Random services people use

No, the dog is awake. I am not sure exactly what she does to be fair, as she takes the dog out to her van, but she always sends me before and after photos, so I can see how much plaque has been removed. She also advises on the best toothpaste etc. It costs £45 for maintenance visits with a £25 deposit, and slightly more for a first visit.

@1StrawberryDaiquiri could you share a link to the service you used? I have DMs disabled but live in one of those areas and would like to book

I also suffer with congestion due to allergies and asthma, you have to be super careful with nasal sprays - apart from becoming reliant due to rebound congestion I was reading recently about them causing long term physical harm.

Speak to your pharmacist about weaning off them, steroid based sprays help massively with this (eg clarinase). Take a good anti histamine for allergies and if you have asthma speak to your asthma nurse to ensure its controlled.

My dog could use this service! Does she anesthetise your dog, or just use the ultrasound when its awake?

I have a woman who comes round once every three months to clean my dog's teeth by ultrasound. It will hopefully help prevent him from having to have anymore teeth removed under general anaesthetic. He isn't exactly very co-operative when we try to clean his teeth, so there are parts we can't get to.

We have a monthly mosquito spray outdoors so we can use our outdoor space
There is a service in my city which I have considered that sets up a fish tank for you and then comes round to your house to look after it.

My cleaner is just the same! She doesn't drive, so can't take the dog to the vets, but she does pretty much everything else! A couple of months ago she cleared out my garage for me. I was anticipating having to pay about £180 for a waste collection service to collect the rubbish, but she loves a bit of upcycling etc, so she took most of it! The few bits that were left were collected by the local scrap man.

When I was growing up in the 1960s, a man would come round once or twice a year to sharpen garden shears etc. My DM used him all the time.

My DD has someone like that, it's me! And I am a bargain because I don't charge her!

My mum used a service like this back when I was growing up in the 1960s.

Yes, we have a kitchen food caddy which then gets emptied into a kerbside food caddy ready for collection every week. We also have a black bin for landfill and two different coloured sacks for recycling - one for cans and plastics, and one for paper and cardboard. They all get collected weekly. We then have a box for glass which gets collected fortnightly. We also have a subscription service for garden waste. I share with my NDN as it obviously reduces the cost.

That's interesting. I was under the impression that the government had made it compulsory that every Council offered a recycling service.

I doubt it as I believe the government has insisted on every area having a recycling service.

I have a mobile groomer who comes to me very three months to groom my dog. It's well worth the money, although dog doesn't like it. It's not the groomers fault though as he didn't like the previous two either. It just seems to make him very anxious, but he does need to be washed and his coat cut regularly.

Subscription not prescription I think the poster means.

I just copied this and sent it to my usual handyman/window cleaner as I think it's something he could do. It would be an excellent source of income for him!

I use a posh coffee bean subscription company. I also have an annual chimney sweep and gutter clean. I worked somewhere once in a posh office that had a huge tropical fish tank and they used a fish tank maintenance company.

I bought my oven from Curry's and have appliance cover with them. The cover also includes an annual clean, but I have to remember to book it each year.

Due to disability I have a cleaner each week who also kindly does extra jobs for me as required (I obviously pay her accordingly), and she cleans my carpets each Spring, although I only have carpet on my stairs, landing and in two of the bedrooms.

I absolutely love fresh cotton sheets on my bed. If I’m feeling really fancy, I pay a local ironing lady a fiver to iron them.

Sounds great, I’m near one of those places listed. Can you add the website or send me a pm? TIA

Thank you, I did actually read about that so I’ve been careful not to use it too much.

It’s more the case of just knowing it’s there, that’s why I have so many spares because they are on the repeat subscription but not being used.

This thread has been a good reminder to pause the subscription though!

Yeah I echo don't google. I am a former keen rider and every now and then videos come up on my local horse facebook page. I have a tough stomach I think... but.. no

Your phrase "beans of hardened smegma" is genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever read. I'm absolutely cracking up here.

I won't Google - your written description is more than enough.

Huh?

Yes many places in the East Midlands.