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I am a mom that travels a fair bit for my work and I have recently hired a SAHM who wants to work outside her home a few hours a week to help me.
She comes in and tidies and cleans, as well as preparing veggies and some crock pot meals (ready to be dropped in) for 5-8hours a week, usually over 2 days. She helps with laundry, changes the beds and basically anything that needs doing.
This has worked far better for us than a biweekly cleaning service, and I can't help thinking that there is a business idea here.
What do others think? Would you hire someone who wanted flexible hours to help you with the things you didn't have time/desire to do? Maybe a grandma to bake?
It just seems like there are lots of talents out there that some of us don't possess that others could make money off of, and starting a small company to offer these services (maybe retired men as handymen?).
I'm curious about what others might think?
(And before anyone goes there, I'm not talking about other "wifely" duties, so please don't hijack!)
There are people out there doing that now. Personal assistants you can hire by the hour to run errands etc. or personal chefs that will cook meals. The handyman I use now was laid off in the recession and reinvented himself as a handyman. There is usually a two week wait to get him, he's that busy.
Location: Stuck on the East Coast, hoping to head West
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I love your idea. I so wish I had a wife. Or something along the lines of a mother's helper...I still want control, I just can't handle all of the domestic work + a f/t job.
I guess I was thinking something a little more regular than Angie's list. Basically a list of all the things someone could do and the person hiring could prioritize the use of the 4 - 8 - 12 hours a week they signed up for.
Cleaning
Laundry
Ironing
Changing and washing linens
Food prep (washing and cutting veggies)
Making lunches
Minor sewing and repairs
Perhaps even drop off and pick up of kids. There are services that do child care but we don't have bus service where we live so our daughter who is too young to drive sometimes needs picking up from the bus.
I could see an "ad hoc" service list as well (Christmas lights, repair, eaves troughs etc) but I don't know that it would be ongoing.
just call it what it is, you want a maid... so hire one?
for some reason millennials want to reinvent the wheel? sure taskrabbit sounds nice, but at the end oof the day they are just doing what the wealthy has done, hiring a maid/butler/gardner/cook/etc...
So basically you want to hire a woman that would help you with household tasks. Hire recent immigrants and illegals, they really care about doing a good job !
Why would you suggest hiring illegals? If this wasn't a joke, you are part of the huge problem in this country.
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