Calling all bored or broke people
Mar. 13th, 2008 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amanda_loddenWelcome to Amanda's "I've Had It With This!" hissy fit.
As you might have guessed from the proceeding sentence, I've had it. I've decided to recruit people to help me with the state of my house and a few boring-but-easy-enough projects within it. Hopefully, this will free up some of my time for other projects, but if nothing else it means I should be able to come home from vacation to a cleaner house (and I really, really want to come home from vacation to a clean house).
[Edit: I have been reminded that we are taking Mom to a doctor's appt on Friday. Please note the revised dates.]
If you're available on Saturday, Monday or Tuesday (after 10am and before 8pm): I need help, and I'm willing to pay $10 an hour (under the table) to get it. Here's a sample of the things you might expect to be asked to do if you show up:
* Run a myriad of items to a different room, possibly on a different floor
* Enter data into a spreadsheet (data, spreadsheet and computer will be provided)
* Print CD labels based on data from a spreadsheet (data, spreadsheet, computer, labels, and printer will be provided)
* Sort items based on specific criteria (items and criteria will be provided)
* Help move furniture around within the same room
* Help move light furniture to a different room on the same floor
* Help move a single La-Z-Boy-style chair from the garage up one flight of stairs. I'm pretty sure it comes apart into two sections; if it does not then it can stay in the garage until spring since I don't think it can be brought through the basement otherwise.
* If you have a large car and a decent knowledge of the streets of the area, you may be asked to take boxes to the Salvation Army or Auburn Hills library (the only one nearby that's accepting donations at the moment) and bring back a receipt. Gas money will be provided.
* Take things out of boxes
* Put things into boxes, label the box, and put the box in a particular spot.
* Run cycles of laundry
* Fold non-intimate laundry (unless you're comfortable handling other people's underwear, in which case you're free to do it all. But I don't expect it.)
* Run cycles of dirty dishes in the dishwasher
* Take photos of items for purposes of listing them on eBay
* If you have good descriptive skills, you may be asked to write descriptions of the items for eBay
* Pick up pizza and/or takeout for lunch or dinner
Lunch and/or dinner will be provided, as long as you don't count the time you spend eating towards the $10/hour.
Basic cleaning is not included in the list, because we have a cleaning lady who will be here on Monday. Getting clutter out of her way so that she can clean under it is very much included in the list.
If you bring small children, please bring something to corral them. I realize that at a certain age, "something to corral them" means "something for them to escape from", but by that age I should be able to hand them things to carry around, and I think it's still workable.
If a check is a big problem to you, then 1) please consider a checking account; they're very handy, and 2) warn me ahead of time so that I can obtain sufficient cash.
Apply in person at our house on the specified days, or via email to alrobins at gmail dot com
As you might have guessed from the proceeding sentence, I've had it. I've decided to recruit people to help me with the state of my house and a few boring-but-easy-enough projects within it. Hopefully, this will free up some of my time for other projects, but if nothing else it means I should be able to come home from vacation to a cleaner house (and I really, really want to come home from vacation to a clean house).
[Edit: I have been reminded that we are taking Mom to a doctor's appt on Friday. Please note the revised dates.]
If you're available on Saturday, Monday or Tuesday (after 10am and before 8pm): I need help, and I'm willing to pay $10 an hour (under the table) to get it. Here's a sample of the things you might expect to be asked to do if you show up:
* Run a myriad of items to a different room, possibly on a different floor
* Enter data into a spreadsheet (data, spreadsheet and computer will be provided)
* Print CD labels based on data from a spreadsheet (data, spreadsheet, computer, labels, and printer will be provided)
* Sort items based on specific criteria (items and criteria will be provided)
* Help move furniture around within the same room
* Help move light furniture to a different room on the same floor
* Help move a single La-Z-Boy-style chair from the garage up one flight of stairs. I'm pretty sure it comes apart into two sections; if it does not then it can stay in the garage until spring since I don't think it can be brought through the basement otherwise.
* If you have a large car and a decent knowledge of the streets of the area, you may be asked to take boxes to the Salvation Army or Auburn Hills library (the only one nearby that's accepting donations at the moment) and bring back a receipt. Gas money will be provided.
* Take things out of boxes
* Put things into boxes, label the box, and put the box in a particular spot.
* Run cycles of laundry
* Fold non-intimate laundry (unless you're comfortable handling other people's underwear, in which case you're free to do it all. But I don't expect it.)
* Run cycles of dirty dishes in the dishwasher
* Take photos of items for purposes of listing them on eBay
* If you have good descriptive skills, you may be asked to write descriptions of the items for eBay
* Pick up pizza and/or takeout for lunch or dinner
Lunch and/or dinner will be provided, as long as you don't count the time you spend eating towards the $10/hour.
Basic cleaning is not included in the list, because we have a cleaning lady who will be here on Monday. Getting clutter out of her way so that she can clean under it is very much included in the list.
If you bring small children, please bring something to corral them. I realize that at a certain age, "something to corral them" means "something for them to escape from", but by that age I should be able to hand them things to carry around, and I think it's still workable.
If a check is a big problem to you, then 1) please consider a checking account; they're very handy, and 2) warn me ahead of time so that I can obtain sufficient cash.
Apply in person at our house on the specified days, or via email to alrobins at gmail dot com
