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

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

@copernicium

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.

I feel exactly the same. A cleaner was an absolute life line to me 6 years ago when I was working 60 hours a week and trying to manage the “mental” load in a busy household.

DC all have dinners at school too and sometimes go to breakfast club too which is a fabulous £2 well spent!

In answer to OP I’d love someone to prepare my meals, nice healthy ones. I’m shameless and watch Keeping Up with The Kardahians and they’re always having meals cooked for them and all the crap cleaned away. That would be bliss.

Heating in our conservatory. It’s Victorian and made of cast iron and hand made glass panes but it gets too cold to use in the winter. It’s quite large but just gets used to store stuff until spring.

I'd like a really fast efficient hairdryer. Can't justify a dyson and don't really like mr D's politics, but I feel that would be really life changing.

I'd live a cleaner but DH won't let me get one.

Childcare

@notapigeon

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 😂

Ooh you just need to invest in a robotic lawnmower! Amazing. Will set you back £600 or so, but perfect lawn from then on.

daisyphase what on Earth they are a thing?!?! *off to google

A pill that mimics all the effects of a good night sleep in the body.

I have a cleaner, I'd love a cook!

I'm disabled enough that I have to cook sitting down and even the simplest meal takes me a couple of hours to cook from scratch. We end up eating out of the freezer more often than I'd like. Just someone to chop all the veg for me and defrost the chicken! (Though have to admit I have 2 of my dc doing college mainly from home so they do the chopping and defrosting when they can!)

@Love51

Ooo! Yes please but only if works instantly and has zero side effects. (Guess who napped on the loo at work this week)

A cleaner and a chef.

@notapigeon

daisyphase what on Earth they are a thing?!?! *off to google

Yes! The Flymo 1200 R works fine. It’s like having a pet in the garden. Lovely to watch it doing its thing.

A private chef
A cleaner
A gardener

@Pyewhacket. your conservatory sounds gorgeous

@Love51

A pill that mimics all the effects of a good night sleep in the body.

That’s a good one.

If I’m being vain, a pill that protects my skin from the sun, rendering suntan cream obsolete!

A good cook. I’m happy to do my own cleaning, gardening, DIY etc. I enjoy those things. But I hate cooking, always have. It’s the very first person I would employ if I won millions on the lottery!

Someone to keep the cat's room clean, sweep up all the litter he's scattered everywhere plus clean up when he's puked or missed the litter tray.
And someone to mind the children of they're a bit off colour so I don't have dilemmas about missing work or sending them in when they're not quite right.

A personal chef!

And a time machine to get me out of 2020 - I can dream on.

A housekeeper here too, to tidy, do odd jobs, bits of cleaning.

The best thing I ever did was employ a cleaner and a lady who does our ironing every other week.

Ooh also an on call handyman to do all the small bits that don't seem worth getting someone in to do (eg putting in a picture hook, moving furniture around, fixing minor broken things). Husband and I are both clueless when it comes to DIY so things tend to just not get done... And a decorator, trying to do painting with small children around is a nightmare - I know people who have done it and just cannot understand how they didn't end up with paint all over the place!

Childcare. Someone who could cope with my DD for long enough for me and DP to get other stuff done, have the odd day off.

Someone to batch cook lots of delicious food for our freezer, so we can eat well even when we’re exhausted.

A cleaner. Someone to iron my clothes and, the most important - put all the clothes away!

Robot hoover.

I've been thinking about getting one for ages, but every time I'm just about to, another expense always seems to crop up and then I feel I can't justify spending the money on one.

@SomethingNastyInTheBallPool

Childcare. Someone who could cope with my DD for long enough for me and DP to get other stuff done, have the odd day off.

Someone to batch cook lots of delicious food for our freezer, so we can eat well even when we’re exhausted.

Have you considered 'Cook'. It's more expensive than supermarket ready meals, but most of their meals are (or at least were) really nice. Made by chefs, not machines.

Please can I add in call handyman too ?!