. -- nm - budice Sep 8, 06:05
I did not. I had to go to visit neighbor kid friends to use one further down the dirt road of my youth. -- nm - Qale Sep 8, 05:54
we've had one for the past 3-4 years now with the netting (so since grade 6-7 for the youngest). No problems but we have rules around number of kids, - Beaker Sep 8, 05:43 2
- I guess kids like them and use them much more than I expected. I also didn't think people broke them down for the winter which does seem like a good - Krusty Sep 8, 05:54 1
  - here it would be destroyed almost immediately I figure after a foot of snow or two on it -- nm - Beaker Sep 8, 06:11
We have one; lots of the families around here have them. Almost all have nets up...they get variable use - Will Hunting Sep 8, 05:24 3
- I see them in so many yards in the suburbs. People need to make friends with their neighbors so they can share. Not your neighbors, of course. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 05:30 2
  - Oh, the kids travel. Except to our house. “Why are you here?” -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 8, 05:59 1
    - Ha! -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 06:50
We had one. Kids (4-12) used it quite often; then outgrew it. -- nm - VMan Sep 8, 05:15 6
- If they used it a lot then it was likely worth it. Thanks! Not sure why but it's something I've been curious about for a while now. - Krusty Sep 8, 05:20 5
  - Added bonuses, it gives the dogs a great place to go to the bathroom when we have heavy snow falls. When Lilly gets hot from playing fetch she lays - Spawn Sep 8, 07:36
  - Yeah. It was just a pain for me with lawn cutting and what not. -- nm - VMan Sep 8, 05:24 3
    - word; take 4 of us to lift so I only mow under it 2-3 times a year :) -- nm* - Beaker Sep 8, 05:43 1
      - Ours is a bit smaller and I can drag it (as I did last night), so no problem, there. But the first two years I *did* make Logan come out and we carried it back-and-forth. -- nm* - Spawn Sep 8, 07:37
    - Ahh, yeah I didn't even think of the difficulty in mowing around and near it. -- nm - Krusty Sep 8, 05:29
My sister has one for her kids. They use it all the time. - spamlet Sep 8, 05:13 2
- They really are. And it was a good Christmas gift from the grandparents one year. -- nm - Spawn Sep 8, 07:39
- Interesting, thanks! Obviously we don't have room for them here but I see them on home shows often and when I'm in the suburbs. - Krusty Sep 8, 05:16
I only ask because I saw a reddit post asking about leveling a trampoline in a sloped yard and my initial thought was tossing it in the garbage - Krusty Sep 8, 05:12

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