by Kara | Jan 10, 2017 | Residential
If you feel like there are never enough hours in a day, it can be difficult enough to tackle your entire to-do list — let alone find uninterrupted time to spend with loved ones. Though we’d all love to achieve the perfect work-life balance, it’s not always possible, and this can put unnecessary strain on our relationships. Even when your career or household duties reach capacity, there’s no need to compromise your valued personal connections. No matter your living situation, here’s how hiring a personal assistant can give you back precious quality time, relieve loads of stress, and ultimately empower you to strengthen your most treasured relationships.
How a Personal Assistant Can Help Married or Live-In Couples
Are you dreaming of less arguing over household task delegation and more time to devote to date nights? When was the last time you and your partner enjoyed some quality time with one another after work? Between family, friends, career, pets, home life, and keeping the romance alive, power couples have a lot on their shared and individual plates. Your trusted personal assistant can take over any number of chores each week, allowing you and your significant other to get out of the house or enjoy a relaxed night in. Got a task both you and your partner have been avoiding, such as organizing the pantry? Allow your personal assistant to take care of it and create more space in your life (both literally and figuratively).
How a Personal Assistant Can Help Families
Your personal assistant can cover to-do list items you’re not able to tackle during the day, freeing you up to spend time taking the kids to the movies, enjoying some time at the park, or having a family game night. While you’re at work, we can grocery shop, prep family meals, cut up healthy fruit and veggies for after-school snacking, and stock workspaces for homework time. No time to cook in the evenings? We’ll set up your crockpot with all the ingredients for your favorite dinner, ready to go once you walk in the door.
How a Personal Assistant Can Help Other Households
More: Perhaps you live in a full household of busy young professionals and are searching for a solution to chores that tend to go unfinished. Or maybe you and your family have opened your home to an elderly parent. Regardless, we’ll help your home run smoothly by doing dishes, prepping meals, running errands (prescription pickup, grocery shopping, mailing packages, and more), folding clothes, and scheduling appointments. Wherever you need someone to pick up the slack, your personal assistant is there to help.
Contact Pepper’s Personal Assistants Today!
Contact us to discuss the right personal assistant package for your personal needs. We can’t wait to help you reconnect with the ones who matter most!
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by Kara | Dec 19, 2016 | News
We live in a high-demand and fast-paced world. Thanks to interconnectivity and mobile access, young professionals are able to achieve more than ever before. However, there is also a trade-off: more is expected from them, and more must be monitored and remembered on a daily basis. To be successful, young professionals sometimes must work longer hours and be available to their customers, clients, and employers on evenings, over the weekends, and even on holidays. Developing your professional career is rewarding, but it can often leave little time for the demands of daily life that aren’t directly related to your job. Life keeps demanding more, even outside of work. Here’s how a personal assistant can simplify your life.
Tedious Phone Calls and Service Visits
Taking care of basic life tasks can be surprisingly time-consuming. For example, when you need to call your cable or internet provider to change your plan, contest a charge, or schedule an upgrade or installment, you could spend thirty minutes or more on hold or navigating an automated phone system… and if a service visit is necessary, then you may need to be home during a valuable business day.
Paying Bills
Paying bills, particularly those that don’t accept online payment, can also be time-consuming. Sometimes it can seem like the farther you climb up the career ladder, the more effort and time life demands from you. Your personal needs all too often take a back seat to your work, household, and daily task management demands.
Your personal assistant: Convenient as a mobile app, but with a personal touch
We put the “personal” in personal assistant.
Mobile apps may rule the service world — and admittedly, they do offer extreme convenience. After all, when you need a meal but have no time to cook, you can log onto a food delivery service app and have the exact meal you want prepared and delivered to you. If you have somewhere to go but either don’t have your vehicle or can’t currently drive, you can launch Uber or Lyft and have a ride pick you up from any location in a few minutes.
But why not enjoy a similar level of convenience without compromising quality human relationships and superior customer service? Working with Pepper’s Personal Assistants allows you to enjoy the best of both worlds. Don’t entrust a stranger with your important personal duties. Instead of one-off tasks, an ongoing partnership with your assistant offers long-term reliability to help you automate your daily life while maintaining a personal touch. The value of maintaining a set weekly schedule is that our personal assistants often know what needs to be done even before their clients do. When you don’t need to worry about making detailed daily lists, you save yourself even more time and headspace.
Let Pepper’s Personal Assistants handle your personal projects
From coordinating appointments and services with utility companies to wrapping your holiday gifts, an hourly personal assistant can help take care of the demands of your personal life that you just can’t squeeze in at the end of a busy day. At Pepper’s Personal Assistants, we pride ourselves on handling your personal tasks with professional attention to detail and timeliness. We understand how busy life can get — it’s time to take some pressure off yourself. Start today: Search for your future personal assistant package online. Find out how a personal assistant can simplify your life.
This New Year, treat yourself to any young professional’s life management trifecta: unprecedented convenience, customized attention, and valuable peace of mind.
by Kara | Oct 15, 2016 | Residential, Travel Services
Do you have a plan for maintaining your vacation home in the off-season? When vacation season comes to a close, how do you ensure your investment remains safe, secure, and cared for? When you can’t be present to maintain your second home yourself, a local caretaker is often the best stand-in.
Now that summer is over, Pepper’s Personal Assistants can care for your Seattle area vacation home while you return to your daily life in your primary home. So
Why is an Absentee Caretaker a Necessity?
Your local PA can offer much-needed peace of mind. They can confirm all your second home’s treasures are in place, doors are locked, windows are shut, and everything is intact. Regardless of how you’re using your vacation home in the off-season, you’ll also want to make sure it stays tidy and secure.
General Caretaker Tasks
Here are just a few of the tasks your personal assistant can do for you:
- General security check-ins (ensuring windows, doors, garage, and any other entrances and exits are secure)
- Checking smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, home security systems, etc.
- Ensure appliances are running smoothly (for instance, making sure freezers have not thawed, replacing burned-out lightbulbs, etc.)
- Schedule, coordinate, and be present for home maintenance (i.e. – repair people, cleaners, landscapers, etc.)
- Picking up any mail, newspapers, deliveries, etc.
- Turning lights and electronics on or off
- Tidying up/minor cleanup tasks (i.e. – sweeping, vacuuming, etc.)
- Stocking your refrigerator and pantry in preparation for your arrival
- Taking out any trash and filling bins with fresh bags
- Water plants
- Run faucets to help prevent unused pipes from freezing
Prep Your Vacation Home for Guests
If you plan to host guests in your vacation home, your personal assistant can prep and ensure it is well-stocked. This will remove additional stress from your already busy schedule (especially when it comes to last-minute visitors).
Tasks your personal assistant may take care of for guests include:
- making sure necessary supplies are stockpiled
- double checking that amenities are ready for use
- setting out personal goods such as fresh towels and toilet paper
- ensuring each room is tidy (including performing minor cleaning and straightening tasks such as turning down bedding, dusting off countertops, and more according to your requests).
Contact Pepper’s Personal Assistants Today!
Contact us today to learn more of the ways a professional personal assistant can be your second set of helping hands while you’re away from your vacation home or timeshare!
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