What Is PixiesDidIt?

Life Should Be Easy®... okay, it isn't but organizing it should be! We tell you how to make it that way by giving you home and life advice that works best for your personality type.

Sign up for our free daily e-mail PixieTips, discover your home and life personality style, and find solutions that fit who you are.

Columns

PIXIETIPS!
Life Should Be Easy

Daily tips on how to make your home life easier by emabracing who you are. We take today's home & life advice and show you whether or not it will work for you. Every week.

IDEAS FOR THOUGHTFUL PARENTS
To Inspire Creativity, Deepen Connections, & Have More Fun

Parenting comes with a lot of responsibility and stress but it can come with even more fun and hilarity if you let it. Nina Coslov and Tara Keppler, both Organic Structures, offer great advice for all types because above all else they stress the importance of finding your own way.

PIXIEDISH!
Video Gossip with Katie & Kelly

Every week OR SO (umm, or every two years ... we promise to be back soon) ....watch a quick video of Katie & Kelly gossiping about current events and other fun cocktail party topics.

dear katie & kelly

Coming this fall! Send us your personal dilemmas — from how to organize your linen closet to how to get your mother-in-law to show up on time for Christmas dinner — we will solve them or make you laugh trying.

All submissions will be confidential and therefore we will endeavor to give each published problem punny pen names. Email info@pixiesdidit.com.

Our Sponsors

Like us! Oh please like us...
« Download It for Goodness Sake | Main | Making Mountains of Photos into Molehills »
Tuesday
Jan262010

Consider It Done

Classics and Organic Structure often do a LOT of things for themselves because it's cheaper as they value their own labor at $0. It's as if we'd never heard the old economic saying "Time = Money."
 
Here's the problem with this line of thinking, it means we don't value our free time. We should. It's often the difference between sanity and well, you know.
 
Smarts are the best at valuing their time.  And all types can take a lesson from them. Especially if you have the cash and are busy with other things. While hiring an actual personal assistant is beyond most of our budgetary capabilities and frankly, our needs, the new virtual assistants out there can seriously make your life easier.
 
The one I liked the best was Red Butler. For $36.95 a month, you get 40 requests and each time you request something, your account for the month goes down by 1 request. Send flowers and get a dinner reservation = 2 requests. And if you're thinking it's a waste of money, I'll bet a lot of my own money that you could find a way to cut out $40 of extraneous expenses a month. Drop your land line at home or switch to a cable phone package and you've found $40.
 
We found a few other sites: Ask Sunday (seemed better for small business needs) & 2 Places at 1 Time (this one even had a special offer for Seniors living on their own so you can pay someone to refill your mom's prescriptions).  

Best for Smarts

PrintView Printer Friendly Version

EmailEmail Article to Friend

Reader Comments

There are no comments for this journal entry. To create a new comment, use the form below.

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>