Random services people use

[wand3rer]

Hi everyone! 😊

After seeing another thread where lots of people mentioned being signed up for a bin cleaning service (which I’d never even heard of before), I got curious.

What other services do people use? Aside from the usual ones like general cleaning, window cleaning, gardening, ironing, magazine subscriptions, or even cooking subscriptions, are there any useful services you swear by?

I have to admit, I don’t use any of those myself, but the bin cleaning idea is definitely making me think 😁

I've found Ocean Saver dishwasher tablets to be good. Better than a lot of the non-eco ones.

Yes our cleaner does very similar. We go away for 3 weeks soon, and while we're away she'll pop in a few times to close/open curtains and switch lights on/off. She'll do a deep clean, then on the day we come home she'll have put fresh milk and fruit juice in the fridge.

I absolutely love a beautiful aquarium but I hate the maintenance of them. But cannot find a local maintenance company. I'm guessing you're not in the UK?

Yeah, I’m on West Yorkshire and all goes in main bin.

We have a brown bin for garden waste, which is composted, a green bin for mixed recycling and a black bin for non recycling including food waste. The black bin waste is incinerated so nothing goes to landfill.

No, the USA. But I can imagine this working in London.

I'd guess a lawn cutter might feasibly operate under the £1000 trading allowance, especially if only working spring/summer.

A grand in your pocket for light work that you can do at your own convenience is not shabby at all.

I was astonished to find that you can pay to have someone to valet….your motorbike!
you can add it to the service!
£25 in case you wondered

It’s interesting reading online about unusual requests on TaskRabbit, including looking for a missing pet cockatoo, entertaining a chihuahua while the owner worked, video recording an exhumation and a post burial autopsy, sewing a tuxedo for a rubber chicken and impersonating a woman at a birthday party she couldn’t attend.

This.

Once a year I give the normal bin a sluice round with a bit of bleach and a kettle of boiling water, it doesn't smell and we have never had maggots.

Anyone paying to have it cleaned once a fortnight has more money than sense.

We have never had a window cleaner either.

Probably, before we're out in the sticks.