You'd have to be anal to pick up your grass clippings. Do you really care so much what your neighbors think of your lawn? I have birds on my lawn every day, happily eating bugs and worms. Why? Because I don't kill them by spraying poison on my grass, that's why. And when the dandilions come into flower, it's a glorious sea of yellow that warms my heart. And when the dandilions go to seed, I watch the fluff float through the air with joy, as it settled on my anal neighbors' lawns.