To want to marry my cleaner.

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I recently got a cleaner. I can’t really afford it but the joy of coming home to a beautifully sparkly house is worth eating less foie gras* and more toast.

I actually love her. I think she is awesome.

*for clarity, I have never eaten exploded duck iver.

I came home to my clean house today, it's life changing, yes dramatic as that!

I would bloody love a cleaner but I only work part time and I can’t see the husband going along with it. In my defence I am shit at housework.

I have had a cleaner for 10 months now and love it beyond words!

I am a full time working single parent and before I was always thinking I should be doing it - the mental pressure it has lifted off is lovely.

I got a Recommendation from a friend and am very happy with her - another friend has started using her as well. My dd love it after she has been as they love having their beds made properly and the duvet smoothed down!

I'm actually secretly hoping I am your cleaner Smile. Will be very disappointed if one of my clients isn't on bended knee with a small box when I arrive tomorrow.

Try as I might I can't smooth a duvet down like my cleaner can. What am I doing wrong???! Or is she just a magician??

I would bloody love a cleaner but I only work part time and I can’t see the husband going along with it.

One of my clients got me in on the sly behind her husband’s back. He arrived home while I was elbow deep in his toilet one day!

I also love my cleaner!!!!!! Without her, I couldn't work (she also lets the kids in for lunch and after school). She removes all the worry, and takes away all the stress.
I give her half of my salary, can't afford it either but I had done 6 years as a SAHM and for my MH, I need her in my life.

I really want a cleaner although my fiance thinks it's lazy. I don't, think it would help us out as I have a busy job and he's possibly about to change jobs to something with random shift hours. How much would it be roughly for a 2 bedroom house once a week?

Where do you find these magic cleaners you speak of?

I'm a single mum of 2 boys and this is what I do on the Thurs & Fri they're both in school! and people think I'm lucky because I have two days "FREE" to myself to do nothing. No! I am running myself ragged cleaning and tidying up, it is relentless. I have no dishwasher and the hoover is old and crap, the bedding, the clothes, the recycling, the rubbish.... it all takes forever. Then I have the boys to entertain all weekend by myself. Next year I'm working and studying FT and I hope I can get a cleaner for at least one day a week otherwise I'll have a flipping breakdown!

How much would it be roughly for a 2 bedroom house once a week?

My —fiancée- cleaner is at mine for an hour and a half a week for £15. My house is the same size.

Round here it’s around £10-12 an hour but dread to think how much it would be down south.

How funny Cheesecake

One of my clients always makes me hide stay cleaning upstairs if her friends pop round. I always wonder if she's pretending she doesn't have a cleaner..

Clover As a rough guide I charge £12 per hour and a 2 bed would take approx. 2-3 hours depending on size and whether you want just cleaning or laundry and beds done too. Independent cleaners are usually cheaper p/h but you must go on recommendation.

My lovely cleaner is giving up because her elderly parents are becoming a priority with their poor health after 6 years, she is doing 2 more weekly cleans. I posted once before about my belief that these people deserve a good wage as they really help us working/time poor people to survive in this hectic day and age. Do you think anyone would notice if I kidnapped her.🤫🤫

£10 an hour (Midlands), we have a small 3 bed semi, 2 hours every other week. It's enough to keep on top of the bathrooms and kitchen, and getting that lovely fresh feeling once a fortnight! Would love to do weekly but can't quite justify that cost, tbf we work full time so house doesn't get that dirty anyway.

I live in London and I pay £12 an hour. Agree it is worth every penny. I am really rubbish at cleaning - it really is a skill. Am just so grateful to be able to have this luxury in my means.

Cloverbeauty I’m presuming your fiancé does at least half the housework since he thinks it would be lazy to have a cleaner?

I'm actually secretly hoping I am your cleaner

Nope. My cleaner came today. Soz. 😂

God yes I hear you Straycat it's tiring. The flipside is that all the cleaning keeps me thin as a rake! Hope things get easier for you.

I charge £13/hour (not London or down south) and have a minimum booking of 2 hours. A 2 bed mightn’t actually take two hours depending on what needed done. If it’s already very tidy and no beds or laundry/ironing needing done then I can’t see it being two hours. But if it’s changing and remaking two beds, sticking them in the wash, hanging them and doing ironing, putting laundry away as well as loading and unloading dishwasher, tidying lots of things away it could easily fill two hours.

That's really disappointing Smile I had an acceptance speech prepared and pre nup drafted up.

YANBU OP
I love our cleaner. £20 a week - while house clean, bed sheets changed, ironing done.
I’m oddly very defensive of her if DH ever criticises her efforts as well.
I don’t want to marry her though

What does your cleaner do in an hour and a half a week OP? I've never had a cleaner so just curious. Is it a change beds, wash floors and hoover, clean bathroom type thing? Or do you do all that and they do the deep cleaning, wiping skirtings, getting around and under furniture, windows and sills etc?