I suggested I get a cleaner (I even found one) a couple of months back, and the utter HORROR on both sides of the family made me reconsider.
Yes, I'm not well off, and yes, I am at home all day, but I work from home, and when I am not working, the kids are here. Plus I HATE cleaning. I do it, but I hate it. I've done it as a job and not hated it so much, it is the soul destroying never ended nature of cleaning my own house that I hate.
So, I can afford £20 a week, which would buy me two or three hours, what would that get me?
My MIL seemed to take it as a sign that I was "not coping" and my own mum signed and got all dramatic about if only SHE could afford a cleaner, she would give anything to have a cleaner...when she clearly is much better off than me and can afford a cleaner, she just doesn't see herself as the "type" to have a cleaner.
It would mean going without in lean months, but only to the extent that we would have to use up freezer food, not actually starve.
I've never paid anyone to do so much as babysit or plumb before though...how does it work?
Would it help me get on top of my house, or would it just be more stress?
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
AIBU?
to really want a cleaner?
53 replies
EvilEyeButterPie · 04/11/2010 01:28
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.