Ballpark figure for new swimming pool liner: $2200.00

Sorry, kids, it's time to play in the sprinkler.

The luxury I crave these days is cut flowers for the house. That patch of ground would be perfect for a garden.

Exercise? I can do yoga. Year round. (And work in the garden.)

Cooling down in the summer? Do you have any idea how warm the water is by mid-July down here?

LATER: And, I don't like the enviromental implications of running a 30,000 gallon swimming pool when it's used as seldom as we and others in the neighborhood use it. That wraps it up.

Not quite. It's not a pretty pool, either. Absolutely zero aesthetic value to the neighborhood.

EVEN LATER: $2200, you say, isn't so much money. It's a whole lot of money when you consider that we spent $3500 on this monstrosity 3 years ago. When it sprang a leak last year WE COULDN'T GET ANYONE TO COME FIX IT. That's why it needs a new liner. What about the boys, you ask? Won't they inherit this property? Don't they have a say? I say, if the boys want to go swimming it would be cheaper to fly them to Cancun. (Better yet, they can go jump in a lake.)