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Depends on where you live for the price of cleaning
It also depends on what kind of business the cleaning business is - a licensed, bonded business paying wages and taxes or a private individual working for cash under the table.
I have a service that comes every two weeks. I'm too busy to want to clean. I still do my yard work though, but I would love to have a lawn service come or even a neighborhood kid to take that off of me too.
Ours comes every other week and she has saved my marriage. *lol* She is absolutely worth every penny we pay her.
We still do minor cleaning between her visits - I'll vacuum the carpets, or have the robo-vacuum do the hardwoods, and we'll clean the bathrooms as needed. I also make the kids clean their rooms, and we do laundry (obviously).
We don't keep a messy house, but it's nice to know that like clockwork it'll be cleaned to spit-shine every two weeks.
I did for years when my schedule was more normal. My schedule is too irregular now--I go between houses at totally different intervals throughout the year, and I don't like having people come while I'm away.
But I'm not very messy, so keeping up with my own clutter is pretty easy.
Yes and this is one thing I will not live without. Even when I got divorced and had a substantially downgraded budget this is still one expense that I always justified.
I always go with private cleaners who are thorough yet pretty inexpensive. I do this because my time is more important and worth more to me than money. I feel my time is more valuable spent in other manners even if those other manners consist of me lying on my couch watching netflix for 15 hours... ha
no, but it is just my wife and I and our dog. No kids. We don't generate enough of a mess or dirty clothes to worry about needing a housecleaner/housekeeper.
I have a LOT of animals and clean all the time, but I'm retired. When I lived alone, things just didn't get dirty. I would say an hour or so a week of cleaning would be it. Now yard work, no thanks. I will pay someone to do that.
I have a friend who graduated from college, was looking towards a bright future....when suddenly she started having some serious neurological issues. spasms, facial twitches, stuttering, and these weird muscle clenching spasms. Then forgetting where she was, when it was, etc.
Her spouse broke up with her, and she was looking at homelessness while ill with something fairly serious.
So..I took her in, she is getting medical help now, but....its not looking good because a lot of the possibilities left that they are eliminating...are almost all lethal. In the meantime...she is our live in housekeeper, and cook.
I have cleaned for others in the past, one home was 4,000 sq ft of glass and white wood floors, my home by comparison is tiny and a total breeze to clean.
Ours comes every other week and she has saved my marriage. *lol* She is absolutely worth every penny we pay her.
We still do minor cleaning between her visits - I'll vacuum the carpets, or have the robo-vacuum do the hardwoods, and we'll clean the bathrooms as needed. I also make the kids clean their rooms, and we do laundry (obviously).
We don't keep a messy house, but it's nice to know that like clockwork it'll be cleaned to spit-shine every two weeks.
Oh, I remember those days when I would come home from work and the floors sparkled and the furniture gleamed. The good old days.
One thing I don't know if anyone has said yet, I preferred a team cleaner approach rather than one person who would stay all day. Even though I could leave if I wanted, I still liked them to be in and out as quickly as possible.
Sometimes the cleaning ladies clean areas in the house that I didn't even know needed to be cleaned. Light bulbs? Cabinet handles? Remote control?
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