Between work, school pickups, soccer practice, and everything else — the last thing you want to do on a Saturday morning is scroll through Nextdoor (or Facebook, or Yelp, or Angi) trying to figure out which gardener or landscaper is actually reliable. You finally pick one, call them, and they don't answer. You leave a message. Nothing. You try the next one — they pick up but can't come out for three weeks. The third one shows up, gives you a quote, and then ghosts.
Now multiply that by every service your home needs. Gardener, pool tech, cleaner, pest control, handyman — each one is a new round of research, phone tag, and crossed fingers. Venmo one vendor, write a check for another, chase down an invoice from a third. And it never ends, because homes always need something.
Then summer hits — or you're hosting a party next weekend — and suddenly it's a whole project. Pressure washing, pool, yard, deep clean. Four vendors to find, schedule, and pay, all before Saturday. It's not just the time. It's the mental load — the running list in the back of your mind that never gets shorter.