i'm in WREN!

Something I thought to do over two years ago but allowed someone to poo poo.

I am now a member of WREN and it's the best thing I could be doing for myself on so many levels right now!

Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout FORGOT to put the garbage out ...

Forget to put the barrels out for rubbish day?  

No time for the dump?  Or don't want that smelly stuff in your car?

I can take it to the transfer station for you.

Wouldn't want your neighbors to think you were 

Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout, now, would you?

Note: This is NOT a weekly, scheduled service

but once in a while if for some reason you couldn't get to it yourself

Coös, Carroll and Grafton Counties ... a li'l Vermont and Maine

Gerrymandering my work route.  I will no longer take on new clients in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire (sometimes affectionately known as NewChusetts).


My focus will now be my home Coös County (yeah, baby, we have an umlaut!) as well as abutting Carroll and Grafton counties and neighboring Vermont and Maine towns (when you live at the tippity top of the state even Canada is closer than my beloved Commonwealth).


Long time clients I will not abandon (fear not, Colleen, I've grandfathered you in), but others and new ones in southern Massachusetts I will steer to my son Oscar (who learned the trade from years of working with me), my friend Brina who is a powerhouse worker and has out cleaned me on the jobs I've brought her on, and my friend Chrissie who runs Chrissie's OCD (her own cleaning service).


In southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts I recommend my friend Jessica and her new business http://jessicasocdservices.wordpress.com/

my north woods predecessor, 1936

So please tell your northern New Hampshire, north eastern Vermont and north western Maine friends about me!

Super Bowl Server-- don't miss a moment of the game, let me hostess for you

YUM!

Don't miss one SECOND 

of the Super Bowl!

Don't help your friends find the bottle opener, clean out glasses, find lost cell phones, heat up hors d'oeuvres, keep the dog away from the buffet...

Instead, I will serve your guests: get their drinks, empty the rubbish, bus their plates and cups, wipe up spills, refresh the food table.

Add caption

And when it's all over, I stay and clean-- so when you get up the next morning you aren't staring at a mess.

Rather you can nurse your hangover in a sparkling clean home.

In fact, I can clean the house before the party, too.

And an extra bonus: I can even be a designated driver if the need arises.

Oh, an extra perk: I'm not a football fan, so I won't be slacking off and trying to catch any of the game (though I have played in two half time shows for the Patriots, so I'm not an enemy infiltrator!)

Returning to my green roots

I choose the door on the left, Monty!

When my son was growing up I cleaned with only 100% natural products like baking soda and vinegar-- only the best for little hands that like to put things in the mouth ...

Somehow over the years-- laziness? media influence? --
I began using a variety of chemicals-- different ones for the floor, counter, windows, walls, wood .... and in foams, sprays, crystals...




Returning to my senses--
maybe they were clouded by the fumes of cleansers?

Going Green

Baking soda, vinegar, lemon ...

Better for you, your children, your pets, the environment AND for me!



If your family and your world being healthy matters as much as your house being clean, give me a call!

Did you resolve to get organized in the new year?

\\

Is one of your New Year's Resolutions "get organized"?

Do you have any idea where to even begin?














Before your neighbors submit you
to be on Hoarders
give me a call
together we'll make sense of it all!

Nothing I Can't Organize

Have I mentioned how much I love helping people unpack?

This was probably the coolest closet I've gotten to arrange:




HEADS!







.... kept thinking of Mombi's heads in Return to Oz

Give the Gift of ME!

(

Don't make your loved ones
Pretend to like your gift


Make them truly happy
by giving ME this year!




Or, shall I say, a Gift Certificate for my services...

(please, pretend there's a ribbon
on the box, I couldn't figure it out)

No wrapping paper needed

One size fits all
Easy to mail
Redeemable throughout the year*

No returns 

(but I can be re-gifted)

*Gift certificates cannot be redeemed before January 3, 2012
**Yard Work not available with gift certificate

Christmas Preparations

 

Family coming to town?

Clean the house before company arrives
*
company proof your home, too!

need time to put up the lights?

always busy at your own party?

Errands, driving, cleaning
so you can string up the lights






Prep cook, Serve, Bar Tend

Clean up during and after party

so you can enjoy your guests

Ready for Thanksgiving?

Five days till Thanksgiving, are you ready?


is your dining room ready for all these people?



Dining room table covered with kids homework and mail you mean to sort?









has your "guest room" become
nothing more than a large closet?



Is the guest room ready for the in-laws?  or is it filled with stuff meant for the attic?



Last minute Thanksgiving cleanings in Massachusetts can be pencilled in until Tuesday night (heading north to work in New Hampshire) ... let me know soon!

Oscar is back on the job!

Oscar tying down the truck on a storage unit close out
(he cut his hair since this photo, by the way)

My number one (and much missed) assistant has agreed to come back and help me.

This week while I do my thing down home in Massachusetts I will have Oscar with me.

Prince of Polish.
Wizard of Windex.
Vacuum-er extraordinaire!

I am so happy!

Nomad, Vagabond ... call me what you will

This 200 mile swath through New England is what I call my work route

Often I go even further north towards Canada and south to Cape Cod and Rhode Island

Even (imagine that north/south line as a T) east and west into Maine and Vermont

Wherever the work is, there I'll be

Especially till ski season (tourism) starts in New Hampshire

Hire A Sitter Who Has Actually Raised A Child

 

 

Teenager who will talk on their cell phone all night and let kids run wild?  Not know what to do in an emergency?

Or experienced mom, aunt, daycare provider who'll treat your children like her own, do homework with?  Turn off TV, play outside ...

all right, i'll admit it--
i'll eat your food ...



Don't want a baby in my 40's
Not ready for grandchildren...

Living vicariously through your children for pay.

Think of it, once the kids go to bed I can cleeeaan!




Mature woman is also a good fit for parents of teens and tweens who are not ready to stay home alone yet but who cringe at the idea of being watched by someone not much older than they.

Also, a mature sitter, especially a parent, is better able to administer medications with confidence.

And for teens/tweens with activities I could even drive.


return to home page

Insulation Removal

Before

Not my favorite kind of work,
but it was fulfilling to
accomplish-- Hooah!

During

and work is work

and will not be turned down!

Blair Witch-ish self portrait
(goggles and mask obscure face)

Bagged the insulation,
stacked the wood
vacuumed the crawl space

Voila!

 

After

Enjoy your own party!

For once would you like to enjoy your own party?  Sit down to dinner and enjoy the food and conversation without worrying about refilling guests' glasses or wiping up spills?

And when they're all gone home, go to bed instead of doing dishes!

i KNEW taking silly self portraits
would come in handy some day!

I can come early and prep,
dote on you and your guests,
serve the food/drinks
and clean up.

Showers, holiday parties, client dinners, family celebrations....

Bartender, Server (fancy talk for waitress), Hostess, Coat Check, Busser, Dishwasher, Prep Cook ... I've done it all.  And done it well-- even at New Hampshire's only four diamond resort.  (photo above)

AND, don't forget, I can clean the house before and/or afterward, too!


Back To Main Page

Floors Washed The Good Old Fashioned Way!

C'mon, mops just move dirt around and, 

no matter the model, don't quite get into the nooks and crannies.

I do my floors on my hands and knees. Bursitis be damned!

Before: dim light and cheap cell camera don't do
justice to the liquor and grease and feet marks

After: Considering the floors are 131 years old,
not too shabby at all (floor is shiny clean, black marks are wear
from being used for decades as a college bar and kitchen)

Clown Car without the Chaos

How much can I fit in a car?

All of it!

Even small moves need help.
           
This is my own car.  I was to transport my son's things from old apartment to new one, things I brought from NH to a friend in MA ... Plus my own items needed for the trip to BrockWater


AND the things a friend was chucking during a pre-move purge to pass on to others.

All of this fit with room to spare and each recipients' goods was neatly stored in sections, nothing crushed.

Return to Main Page

Packing is a skill and I LOVE to do it ... moving, too!

They say to do what you're good at (whoever "they" are)

cute, but cluttered

Packing/moving was already on my resume
but in the past 27 months I have personally
moved 6 times and have streamlined the process!

I'd love to show off for you

ready for the next tenant

Seinfeld-esque door less cabinets

all gone!

I will box your things in sturdy, stack-able boxes

Clearly labeled, and leaving your important stuff

to last -- no searching for your cell charger in a box!

I don't own a truck, but if you rent a U-Haul 

I'm happy to drive it

Return to Home Page

My happy place: I LOVE cleaning garages, it's really my favorite task

 PRE MOVE GARAGE CLEAN OUT

half decade of clutter and drier lint

All the same items  

no more lint or cobwebs
and all organized

(of course,

some rubbish tossed out)




but organized

so homeowner will have

an easier time packing for upcoming move

                                                                          
Return to Home Page



Your Wish Is MY Command! ... enjoy!

Before:
It looks like a Salvation Army exploded!
And it was not all toys in the toy room.

After:
Not only is junk gone and keep-able toys
off the floor, every drawer and cubby is
organized (barbie in one, barbie clothes
another, animals another)

Use the bureau to the right to see that this is indeed the
same room, photo taken from same vantage point.


Board games and puzzles painstakingly reassembled, all toys sorted, behind the closet doors is dress up station.


Empty totes set aside so toys can be brought to another room for play, but easily returned to toy room when finished.  


And I LOVED every minute of this job!  My favorite kind.

Got a room for me to declutter?

Yard Work, la la la la Yard Work ...

Don't break your back,
let me make the stack!

Before

After

First just a bunch of overgrown bushes

Hey, look! Landscaping rocks!

  Splitting and Stacking Fire Wood

Weeding, Weed Whacking

Mowing, Pruning, etc...

*

*

*

Return To Home Page

Delivery and Shopping in the North Country

Picking up your own pizza or Chinese food should be outlawed.  Every good American knows those foods are to be brought to your door so you can answer in your pajamas while the kids clutch paper plates waiting for their share.

 Call on me, I'll pick up your order and bring it to you.

Grocery shopping can be so time consuming and a hassle.  

With small children it can be at outright war.  Give me your list, I'll do your shopping, deliver it to your home and even help put it all away!  

Cat costs extra (bag not included)

Return to Home Page