Clean up the savings?

Former_MSE_Andrea

Poll started 2 Aug. How much to be clean? Do you have a cleaner. If so do you do it through the books? And what's the going rate?

a. No cleaner. It's all done by my own fair hands.
b. Yes. Cash in hand up to £5.99/hour
c. Yes. Cash in hand £6 - £6.99/hour
d. Yes. Cash in hand £7 - £7.99/hour
e. Yes. Cash in hand £8+ per hour
f. Yes. Through the books up to £5.99/hour
g. Yes. Through the books £6 - £6.99/hour
h. Yes. Through the books £7 - £7.99/hour
i. Yes. Through the books £8+ per hour

Vote here or click reply to discuss.

Nile

Hello Andrea


The link to vote here takes me to the how much money would you need to win before giving up work thingy.

I thought I could vote on having a cleaner but it didn't work for me.:o

zzzLazyDaisy

The link is working now

aliasojo

Where's the option for.....'cleaning - what's that?'

:rotfl:

Nile

The link is working for me now too.

nearlyrich

Andrea's comment implies that "having a cleaner is not very moneysaving" and my first thought is that it isn't, however when you work fulltime and often spend nights away from home the last thing you want to do at the weekend is cleaning and ironing.

I spend £20 per week on a cleaner who does the ironing, cleans 2 bathrooms and a cloakroom and hoovers and dusts the rest of the house.(About 3 hours work) She will do other jobs by arrangement, eg cleaning the panels in the conservatory. It works out as money well spent because if I spend all weekend cleaning I don't get a chance to spend quality time with my family.

One of my friends thinks I am crazy to spend the money but she smokes 20 a day and spends every weekend up to her ears in dusters and loo cleaner LOL, I reckon I am at least £15 per week better off.

It's lovely to come home to a freshly cleaned house once a week!

Al_Mac

Have a cleaner two hours a week. I think we should make it four and get her to do more. Apparently we pay her too much. Came recommended, so you pay what you need to.

trace-j

In the 'How Clean is Your House' book, to spend 3 nights a week doing different jobs, leaves more than half the week not doing any cleaning (apart from the obvious day to day jobs like washing dishes and putting smelly pants in the dirty basket).

shazndaz

As soon as I get a job I'm getting a cleaner. I've had one before and I think it's excellent for money saving. If you work out what you can make in an hour doing your job and the amount you would pay a cleaner is less - you are much better off spending your time working. If that work is paid at overtime rates, even better.

westsmith

Yes I have a cleaner and I think it is money well spent. I'd rather forego expensive hair do's and expensive designer clothes to pay for this '2 hour treat'. I am especially lucky as my cleaner comes in on a Friday so the weekend gets off to a great start without having to face a evening and morning of cleaning. She also gains as well as it is pin money that she can treat herself with.

maggie1976

We have a cleaner, and an ironing lady and it's great. We are lucky to be able to afford these luxuries, but this is how we choose to spend our money, as we'd prefer to spend our time at the weekends doing other things. We both work full time, DH is away 2 weeks out of 4 and we have a baby on the way so I'm quite happy I can justify the expense! However, if our circumstances changed and we couldn't afford it, the ironing lady would be the first to go, then the cleaner. I know that I can do it myself, I just choose not to.