# What jobs do you hire out in the MMP? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [October 7, 2019, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408 "2019-10-07T10:44:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/81 "2019-10-09T15:14:16Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Shoot, **flytrap** , $200 for a vascetomy? I imagine **spidey** or **ruble** > would have done it for free! I appreciate the thought. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/82 "2019-10-09T15:59:24Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > and once she’s vocal, she’s going to learn a little French and a little Spanish, too. Mon aéroglisseur est plein d’anguilles! Mi aerodeslizador está lleno de anguilas! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/83 "2019-10-09T16:53:44Z")
Tu es fou! ¡Estas loco! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/84 "2019-10-09T18:00:21Z")
Getting ready for our trip to Buffalo and environs to go leaf peeping and visit the wife’s old haunts. We’re also going to swing by a couple of historical societies in northern PA to see what they have on my ancestors. As for jobs at age 72: I can do most minor repairs, including electrical and plumbing and sheetrock. I can build a table or a flower box if I need it. I recently refinished our dining room table. We do a complete house cleaning twice a year, including the deck and porches. For things like painting, or major reno work, contractors get the call, and I do very little vehicle maintenance now, as there just isn’t much under the hood that you dare to touch. We had all the grass removed, so no more mowing/edging. We have a guy who comes every other week to pull weeds and do general yard maintenance. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/85 "2019-10-09T18:41:01Z")
Veal picatta Well, we are officially homeowners again. The house closed and recorded moanday. 😃 **Wifey** is driving me crazy planning what to take over there this weekend and what to do while we’re there. I’m going to fix 3, maybe 4, gates and multiple holes in the fences, plus replace deck boards, this trip. She has big plans. I do too, but I’m more of a ‘work at one thing at a time’ person. She wants it all to happen at once. As for hiring things out, I’m all for it. I can still do most everything I used to do, including building houses, but it takes me a terrible long time to do them, so we let other people do them. Speaking of which, I need to get dressed and go build a gate. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/86 "2019-10-09T19:46:38Z")
Worked, had fun actually, and came home almost feeling guilty about it. Not _that_ guilty though. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/87 "2019-10-09T22:25:07Z")
Howdy Y’all! I completed chores, laid in provisions, went through the junk drawer in the kitchen and, actually threw out some stuff from the drawer. :eek: Also sup got cooked and et. **Bumba** congrats on the new digs bein’ official! And now this… \ CLEARIN’ THROAT \ \*\* HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR BBBAAATTTBBBOOOYYY!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY DEEEAAARRR AAALLLIIIEEENNN!!! HAAAPPPYYY BBBIIIRRRTTTHHHDDDAAAYYY TOOOOOO YOUUUUUU!!! \*\* ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/88 "2019-10-09T23:15:19Z")
> [@Bumbazine](#): > > Veal picatta > > Well, we are officially homeowners again. The house closed and recorded moanday. 😃 > **Wifey** is driving me crazy planning what to take over there this weekend and what to do while we’re there. > I’m going to fix 3, maybe 4, gates and multiple holes in the fences, plus replace deck boards, this trip. > She has big plans. > I do too, but I’m more of a ‘work at one thing at a time’ person. She wants it all to happen at once. > > As for hiring things out, I’m all for it. I can still do most everything I used to do, including building houses, but it takes me a terrible long time to do them, so we let other people do them. > > Speaking of which, I need to get dressed and go build a gate. You don’t really have to put on clothes to build the gate. 😃 If these guys in my county can help put out a fire, wellllllll… [Nudists with a 55-year-old fire truck help firefighters contain a wildfire in Tennessee | Blaze Media](https://www.theblaze.com/news/nudists-help-firefighters-contain-a-wildfire) 😃 **Mooooooom** , French, as in _Pardon my French_? 😛 **sari** , do you and your son share a bathroom? If not, perhaps he can be responsible for washing his own towels. **Happy birthday Bat Boy!** **Happy birthday alien!** Irked, came home, et, now for chillage. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/89 "2019-10-10T01:00:44Z")
Happy birthday **Alien**. Came home to a thunderstorm sitting right over my hood. I discovered that **Buddy Boy** is skeered of thunder. Poor thing. He also would rather play with a knotted sock than his toys that I have spent a small fortune on. **Nighttime Blurf**. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/90 "2019-10-10T01:10:37Z")
Evening all. Another nothing-much day, did some soccer stuff (but no practicing), short nappage and watched a little baseball. Got out for a bit this evening and stopped at Publix for Pepsi. Didn’t really need it, but they had a “buy 2, get 2 free” deal on 12 packs and for what amounts to $0.25 per can it’s a deal that I can’t pass up. Congratulations, **Bumba** , on the house. Enjoy the work… All y’all have a good night now. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/91 "2019-10-10T01:18:43Z")
_ **Happy Birthday Alien!** _ Today turned into a pretty day, N.O.S. and 70 degrees. The big rug is almost dry. If tomorrow is nice as predicted, then it should be totally dry. I didn’t get as much done today as I had hoped. **Red** - I think getting my son to wash his own towels is a good idea. As far as sharing, I only use the upstairs bathroom for showers, or if I have to get up in the middle of the night. He never uses the powder room downstairs. He doesn’t seem to mind running up and down the stairs all day. Congrats **Bumba** , happy hammering, or whatever you do to make a gate. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/92 "2019-10-10T01:19:35Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Happy birthday **Alien**. > Came home to a thunderstorm sitting right over my hood. I discovered that **Buddy Boy** is skeered of thunder. Poor thing. He also would rather play with a knotted sock than his toys that I have spent a small fortune on. > > **Nighttime Blurf**. Cuddles to Buddy. I hope that he grows out of his fear. Nelson has, so there’s hope. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Morrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Marion\_Morrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Morrison)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/93 "2019-10-10T01:20:55Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > If you’ve been keeping up on your notes, a coupla weeks ago, I washed windows and cleaned the deck railing at FairyChatEstates, and just this weekend, I cleaned the carpets - well, most of them. Then \*\*FCD \*\*and I were talking about painting our bedroom and maybe some other rooms. I figure I can attack that post-retirement, probably in the spring when I can open windows again. > > It’s not that I like doing these things, but I’m well enough that I can still manage them myself, plus, yanno, I’m frugal. (Not cheap - frugal!!!) I still do mowage and snow shoveling. In fact, the only regular chore so far that we’ve hired out is cleaning the gutters. I won’t get on the roof, and I refuse to let \*\*FCD \*\*do it any longer. It’s worth $120 to have someone come in and take care of it for us. And in the spring, I’m going to get someone to pressure wash the 2 sides of the house that have siding, because we don’t have a pressure washer, and even if we did, it’s a job we don’t want to do. > > We’ve long been having someone else maintain our vehicles. I’ll refill the washer fluid and replace wiper blades or the occasional light, but I was never interested in changing oil or brakes or, frankly, and of that stuff. \*\*FCD \*\*used to like to do that in his youth, but about 25-ish years ago, he got bored with it, too. > > So, what do you do yourself, and what would you rather pay someone else to do? > > Oh, yeah, Happy Moanday! > > 😃 Everything I can! Have to draw the line at electrical stuff. A nice customer of mine gave me a pressure washer. That needs done at least annually. It’s not as powerful as my friend’s I used to borrow, but it’s mine, and it does a good job, and there’s not all that recoil. It may take a bit longer, but I like pressure washing anyways, it’s relaxing. The wand can be operated with 1 hand. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/94 "2019-10-10T01:32:17Z")
Cleaned the bathroom, kitchen, dusted, vacuumed, cleaned the cat hornk out of the sunroom ,and walked Gordie a bit. I had the windows open, so Gordie spent the day violently warning the neighbors about the peril of the Invisible Mole People. > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Tu es fou! > ¡Estas loco! > > 😃 😃 Good luck on the home, **Bumba**. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/95 "2019-10-10T01:32:59Z")
Had an adventure last night on our usual walk aunt decided to stop at the dive near by …since shd didnt get her usual drink she gets once a week…she had her shot of jack and coors As we were almost out of there my dear sweet cousin called bitching about something and just pissed her off to no end so she slammed down another of each and was blitzed…took 3 hours at dennys before she could walk home and i had to help… So other than fighting off a cold such has been my life… ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/96 "2019-10-10T01:33:29Z")
Welcome **M&M**. This is your nickname until someone comes up with a better idea. Pressure washing give immediate satisfaction. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/97 "2019-10-10T02:09:40Z")
> [@Buttercup\_Smith](#): > > Welcome **M&M**. This is your nickname until someone comes up with a better idea. Pressure washing give immediate satisfaction. **Duke**!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/98 "2019-10-10T03:04:24Z")
Forty two more working days at my current job. Job hunting is on hold until 10/21, when we can find out who the new operator of the cafe will be, and whether or not we will be wanted. I’m majorly depressed right now. The house is a mess, I can’t make myself do anything about it. One of the only things that is keeping me going is looking after my mom. I can’t look down in front of her. Oh, and my dog. As my sig says, at least he loves me. I might go further down without him. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/99 "2019-10-10T03:35:12Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Forty two more working days at my current job. Job hunting is on hold until 10/21, when we can find out who the new operator of the cafe will be, and whether or not we will be wanted. I’m majorly depressed right now. The house is a mess, I can’t make myself do anything about it. One of the only things that is keeping me going is looking after my mom. I can’t look down in front of her. Oh, and my dog. As my sig says, at least he loves me. I might go further down without him. Well, we love you too, **Cupcakes**. {{{{hugs}}}}} ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408/100 "2019-10-10T10:20:18Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. _YAWN_ ‘Tis 62 Amurrkin out (will there be an iceberg in the cee-mint pond?) and clear with a predicted high of _ONLY_ 87 and N.O.S. for the day. Today I deal with gettin’ an estimate on replacin’ a HVAC unit at the church house. Rah. I get to go there to meet the folks. I need the estimate by Moanday so’s I can bring it and another one to the Vestry for a decision as to what to do. Envy my life! We shall break the fast for sup tonight with ham ‘n cheese omelets, grits, and bizkits. Just in the mood for breakin’ the fast foodstuffs, plus, relatively easy. **{{{CupCakes}}}** like **doggio** said, we love ya! I can’t imagine why the new owners wouldn’t want to keep an experienced baker. Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands to be fed. Then, alas, alack, bother of bothers, I must purtify and once again don appropriate bein’ about the public attire. Le sigh. Happy Thursday Y’all! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-do-you-hire-out-in-the-mmp/841408.md?page=6)