OMFG TAKE THAT JOB NOW.

And I am SERIOUS! BWAHAHAHA!

And if you do this on your own, DO track everything: mileage, supplies, flyers, etc. Just in case you make enough freelancing you have to claim it, and then POOF -- deductions.

I fucking love deductions.

What about those "Pick It Up" businesses? People pick up your dry cleaning, do your grocery shopping, let your dog out, pick your dog up from the vet, go get painting supplies from Lowe's, get booze and flowers for a party...stuff like that where you wish there was two of you because you have too much shit to get done.

truly. we need a "pay a buffista" business.

Heh. What am I, chopped liver?!

(not bitchy, just snorty, le nub!)

LOL. sorry. MY oversight.

I kid, I kid!!!

Hec jokes about keeping The Buffista Files; I've got, like, CIA dossiers. It cracks my shit up.

(Y'ALL ARE SAFE WITH ME, I SWEAR! D works in comp sec; I am locked dooooowwn.)

Aren't there booming businesses in the big cities for people who will run errands? And I think a handywoman would be a boon for women who don't want to let a strange man in the house. (Though in equal opportunity recognition, a woman could also axe murder the whole family and make off with the good silver.)

(Though in equal opportunity recognition, a woman could also axe murder the whole family and make off with the good silver.)

STOP TALKING ABOUT MY PLANS!

I kid, I kid. I'm more of a poisoner, what with my fondness for Victoriana.

All joking aside, I think a business of running errands/doing handywork is a really good idea.

I think I'm a bludgeoner. I mean, if I HAD TO. With proper, sensible precautions for forensics stuff.

Or a long-reach stabber. Knives have too much potential to be taken away from me and used against me (been there, done that, didn't love it.)

Maybe an axe. Or my favorite instrument: MACHETE!!

(This is all theoretical.)

There is a woman in the neighborhood whose business is called something like 'ducks in a row' who makes a killer living running errands and organizing stuff.

It's kind of amazing, as she has near to no social skills and is a thoroughly annoying communicator...still she does a great job and makes a living.

One thing I will say about the errands vs. home repair business is that you are opting into situations where customers can be uber-picky and 'zilla-y.

Even in the home repair side, I'm having to cajole a client into paying us for a lock repair that went horribly wrong based on HER specific request. I'm having to chastise our fixer-woman for ever taking such an unrealistic gig, but nonetheless, the work requested was done. What happened after that is not our problem. Still? Massive push-back.

People can be blind, deaf and demandy.