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Original poster

I'm sitting reading. My book to the sound of the cleaner hoovering

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 12:59

And the waft of flash.
I've eh booked her for four hours today.

I'm on holiday. I need her when I'm at work but GOD I FEEL AWKWARD. I've been out. I've done the ironing.

I am the indolent bourgeoisie.

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 15:29

She washed the walls in the study fgs. THE SHAME

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GenevaMaybe · 10/08/2015 15:36

I am on maternity leave with a very boisterous and excitable 10 month old. So I have a cleaner every day. Don't feel even a tad guilty even though lots of people have pulled their judgy pants up! Just do what you need to keep yourself sane

Zippidydoodah · 10/08/2015 15:40

I'm not judgy, but by hell am I jealous!!Envy

I don't think I can talk to any of you anymore. I have 3 under 6 and a cleaner every day?! With one little 10 month old?! would be amazing.

Zippidydoodah · 10/08/2015 15:41

Gosh my life would be so different if I had a cleaner!

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 15:45

I had one when I was pregnant. When I was a sahm I worked out was cheaper to send son to nursery for a day and DIY

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WixingMords · 10/08/2015 15:45

Someone's worked a 500 hour week!?!?????

I'd love to be able to have a cleaner, but OP I fear you are doing it incorrectly you should be longing in a hammock reading, whilst drink G&T (or Elderflower cordial if feeling less firivolous)

WixingMords · 10/08/2015 15:47

If it's raining move the hammock to the conservatory.

If you have no conservatory you must have one constructed immediately.

MaximiseProductivity · 10/08/2015 15:53

I MN and tell them I'm working Grin

DaysAreWhereWeLive · 10/08/2015 15:54

Every day? How bloody clean is your house Geneva? Shock

PurpleHairAndPearls · 10/08/2015 16:00

Feeling guilty is very reasonable!

Dh once rented a flat which included the services of a weekly cleaner. He used to clean before the cleaner came round. Now that is unreasonable Grin

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 16:02

Every day. Wow.

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Pagwatch · 10/08/2015 16:04

I've been a sahm for 18 years. My DC are teenagers. I have a cleaner and I often stay at home while she/they are here.
I don't feel awkward. I just hate having to move to get out of their way.

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 16:07

Eighteen years? Sheesh. What did you used to do?

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Zebedee74 · 10/08/2015 16:17

howabout - I don't think I would cope very well with the feeling of having my private space invaded.

I dunno - sometimes I like having the cobwebs swept from my private space... Wink

MaximiseProductivity · 10/08/2015 16:22

Yes, Zebedee, you learn very quickly not to mind the invasion when you get to come home to a lovely clean house.

howabout · 10/08/2015 16:34

I have an agreement with the spiders - they keep the other beasties in check Wink

90% of the way there on getting the DC properly trained but I may need a rethink when they leave home Grin

BlueBananas · 10/08/2015 16:47

One baby and a cleaner every day!?!
Seriously, what does she clean?!

GenevaMaybe · 10/08/2015 19:36

The sad and sorry truth is that I don't have a very clean house. It is a typical London Victorian terraced number so we have 5 stories but only one or two rooms per floor. So lots of stairs and dragging things around the house and dirt & dust blowing in.

The cleaner works Mon - Fri. She arrives at 2, does 2 hours of cleaning then takes the baby out for a walk for an hour. Then she helps with supper and we bathe the baby together as she's a slippery little monkey.
While I do milk story time and bed then the cleaner tidies up after the baby's dinner and gets a start on ours. She leaves at 7 every day.
She's a mother's help really, I love her.

MaximiseProductivity · 10/08/2015 19:43

Gosh, that's a real how the other half live moment for me Geneva Grin

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 19:44

i love your cleaner - what a god send

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MaryBerrysEyelashes · 10/08/2015 19:45

with son 3 I had a teenager next door who used to help me after school in a similar way. she would come and play with the boys and stuff while i did a huge long bed and bath time

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ImperialBlether · 10/08/2015 19:49

That must be a great help, Geneva. But how come the house isn't clean after all that?!

misssmilla1 · 10/08/2015 19:51

I actually arrange my working from home days around when the cleaner is not due as I feel that guilty Blush (altho we also live in a smallish open plan flat so escape from the hoover in phone meetings is impossible)

GenevaMaybe · 10/08/2015 20:05

It just isn't. At a surface level it looks clean. But I think instead of keeping on top of everything every day, it might be better to do a deep clean of each room on a rotational basis

MaximiseProductivity · 10/08/2015 20:12

So, is the cleaner just cleaning the same things everyday, dusting things that aren't dusty and cleaning bathrooms that have only been used once since last time etc? . I have a cleaner once a week and they do the surface clean but also have a programme of doing a deeper clean one room each week.