u/Slow_Opportunity_522

I'm kind of missing my ultra short attention span right now

Hi everyone, I’m starting the process of hiring someone who I think would function as a “household manager”. I’m wondering if someone who’s done this before can give some feedback, challenges, things I ought to know…

What we’re looking for:
- someone to essentially act as another grownup in the house, to handle household tasks to reset the house while we are working.
- tasks we’d envision the role including: dishes (dishwasher, hand washing, cleaning the sink); getting garbage and recycling out; tidying and wiping down counters, including perhaps putting away groceries; tidying away books and toys in living room and play room; floors (sweeping, mopping on the main floor as needed.) Also considering occasionally including very light food prep (ie chopping up an onion or peppers for dinner).
- the person would come for probably 4-5 hrs a week, split across a Monday and a Thursday or Friday.

Questions:

1. is “household manager” the right term I’m looking for?
2. would you pay a flat rate or hourly?

Curious to hear if others have guidance for me, I’m gathering names through Care.com to reach out to later this week. Thank you!!

I know this is a personal question, but I'm looking for a little guidance. I've got no formal college-level education, but I do have a permaculture design certification and about 5 years of hort experience (nursery growing/sales). I am working on starting a "garden coaching" side hustle.

I'm really trying to think about my long term career prospects and what my best moves would be to make right now. Do you, in your personal opinion, think it would be better to lean into working for myself and get into garden design? Or just start chugging along the education route and work towards landscape architecture? I like working outdoors but I also love office work. The idea of working at a desk behind a computer is not something that would turn me off of landscape architecture, and I actually like the idea of having the option for office work instead of backing myself into a corner one way or the other. I do, however, really really REALLY hate the idea of taking on student debt for a bachelor's degree if I don't absolutely have to.

~OR~ do you think it's better to get out of hort all together and go a different route lmao I could always just garden in my free time too

It comes in waves for me. I recently started working more hours (~20/wk) AND I'm doing a summer school program so I think I'm a little more burnt out than usual. Luckily my class will be done in 3 weeks, and thank God because I don't know if I could do it any longer haha.

Anyways, I feel like every moment of downtime I'm in an "I just want to mentally check out" mood and I feel so horribly guilty for not being more present with my kids (2.5yo, 1.5yo). How are you guys combatting this? Do you just turn your phone off completely and put it away when you're at home?

To see effects from cutting out sugar, do you need to cut it out 100%? Or if I just very significantly reduce it would it still have effects? Not trying to necessarily achieve a specific goal, just trying to generally decrease inflammation.

I know this is super personal and will be different for everyone. I'm sure my feelings will ebb and flow as time goes on, too. I always imagined having three kids (currently have two) but with this new diagnosis it's got me wondering, since I suspect (but don't really have any way to confirm) that the autoimmune stuff popped up after having my second baby - I also had some totally new random food sensitivities pop up during my second pregnancy that never went away that I'm thinking probably go hand in hand.

Anyways, I'm just looking to share stories with people I guess who were diagnosed after already having kids and whether or not that effected how you planned your family moving forward.

If so, how much do you work and what do you do? Do you have kids?

Brand new here, biopsy to confirm diagnosis tomorrow. Symptoms honestly aren't bad for me overall but learning about this diagnosis is definitely putting some puzzle pieces together for me.

Anyways, I'm reading it's linked to hashimoto's (hi, me 👋) and other autoimmune problems. Has anyone tried a specific diet protocol, and has it helped you? Either with this specifically or just in general? TIA!

I'm on about week 4 of a brand new CSA for a small market garden. So far it's going reasonably well, with all the crazy chaos you would expect from the very beginning. The business I'm working with had a good following online already so upon announcing the produce boxes we've already got ~20 members signed up. It's a pay per week at pickup system. I'm a little worried about producing enough for everyone but I've been very up front with people about this being our first season and that we're working out all the kinks so if we have to skip a week due to low supply I suspect people would be pretty understanding about it (especially because they haven't paid for it up front).

Anyways - if you could give me your best advice for a CSA newbie it would be so appreciated. I'm learning a lot on the fly but I could use some tips from experience growers/sellers.

I am in the planning stages of a community orchard I'm designing, and we want plenty of fruit and also to support wildlife. I don't mind sharing the fruit but has anyone had success with having birds not totally decimate your crop? Is there a way to control this besides bird netting?

I already have procreate and I'm trying to think of a good way to keep track of crop planning/succession planting

I have an old neglected apple tree that I want to nurture into a harvestable and healthy fruit tree. Right now it's probably 40ft tall with water sprouts completely covering it from the very base of the trunk and up. I am planning on trimming off the water sprouts from the trunk (in hopes of slowing down growth, rather than waiting until winter) .. but I am wondering if I could cut a decent amount of height off once it goes dormant this winter without killing the tree?

Any tips are welcome! TIA!

We are considering having a third child at some point but might consider putting it off for several years (we have a 2yo and a 1yo currently). One of the reasons that I am wanting to wait is because we love to do outdoor activities, one of which being kayaking.... I am just wondering if anyone still does this with more than 2 young kids? Would I be better off waiting until my oldest is old enough to be in his own kayak before we bring another kid into the mix?

What about mountain biking? Do you just get one of those two-kid pully-tent things for the younger ones?

TIA!

I started housekeeping as a side hustle and now my main interest job is starting to pick up and I'm interested in putting more hours into that. I am thinking of potentially discontinuing the housekeeping services I've been offering by the new year, which would mean I'd be cancelling anywhere from 6-12 months after onboarding these clients.

I know generally speaking it's okay to cancel services when I've got other obligations to tend to, I don't "owe" anyone anything -- but as a client, would you be super irritated by your housekeeper quitting after 6-12 months?

I was going to do a layer of paper bags at the bottom to keep soil in and I'm wondering if I need to add a small layer of gravel at the bottom of the raised bed for drainage.

I've tried searching online but haven't been able to find a concrete answer (pun intended).

What the title says - I had a whole spiel here but decided it was unnecessary lol

I'm going to experiment with it and see what happens but I have a pretty rough corn intolerance and I've noticed I really struggle to eat chicken eggs I've bought from the store. I just got two backyard hens and I plan to feed them 100% corn-free diet and experiment with farm fresh eggs in the meantime until they start laying.

Anyways, I'm just wondering if anyone has any information on corn intolerance transferring to corn-fed chicken eggs. TIA!

Hi everyone! 👋 I have my first two backyard chickens so I am still learning the ropes how to care for them. They are still indoors but we are building the coop area to move them outdoors now.

Anyways, I have a pretty bad corn intolerance that I suspect is making it difficult to eat eggs since commerical chickens are typically fed a corn heavy diet. I'd like to go 100% corn free for my hens if possible - do you have recommendations on feed? They are probably 6-8 ish weeks old right now.