to ask you to help me justify getting a cleaner?

[CamberwellNichols]

28 weeks pregnant. Cleaner coming to look around the house on Thursday. I mainly decided to ask a cleaner to do two hours a week as DP works long hours, and I just can't be arsed anymore. We aren't rich but we aren't poor either. For me, it's £20 a week well spent. DP is unsure so we are going to see exactly what they can do in two hours (our house is bloody tiny!) and decide then. If he says no, then it's a no of course as it would come out of joint finances and I respect why he may not want a cleaner.

If he does come round to the idea though, I would be so bloody happy! Anyone else have a cleaner and can convince me it is money spent and will change my life for the better?!

We’ve got a cleaner starting next week when I go back to work after maternity leave. She’s coming for 2 hours a week, and the moment she’s going to do the living room, kitchen and bathroom. I’ll be working full time, have two young children at nursery and refuse to spend my valuable free time with them cleaning.

We have ours 1 hour every week, she does bathroom, kitchen and hoovering downstairs every week, then mop downstairs one week and hoovering upstairs the other.

Means I have to tidy every week which is good.

@Lethaldrizzle no because we have separate and joint finances so no problems there

I have a cleaner come every other week for a couple of hours. It's the best money I've ever spent. You don't need to justify it. If you can afford it, get one. The best feeling is walking into a lovely smelling clean house without the effort or time of doing it yourself! I even had one when I was single and lived alone! I don't care what people think! My cleaner is bloody fabulous and I'd be gutted to lose her!

Even if you go for it fortnightly it will be worth it. One proper clean with one DH-level clean in between will be fine. So long as you have the money to do it, I'd say it's almost always money well spent.

No-one needs to justify a cleaner.

They are delightful miracle workers who make life bearable. I'd give up wine before I gave up the cleaner. We had to give ours up for a while when DH was redundant - the most miserable 18 months of my life. Never again.

I have a cleaner and it takes a lot of stress off me, insist on a trial period! He won't do the cleaning and if he is cleaning he isn't doing something else or spending time with you and baby.