To assume everyone on MN hires a cleaner?

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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 but I didn't realise it was so common. Do you have a cleaner?

Yabu - no
Yanbu - yes

I'm pretty sure skirting boards aren't meant to come off.

We don't have a cleaner. We live far too rurally.

No.

X-posted. Oh, those kind of skirting boards! I don't think they're actually called skieting boards, though, are they?

*skirting

Kick boards! That's the term i was looking for!

We have one. She comes once a week. We used to have one that came twice a week. We really could use one twice a week.

But how can I cleaner possibly do everything that needs doing? I don't see how they can much beyond a superficial job.
of course she wasn't going to do the insides of cupboards or take off the skirting boards.

I can hand on heart say I have NEVER removed the skirting boards and nor am I ever likely to.

Do people really remove skirting boards? Do people remove walls and clean behind those?

I did but she was so shit that I fired her

Why would you take off your skirting boards? Our cleaner has a routine of weekly jobs and others she does monthly or quarterly. She also does things like change the bedding and put away the Tesco’s delivery.

Not us, although I do pay for our ironing to be done, well DP's shirts as life is simple just too short.

We could afford one, but it would never cross our minds to have someone clear up our mess.

My kitchen skirting boards (under the units

Ahh the kick boards!! Yes I take mine off too and do under the units every now and again.

I have one and I love it. I would give up a lot of other things before I gave up the cleaner. I work full time and I don't want to spend my entire weekend scrubbing toilet bowls, mopping floors and getting rid of pet hair. Worth every penny.

Don't have one because I can't find a good reliable one (and no, I'm not OTT picky but I do think I should be able to notice after they've been). I'd give up a lot of things to afford one.

No I don’t. And I’m crap at housework

No, can't afford one but would love one. My problem is putting away clutter and laundry!

I’m trying to find one. With no success.

I don't because cleaning the house hardly takes any time at all. Maybe I have low standards (I don't think I do as my friends always comment on how tidy my house is) but I really don't find it that onerous. An hour at the weekend plus a bit of topping up in the week. Job done.

I secretly think that it is very lazy to have a cleaner

that's fine. I secretly think that people who treat cleaning as a hobby are a dull as fuck and need to get a life. Wouldn't say that to their faces but none of my real life friends are cleaning hobbyists either.

We could afford one, but it would never cross our minds to have someone clear up our mess

With both my DH and I working, small DCs and my physical disability, we're lucky that we've had the imagination for the idea to occur to us

We're not rolling in cash, but fortunate to have enough that we can afford it if we forgo some other nonessentials, to me it's worth more than a holiday!

Single working mum. Yes my cleaner is essential. I don't have a TV in the living room and don't have sky ect.
Well worth it

I don't have one - I am one

I have one. Best thing l ever done.

Ok they're called kick boards!

Like Moondancer, i am one twice a week.