OK, so a local landscaper with many resources is gonna tear my shit up this afternoon and finish up in the morning. It won't be cheap, but they have power tools, several guys, and the ability to spread five yards of mulch faster than I ever could. By tomorrow afternoon, you will no longer cut your legs on the bushes as you walk up to my front door!
Some of my friends have given me crap for paying someone (or in this case a hoard of people) to do my landscaping. Last summer, or the summer before, I would agree that this would be fairly lame, since I wasn't doing much else with my time at home. But this year, I am legitimately busy and involved in my own projects. The scope of the mess is so great right now that one guy doing it all himself would take most of the summer. Plus I can barely keep my indoor plants alive. So what the hell, if I can find the cash, why not?