What Can a Household Manager Do for Me?

I've been working on how my business helps families and here is an interesting look at how much time can be saved by having someone manage your home. How much money is 15-38 days a year worth to you? In a future post, I'll explain how I accomplish all of these tasks for my clients. I'd love to hear where you spend the most time in your home and what you'd like someone else to handle.

Where a family spends their time and how the services of Jared Miles & Co. can help.

Staff Management – A family with a small staff of 1-3 members will spend 20 minutes to 1 hour per day managing their staff. This is after an initial 100 hours or more getting the staff up to the standards that the family expects.

Yearly time saving – 83 – 250 hours (based on 250 workdays a year) and not including the initial 100 hours of training.

Facilities Maintenance – A family will spend between 1 and 4 hours a week on the maintenance of their home. This includes waiting for contractors, arranging appointments, and waiting in the house for work to be completed.  Typically there will also be one time consuming project per year, i.e. remodeling, large paint job, large landscaping project. An estimated 40 to 60 will be required to complete one of these types of projects.

Yearly time saving – 52 – 208 hours per year plus 40-60 for a large project.

Automobile Care and Maintenance – Each automobile requires 30 minutes to one hour of care per week for cars the are used daily. This includes filling with gas, cleaning and washing and includes time for regularly scheduled maintenance (oil changes, service, etc.). An additional 20-30 minutes per week are necessary for cars that are used infrequently.

Yearly time saving – 50-100 hours per year, based on a family that owns 2 cars.

Clothing and Wardrobe Care and Maintenance – Handling of dry cleaning, including alterations and repairs. 30-45 minutes per week.

Year time saving – 25-39 hours per year

Household Bill Paying – A busy family spends 1 to 2 hours per week organizing and paying all household related bills, electric and gas, pool service, telephone, house staff, gardeners, any contracted service.

Yearly time saving – 52-104 hours per year

Grocery Shopping and Meal Planning – A family will spend between 1 and 3 hours per week grocery shopping and planning meals. This does not include cooking, serving and cleanup.

Yearly time saving – 52-156 hours per year

Total yearly time saving 354-917 hours per year or 15-38 days per year!