Posted on 05/23/2014 10:21:17 PM PDT by grundle
Professional organizer Barbara Reich demonstrates her bag-packing prowess.
So much for roughing it!
New York City mommies with money to burn are hiring professional organizers to pack their kids’ trunks for summer camp — because their darlings can’t live without their 1,000-thread-count sheets.
Barbara Reich of Resourceful Consultants says she and other high-paid neat freaks have been inundated with requests — and the job is no small feat.
It takes three to four hours to pack for clients who demand that she fit all of the comforts of home in the luggage, including delicate touches like French-milled soaps and scented candles.
At $250 an hour, the cost for a well-packed kid can run $1,000.
“I talked three people off the camp ledge,” Reich told The Post. “For a lot of mothers, particularly when their child is going away for the first time, it’s very stressful. Clients will say, ‘I need to touch and feel the sheets for softness.’ ”
“But these are the kinds of things they can control. They’re paying $10,000 for sleep-away camp, so they shouldn’t feel so bad for their child.”
Two years ago, she had one trunk request. Last year, she had five trunks, and this year, she has packed 10 trunks — and it’s not even Memorial Day.
Professional organizer Dayna Brandoff of Chaos Theory has at least four camp-packing requests on the books and expects at least 15 more in June.
Some of her clients have requested she recreate their child’s bedroom so they can feel completely at ease in their air-conditioned bunks.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
One of the guys at your local moving company would probably do it for <$100/hr.
If ever there were a picture of a “First World problem”, I believe we have found it in this article.
It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it :)
I loved your post. We, too, spent our summer days doing absolutely nothing but playing. All day, every day. There were 5 of us, close in age, and a neighborhood of kids. A huge deal was when mom signed us up for a one-week arts and craft dayclass at the elementary school....which was one block away. It’s only now, with the luxury of growing older and wiser, that I can look back and value the brilliance of the simple life.
Who packs it back up when it’s time to go home? I wonder if it will fit. Maybe they give them photos with how to re-pack the items.
I had almost the same thought, who is their audience? Just shows how out of touch the elite really are.
“Professional organizer Dayna Brandoff of Chaos Theory has at least four camp-packing requests on the books and expects at least 15 more in June.”
This is just one tiny segment of the population being reported as news to distract from the serious problems facing this country - a complete non-story.
No, it’s isn’t a non-story. And this is one of the problems facing this country.
At the root of many of our problems is the idea that we don’t have to do anything ourselves if we can pay for it. And this doesn’t affect just the rich. “If we can pay for it” also includes looking to the government for handouts. People assume that “we can pay for it” because we are a wealthy nation. They assume that if they don’t have the cash in their pocket, it’s okay because the government can handle it. After all, the government is even richer than most people!
I never went to camp either. Our summers consisted of being sent outside in over 100 degree weather. We knew to be back for lunch and then was sent out til dinner. We knew to come home when it was dusk. We thought of all kinds of ways to occupy ourselves.
And I love it when stupid, lazy rich people get separated from their money.
I don’t think it’s a distraction as much as it’s a background story used by the media to illustrate the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
It’s great that the rich are spending their money. Think of all the jobs they’re providing.
I see the media have convinced you that rich people are lazy. It makes the government's job easier.
Lazy is an atittiude, Madame. Sloth is a lack of action. Words mean things.
Yes, words mean things. To attribute the characteristic of ‘lazy’ to people who have a lot of money illustrates the pervasiveness of class envy in our culture.
I’m surprised at how that attitude is so entrenched here on FR.
I don’t envy them. Some would say I’m one of them. They are stupid for wasting valuable resources paying someone to do something they could be doing on their own.
They are lazy for not spending their own time on what could be a very valuable bonding and educational experience with their kids.
I stand by my statement and it has absolutely zero to do with envy.
Many of these mothers work full time, sometimes at a law firm, sometimes doing charity work that enhances her husbands business/career. $250 is nothing compared to the value of the other activities.
Do you mow your own lawn?
I thought she was going to say that she would miss tucking her kids in at night.
When I was a little kid, I lived in a Norman Rockwell neighborhood. Dinner bells. Playing hide and seek until dark. Pick-up baseball. The ice cream man... It was kid heaven.
But there was one kid in the neighborhood who was sent to camp for the entire summer.
What did I think when I was 8? "His parents must not want him around." I was very grateful that my parents didn't send me away. Looking back, I think of all the wonderful summers he missed.
Today, he says that he enjoyed his time at camp.
But I would describe his relationship with his parents as tortured.
And neither he nor his other sibling have had any children.
Too bad school doesn't run year-round, and go all day. But you'd still have to send them somewhere on the weekends. Maybe there's an app for that?
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“At the root of many of our problems is the idea that we don’t have to do anything ourselves if we can pay for it. And this doesn’t affect just the rich. “If we can pay for it” also includes looking to the government for handouts. People assume that “we can pay for it” because we are a wealthy nation. They assume that if they don’t have the cash in their pocket, it’s okay because the government can handle it. After all, the government is even richer than most people!”
You’re missing my point; she has had four people sign on. This tiny number is just being blown into a sensationalist news “story”.
“I don’t think it’s a distraction as much as it’s a background story used by the media to illustrate the growing gap between the haves and the have-nots.”
I understand the thrust of the story, but she had four people sign up. It is a non-story; more wealthy people pay plenty of money to other people to walk their dogs every day...
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