On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:56:27 GMT, PaPaPeng  wrote:

>House Sitter.
>People who go on extended holidays need someone to do simple chores in
>their empty house 


Another possible self employment idea came up.  In the old country
there were "illegal immigrant" types who made a decent living washing
cars.  One would come around early morning before the car owner went
to work and wipe down the car.  All that's needed was a bicycle, a
couple of pails and some rags.  He would draw his water from the tap
in the front yard.  He does this twice or three times a week and we
had nice clean cars to drive.  Probably that helped to keep down the
rust too.  I can't recall what I paid but it was very affordable.  I
don't know if you can do this at this time of the year in Birmingham.