@Melt Face Molly Drop yeah well those experts clearly don't have five goddamn giant ass trees on their postage stamp sized front lawn. If I tried to mulch this shit my lawn would be dead within a week.
Fall cleanup here in Sacramento usually consists of me having somebody come out once in a couple of weeks from now and removing all the leaves. I don't think I usually have to do it more than once.
Shred them thangs with a mulching mower. Turns them into good organic fertilizer. In my experience, the next progression of having problems with leaves is cutting down all the trees in your yard because leaves are the devil. Before you know it, you're wearing Kleenex boxes for shoes and saving your poop in a jar.