To get a cleaner?

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Slightly thinking a head as currently living with the in laws okay maybe a lot

In the near future we will be looking to buy our own place. It will be small probably a 2 or 3 bed house. I work 4 days and only have the 1 dc so in reality cleaning doesn't take me that long.

Would it be really lazy to get a cleaner just so I don't have to do it in the evenings?

If you can afford it then who cares if it's really lazy? Free time for you, employment for someone else - win-win.

Do it, you'd be surprised how much time it takes.

I literally just signed a contract with an agency this morning. Now I'm back at work I want to spend my day off having fun times with DS not hoovering.

The in laws are a temporary solution so I know how much time it takes. I still have to do the rooms that we live in here (apparently we're the only ones who use the bathroom!)

Why is it lazy? If you can afford to get a cleaner and you want one, just do it!

Frankly, with the economy in the state it's in, I think you're far better paying someone to do a job than to either save the money or spend it on booze etc. There are loads of people looking for work - you are doing the right thing, OP!

Why not? If you can afford it, then you use your free time to do things you and the dc like, and you give someone else a job. Win win.

As my cleaner says, she could do the work on her car herself, but chooses to pay someone else to, and no one says that is lazy so why is cleaning different?

I'm loving everybody's reasoning. I'll probably have to start cooking now though as our current division of labour is that DH cooks as washes up after and I do everything else.

Now I just need to find a house then I'll find a cleaner! (grin)

even!

I think it would be good for the economy if you ate out, OP.

Probably can't afford that every night though LOL

Never unreasonable if you can afford it!

If you can afford it and hate cleaning I hardly think it's an issue. Think - you're providing employment - if everyone did it we could be out of the recession in no time!

Seriously though, it's your money, if your DH doesn't mind, who really cares?

Wish I could afford one.

Just spent my only day off doing the sodding housework.

Go for it OP

The main reason we have a cleaner is that in that case we don't fight about cleaning. No fights about who should do what, to what level of detail, at what time and what is a fair split between us. If either of us is unhappy about the cleaning, it is not the other one's fault.

And the house gets cleaned on a weekly basis as well!

Unless you have a cleaner come in several times a week you will still need to do cleaning.

Bathrooms, kitchens and floors floors will need more than a once a week clean. Washing ironing and sorting will still need doing. Bins to empty and general clutter to clear away.

By all means you should get a cleaner if you want one but dont think that your life will then become housework free.

I would like a cleaner to do stuff like washing skirting boards , hoovering the stairs, wash floors , clean bathroom and change beds I can do the rest!!!

You DH cooks and washes up and NOTHING ELSE? You don't need a cleaner, you need a better DH.

YANBU. I'm a lone parent of 1 and my DM thinks it's hilarious that I have 'staff'. I employ a cleaner, a gardener and various others if anything needs doing around the place beyond a bit of light emulsioning. Why bark when you have a dog? :)

Do it. If I could afford it,I would!

Do it if you can afford it! We had one when we both worked full time and still kept her while I was on mat leave. We moved and I don't have a cleaner now (even though I'm back at work) and miss it so much, cleaning takes up so much of my time.

Should also say I'm another one with a DH who does literally nothing round the house, and having a cleaner stopped us arguing so much.

Bathrooms, kitchens and floors floors will need more than a once a week clean

That would depend on what level of clean you are happy with

Like cantspel says, there will still be other things that need doing even if you pay someone to clean. Though if my kitchen and bathroom floors needed cleaning more than once a week, I'd be looking at ways to prevent them getting so dirty in the first place.

Up to you, OP, if you want to pay a cleaner. But there are lots of household things that take up time - cleaning, shopping, cooking, paperwork, sorting out stuff for the dc for school.

Course you're not unreasonable! If you can afford it, you can use the money on what you want. we have 9 hours a week of cleaning/ironing and it's great. Some people spend money on booze, or nights out, or holidays, or cleaners, or fancy cars...its up to you!

Of course YANBU

I used to have a cleaner. When I first employed her we had a 3 bed house and I was just going back to work 4 days a week after maternity leave. My primary reason for getting a cleaner was that I wanted to spend my extra day off work doing fun things with DD rather than catching up on housework.

As others have said there will still be some stuff you have to do but if the basic are taken care of then it saves you a few precious hours