For just six dollars, J.R.'s store, down close to Exit 23 on Route 104 in New Hampton, sells these 22" red plastic rakes that are flat or straight ended as opposed to a curved end, and these work terrific when used with a square trash can for my six little hillside yards all squeezed into a quarter acre. Notice that I call them yards .... as opposed to lawns

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Nothing really can touch a rake when it comes to leaf removal .... but maybe I'll go take a look-see at one of these electric leaf vacs ....... just seems like a lot more effort to do the same thing....put leaves into a trash can ...... I dunno ..... or else there's the snow method......if you wait long enuf.....all the leaves get covered by the white stuff?