re: What are you OK paying for someone to do now that you used to insist doing yourself

I do mostly everything but change oil in truck

I have a house cleaner. Pay to have my oil changed. I have an in house baby sitter (guess you can call her a nanny).

Cleaning gutters

Agree with the moving part, but you have to be real selective about who you hire to do it. Not gonna put any company on blast on here, but I had a terrible experience. They scratched the living shite out of the wood floor of the house I moved in and made me jump through all kinds of hoops to attempt to get it fixed, in which it never was anyway. They also scratched the walls. It's nice not having to do any physical work moving, but you do have to bird dog the living shite out of them while they're doing it. They're not going to give a shite and will drag heavy arse items on the floor, bump into the walls, not be careful moving down a hallway, etc.

And this was a national company I went with, and not some little small chicken shite company.

I quit changing my own oil years ago. I am also right on the verge of hiring out my lawn maintenance. I used to enjoy all of that stuff, but the years have made me soft!

Changing oil. Auto zone told me they cant accept my waste oil one too many times

Oil change, grass cut, I have a 2001 model car and have never washed it.

I wasn’t smart and assisted family in a move this weekend. They paid me to help with the stuff that could fit into small and medium boxes. Some of those small boxes were heavy. We probably moved over 30 boxes and more bags ourselves from the 3rd floor of their old apartment to the third floor of their condo. fricking exhausting.

We had the moving company move the furniture and they were great. 4 short Indian-Mexicans. They were compact and stronger than you’d believe looking at them. We had them for 4 hours and they set everything up. They made less of a mess than we would have. They were expensive(750 with tip) but we would have destroyed the stairwell and hurt our backs with most of the furniture.

We moved one mattress and box spring ourselves and that took two to three times as long as the bed they moved.

2 story painting. Not gonna d'it anymore. Well worth the money.

I still mow, edge, weed, and plant myself. None of that really takes that long for me. 1/3 acre lot s/d so it is manageable.

I also use dry cleaners to press all of the work clothes. $40 bucks saves me about 4 hours. And it looks better than when I do it myself.

Driving me home from the bar