House cleaning?
Question:I work at night 10pm - 7am. I am married and have 3 children under 13. Do you think it is lazy of me to want to hire someone to help me clean my house?
Answers:
I don't think that it is lazy, foolish,yes but not lazy. My reason is that you have a husband and 3 kids that can help with the cleaning. Start designating jobs to all of them.
Not at all. We all have things that we are good at maintaining and things that we need help with. I think it's great to recognize that you need someone to help clean your house and if you can afford it, why not? Also, you will be ensuring that another person is able to put food on their table because they have job security. :)
No way! get some help in! I would much rather work 1hr overtime and earn an extra $50 and I could then pay someone $25 an hour to do stuff for me at home so you can have more time with your kids and family and just relaxing. Definitely get some help! and as the kids get older, they may be able to help out. Mum would give me $10 a week to do the ironing, and I loved being able to do something to help Mum, and also get pocket money as well. Please note that $25 an hour is above the average wage for someone working in a supermarket or a store etc where we live.
Not at all. You should be able to stay home and care for your little ones. The less work at home, the more time with your family. Hire help.
Absolutely not especially since men never ever clean anything or help with anything.
They expect us to work and take care of the kids and clean the house and do the laundry while they sit and watch television.
Go ahead and hire someone to clean your house,you work very hard so you deserve it.
And if your man doesn't like it then tell him your going on strike and not cleaning anything and all of you can just live like pigs.
But be careful,I told my husband that and went on strike and he didn't mind living like a pig but it drove me crazy.
And all I asked of him was to clean up after himself and he refused.
Good luck and get some outside help because being a woman your not going to get it at home.
No I don't think it's lazy of you, you go girl.My mom does it for a living.
Not at all. You work fulltime, just at night.. so really your husband should share the cleaning duties. If he doesn't feel so inclined, then get a cleaner!! I would love one.. if we could afford it, I would get one!
It's your home, your family, your budget, your energy level. Any one who thinks they deserve to judge you for the kinds of decisions you make about how best to balance all of those things, had better be actually a member of your family, who is currently living in your home. Being a parent is a tough job. Working nights also saps your strength more than the same work during another shift. You have plenty of demands on your time and attention, hiring help is a pretty reasonable thing to do. Look at it this way: time really is money. When you go to work, your employer is buying your time from you. When you purchase food at a restaurant, you are not only buying the raw materials of the foods that you eat, but also you are buying the time the cooks spent in preparing it. When you pay a mechanic to fix your car, you are paying not only for the parts used, but also for the time the mechanic spent in learning how to do the repair efficiently, as well as the time s/he actually spent in your repair. Of course, if the repair is one you know how to do, and know will take you a reasonable amount of time and effort of your own, you might well decide to do it yourself. In that instance, you would be trading the time you spent in doing the repair yourself for the money that would be spent in paying someone else to do it for you.
every day we make these time/money decisions, that most people do not even realize until there is some obvious issue like house-cleaning. chances are, you don't worry that paying for clothes instead of taking the time and trouble to make them yourself is a result of laziness. You simply know that the money you spend on those clothes is worth the fuss and bother of going to work and earning the money you buy them with.
So I advise you to make this decision about housekeeping help in a similar way - is the time that you buy from your maid or housekeeper worth the fuss and bother of earning the money to pay for the service, or is it less fuss and bother to do it for yourself.
In short, no, I don't think it is lazy to hire a cleaner. I also don't think it is the business of anyone outside of your family to have much of an opinion about it.
if you can aford it, i did without a lot of frills to be at home with my child and pets so that the house stuff was done, i did make most of our clothing as well.
Let's face it, housework is a drag! I ran my own cleaning co. for quite a few years and here are a few tips you might be interested in reading.
Have your cleaning person do the stuff you hate to do. For me it would be the following chores:
1. Bathroom thorough cleaning / tub, toilet, sink, and floor.
2. Kitchen / stove top, outside of appliances, countertops, sink(s), and floor.
3. Change sheets on beds
4. Wash any other floors and vacuum.
The above jobs should be able to be accomplished in no more than 3 hours. Probably less but most company's have a minimum pricing plan of 3 hours.
I always dusted and put up any items laying around before a cleaning woman came. (I tried out new help in my own home first) Laundry is very time consuming, so don't hire someone to do that. You can throw a load in whenever you feel like it. Also make sure the kids rooms are picked up if you do have your cleaning person clean their room. I'd advise locking up any valuables and if possible check out references of anyone you use. It's amazing the things some people will steal from a client ;0(
good luck, and enjoy your free time!
If you can afford help get it. You might find a neat -freak teen to help and be a role model to the children.
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