Inspiration List

Home and Domestic
Food
Clothing
Arts and Crafts
Building
Gardening
Accommodation
Interior Design
Other Categories

Home and Domestic

• Shopping
• Returning library books
• Helping choose presents
• Kitchen Elf
• Washing up
• Use of washing machine
• Use of carpet cleaner
• Window cleaning
• Cookers cleaned
• House blitz cleaning
• Help when moving house
• Help with kids' parties
• Cleaning up after parties
• Extra help when you're ill
• Your slave for the day
• Ironing
• China repairs
• Shelves put up
• House minding
• Waiting in for tradesmen
• Plant care during holidays
• Pet sitting, dog walking

Shopping	Dog Walking

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Food

• Home baked bread
• Pies, cookies
• Best recipes, tips
• Celebration Cakes
• Cream teas
• Vegetarian freezer meals
• Bulk buy food co-op
• Garden vegetables
• Allotment vegetables delivered
• Goats' milk and yoghurt
• Candle lit dinners
• Caribbean cookery
• Special diets, invalid cooking and shopping
• Local honey, beeswax
• Herbs, home grown
• Jams, bottled fruit
• Dinner set, preserving pans, tables etc to hire
• Food mixer for sale

Home Made Bread	Home Grown Vegetables

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Clothing

• Clothes repaired
• Revamp your wardrobe
• Curtains made up
• Sweaters, commissions
• Clothes swap parties
• Colour and style advice
• Help choosing clothes
• Costume making
• Mending jeans
• Embroidery, appliqué
• Skis, ski boots to rent
• Wanted buttons pre 1960
• Clothes rail for hire
• Patchwork finished
• Fabric crafts, bags and hats

Knitting

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Arts and Crafts

• Personal greeting cards
• Poster design, DTP
• Cartoons, illustrations
• Old picture frames wanted
• House portraits
• Batik, fabric painting
• Tie dyeing
• Candles and jewellery
• Silk screen printing
• Darkroom and Studio share
• Use of kiln/wheel
• Pottery, commissions
• Photography
• Video camera hire
• Art and craft afternoons
• Papermaking
• Models for life drawing
• Paintings, sculptures
• Disco/band hire
• Guitar, piano, singing, voice, dance etc. lessons
• Trips to the theatre, cinema and exhibitions
• Poems for birthdays
• Storytelling, comedian
• Theatre group seeks extra recording studio
• Band seeks practice room
• Audio tape copying
• Slide projector hire
• Marketing of arts/crafts

Violin Lessons and Entertainment	Recorder Lessons

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Building

• Electrical repairs: fridges, music centres etc
• Electrician, emergency call out
• Video recorder advice
• Joinery, carpentry
• Plastering
• Plumbing
• Central heating
• Energy saving advice and installation
• Architectural design
• Tools, ladder hire
• Concrete mixer, skip, scaffolding hire
• Saws, chisels sharpened
• Walls, fireplaces built
• Pianos moved
• Gutters cleaned
• Builder's mate, big brawny and brainy
• Household repairs

House Maintenance	Plumbing

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Gardening

• Gardening advice
• Garden tool hire; mower, strimmer
• Weeding lawn
• Mowing, digging
• Garden gang: sorts your garden out in a day
• Use of part of garden for allotment
• Hedge laying
• Fence erected
• Tree surgery
• Garden design
• Chicken house built
• Patios, paths laid/ponds and fountain
• Garden shed wanted
• Harvest help
• Logs chopped and delivered
• Manure
• Strimmer for hire
• Chain saw and driver

Compost Making	Compost Bins

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Accommodation

• Bed and breakfast (for your friends when you haven't got room)
• Storage: attic/dry cellar
• Garden and barbecue hire
• Shed/garage to rent
• Room for parties
• Tarpaulin for stall
• Marquee
• Berth tent and camping equipment, all in
• Camping, back garden
• Swap houses for cheap holiday at Christmas
• People to share holiday cottage
• Caravan, temporary site needed
• Grazing for horses

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Interior Design

• Painting and decorating
• Wallpapering
• Wallpaper stripping
• Furniture made, restored, stripped, painted
• French polishing
• Advice on decor
• Murals
• Marbling
• Space saving design
• Upholstery

Decorating

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Now let your mind roam over these other categories:

• Transport
• Business
• Office/computing
• Goods wanted, for sale or hire
• Health and Beauty
• Tuition
• Childcare

Computer Training and Work	Cycle Repair