Essay Contest: Win a
*Home
Economist for a day. ($450 value)
* The Home Economist described here is
one person: Andrea Reynolds, author of the future book, The
Kindness Experiment.
What's a home economist?
Ever
feel that you'd like someone else to handle your work load?
For a little writing
effort you could win 7 hours of professional services of
your choice designed to reduce your stress and enhance your
life (or that of someone you love). The winner of the best
"essay" spelling out
why Handy Ande would enjoy working for you.
This is
definitely a switch from the usual essay contest which asks
entrants to write reasons why they deserve to win.... but
Andrea is looking for interesting assignments with nice
people, no matter what their income level.
Handy
Ande's services are provided only by Andrea
Reynolds, a home economist, and are handy when things in your life or
business are stressful: moving in or moving out, organizing
your things or your life, making major decisions or life
changes, opening a business or professional practice,
cutting back on spending and simplifying your life, filling
in when you need to take a break from work or caretaking,
figuring out how to get online for the first time and
navigate, dealing with non-paying clients or even stopping
pesky tele-marketers and debt collectors. No task is too
trivial, too complicated, too overwhelming, or too
stressful for Handy Ande. Perhaps you know someone who
would be relieved to have this as a gift... a family that
is in crisis, a church, a school, a local business that is
suffering from hard times. You could enter on their behalf.
PRIZES - You could win 1st, 2nd or 3rd
prize
1 First Prize Winner will be chosen to receive
7 hours of
services in a 1-2 day period.
2
Second Prize winners will receive $25 worth of any
of Andrea's e-books.
10 Third Prize winners will receive her mini-book,
How to Win
Essay Contests or another of her e-books up to $10 in
value.
To
enter:
Send your wish list and reasons why Handy
Ande would enjoy working for you.
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Andrea Reynolds will travel anywhere in
the Metro DC area to work for the chosen winner for
1
day each (7 hours
within a 48 hour period). The contest will continue so long
as 100 new entries are received. This may become a
self-perpetuating contest.
Entries will be
judged (by Andrea) on 1) how interesting the requested work
is, 2) what makes your location
a place where Andrea would
want to drive to, and 3) why she would enjoy meeting
you, your family, or co-workersand providing
services.
Some
of the tasks Andrea Reynolds (Handy Ande) has recently
completed for clients:
- Painted a neighbor's
bathroom.
- Painted a neighbor's kitchen cupboards.
- Put a heavy balcony door back on track, cleaned out and
oiled the track so the client could easily open and close
the door with her one good arm.
- Hung sheers and drapery panels over sliding glass doors.
- Replaced a broken toilet handle and toilet seat.
- Pulled out a stove and refrigerator to clean out the dust
bunnies.
- Tested the fridge and freezer temperatures for safe food
storage.
- Cleaned, reorganized and restocked a refrigerator with
nutritious food.
- Placed a US order for garden seeds for a client and
picked them up in the US.
- Purchased US grocery items not available in Canada.
- Painted a rusty metal balcony.
- Helped pick up
and deliver cabinets and televisions for clients without a
large enough vehicle.
- Refurbished a dirty, smelly, rusty dishwasher.
- Brought back a non-suctioning vacuum cleaner to full
power.
- Removed tattered wallpaper to prepare walls for painters.
- Cleaned smokey inside windows and grimey outside windows
of first floor home. (Yes, Handy Ande does windows.)
- Restored glass casserole dishes with baked-on stains to
their original lustre.
- Delivered a few boxes of clothes and personal items to an
"ex" for a woman who didn't want to see him, but wanted him
to have his stuff.
- Prepared a full Christmas dinner.
Why
a contest?
Andrea Reynolds wants to establish herself
in the Metro DC area because she has just sold her condo
and moved here from Canada.
She is offering her services to contest entrants to promote
her newly rebuilt HandyAnde.com, to provide Personal
Services, Household Management, and Business Support on a
"freelance" basis. This web site should be completed by the
end of August 2008.
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Kinds
of work Andrea can provide, and who may want to enter to
win:
1. Personal
Assistance - Whether
you're a celebrity, a home-based business owner,
independent professional, a person with a disability, a
college student or just a busy family.
2. Financial
Advice - Whether
you're an individual, a couple or a small business; young,
mature, or in your later years.
3. Household Management - Whether you own a Bed and Breakfast, an
estate that needs to be managed in your absence, or a
suddenly large family (from blending or multiple births) in
your home.
4. Business Support - Whether you run a home-based business, a
corporation, a school, a store, a church, a college, a
non-profit, or must be on the road
frequently.
What
can a Home Economist do? In the areas of
money management, consumer
education, food, nutrition, housing, clothing, textiles,
family studies and human development, a home economist
can:
- Teach
- Write
- Serve
- Design
- Manage
- Purchase
- Research
- Develop
- Plan
- Comment
- Promote
- Style
- Educate
- Advise
- Advocate
- Coordinate
- Organize
- Counsel
What
do you, your family or your business need in the way of
advice, education, services, support, and management? See
the left sidebar or the
services page
for ideas. Then either set up an appointment with
Andrea Reynolds ("Handy Ande") or
enter our contest.
To
book services call her : (412) 440-3704
Email: handyande@AndreaReynolds.com