Do you have a cleaner?

sooty&sweep

Yes, I have a cleaner & she irons for me too.

Both me & my husband work full time & we have two children.

When I went back to work I gave my husband the choice of helping out or get a cleaner & he chose the cleaner !

Frankly I hate housework !

Jen

indiepanda

I have a cleaner. I pay £11 an hour and she comes for 3.5 hrs per week. She does my ironing and washes / changes bed linen too.

I wouldn't be without her. I am relatively tidy but left to my own devices could easily forget to dust or hoover for a couple of months and so to stop myself living in a hovel it's a lot easier to get someone else to keep on top of things.

I read recently that paying to give yourself more time has been shown to make people happier than spending money on stuff and I know doing things like ironing makes me miserable, so whilst I can afford to pay someone else I fully intend to carry on doing so.

pipkin71

I have a cleaner, who comes in a couple of times per week. I wouldn't be without her as she does a fantastic job of keeping on top of things

Justwe03

I'm moving to London fairly soon for a new job, with my two daughters and my boyfriend is going to move in with us.

Both of us have M.E. I also have POTS and EDS, I'll be working full time and him part time so I've suggested we get a cleaner for a few hours a week when we get settled.

It will cost more than I earn in an hour but I usually dislocate my fingers or my shoulder trying to change the bedding, so pain wise it's got to be worth it.

Kim_kim

Someone made the point about linking it to hourly earnings & taking off your tax & NI.
My cleaner charges £12.50 an hour, I need to earn nearly £18.00 an hour to cover that.

pipkin71

Justwe03 wrote: »

I'm moving to London fairly soon for a new job, with my two daughters and my boyfriend is going to move in with us.

Both of us have M.E. I also have POTS and EDS, I'll be working full time and him part time so I've suggested we get a cleaner for a few hours a week when we get settled.

It will cost more than I earn in an hour but I usually dislocate my fingers or my shoulder trying to change the bedding, so pain wise it's got to be worth it.

From a health point of view, I would agree with you. I'm limited with what I can do at home and energy wise, once I've finished work, I'm too tired for anything else so having a cleaner makes life that bit easier

Primrose

There is no point in working and earning in my view if you can't use at least some of your salary to make life either more pleasurable or endurable.

JulieElizabeth

I must be weird. I like cleaning my own house!

Fireflyaway

Had this discussion just the other day as I'm now looking for full time work and just don't want to give up my weekends to clean. The only thing that bothers me is would the cleaner use cloths that have been in other peoples houses / use the same cloth on the loo and then the floor etc! Silly maybe but would prefer to supply my own stuff. Guess that's possible if its not a chain of cleaners you use?
I see what people mean about being judged! My mum will freak when she finds out. If you can afford it and it makes your life easier and less stressful why not? I'm working to pay the cleaner after all.

michelle09

Fireflyaway wrote: »

Had this discussion just the other day as I'm now looking for full time work and just don't want to give up my weekends to clean. The only thing that bothers me is would the cleaner use cloths that have been in other peoples houses / use the same cloth on the loo and then the floor etc! Silly maybe but would prefer to supply my own stuff. Guess that's possible if its not a chain of cleaners you use?

Obviously I can't comment on all cleaners, but ours uses the products/items we provide.

We have two lodgers who don't have the same standards of cleanliness/tidiness that we do so to stop it bothering us we got a cleaner. She charges £10/hour and comes for two hours once a week. With four of us splitting the cost it's affordable on our budget and I love coming home to a clean house once she's been.

Course it'll be interesting to see whether or not we can live without her once the lodgers go at Christmas!