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A comment on Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life?.

Re:Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? by tra3 on Monday November 14, 2022 @02:16PM (#33599353)
Cleaning. I hate paying for work that I can do myself, but I simply can't clean as well as professional cleaners. Even I spend more time than they do.

Same with washing/detailing my car, especially if there's a team working on it. 20 minutes x 3 people does not compare favourably to me doing 4 hours on Sunday afternoon.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? by mrwzy on Monday November 14, 2022 @03:48PM (#33600792)
This.

But I also then get the time back to spend with loved ones, and/or on fitness/hobbies/interests/sleep.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? by giantg2 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @02:13PM (#33613562)
"But I also then get the time back to spend with loved ones, and/or on fitness/hobbies/interests/sleep."

Depending on how you clean,it could very well be considered simultaneous fitness.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? by brokenmachine on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:49PM (#33605045)
4 hours to wash a car seems excessive.

I do it in 20 minutes, but I'm not detailing... just washing with a big hose brush thing.

In fact it takes me less time than driving to the carwash and back, and possibly having to wait.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? by tra3 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:12AM (#33611016)
Maybe I should've said "cleaning". Camping/offroading, it gets pretty grimy both inside and out. Hand carwashes here do the outside clean/wipe and then an interior clean (vacuum, wipe, etc). I tried to replicate it, but never to their quality.
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