The setup time/effort to put the blade on and take it off is probably too much for how short my driveway is, and I'm not going to keep a blade on all the time. Before I bought this place I was looking at one with a very long driveway, ~1/8 mile, and figured that's the way I'd handle that driveway. But I think mine is less than 50', it's just the trouble spot.
I usually find going out early is counter productive. The snow just fills right back in so I didn't accomplish much at all.
Here's a picture from the worst snow we had up here. I don't know if this was the first pass or second, but I had to get out in the morning so I blasted my way through. I probably even parked in the driveway, I was smarter back then. I came home that afternoon, and the wind had filled up the void across about half the driveway, almost to the top. It was about 8' high after the second pass, and I was trying to throw it as far as I could, downwind.