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How much do you pay your cleaner?

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  • pigpen
    pigpen Posts: 41,152 Forumite
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    Cleaner works for free in my house.. :p
    LB moment 10/06 Debt Free date 6/6/14
    Hope to be debt free until the day I die
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  • welshmoneylover
    welshmoneylover Posts: 3,324 Forumite
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    tomatoe wrote: »
    Have look on gumtree in the work wanted section. I don't need a cleaner as I do it myself but if I did I'm fairly certain I could find an eastern european girl that would do it for three or four pounds an hour cash.

    That's under minimum wage and what is wrong with someone trying to earn a living?

    A cleaner's household bills will have risen just as much as everyone else's and needs to earn a crust to pay for it.
    Be happy, it's the greatest wealth :)
  • Deep_In_Debt
    Deep_In_Debt Posts: 8,579 Forumite
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    If I had a cleaner I'd have to pay them danger money for being brave enough for even stepping foot inside!
    Debt 30k in 2008.:eek::o Cleared all my debt in 2013 and loving being debt free :)
    Mortgage free since 2014 :)
  • kitty_cat_2
    kitty_cat_2 Posts: 127 Forumite
    erdd2 wrote: »
    Not from the correspondence I have seen from some solicitors ;)

    I would second that, when I was divorcing my ex I had to re-write several of my solicitors letters - she saw was a total waste of space but eh-oh I would NEVER recommend her to anyone :rotfl:
  • kitty_cat_2
    kitty_cat_2 Posts: 127 Forumite
    scheming_gypsy wrote: »
    If your wife doesn't have enough time to do her duties then you need to get a mistress.

    Ha ha ha!!! and BTW I really think your kids need to pull their weight more - and not worry about sharing a bathroom.
  • sharpy2010
    sharpy2010 Posts: 2,471 Forumite
    tod123 wrote: »
    I think you mean 'empathise' , you will need to up your language skills to be a solicitor

    Don't be so patronising.

    I can guarantee you that there are a great many people with literacy skills that are far in excess of your own.
  • ab7167
    ab7167 Posts: 680 Forumite
    Nothing. I do it myself cos can't afford a cleaner. But one of my friends cleans and she charges £10/hour. I have 2 kids and work 4 days a week, would dearly love a cleaner, but them's the breaks...
    The people who mind don't matter, and the people who matter don't mind
    Getting married 19th August 2011 to a lovely, lovely man :-)
  • meer53
    meer53 Posts: 10,217 Forumite
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    I dream of having a cleaner. In the meantime, i do it all, cleaning, shopping, cooking, washing, ironing, gardening, decorating, and going to work 5 days a week. I'm a single mum, 2 kids. It can be done. I don't pay myself anything, i love it.
  • tod123
    tod123 Posts: 7,021 Forumite
    My wife would clean if she had to , ie we could not afford cleaner, but not if she can help it.

    Anyway , its good for the economy, if we all did everything ourselves tradesmen would go bankrupt, you have to keep turning the pound notes over!
  • strawberry_laces
    strawberry_laces Posts: 297 Forumite
    My cleaner is £7.50 an hour for a minimum of 2 hours.

    I supply all cleaning materials
    Capital one was £1000.00 now £0.00:j
    Barclaycard was £250.00 now £190. 00
    Asda credit card was £500.00 now £0.00:j
    Aim to be credit card free by December 2012... Mostly done
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