A woman has gone viral online after sharing that she used her Tinder matches to fix up her bathroom.
When Madison Weinrich was left needing to put up her shelves but without a drill, she turned to her dating app matches.
After sharing her tip to TikTok, the influencer has gained over 2 million views, with many others sharing their own similar anecdotes.
Enlisting a Tinder match to put up shelves
On December 7, Weinrich had the smart idea to use her Tinder account in a way that it might not have been intended for. “Do you have a drill?” Weinrich messaged all of her matches on the app.
“POV: You use Tinder to get your skincare shelves put up,” she wrote on-screen in her TikTok video.
Luckily for Weinrich, one of her matches appeared to have a drill and even came around to help her put up the shelves. A clip from the video showed the Tinder date drilling the shelves up on the bathroom walls.
He did a good job too, as a happy Weinrish showed the finished product, holding all her skincare on her bathroom wall.
TikTokers have also done the same
It’s innovative, but Weinrich isn’t the only one to have used a dating app in this way. Viewers flooded the comments of the viral video with their own stories of using Tinder to find their own personal handymen.
“I once did this because I wanted a guy to come help me wash and shear my show lamb,” wrote one TikTok user.
“Me getting a man from Tinder to come and jump-start my car. Work smarter not harder” added another.
One comment reads: “Mine came over with a drill and made my bed frame. Two years later and we’re buying a house.”
“Had a guy build shelves for me from Tinder. Still one of the most romantic things a man has done,” recounted a viewer in the comments.
The ethics of dating app matches doing your housework
In 2016, the New York Post explored this phenomenon of daters using their apps to get housework done—and opinions were split.
While some were all for the technique, others felt it was unfair on the Tinder matches.
“I don’t feel guilty using them for a little help,” reasoned one dater to the outlet, adding that she always makes it clear that the visit isn’t a real date. She used Tinder matches to fix up her AC and also to get a ride from the city to the Hamptons.
Others however felt differently and argued that the method is a “thinly veiled exploitation” of matches. “It just seems so transparently selfish,” a dating coach told the Post, adding that they should use Craigslist instead.
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