I Want One Too!

[KIDZRMYBIZ]

DCB just told me "Daddy had to put T (family dog) downstairs in the cage because a lady is coming to clean our house." This is my DCM that has 2 weekdays off but kiddos here open to close anyway...usually...but last 2 weeks she did keep them one day. Maybe a lenten obligation? Their business but it must be nice. Jealous much?? Heck yeah!!!

[MotherNature]

Hopefully they don't complain about daycare rates...

[jenn]

Must be nice! I have a mom friend that recently went back to work. She works about 4 hours per day, and has a once a week special event for work that takes 5-6 hours. So 26 hour max work week. She has 3 children, all of which are in school full time. I know the kids are involved in activites, but they are all drop off/pick up later things. Due to her being overwhelmed with all of her responsibilities, her husband took over all bill paying, hired a cleaning service to come weekly, landscapers to get the yard summer ready, takes the vehicles weekly to be cleaned professionally, makes the kids lunches, and buys/makes dinners on weekdays. Sigh. Must be nice!

[CraftyMom]

Must be nice! I have a mom friend that recently went back to work. She works about 4 hours per day, and has a once a week special event for work that takes 5-6 hours. So 26 hour max work week. She has 3 children, all of which are in school full time. I know the kids are involved in activites, but they are all drop off/pick up later things. Due to her being overwhelmed with all of her responsibilities, her husband took over all bill paying, hired a cleaning service to come weekly, landscapers to get the yard summer ready, takes the vehicles weekly to be cleaned professionally, makes the kids lunches, and buys/makes dinners on weekdays. Sigh. Must be nice!

Sounds like dad is the one that needs a break!

[SilverSabre25]

.......

I don't get people. I really don't.

I'm finally getting decluttered and organized enough to really truly enjoy cleaning my house. I do most of it on Fridays so I have the whole weekend free. We clean up again as a family on Sunday evening before dinner, and then I do basic stuff (picking up toys, etc) during the week until Friday. Works for us in the season we're in right now and, most importantly, I am enjoying this.

Having someone else come in and clean would stress me out so much....

[hope]

It seems like everyone I know has a cleaning lady come. They all make fun of me bc I enjoy cleaning my own home. In times of stress I find comfort in cleaning and organizing and my life has been pretty stressful these past few years.
Funny thing is, all these people stress out every week right before their cleaning lady comes. They run around frantic picking up all the toys and dirty laundry so that the floors can be cleaned and sheets changed. I have seen many take a half day off just to get ready for this. They seems to be more stressed from having a cleaning lady than not!

[taylorw1210]

My SO would be offended if we had a "cleaning lady" come over - he likes to clean our home himself! And he does quite a good job at it. Far better than I do. ::

[Shell]

It seems like everyone I know has a cleaning lady come. They all make fun of me bc I enjoy cleaning my own home. In times of stress I find comfort in cleaning and organizing and my life has been pretty stressful these past few years.
Funny thing is, all these people stress out every week right before their cleaning lady comes. They run around frantic picking up all the toys and dirty laundry so that the floors can be cleaned and sheets changed. I have seen many take a half day off just to get ready for this. They seems to be more stressed from having a cleaning lady than not!

I also find it to be comforting cleaning my own home. I love to look at the way it all looks and smells so clean. Of course, come Monday morning, we're back to square one with the dc kids. I wouldn't want anyone else to clean, either.

[TwinKristi]

I had someone come clean my house, it was more stress than it was worth for me. It was nice to know my bathrooms were scrubbed and such but I really had a hard time with it all. I never felt like my house was that CLEAN. I have 6 kids plus a daycare so we would come home to a clean house after our Saturday activities and one meal later you would never know it was clean! I also felt that fear the day before she came to have everything ready for her. It ****ed. I wish I could have someone come late at night while we're sleeping and wake up to a sparkling clean house! hahaha! ::

[Naptime yet?]

I think that, if you can't clean your own house, your house is too big, you have too much stuff, or you need to downsize some other events in your life.

If you can be bothered to make the mess, you should be bothered to clean it up.

For some reason I can't explain, I have become anti--having a stranger clean your house. Maybe I feel like it's pretentious, or that people are just getting lazier & lazier, I don't know. My husband wanted to have someone come in to clean & I vetoed it, he said he wanted to give me a break. I said, then you do some cleaning for me

Or maybe I'm just jealous.

[MCC]

I have a cleaning lady and I love it. It gives me much more time to spend with DD in the evenings. My daycare space is completely separate from my living area, so I can't do any cleaning during the day. My stress level has gone way down since I've hired my cleaning lady.

[Play Care]

I've had a housekeeper. I work a 60 hour week and the last thing I want to do in the evenings and on my weekends is scrub a toilet. I say if you can afford it, and want it, go for it. Mom may only have a PT job, but if she's anything like most moms, she's also mostly responsible for the kids, house, errands, etc.
Of course, I let mine go because I'm really uptight about how I want things::

[TwinKristi]

I think that, if you can't clean your own house, your house is too big, you have too much stuff, or you need to downsize some other events in your life.

If you can be bothered to make the mess, you should be bothered to clean it up.

For some reason I can't explain, I have become anti--having a stranger clean your house. Maybe I feel like it's pretentious, or that people are just getting lazier & lazier, I don't know. My husband wanted to have someone come in to clean & I vetoed it, he said he wanted to give me a break. I said, then you do some cleaning for me

Or maybe I'm just jealous.

I don't think that's very fair. We don't have a very big house and we don't have too much stuff.. but we do have a lot going on with my dh and his business, me and my daycare and our 6 kids and their activities. We limit them to one sport per season so we aren't going crazy but as it is we have 4 games this weekend and I'm stressing on when I'm going to be cleaning things. I have a big interview on Tuesday and want the house in tip-top shape. The cleaning I had my cleaning lady do was the stuff I didn't always have time to do. Scrub the tile in the kitchen, clean the appliances, mop the floors, wipe down my glass doors and windows, deep clean the bathrooms (showers, tubs, etc) and stuff like that. It's all stuff that I do, but she was able to do it on a more consistent basis than I was and that's what I liked. It was worth the $200/mo to have her do that for me. I had to clean in between so it's not like she did ALL the cleaning ever, but it was nice to have a clean house for a few hours. She probably did 25% of the cleaning per month. LOL I still had laundry, I did the linens, I cleaned up in between, I swept and vacuumed, I did the dishes... it was just the base cleaning that was nice to have done already and not have to worry about. If I could make it work again with our schedule I would do it in a heartbeat, especially since I'm going to be full again soon. But it's hard with our daycare schedule to find someone to clean. My sister offered to do it and is out of work so I may ask her to do it, but it would have to be after hours.

[Unregistered]

"I think that, if you can't clean your own house, your house is too big, you have too much stuff, or you need to downsize some other events in your life."

Its the best 80 dollars I spend a week. I can clean my house I choose not too. I am a single mom with one child living in a 4000 sq ft house. I would rather spend time with my son at the park, or zoo, or beach when not working than spending hours cleaning the house. My money. My choice.

[Blackcat31]

"I think that, if you can't clean your own house, your house is too big, you have too much stuff, or you need to downsize some other events in your life."

Its the best 80 dollars I spend a week. I can clean my house I choose not too. I am a single mom with one child living in a 4000 sq ft house. I would rather spend time with my son at the park, or zoo, or beach when not working than spending hours cleaning the house. My money. My choice.

It's also PP's choice to have an opinion.

Doesn't mean your house IS too big or you DO have too much stuff.

Just means she has any opinion.


Also for those of you saying that having a cleaning lady allows you to spend more time with your child(ren).... Why not spend time WITH your child(ren) cleaning? There are some awesome lessons embedded in simple household chores.