TPAs It started off as a 2009 NYR - time moves on - I need to be MF by mid. 2012!

gallygirl

Nothing to be embarassed about TPA. I have a cleaner for 2 hrs a week & am about to ring her to ask if I can drop some extra ironing off . If you can earn the money to pay for her doing something you'd rather be doing then there is no issue. Good luck to you & here's to a clean & tidy house :beer: (alcohol free diet drinks of course :A)

Edit: Just phoned cleaner, she say YES

Floxxie

I often considered a cleaner but realised that I would have to clean the house before s/he got here as I would be too embarrassed to have somebody see how we really live :rotfl:Let us know how you get on and I'm might give it a serious thought again (if it works out well )

Tesco_points_addict

gallygirl wrote: »

Nothing to be embarassed about TPA. I have a cleaner for 2 hrs a week & am about to ring her to ask if I can drop some extra ironing off . If you can earn the money to pay for her doing something you'd rather be doing then there is no issue. Good luck to you & here's to a clean & tidy house :beer: (alcohol free diet drinks of course :A)

Edit: Just phoned cleaner, she say YES

Can I be really cheeky (just for a change:p) how much does your cleaner actually do in 2 hours and how much does she charge?

I often considered a cleaner but realised that I would have to clean the house before s/he got here as I would be too embarrassed to have somebody see how we really live :rotfl:Let us know how you get on and I'm might give it a serious thought again (if it works out well )

Floxxie, my theory is I will have to tidy up before cleaner comes, this way I should get a clean & tidy house. If i'm left to my own devices there is no tidying and no cleaning!!

Work was busy today but only 4 hours and it went really quickly, have got an extra on next Sunday too - will more than pay for the cleaner for two hours a week for a month:eek: Just think it could all go towards the mortgage but there we go:p.

TPAx

cha97michelle

I seem to spend so much time cleaning and the house never looks any better. As soon as i am shattered one night and think oh stuff it, it becomes really hard to start again. Can't wait till the kids go to school and i can get on top of it. I'm a bit sad though and like doing cleaning and ironing.

Don't blame you at all for just wanting it done. If you can make the money back, why not. It might help your moods stay more steady if one less thing to get you down. I also find it more relaxing when the house is clean as i don't feel guilty for sitting down.

gallygirl

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

Can I be really cheeky (just for a change:p) how much does your cleaner actually do in 2 hours and how much does she charge?

Trouble is TPA if I tell you what she does you'll realise how mucky the rest of the place is........ hmmmmmm....... unless you think I do the rest of it........

OK, in 2 hours I get a combination of:
kitchen floor swept & / or washed
wipe round kitchen if required
living room, hall & toilet cleaned & hoovered
bathroom
en suite
my bedroom every other week
some ironing

Every month or so she does extra ironing & will do windows, woodwork when I ask. But I don't get hung up on spring cleaning, running finger over top of doors etc, life's too short :cool:

She gets through loads in 2 hrs as she works non-stop, not like us, coming on here, stopping for a cuppa, getting distracted in other ways etc. Charge is £8 an hour, which I think is v good, I'm lucky I live in a cheap area. She's had a few illnesses & ops over the last few years & I'm lost without her. She's having gallstones out in a few weeks & will be out of action for a couple of weeks :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:. I've known her over 20 years, and she also cleaned for my mum in the last few years of her life & ended up really looking after her, she's lovely & a bit of a :A.

Have you seen my thread TPA, I've been bad

Tesco_points_addict

Today has been far too stressful for me! Firstly one of my mystery shops I misread, I though the times were 9am to 4.30pm but on re-reading the instructions this am I realsied it was 4.30pm to 9pm:eek:. Thats my dyslexia kicking in:o. This messed up my whole day, didn't get home until 6.30pm then had loads of reports to write up and one of the mystery shopping sites was playing up:mad: Am feeling stressed out now:mad::mad:.

My parents seem to have called an uneasy truce (for now at least!) so keeping my fingers crossed for the right result...whatever that may be.

Some more money is showing as 'received' in my Quidco account, the current payout is looking to be at least £93 this month:j One of the mystery shopping companies paid me today for some work I did last Monday - if only they were all that quick and effecient...hmmm I wonder who mystery shops the mystery shopping companies:p

Its payday on Wednesday, who wants to place bets on it being right?:( Whilst typing that I was saying WED...... NES...... DAY under my breath...am I the only one that does that?:o

I have got a shift on Sunday (pay very good!) and two Saturday shifts in July.....pays nicely but not quite so nice as Sunday;)

Have got a free tea MS tomorrow and a small supermaret shop on Wednesday (did it again WED...... NES...... DAY!) as well as a few email jobs throughout the week.

Paid the last installment on the work tops so that totally wipes out all the above:rotfl:

Bought a load of cleaning stuff in anticipation of the cleaner starting on Thursday-not sure if i'm excited or scared:o

TPAx

gallygirl

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

Whilst typing that I was saying WED...... NES...... DAY under my breath...am I the only one that does that?:o

Em........ no........:o. Just call it Weds, much easier :rotfl:

greent

Tesco_points_addict wrote: »

Whilst typing that I was saying WED...... NES...... DAY under my breath...am I the only one that does that?:o


Bought a load of cleaning stuff in anticipation of the cleaner starting on Thursday-not sure if i'm excited or scared:o

TPAx

Yep - I do - a hangover from schooldays!! :rotfl:

We have a cleaner 3 hours a week. I may be SAHM, but I have 2 children at home and a 5 bed, 4 reception 3 bathroom and a cloakroom house:o - and 2 bigger children and a DH who is often out from 6am - 7.30pm (so too kn**kered to help) I also still have SPD flaring occasionally after DS3 and had a hysterectomy earlier this year (and can't carry/ lift heavy things because of other issues) She charges £10/ hour (and brings own cleaning products and cloths) and in that time does:

vacuum whole house (3 floors, so includes 2 flights stairs)
cleans bathrooms & downstairs loo
cleans bathroom floors, hall floor, family room floor, kitchen floor
polishes my bedroom, lounge, dining room
cleans some windows on a rotating basis

I think I'll try and go for 4 hours every fortnight after the school hols to drop the cost a bit. It's an incentive to keep the house tidier, certainly:p

moo2moo

I'm being nosey. Thought I'd venture out of one diary land and into another. Its taken me a couple of hours of extended housework avoidance to read your diary from end to end and I've had many snorting giggles. Glad theres no one about to hear me guffaw out loud. It never crosses my mind that all these super confident keyboard diarists are anything other than super confident people in reality. You don't come across as a person with depression.

Am flabbergasted at the number of mystery shops you can fit into a day. Three was enough to turn me into a gibbering wreck although I did have lots of fun with the ones requiring you to have an income of 100K a year. Possibly walking through the door wearing Tescos kids clothes was not the best choice of wardrobe. Told the poor chap I'd been on location filming the Secret Millionaire and that was precisely why I was in a grotty branch in the back of beyond. After that it was a breeze. If you're going to lie best make it a whopper.

Would love to have a cleaner but they'd probably want danger money and a gas mask. Plus I'm too tight to cough up the dough. It might only be £20 a week but thats £20 I can (and usually do) spend on many other things.

Tesco_points_addict

moo2moo wrote: »

I'm being nosey. Thought I'd venture out of one diary land and into another. Its taken me a couple of hours of extended housework avoidance to read your diary from end to end and I've had many snorting giggles. Glad theres no one about to hear me guffaw out loud. It never crosses my mind that all these super confident keyboard diarists are anything other than super confident people in reality. You don't come across as a person with depression.

Am flabbergasted at the number of mystery shops you can fit into a day. Three was enough to turn me into a gibbering wreck although I did have lots of fun with the ones requiring you to have an income of 100K a year. Possibly walking through the door wearing Tescos kids clothes was not the best choice of wardrobe. Told the poor chap I'd been on location filming the Secret Millionaire and that was precisely why I was in a grotty branch in the back of beyond. After that it was a breeze. If you're going to lie best make it a whopper.

Would love to have a cleaner but they'd probably want danger money and a gas mask. Plus I'm too tight to cough up the dough. It might only be £20 a week but thats £20 I can (and usually do) spend on many other things.

Moo welcome, how are you? I've not caught up with your thread for a week or so.
Re: depression, its a horrible thing, very dibilitating at times, but most of the time I am lucky and manage it well with the help of medication. Without it i'm a monster - just ask my hubby!

I think I have become rather thinck skinned whilst doing mystery shops, if they spot me who cares, I'm only doing my job and if I am spotted they should be super dooper good! Although I think I have only been spotted on a small percentage of occasions. The best one I did was in a small supermarket, the check out person wispered to me...sorry to keep you waiting that woman in front of you was a mystery shopper and I had to make sure I did everything correctly, I looked confused and asked what a mystery shopper was, she told me they were nosey people who mostly do gooders with nothing better to do:rotfl:I omitted that bit from my report!! But was desperate to say 'on no shes not thats ME'!

OMG have jsut watched an advert for a Turbo Snake - I want one, just because of the name! I really should grow up!

TPAx