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To assume everyone on MN hires a cleaner?

141 replies

Lsquiggles · 29/01/2020 16:43

I see so many posts about people with cleaners and I'm genuinely shocked at how many people do! Don't get me wrong, if our finances could stretch that far I'd love one and I'm so jealous Grin but I didn't realise it was so common. Do you have a cleaner?

Yabu - no
Yanbu - yes

OP posts:
fleamadonna · 29/01/2020 16:56

I think I heard on Women’s Hour a couple of years ago that a third of U.K. households employ one?

I don’t. Wish I did though!

TulipCat · 29/01/2020 16:56

I have a cleaner. She really makes a difference in my life!

DreamingOfSummerDays · 29/01/2020 16:57

I have one. Wish I'd done it sooner. I'd happily make sacrifices to keep her!

CoffeeCoinneseur · 29/01/2020 16:57

I have a cleaner.

I’m self employed, and I earn more per hour than a cleaner costs me.

So I have the choice - I can work for 5 hours and earn what I earn, and pay my cleaner £60... or I can cut my hours, lose out on £££ and do the cleaning myself.

It’s a no brainer.

MummaMeerkat · 29/01/2020 16:57

Don't have a cleaner, but I am one.

Mirandaqueenbee · 29/01/2020 16:58

No cleaner prefer to do my own cleaning

Settlersofcatan · 29/01/2020 17:00

We have a cleaner. I think of it as paying for time - I don't have to do anything other than cooking/washing up/laundry so my weekends and day off work a week are focussed on having fun with my kids. I'm currently on maternity leave and still have one.

What I worry about a bit is how to make sure my kids know how to clean as they obviously don't see us doing it

ColourMyDreams · 29/01/2020 17:00

I don't have one, simply because we don't make enough mess to justify one.
There's only the two of us here now so half of the place doesn't get used.

Bluebutterfly90 · 29/01/2020 17:01

Nope. Can't afford it.
Probably wouldn't have one even if I could.
I'm not comfortable having people in my house touching my stuff. I know it's weird, but I'd rather do it all myself.

Soundbyte · 29/01/2020 17:02

I do have a cleaner but just once a fortnight. We have a four bed house, four kids, (and one on the way) four pets and two businesses. OH and I do fairly well with the cleaning but she comes and just does the stuff we don’t get around to often enough otherwise.

Parker231 · 29/01/2020 17:05

We have a cleaner twice a week. There are a lot of things I would give up before loosing the cleaner. For us she is a life changer.

TwoZeroTwoZero · 29/01/2020 17:07

I can't afford one and in our tiny house it would feel like overkill!

tangledyarn · 29/01/2020 17:08

No cleaner here!

PineappleDanish · 29/01/2020 17:10

We do. I have had a cleaner for about 10 years and don't see it as a luxury.

I don't just other people for spending the same £35 a week on hair, clothes, nails, botox, fillers, alcohol, cigarettes or multiple takeaway coffees. Their money, their choice.

The cleaner we have at the moment has been with us for 6 years and she's amazing. Trust her totally and we value her hugely as she makes my life a lot more pleasant.

PineappleDanish · 29/01/2020 17:11

Judge, not just.

JuanSheetIsPlenty · 29/01/2020 17:12

I don’t have a cleaner. I am a cleaner. I would also have a cleaner if I could afford one Grin

Dylaninthemovies1 · 29/01/2020 17:13

We both work and have a toddler. Too right we have a cleaner

Roselilly36 · 29/01/2020 17:13

I do, I have a disability though.

Nothing2doooooo · 29/01/2020 17:24

What's the BU about though?

Do you mean YABU/YANBU for not having a cleaner or for being jealous of those who have one or....

Just not sure what the question is besides this being the usual thread where posters come to show off their lack of need for x,y,z or bemoan not being able to have x,y,z, etc.

getupnow · 29/01/2020 17:32

I think it's a generational thing though as well. Some of the older members of my family who could easily afford it see it as something quite decadent. I got one since having kids as i'm time poor. I recently found out some younger family members wout kids have them which I was surprised at.

BlueJava · 29/01/2020 17:34

I didn't have one for 14 months, but my new job has a very long commute so I've re-hired a cleaner.

BengalGal · 29/01/2020 17:36

I know there are moms here that work as cleaners.

NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace · 29/01/2020 17:39

I don't. I can afford one but frankly it's a piece of piss cleaning up after just me so .... I do it Smile

AgnosticBaker · 29/01/2020 17:39

My cleaner just came for the last time, after working for me for three years. She's retiring and I was her last client. I'm hugely relieved, because although she was the best cleaner I've ever had, I've concluded it's not worth it for me. Having someone in my house makes my skin crawl and I know nobody will ever clean it as well as I can. Also the tidying up before she arrived, hiding stuff she would damage, was stressing me out. Everyone in my circle has a cleaner so I'm.sure I'll be considered a weirdo.

But how can I cleaner possibly do everything that needs doing? I don't see how they can much beyond a superficial job. Mine was really good about moving furniture and such, but of course she wasn't going to do the insides of cupboards or take off the skirting boards. I really wonder about the standards of people who say "oh the cleaner does it". Do they ever deep clean anything?

SerenDippitty · 29/01/2020 17:40

We don’t have one. TBH if we were going to we’d have to be a lot tidier.