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It takes me 2 days at 8 hours a day to pick up my yard with a rake. It takes me a half day with a leaf blower. Between October and Feb I may have to pick up

It takes me 2 days at 8 hours a day to pick up my yard with a rake. It takes me a half day with a leaf blower. Between October and Feb I may have to pick up leaves 3 or 4 times to keep it from killing my grass or at the very least not be a bad neighbor and allow my leaves to blow over into the yard of people who just picked up theirs I have a kid to take care of, other house upkeep to do, a 40-50 hour a week job. This whole thread is filled with young, urban kids who have never been responsible for property

loudtieblahblah 8y ago
I should also mention - Leaf blowers are a god send for people with medical problems that 8+ hours of raking would seriously harm them or be impossible for them.
HarryHirsch 8y ago
Yes, it's the suburbanite problem of too much house, too much yard. There's too much of everything to keep in presentable condition. One solution would be to hire outside help to keep the excess of stuff clean, but that may be expensive. There's another solution, to cut down on the amount of stuff. When I was a kid the lawn would take 30 minutes to mow with a push lawnmower, and maybe 45 minutes for raking. Once a week. On Saturdays, because Sundays is quiet day. Washington told its citizens to either earn enough and keep quiet or downsize to keep quiet. It's a good start. It's time that other peoples' ostentatiousness stopped spilling over in my domain. Leafblowers are just one symptom. SUVs are another.
- loudtieblahblah 8y ago
  I'd rather have all the problems of the suburbs time 10 than live in then be ping ponged between the classist snobs that live in well off areas in urban centers and the high crime areas of those not so well off, with all your pollution and your asthma that you're breathing in day in and day out in concentrated ways, while taking my kid out to throw a ball or to walk my dog means i need to hop in a car and go to a park 5 miles away. Portlandia isn't for everyone.
amyjess 8y ago
Nah, when I was a kid, I lived in a house in the suburbs with a front and back yard, and my mom always used a rake to take care of the leaves. We never even owned a leaf blower.

loudtieblahblah 8y ago

I should also mention - Leaf blowers are a god send for people with medical problems that 8+ hours of raking would seriously harm them or be impossible for them.

HarryHirsch 8y ago

Yes, it's the suburbanite problem of too much house, too much yard. There's too much of everything to keep in presentable condition. One solution would be to hire outside help to keep the excess of stuff clean, but that may be expensive. There's another solution, to cut down on the amount of stuff. When I was a kid the lawn would take 30 minutes to mow with a push lawnmower, and maybe 45 minutes for raking. Once a week. On Saturdays, because Sundays is quiet day. Washington told its citizens to either earn enough and keep quiet or downsize to keep quiet. It's a good start. It's time that other peoples' ostentatiousness stopped spilling over in my domain. Leafblowers are just one symptom. SUVs are another.

loudtieblahblah 8y ago
I'd rather have all the problems of the suburbs time 10 than live in then be ping ponged between the classist snobs that live in well off areas in urban centers and the high crime areas of those not so well off, with all your pollution and your asthma that you're breathing in day in and day out in concentrated ways, while taking my kid out to throw a ball or to walk my dog means i need to hop in a car and go to a park 5 miles away. Portlandia isn't for everyone.

amyjess 8y ago

Nah, when I was a kid, I lived in a house in the suburbs with a front and back yard, and my mom always used a rake to take care of the leaves. We never even owned a leaf blower.