December is busy, busy, busy. You've got parties to attend, family gatherings to sit through and more shopping to finish than you can possibly get done. How are you ever going to find time to enjoy online dating? Many people let their profiles go stagnant and their email boxes fill up because there just aren't enough hours in December days.



But some people take a business approach to their personal lives. They hire someone else to do the things that they can't get done. And in this day and age, that can even mean hiring someone to take care of basic aspects of your online dating for you. These people are called lifestyle managers and they're growing in popularity.



Lifestyle managers do exactly what their name implies: manage the details of your life. Essentially, this is a personal assistant for the home. You find someone that you like and can trust and then teach them how to take care of the things in your life that you just don't have time to take care of. And yes, for some people that means online dating.



Of course, there are certain aspects of online dating that you'll want to do on your own. You are going to be the one going on these dates after all. You wouldn't want a lifestlye manager to make the call about whether or not someone is date-worthy. But there are some basic tasks that a lifestyle manager can handle for you.



Aspects of online dating that a lifestyle manager could take care of include uploading and cropping new photos that you've taken over the holidays, editing your online profile to give it a little bit more pizzazz, weeding the really sketchy/scary/bad emails from your inbox, sending a generic "no thanks" to the people you've decided to veto and assessing your schedule to see when December dates can take place.



If you've got too much on your plate this year but don't want to give up dating, you might want to ask for a little bit of help. To learn more about lifestyle managers, check out this article from last week's Washington Post.



Question of the Day: What online dating tasks are "crossing the line" when it comes to assigning them to someone else?