Take over my job for the next 2 1/2 hours. My whole body hurts. Finally slowed down. I've never had my arms hurt at this job but today they do. Took 105 calls so far today.

I think I'd just order out. What did you eat?

How much money? I can be bought....

Sal, I made myself use my George Forman and cooked the hamburger and warmed up the roasted veggies in the Micro. Going to eat right now.

Turn off the light in the other room I left on unintentionally. I just sat down. I gotta get up again?

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Feeling sad for you, Kaths ... from an old fart who's been on pension for 26 years. ____

"You deserve a break today ...." satine .... but unfortunately, you'll have get out of your chair .... out the door and down the street to get it.

Or, have it delivered ... but then you'll have to open tthe door ... and the wallet (not a problem, it appears).

Sorry I can't come up with a better proposal.

Maybe ... drop the beef patty and veggies into a soup bowl or casserole and into the microvave?

ole joyful ... reaching for the chips and milk

Go down in the basement and refluff the load of laundry thats been in the dryer for three days, fold it and put it away.

Cook my dinner and do the dishes.

Delivery/drive through/p butter and crackers are easy enough. Wouldn't pay anyone a cent to do it, not worth whatever at this point in my life. My issue is I don't keep a very full pantry.

DH made a Zuppa Toscana with spicy Italian sausage. I couldn't eat it it - I recently spent days in the hospital and discharged with an antibiotic that wrecked havoc on my stomach. I had a few Ritz crackers with chunky peanut butter...that's all I wanted.

If my son didn't do it for me, I would have to pay someone to plow my driveway and shovel my walk. Two feet of snow fell here since last night. Fortunately it has stopped for now.

There are days I would pay someone to fold and put away the sheets right out of the dryer. If I stall, they sit on the lounge in my bedroom for days on end.

Very sorry for your hospital visit and stomach issues, seagrass.

Aw, seagrasss,, so sorry.

Hope you feel better soon seagrass. Amy I would take you up on it but I think it would be a commute. Dedtired, so glad Im not the only one who does that. The only thing that saves me is that the washer/dryer are only about 20 steps away no matter where I am in my house. Arcy, as I age I am much more willing to pay someone to do things I don't or can't do. I can't take it with me so I might as well make my life a bit easier.

So sorry seagrass...been there, done that. I took my antibiotic with meals and ate yogurt and took probiotics and still ended up with an ulcer. I hope yours doesn't come to that. You might talk to your dr. about if there's anything you can take to keep your stomach happy while you're on the drug.

When taking a probiotic with an antibiotic, be sure to take the probiotic several hours after the antibiotic. Otherwise, you interfere with its effectiveness.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread...

I am more than happy to have popcorn for dinner. Hoping DH wil travel for work again someday so i can do just that. I don’t usually mind coooking, but I don’t usually cook for myself anything more complicated than Near East Lentil Pilaf, which is just like making rice. Easy.

As for what I’d pay someone to do for me right now? This very minute? There are some things to be brought in from the car and put away, a range of papers, mail, and a desk chair. I’d give $10 for someone to bring them in without giving me commentary.

I would pay someone to clean my baseboards and corners. I'm capable, it's just one of those jobs I hate.

I would pay someone to load all of the recycling into my car. Plus help me sort through the plastics as they have to go in different bins at the transfer station.

I did pay someone to shred 30+ years of accumulated bank checks and monthly statements. After realizing my shredder would break if I kept feeding it myself I bagged 20 lbs of paper and handed it over.

Wait in long lines or crowded places.

Today I hit two supermarkets thinking I better cook some stews. Came home and as I'm putting groceries away, I stick a bottle of honey on a higher cabinet shelf and it falls down and lands on my foot. I think my toe is broken and will go for an x-ray tomorrow.

I'm so sick of grocery shopping, cooking for one or two is no fun but since I live in Florida and our Covid numbers are so high, I thought it best to put in enough food for the week.

So now I'm sitting with ice packs on my foot and wondering how the heck I'll drive tomorrow. Its my right foot.

So, I would pay someone to shop, put the food away. I'm so tired of dealing with this constant virus threat!

Jane

Jane that sounds painful Consider kroger.com At least while you’re healing They deliver in FL right to your door They have a coupon fir $15 off your first 3 orders

I thought of one more thing I’d pay someone to do. Clean up after the Christmas tree. DH and DS took the naked tree out on the weekend, making it even nakeder with the needles falling off. DS swept up, much later, but of course I still need to get the errant needles and rearrange the furniture back. I just don’t wanna.

............as much as I hate to admit this............

I'd pay someone to finish taking down and putting away my Christmas decor.

As I read these comments I realize two things: I may have to dip into my savings and Im glad to know that I am among good company. I really could pay for all the same things you are willing to pay for. Guess we all are not too different from one another.

My grands birthday is in 2 weeks and she want a flower theme this year. I'll pay someone to run to multiple stores for me trying to find flower paper plates, napkins, decorations. If it was a couple months from now flower stuff would be all over the stores for spring, but January not so much. My go to Party City closed a year ago. So now it's off to Michael's, Hobby Lobby, 5 below, Walmart, Dollar Tree, anywhere to try to find them. I do have other shopping to do, but I know finding flower party supplies is going to be impossible. I don't trust Amazon to deliver in time. I'm still waiting for a Christmas present I order in November.

I'd pay (and probably will) to have someone organize, declutter and clean my basement. Oh, and put down the new vinyl plank flooring that I bought 2 years ago for it (the year after I bought this house, I started to have water seeping into and actually flowing across the basement floor intermittently. After pulling out the glued down carpet, and having a sump pump installed, perimeter drains repaired/cleared, and regrading the exterior, I've never done a thing more to make the space more attractive again. Including any routine cleaning other than an occasional sweeping)

I would have paid someone to talk to Comcast for me, to protest a forty dollar increase. It would have saved me an hour and a half on the phone -- some of it 'on hold' -- some of it being disconnected while being 'transferred' and having to start over. Ah, but I would have missed the satisfaction of finally cutting the increase to nine dollars for the coming year.

(I know we could save by getting a firestick and antenna, but that's even more effort, and it entails learning a whole 'nother system.)

Deep clean my kitchen.

Declutter my house.

I work a work 60+ hours a week and am on call 6 nights a week. I have all I can do to cook dinner for 6 each night. I have had housekeepers in the past but the last couple used the wrong cleaners ie. abrasives and corrosives and damaged things so I am reluctant to try again. There was even one that I discovered cleaned in her underwear. That was interesting. Her work was impeccable and since I was not home when she was cleaning, it worked out. LOL

We got nearly 1800 calls yesterday! I took 109 of them. Quite a few dropped off. We had 8 people working, which is a lot for us. I slept for nearly 12 hours and am still sore.

Hope you are feeling better Seagrass.

stock up on some TV or quick-frozen dinners just in case. When you feel up to it make your own for later.

I would pay someone to decorate my house. :0) I'm terrible at Rustic lodge look designs! I'm going to end up with a wooden waving carved bear at this rate. ha ha Anyone have Joanna Gaines on speed dial?

Clean the hardwood floors, mop the kitchen and baths and dust. The problem is can you ask someone's vaccination status?

nicole--that made me LOL! Right now I'd pay someone (someone talented!) to pick new countertops and backsplash for my kitchen. I'm frustrated and practially parazlyed trying to decide. Maybe I should just take a week or so off.....

@tvq1...It hasn't helped me. I just keep adding more pieces and instead of tying it ALL together...it just looks more discombobulated. :0)

But that's a cute bear Nicole! In our old neighborhood in Idaho there was an older couple that had a bear like that, but it was holding a sign that said "Go Away!" Always made me smile ;}

ha ha Ya all...THAT bear is $2500! I think I can hire a decorator and have her figure it out for about half that much. Or...maybe a stager. ☺☺☺☺☺lol