Oh sure, one little offhand comment from a client and suddenly you're a billing genius, meanwhile the rest of us are out here formatting invoices like it's 2009 and wondering why our whole Sunday disappears. I had a guy once say "why does the tax line look like a ransom note" and I laughed it off for six months before I finally just bolded the dang thing and stopped getting five emails a week asking me to explain it. We really do get blind to our own mess, huh. Four hours a month is basically a free afternoon, so I'd say that client earned themselves a coffee or at least a thank you card. Sometimes the dumbest sounding feedback is the stuff that actually pays off.

Man, I gotta push back on this one hard. That bagged mulch from the big box stores is basically sterilized sawdust, so if you got weeds, that's almost certainly coming from the wind, birds, or the dirt underneath, not the mulch itself. I've used that cheap stuff for years in Georgia and my beds stay clean as long as I lay it thick enough, like 3 inches minimum, and put down a weed barrier first. Sounds like the real issue is you skipped the prep work and then blamed the mulch for your own shortcut. Also, $400 for a crew to rip out some weeds and redo beds? That's on you for not just grabbing a hoe and spending a Saturday afternoon. Next time, check your soil first and stop blaming the bargain bin.