I stopped doing it because of the amount of time needed (it's always windy here), so without my wife's help, it probably works out to 5+ minutes a day to cover/uncover the cover, this over the summer adds up to numerous hours, so for the sake of argument, lets say 5 hours a season, I can mow my lawn 2 times in 5 hours, do 10 oil changes on my cars in 5 hours, dirtbike 2 evenings in 5 hours, hang out with my kid for 5 hours...... so I guess what I'm saying is that my time is put to better use doing other things with those 5 hours.