Guest guest Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 Hi, Look into Care.com it is a very good website. I have help now, but I often wonder about what I would do if I didnt have my mom to help me. Miranda LA / IPF 05 > > Hi Group, > I was wondering for those of you who either live alone or don't have a support system to help you with the maintenance of your home, what do you do? I live in a very old house that I want to sell, but everytime I turn around something seems to be going wrong. A big issue for me is cleaning and just needing help in disposing of items. Please let me know what you do because I need to figure out a way to clean out this house. > Thanks, > AB > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 29, 2009 Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I use Care.com and have found excellent reasonably priced help. Many also use craigslist although you do need to exercise extra care in doing so. In small towns you'll find newspaper ads (In major cities on one can afford to use the newspaper to advertise these services). Now, as to helping with house maintenance, my ex mother-in-laws church has a group that has helped her several times. Always good to check with local social services. My best help has come from either stay-at-home type mothers looking for a way to have an income but wanting to be home for the kids when they get out of school or college students. Our current housekeeper who comes once a week is a graduate student working on her PhD in Psychology. While she's not as expert as some professional housekeepers, she is smart, pleasant and very willing to do those things out of the scope of normal housekeeping services. One other thing that I once considered before deciding to rent a house with (and using the savings to afford a housekeeper) was that of a potential housemate/roommate with maintaining the house in exchange partly or all for rent. Now, if you're not careful, that could be scary. On the other hand taking your time and carefully qualifying and checking the potential roommate, drawing up a proper agreement, and spending enough time to get comfortable, this could work quite well. Think of a single teacher for instance or a widow or others who might just be a good match. Now, I'll toss one other group of ideas out. If you are old enough for some senior apartment complexes, many of them do have those extra services readily available at very reasonable costs. Then last this does bring us to the issue at some point of considering an Assisted living center. It's worth researching in your area as a potential fallback even if something you don't think you'll ever do. You may find just knowing that there are options out there and they aren't as bad as you imagined provides some comfort. Now you sort of have a worst case perspective. To me it was just better researching it all while I was relatively healthy. Ultimately, I leased a house with my ex-wife and that affords us a housekeeper (found her on care.com) once a week and a handyman (found him on craigslist) as needed. We used the savings of sharing to pay for this. But, I had evaluated all the other choices and was prepared as a single person in your situation had we not decided to do this. > > > > Hi Group, > > I was wondering for those of you who either live alone or don't have a support system to help you with the maintenance of your home, what do you do? I live in a very old house that I want to sell, but everytime I turn around something seems to be going wrong. A big issue for me is cleaning and just needing help in disposing of items. Please let me know what you do because I need to figure out a way to clean out this house. > > Thanks, > > AB > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 4, 2009 Report Share Posted September 4, 2009 Hi Pink Joyce, I saw it. Thanks!>>> From: Embarq Customer <pattijo05@embarqmai l.com>> Subject: Re: Household helpers> To: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. com> Date: Saturday, August 29, 2009, 9:17 PM>> I give clothes to family and friends if possible, and the rest to> Goodwill.> I would like to do a yard sale, but get as far as boxing up the> stuff and there it sits.> The Menagerie is a charity shop where items are donated and the> proceeds go to the animal shelter.> My brother put twenty items out by the road for free. He said it> was all gone in an hour. Isn't that great. I would love to do that.> We also need to clean out this place. I think it would make it a> lot easier to take care of.> Good luck!> PJ in Ohio, 54, IPF '09, Sjogren's '95>> Household helpers>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Group,>>> I was wondering for those of you who either live alone or don't> have a support system to help you with the maintenance of your> home, what do you do? I live in a very old house that I want to> sell, but everytime I turn around something seems to be going> wrong. A big issue for me is cleaning and just needing help in> disposing of items. Please let me know what you do because I need> to figure out a way to clean out this house.>>> Thanks,>>> AB>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ------------ --------- --------- ------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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