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Getting Reliable Help

I'd like to know how other wives go about finding reliable references for help around the home. We had one experience with a landscape designer that was not good. What are your best sources for finding reliable local help? Our friends are spread all over the area.

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Permalink Reply by Joanna on April 30, 2009 at 5:04pm

Hi Dani,
As for local help, you can try using Yelp.com. It is a site where people to can give feedback and rate different things in the local area. If you go there and search for landscape designer in your area, for example, I searched for "landscape designer" and near "Redwood City", some results came up with people's feedback: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=landscape+designer&ns=1&am....
You can even find the reviewer and send them private message to ask for more details on their experiences also.

Hope it helps!
Joanna

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Permalink Reply by Amika Antoniades-Rao on April 30, 2009 at 6:54pm

When looking for vendors for large projects-landscaping, renovations, concrete work, etc-I ask fellow members from my mother's club.

For home management kind of questions-how to best arrange my closet, weekly grocery shopping, meal planning, etc-I pull tidbits from the web: About.com, FlyLady,eHow, etc.

HTH.

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Permalink Reply by Dani on April 30, 2009 at 7:59pm

Thanks! I love Yelp for restaurant and salon recs. Did not know I could email the reviewer directly for more details -- that's appropriate for landscapers but a bit much for nails!

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Permalink Reply by Dani on April 30, 2009 at 8:02pm

I heard about Flylady years ago but started listening to her webcasts a few months ago. It hit me recently that what she's doing is providing a "good parent" voice in your head, to replace that overly stern inner critic.

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