Does anyone have a household manager?

[ijack]

If so what do they do for you?
I feel like my life is spinning out of control and I'd really like someone to help keep my house picked up/organized and maybe do the grocery shopping for me. Is it possible to find someone that would be willing to do that a couple hours a week?

[EmilieMadison]

Perhaps a weekly, or even biweekly cleaning service and grocery delivery would make your life easier.

[ijack]

I think some nannies do that, but mine has 2 15/16 month olds and a 4.5 year old and she doesn't really have time.
I thought about having the cleaning lady come more often, but I don't need the whole house cleaned that much each week, just picked up. Though I guess she does do laundry too.

[Deleted]

In my area, we have a Personal Concierge service that I've used every now and then when my life has gotten batshit crazy.

They did stuff like groceries, dry cleaning, random errands like that and we paid them a fixed fee for a set amount of capacity. HUGE help!

[Deleted]

I'm with shoegal, we have a Personal Concierge service. I just learned about it at an event a few months ago. I'd google your area and see if anything like that is available.

[gt7301b]

My MIL pays a local college kid to come a couple times a week and run all of her errands for her.

[Roc A Bee]

Can you have your groceries delivered?

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Nov 19, 2012 11:44:58 GMT -5 gt7301b said:

My MIL pays a local college kid to come a couple times a week and run all of her errands for her.

This would be awesome. If I knew a trustworthy teenager (who could drive, obviously) that would be the perfect solution.

[DazeyDee]

I just sent you a PM

[karinothing]

We don't have one person that does that but here groceries/dry cleaning can be delivered. I know a girl here that is a personal assistant and she does stuff like that for people though.

[Deleted]

My housekeeper/nanny does that for me.

I prefer to do my own grocery shopping but she'll get milk, cleaning supplies etc as needed. I have her coming 3 days a week which is heavenly. I miss having her 5 days when she was full time before DS started school but even just having her 2 days for 4 hours to clean, laundry, watch the kids is good plus another full day of deep cleaning, pantry organization etc.

[rikki]

When I lived in Chicago I had someone sort of like this. I traveled every week for work so she came over once a week, checked my mail and checked on my apartment, cleaned up a bit, bought any groceries or household supplies that I left on a list, dropped off and picked up my dry cleaning, purchased gifts, etc. It was great. I found her on Craigslist.

[beachdweller]

I had this when my DD was a baby -- was totally separate from childcare. She worked 10-12 hours per week. Did my target runs, grocery runs, kept DD's closed sorted and (THIS WAS THE BEST THING EVER) started dinner 2-3 days per week. She also kept fresh fruit cut up for us in the fridge (fruit consumption went way up) and just generally kept us organized. If you can afford it, I'd absolutely recommend it. Made life so much easier!

ETA - I put the word out when DD was born that I was looking for someone and had a few names within a week.

[mrssavy42112]

I need to know more about this personal concierge service. I could seriously use this. I already have our groceries delivered & drop off our laundry for wash & fold. It would be awesome to have someone run all my errands.

[stretchad]

I had no idea such a thing existed for non celebrities!

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[bronxgirl]

My brother lives in Denmver and needs more income. He could be your PA on his day off. :-)

[kwynn]

Since my husband passed and I'm really far from family, I'm desperately seeking something like this. A personal assistant(aka adult babysitter) that could run a few errands and not let me eat fast food every day and pick up a little clutter and do a few administrative tasks for my business and bookkeeping. So far, I've had zero luck finding this OR grocery delivery OR a reliable cleaning person in my small town...so I have to do everything and my travel schedule is insane and I have no energy.

Where can I find such a person?

[ijack]

Do you have care.com or sittercity in your area?

[heygrey]

I think I just found my new calling in life. I have an odd love of running errands and general household tasks. I just want nothing to do with continual child care.

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Nov 19, 2012 22:55:59 GMT -5 kwynn said:

Since my husband passed and I'm really far from family, I'm desperately seeking something like this. A personal assistant(aka adult babysitter) that could run a few errands and not let me eat fast food every day and pick up a little clutter and do a few administrative tasks for my business and bookkeeping. So far, I've had zero luck finding this OR grocery delivery OR a reliable cleaning person in my small town...so I have to do everything and my travel schedule is insane and I have no energy.

Where can I find such a person?

kwynn, post an ad at your local college! we had ads for similar jobs posted in our student center and students jumped all over them.