My husband doesn't swim. When we bought the house, he said that everyone who has a pool uses it in the beginning and then stops. Our neighbors put in a pool a few years ago, and I think they only used it one season. When the kids were home, they used it. I use it every summer, but we don't have a heater and it is in the shade a lot of the time, so the water is too cold. If it was warmer, I would use it more. I carry a leaf scoop in the pool with me when I first get in, put on a tube floaty, and float around scooping until the pool is clean. Our last house had an automated pool cover. You had to clean off the top of the pool cover, so it didn't help that much. Now I have a really good pool vacuum running every day during the summer that keeps the pool very clean.