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Message: [QUOTE="Lefty2one, post: 3985059, member: 1001"] Getting a pool is like a low-scale version of buying a boat: you're the only one who can determine if it's worth it, but at least you'll use it more often than you'd use a boat. We have an above-ground pool, it was there when we bought the house. I have a love/hate relationship with it and (likely) won't replace it once it's finally time to be put out to pasture, but man it is heavenly on those sweltering summer days. Just floating in the pool relaxing, watching the kids playing and having a blast. The back and forth of hanging out on your deck, grilling, getting hot, going in the pool for an hour...rinse/repeat. There are worse ways to spend hot summer days. There is something to be said for walking off your own deck into your own pool whenever you feel like it. You don't have to drive to the beach or the pool club or go over to a neighbor's house. It feels great hopping in for 20 minutes on a weekday evening. I may like that even more than the long weekend days in there. A stressful day at work or mowing the lawn at 7 PM on a weeknight...a dip in the pool afterward feels fantastic. It's therapeutic. Post-installation the cost isn't crazy: a couple of hundred per summer in chemicals (don't fall victim to the overpriced "better" stuff) and the uptick in your electric bill, but it wasn't as steep as I thought it'd be since you only have to run the filter eight hours per day. Still, if you did the math on cost-per-hour of use/entertainment it's probably not great. I opened my pool yesterday (I never do it as early as Memorial Day) and will close it the Tuesday after Labor Day and I'd guess I'm in there for 40 hours each summer. [/QUOTE]

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