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Speaking as someone who has <i>way</i> too much experience mowing lawns, I'd have to agree with the posters above.
If all the stuff in your yard is an accumulation of years of neglect, you should probably bite the bullet and rake the whole yard - get a fresh start.
If it's from messy trees (and I don't know of any 'un-messy' varieties), the pickup before mowing is just part of the process - like picking up dog poop.
If you're going to be there a while, I would advise getting a high-quality mower with a mulching blade - a lawn looks much better without grass clumps laying around on either side of the wheel tracks. Other than that - fertilize and weed every spring and late-summer, keep it watered, and perform good basic maintenance on your mower every spring - new blade (or sharpen), replace air and oil filters, and get a new sparkplug. Also, as someone mentioned, alternate direction of cut to minimize wheel ruts. especially on soft soils.
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