Life admin / mental load - let’s have your outsourcing inspiration!

[Countrysu]

There seems to be thread after thread on here about life admin and mental load woes, so I thought it would be good to give some inspiration on what could help people.

Out sourcing has been a god send for our family - the obvious cleaner who we’ve upped to twice a week but recently, we’ve trialled a private chef. Nothing fancy, but someone who batch cooks enough for 5 meals which covers the week nights. I would highly recommend this as the time saving is huge.

All other out sourcing inspiration welcome!

There are VAs and life concierges around.

By the time you’ve waited for a takeaway you can cook a meal. Even if a chef cooks it you e still got to heat it up and put it out.

Yes, but while a meal is heating up or being delivered, you can do something else.

Exactly. I’ve never got the ‘mental load ‘ I was a single parent with a SEN child with significant medical issues, low income and managed a professional degree at the same time as remarking insurance and paying the bills.
Everything is online. I find looking at holidays quite interesting.
Booking a meal takes about 2 minutes.

while I agree that it's just life and normal chores, you only have to see how many school parents are completely unable to manage (or even read properly) 2 school emails a week 😂

I was considering a chef because my friend has one. She is an Indian lady who cooks all their meals for the week and freezes them. She is not expensive. It's certainly cheaper than getting a few takeways because you don't have the time to cook.

I ensure each of my children has 5 full sets of school uniform (minus school blazer and tie for secondary school son) and I pay for a cleaning and ironing service for them. Essentially someone picks them all up on a Friday evening, washes and irons them and drops them back to me on a Sunday afternoon.

I spend all Sunday morning preparing every evening meal for the week, and creating slow cooker dump bags, which I label and freeze and chuck in the slow cooker in the morning. I also make sausage rolls, and a massive cold pasta salad - such as tuna mayo, pesto and pea. I then use all this as school lunches.

And I have a cleaner who comes every Wednesday for three hours.

When both of my DC were at school they had ONE set of uniform each which I washed on a 15 min cycle as soon as they got home. This worked really well and was so much better than having umpteen sets of uniform all over the place.

I ensure each of my children has 5 full sets of school uniform (minus school blazer and tie for secondary school son) and I pay for a cleaning and ironing service for them. Essentially someone picks them all up on a Friday evening, washes and irons them and drops them back to me on a Sunday afternoon

Crikey! Can't they re-wear a cardy, jumper, skirt, trousers? Who irons school uniform - it's made from that material that comes out of the machine without creases.

No my kids are feral and scruffy. I don’t know what they do all day but they come home filthy and I won’t be washing uniform every night.

And I have never been able to take a white shirt out of the washing machine and it dry it 🤷‍♀️

Same 😂
"I hired a butler"
"I have a meal chef for a £100 a week"
It's like a window into a parallel universe 😁