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Things that Consider it Done have actually been asked to do:
- To find a special kind of tuba oil for a tuba
- “Help, my car’s gone, what shall I do?”
- “Our new trampoline is broken: it’s locked up in a shed at an empty house in rural Wales, and the receipt is at my sister’s house in Birmingham…”
- To buy a mother in law three live chickens for her birthday
- To find100 extras for a film production in four days
- To order charity Christmas cards, set up address labels, stick on stamps, and get them ready to be signed and posted
- To order a turkey for collection in Dublin.
- To book a babysitter over the Christmas period.
- To find someone to feed the cat over Christmas.
- “I’m leaving to go away for Christmas straight after work, but my suitcase broke on the way into the office. Can you arrange to have a new one delivered before the end of the day?”
- “My 5 year old son is going to be a Christmas pudding in the school play – can you find him some brown tights in 60-denier?
Because you've got better things to do...
There aren't enough hours in the day when you are a working woman. I'm constantly forgetting things, having to write things down in three places and set mobile phone reminders, just so I don't forget them! It would be so great have a PA just to take some of the pressure off...
Sue Reeve, founder and managing director of Consider it Done, thought so too. She decided to set up a team of dedicated Lifestyle Managers - to just zoom in and take care of the jobs that busy people tend to put off, forget, or just wish someone else would do for them, so that they can get on with whatever else it is that they have to do by the 4pm deadline.
Successful women with demanding careers often still find that they are largely running the household and taking most of the responsibility for child care. The house won’t clean itself, the holiday is too stressful to organise and then there’s kid’s clubs and school activities to sort out. It’s just too much – which is why some things get missed.
Stretched in all directions, it’s easy to see why Consider it Done can be such a lifeline - a stress-saving solution to keeping a hectic life under control. Each client has their own Lifestyle Manager, so that they can contact the same person on the team each time.
The idea for the company came from Sue’s ‘break free’ mentality and a desire to do something that could really make a difference to people’s lives.
She brings her own experience of the demands of corporate life to solve a vast range of practical problems for those under pressure to do it all, and get it done yesterday.
Imagine the snob-value of having the ultimate accessory – a Lifestyle Manager! Not just that, but it means that the mind-numbingly boring things like arranging washing machine repairs can be left with someone else. No more sitting in and waiting for someone to arrive ‘between 8am and 5pm’ - and when it comes to the coolest dinner reservations, the indispensable Lifestyle Managers know the best places and what’s more, how to get the hard to get tables. It’s like having your own personal concierge, really.
From house moves to holidays, filing paperwork, arranging small fixes around the house, sourcing wallpaper samples, taking trousers for alterations, collecting dry cleaning, delivering shopping, making and re-arranging appointments, coming up with ideas for presents (and wrapping and sending them), having the boiler serviced .. .they can organise just about everything, and whatever it is, you’ll probably find that they’ve done it before for someone else.
The Lifeline subscription means you can pay a monthly subscription which covers up to eight hours of time worked on your behalf in one month. There’s also a now and again package which lets you pay in advance for eight hours – and use them whenever you need them.
