Why in the world

pmarie33 · January 2009

don't people who have trees in their front yard rake the leaves? Seriously, it's winter and their yard looks like crap now and will look much worse in the spring cause all the grass will be dead.

It baffles me.

staycee · January 2009

out here we are known to get strong winds for a few days at a time periodically in "winter" (If you call 80+ degrees winter).

this blows the leaves away to the tree-less neighbors to deal with. Fun.

MrsO1111 · January 2009

I grew up in a house of non-rakers and we continue that practice to this day. Embarrassed

The reason for our sloth? We had/have so many trees that it's impossible to get rid of all the leaves. They just keep coming back. Plus, 2 acres is a lot to rake.

We're not total losses though; we do rake or blow them off the driveway and flowerbeds.

pmarie33 · January 2009

Staycee - that's what we do. We have one tree and the wind blows the leaves next door.

MrsO - 2 acres is a lot of leaves.

The houses I'm talking about have maybe .08 acres of land (if that much). All the houses look the same and they are very close to each other. There's no excuse except laziness

mtendere · January 2009

I come from a family that did not believe in raking leaves - let nature do it's thing. I married a much more responsible fellow and our yard is always appropriately neat.

Nikki1007 · January 2009

I dotn have any trees in my front yard for that reason.

totalpanic · January 2009

front = raked

back = looks like hell

murphyec · January 2009

I have no grass, so leaves don't kill anything. One of these days I will plant some shade friendly grass, then I might care about the leaves. We had our trees pruned a few years ago, so the leave situation is MUCH better than it was.

murphyec · January 2009

Oh and yes, we don't rake leaves out of pure laziness. This is also why we hire someone to mow the lawn.

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