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RookieMoms test TaskRabbit by getting them to do all kinds of odd stuff like develop a PUPPET THEATER. Wait. who needs that? Why don’t you hang my pictures or fold my laundry or repair the nicks in the paint from the LEGO structures that hit it all day?!
Have you ever been stuck in a home (with a napping baby, perhaps) as well as wished you might run a quick errand? Or been incredibly sick as well as ready to pay any type of amount of money for someone to make you dinner? If yes, then TaskRabbit is for you. It’s a way to outsource things you don’t have the time or skills to do yourself. post a task in their web-based system or through the mobile app as well as someone near you will bid on the job.
Whitney as well as I took TaskRabbit for a pretty thorough test drive over the past thirty days as well as are ready to share our experience. WARNING: I will use the word “rabbit” a lot in this post; that’s what the task-doers are called.
Probably the craziest one I tried was to ask a rabbit to develop me this basic puppet theater (from an online tutorial shared by Marie by means of babble). since the project is intended to be a quickie diy craft, it was absurd to pay someone a heap of money to do it for me. I turned a $9 project into a $60 one. who would do that? The upside is that the seamstress rabbit had remarkable skills did a excellent job. as well as my kids love it.
Here is the laundry list (ironically, we never had any individual do our laundry!) of the various tasks that Whitney as well as I outsourced this month:
Pick up food from our preferred restaurant as well as bring it to Whitney’s home during our weekly editorial meeting: For three people, it was a large surcharge for lunch; however, I’d do this once again for a larger group like a mom’s group or household gathering.
Dig up plants as well as weeds in my yard: Score! The person whose bid I accepted did a excellent job with minimal instruction. I extremely recommend getting a rabbit to dig up your garden.
Late-night grocery run: Whitney said the person was thorough as well as thoughtful, however considering that he couldn’t assumption what acceptable substitutions were, it required 2-3 texts as well as phone calls for a 30 minute errand.
Shopping at Michael’s to kit out my craft supply box based on a wishlist I supplied (inspired by Whitney as well as a sock puppet experiment to be shared later).
Research as well as data entry: a great way for a home-based mommy to have gain access to to an administrative assistant. If you’re a room parent at preschool, you might want to think about this.
Distribute promotional postcards: Our rabbit was personable as well as did a excellent job of passing out postcards for us to let a neighborhood know about our local website. Win.
Mount some kid art for hanging: Rabbit Laura did a fantastic job preserving my children’s artwork for the walls.
Obtain frames for household photo wall: This rabbit did some innovative layout work then purchased all the frames. She gave me several choices as well as I picked my favorite. since my other half didn’t want any type of random rabbits in our house, he hung them up. Now, I just need to fill them.
Sell/donate books: purging tasks are pretty straightforward. She contacted the local places for selling as well as donating hours as well as made it happen.
Ship a box to Ohio: having a rabbit mail one single package was a dumb waste of money. If I had a trunk-full at the holidays, it would be worth my money to get someone to haul them to the post office as well as ship them off. As it was, I just doubled the expense of sending a box.
Assorted home repairs: Whitney had a rabbit repair as well as paint over some parts of her home that were driving her nuts. Lesson learned: Be sure to specify what tools you have as well as what they need to provide. Also? Neither of the repair services stuck.
Sell assorted items on Craig’s list or eBay: The lesson right here was that it’s only worth outsourcing this for high value items, or else you’ll be paying the rabbit a lot more than the earnings you make from the sale.
Safely dispose of expired medicines, electronics, as well as old paint: I appreciate the rabbit clearing out my junk in an environmentally responsible way. Of course, once she cleared away the crap, I discovered a lot more of it.
Run errands in a specified shopping area: Whitney felt a lot of successful when she condensed several errands to a geographical location as well as positioned the task as “Run errands on Solano Avenue”. then she provided the things she needed accomplished – dropping off her sewing maker for repair, taking tricycles to a consignment store, dropping an old stroller off at Goodwill.
Two tasks that bombed:
Hang shelves: Whit has some shelves of unknown origin to be hung. She doesn’t know what tools are needed (nor does she want to know); she wished a rabbit would just manage it, however nobody bid on such an amorphous task. Her other half is hanging the shelves this very moment.
Source as well as develop sweet jewelry boxes: speaking of amorphous, I posted the task to discover thrifted components as well as develop not one however two of these as well as we got no bids.
We had a incredibly fun time thinking of things we might hire out as well as maybe got a little silly with our task to test it out. I even had someone mail a package for me, agreeing to pay them a lot more than the value of the gift. however hey, I have a newborn infant to care for, as well as that’s a task I can’t outsource.
Now that you’ve seen our crazy list, are you thinking of tasks you’d be ready to pay someone else to do? What are they?
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