TwinMommy - I'm not sure what you mean by "bulb digging tool," but if you are talking about that evil device that has a handle and a round thing on the end you push into the ground...sigh. It's awful, and will make you hate bulb planting. Your arm will hurt a lot.
If I'm working alone with larger bulbs (daffs, esp), I'll dig back the grass or sod, roll it back, dig out some dirt, throw in some compost, plant the bulbs and roll the grass back. Remove the grass entirely for tulips. Pretty easy. If dh helps, he'll get a heavy long-handled pry bar and jab holes into the ground, I'll plant a bulb and kick the hole closed. This works great for smaller bulbs (fritilaria, muscari, crocus, scilla, miniature iris, snowdrops) that have a hard time breaking though the grass.
It's true. IT IS arduous work, but the benefits come spring are so worth it to me. I've loathed winter in the past, and it makes spring even more exciting to go running around the yard looking for the first flowers. And most of what I plant will multiply, so imagine it in 10 years... I try to look at bulb planting like a zen practice: empty my mind and play in the dirt. But even so, sometimes it's still a gigantic pain in the butt! Dh appreciates my efforts and helps a lot, so that makes it easier too. I'm trying this year to concentrate my efforts to smaller parts of the yard, so the visual impact is less diluted. Which means I'm putting 500 bulbs into the rock garden, and 600 bulbs into the shade garden. I'm learning it's much better to focus.
My durn bulbs STILL aren't here (can you tell I'd like to gets started?). Don't forget, go at your own pace, and don't overdo it. It's taken me several years, physically, to be able to garden this much. Watch that back!