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If you could buy or spend money on something to make your life easier, what would it be?

54 replies

Bluewavescrashing · 09/10/2020 19:54

Example--next week I'm paying to get our oven cleaned by a company. Excited!

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RandomMess · 09/10/2020 19:54

Chauffeur for the DC...

Wbeezer · 09/10/2020 19:55

Domestic staff, or a chauffeur to ferry the kids about.

AlCalavicci · 09/10/2020 19:56

I did , I bought a robot vac (eufy )

love it

Babysharksmom · 09/10/2020 19:57

First choice A live in cleaner
Then A live in chef
A cleaner that cooked ideally

Davros · 09/10/2020 19:59

Cat sitter who would love her and stay over who I could trust and like

iklboo · 09/10/2020 19:59

A very, very nice range cooker.

copernicium · 09/10/2020 20:00

I have a cleaner and I'm happy to spend on school meals so I don't have to make packed lunches. My life is so much happier for something so simple.

MeadowHay · 09/10/2020 20:00

Mine is deffo a cleaner. We just can't really afford it right now. Hoping we will be able to at some point in the not too distant future though.

DPotter · 09/10/2020 20:02

A housekeeper - shopping / cleaning/ washing/ putting food shop away

cook - I don't mind cooking, its the thinking of things to cook that I hate

Personal assistant - who will do all those little jobs - paying the newsagent / booking the MOT / finding cheaper car & house insurance. Mind you they would need to be telepathic as I'm always forgetting until the last minute......

Chicchicchicchiclana · 09/10/2020 20:09

Would love to have a cleaner again.

Would buy lots of small cosmetic improvements to my house, a less old more reliable car, a personal trainer, maybe a regular monthly beauty treatment like a facial.

Nothing I can't live without.

polkadotpjs · 09/10/2020 20:12

An extension on the house to allow me to have an office and get my dining room back

IHateCoronavirus · 09/10/2020 20:14

New limbs, I’m riddled with arthritis. I miss the days of bendy knees.

ssd · 09/10/2020 20:14

I masseur. I absolutely love getting a massage but can only afford it once a year, or not at all.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 09/10/2020 20:17

Somebody to plan, design and do all the work for a new kitchen, downstairs loo and turning the box room into an office space.

milienhaus · 09/10/2020 20:18

@DPotter you need Gousto / Hello Fresh surely! Problem solved!

DPotter · 09/10/2020 20:33

Milienhouse - yes I do , but that takes planning hence the need for a PA!

Notso · 09/10/2020 20:51

Things I have spent money on-
Robot vacuum
Pyrolytic ovens
Storage

Things I'd love to have,
A housekeeper who does all the day to day cleaning, tidying, cooking etc. I don't see the point of a cleaner once or twice a week because you still have the daily crap to do.
A gardener.

Bargebill19 · 09/10/2020 20:53

A gardener and someone to clean the cars inside and out weekly.

Montii · 09/10/2020 20:57

I have a cleaner that comes once every 2-3 weeks for 2 hours who does the kitchen, bathrooms and vacuums and mops the floors and whatever else they can do in two hours.

It’s $70 (Australian) or around 40£ and so worth it to me as a mother of a toddler who works full time and whose husband works long hours

FraughtwithGin · 09/10/2020 20:57

A new house where everything "works" and there are 90° angles in the corners of the rooms.

FromTheAllotment · 09/10/2020 20:59

Someone who would maintain all our clothes.
For me, they would throw away things that don’t fit or that I never bloody wear, and periodically buy me new slippers.
For the DC, they would name uniform, un-name uniform ready to go for second hand, and charity shop/recycle outgrown clothes.
For DH, they would periodically march him to Uniqlo at gunpoint and force him to buy new t-shirts, and ensure he owns more than one acceptable pair of trousers.

I firmly believe that this will become a real job at some point. I need it to happen now please.

Montii · 09/10/2020 20:59

Hmm that makes it sound like my toddler works full time... obviously I’m the one who works full time, should have structured that sentence better Smile

ivykaty44 · 09/10/2020 21:00

A Butler

notapigeon · 09/10/2020 21:05

Honestly - a gardener.

Our garden is a constant fight so it's nice-ish for DS to play in. I would adore a lovely garden - I hate ours with a burning passion.

Neither me nor DH are green fingered, and it takes weeks of nagging for him to cut the grass (he does the grass, I butcher the hedges).

I hate it so badly. I've already demanded the next house has fake grass/is an upstairs flat 😂

Newstart20 · 09/10/2020 21:09

Definitely a cleaner - ideally someone who would also clean the oven (including glass removal) and change beds too.