Yeah, billybob... it does sound the same. Between the cost of chemicals (I figure for the season it's at least a couple hundred dollars,) and the cost of keeping the pump running twenty four hours a day for three or four months, we were spending at least three or four hundred dollars a year. That's not counting the countless hours of work. If I was being paid minimum wage to do it, we couldn't afford me. Most summers we've used the pool no more than three or four times. I figure we could give out a half a dozen memberships to the local YMCA and save money.

Having someone take down the pool and lug away all the sand, bring in top soil and plant a new lawn would cost twso or three thousand dollars. To do that, we can afford me.

Besides, I'm in the best physical shape I've been in in many years.
Forget the expensive excercise equipment. Just find someone who needs an above ground pool they need taken down.