People helping People

Can you help someone?

Can someone help you? 

This concept comes in all shapes, forms, and sizes, but in the final analysis it is just people helping people.  

We want to stay in our homes for as long as possible,  and maintaining them can be expensive.  Not everyone is able to just pick up a phone, and pay the money for a professional.  However, the person asking may have a skill that the professional needs doing.

I need help with Plumbing work in my condo, are you a licensed person who can do it for zero dollars?   Kitchen faucet needs replacing, old one leaks.

Now before you say, “my skills are worth $100. per hour, and that’s what I charge”, listen further to WHY someone would ask.  I don’t have that kind of income to afford your services, are you worth it, YES.  Maybe I have a skill you are looking for, and did not know where to go for help.  

Do you want to go out on a date night with your spouse? Leave at dinner time, and not come home till the next morning? How much would a babysitter be?  Would you trade 2 hours of your plumbing skills for that?

You want to go away for a few days, and want your home and or pets looked after, why not trade your skills for that skill?  

Are you working at a worksite, and need a helper for cleanup, or unskilled labor, or need someone to go and get the crew lunch, make a Starbuck or Tim Horton run?  I could help you out in trade.

Do you want to do volunteer work for a charity, but for one reason or another you have not been able to do it.  I would go and donate a days volunteer service for you.  People helping people comes in different ways.  

The next time you hear about someone needing help, don’t just think they want it for free, say you would like to do that but could you help me do this in exchange.

Going away on vacations is expensive, everyone needs a change of scenery, consider house and or pet sitting for a terrific place to stay, a win win situation for everyone. I do this, no hotel to pay, just normal living expenses that you would be paying at home anyways.   

Next time think outside the box on what you need, and what someone else may need.

You may be surprised at the results.

Hugs Always

Karen and Charlie