I Fulfilled A Promise To Myself With TaskRabbit! Written by Michelle Rivera

There are a lists of tasks that I absolutely hate to do and here they are in no particular order:  Fold laundry, iron, wash cars, and clean bathrooms.  Yes these tasks are my Nemesis.  Thank goodness TaskRabbit was around this week to help me conquer one of these tasks and that was the car wash.  Actually, there were two cars to wash and there was an event coming up in which I did not want to drive up in a dirty car to, so it was a must that they get washed.

Some of you may be thinking, “Why didn’t you just take it to a car wash?”  Well you try sitting at a car wash for over an hour with a 2-in-a-half year old and then ask me that question again.  Also, going through one of those drive-through car washes is not a great alternative either.  I did it once with my daughter and she freaked out and couldn’t wait to get out of there.  Also, the car wash wasn’t great and then there I was vacuuming it and trying to clean it out on my own anyway.

Okay, okay, I think your next question may be, “Why don’t you just have your husband do it then?”   I know!  Right!?  Wouldn’t that be AWESOME!?  Nope.  Not in my reality.  First my husband travels 50% out of the work year and second, I think car washing is his Nemesis too.  Oh well, there goes that brilliant idea.

So listen to what usually ends up happening.  During my daughter’s 2 in-a-half hour nap (if I’m lucky) I usually end up washing the car myself!  Yes, like I don’t have a million other things I could be or better yet should be doing.  Instead, there I am pulling out the heavy hose, rinsing the car, scrubbing the car, scrubbing the tires, rinsing the car again, cleaning the windows and then the mirrors, and then throwing out all the trash from the inside of the car, and then vacuuming the inside of the car, followed by polishing the inside of the car, rolling up the hose, and yes the added bonus, sweating like crazy.  Yay!  Then by the time I’m done, my daughter is awake and I’ve accomplished absolutely nothing else.

I decided to put an end to this car washing waste of time and instead hired a TaskRabbit to do it for me.  So I set up a time with Joshua who is a TaskRabbit and he was fantastic. He came to my house to wash my cars, which was so convenient for me, he was on-time, friendly, and I felt like I knew him already.  He washed two of my cars, inside and out, and he did a wonderful job with both of them.  Meanwhile, I was able to work on my online magazine, which was one of the promises I had made myself, while he was completing this task for me.  This was absolutely a huge relief to not have to worry about washing these cars.

Also, it turns out that Joshua does professional photography and so I may hire him to do some family portraits for me in the future as well!

TaskRabbit is the perfect solution to get rid of those pesky tasks, I can’t wait to set up my next task to get completed!  I promised myself to Do More!  Live More! Be More!  Now I am and you can too!

 

 

Michelle Rivera is a proud spokesperson for taskrabbit.