Do Any Of You Hire Someone To Come Clean Your Home?

[caregiver]

I am wondering if anyone else has or is considering hiring a person to come into your home once or twice a month to clean? I am considering it as with my daycare kids and constantly having to be right in the same room with them most of the day, I am find that I am not finding the time to clean my home as well as I want it to be. I am a very clean person and like my home to be very clean and it is driving me crazy lately that I can't get done what I want or need to get done. I have maybe one hour to do things when they are napping, which isn't a lot of time, besides I am in my 50's and I don't have the energy I used to have, so sometimes I have to just sit for a few minutes after I get them down for their nap.
Also by the time I get the kitchen cleaned up from lunch, which is after I lay them down for nap time, that hour is no longer an hour.
So just wondering if anyone else has had a house cleaner come in once in awhile.

[caregiver]

I meant to say, clean your home, not you.

[spinnymarie]

I don't, currently, but I am considering it for next year when we move things to the basement and I can't vaccuum the downstairs while they play, or do laundry, etc. etc.

[caregiver]

I know what you mean. I can't clean while they play or do laundry also and I'm finding myself falling so behind with everything lately. I like my house a certain way and people will tell me my home is so neat and clean, but I KNOW where the dirt,dust and other stuff is and needs cleaning and it is just driving me nutty lately.

[sharlan]

I used to and I LOVED it.

If I ever get to capacity, I will be hiring another cleaning lady. I really miss it.

[Cat Herder]

I don't but I thought about it a few times.

After looking at prices and reading scary reviews I decided to downsize my *stuff* that needs routine cleaning instead.

Random tables/shelves/cabinets that tend to collect *stuff* went into storage first.

Anything that required dusting and served no purpose went next.

The linen closets were habitual offenders... If I don't use it monthly, off to storage it went.

Etc, Etc. until dusting, organizing and moving things to deep clean was no longer a struggle. ::::

[TwinKristi]

Yes but since my numbers have really dropped I think Nov will be our last month. :-(

[originalkat]

I don't, but I am considering it. I know prices will vary considerably, but I was wondering how much people pay for a once per week cleaning?

[Michelle]

I did and I loved it!
It freed up my nights so that I can take my dd to her activities at night and I came home to a perfectly clean house.
I had someone come 3 days a week from 6pm to 8pm and I payed her $10 per hour .. I was going to add Saturdays to do some deep cleaning but I am too particular and ended up re-cleaning it after they left.
We had to put the house keeping on hold because of finances but I am going to hire a house keeper again in a month because of the holidays.

I highly suggest you make a list of what is important to be cleaned first, have a contract, and if you are not going to be home to lock up valuables in your room. Maybe even pop in and out randomly.
I always hated being home when the house was being cleaned and we always got in her way.
Look on care.com and ask for references.. but realize that those references could be her friends or family
another thing to remember is to set out your cleaners so that she doesn't have to go searching for them and also give instructions on what product to use for what surface... believe me , I actually had someone trying to use windex on my grand piano!

[sharlan]

I was paying $125 a week for a 4k sq ft house.

[Michelle]

I don't but I thought about it a few times.

After looking at prices and reading scary reviews I decided to downsize my *stuff* that needs routine cleaning instead.

Random tables/shelves/cabinets that tend to collect *stuff* went into storage first.

Anything that required dusting and served no purpose went next.

The linen closets were habitual offenders... If I don't use it monthly, off to storage it went.

Etc, Etc. until dusting, organizing and moving things to deep clean was no longer a struggle. ::::

this is really good advice!!!!
wish I can do this

[Michelle]

I was paying $125 a week for a 4k sq ft house.

how many hours a week?

[Cradle2crayons]

I've thought about it to, but financially, right now it isn't an option.

Maybe when husbands busier season starts next year I will treat myself to it.

I clean my dads house twice a month, takes me 4 hours (he's lazy and messy) and he pays me $40-80 depending how much he can afford. He's on disability and I refuse his money but then it ends up in my mailbox or once he went to my bank and deposited it behind my back so now I just smile, nod, and accept it.

My mom can afford to and does pay someone to clean her house for 2 hours each time, every week and she pays $60 a week, or she can pay $220 a month. But her house stays clean. All that's done is dusting, sweeping and mopping and that's it.

My house stays very clean but I'd love to have someone just come in and clean the bathrooms, the nap room, sweep and mop twice a month. That would be awesome.

[TwinKristi]

I live in a high COL area and paid $200/mo, $100 each visit. She came every other Saturday and cleaned. That's my other problem, during the summer and early Fall Saturdays were perfect because we had soccer between 8:30-10 every week or we planned a family outing but now that it's cold and no sports, leaving at 8am on Saturday just isn't going to work anyway even if I could justify the expense.

[LaLa1923]

I don't, but I am considering it. I know prices will vary considerably, but I was wondering how much people pay for a once per week cleaning?

I pay $100 a week, she comes on Saturdays and stays until it's clean. I'd either do this or $25 an hour. I can't imagine a house cleaner accepting $10 an hour.