I have tons of trees, and raking was one of the worst chores! You had to rake everything into a pile (which often included hidden dog poo), then figure out how to get all those leaves into about ten bags. Then I'd take the bags to the local green waste, and it didn't seem so "green" to use all that plastic!

This nice invention made life so much easer. I just BLOW all the leaves into a pile (it leaves the dog poo behind, thankfully), then suck the pile up with the vacuum. AND...