Three boys around the ages of 7th, 8th, and 9th grade, knocked at my front door Monday night around 5:30 p.m. Around here it gets totally dark around that time. Each had a rake and they asked me they could rake my leaves. It was so dark, you couldn't see my front yard, much less the leaves. I told them it was a little too dark to rake leaves, and I could see they didn't have any leaf bags. So I asked, "after you rake the leaves, what are you going to do with them...?" You can't burn them..! I hate to turn down kids that are willing to work, but I'd hate to think I was hiring the 3 stooges too. So far I've had kids what wanted to rake the yard, but didn't have any rakes (they were going to pick them up by hand.) Wanted to shovel snow from my driveway, but didn't have a shovel. Mow my grass and didn't have a lawn mower. Oh well, maybe they'll figure it out as they get older.