My MiL cleaned for us for a while when I was pregnant with dd (she offered to I might add).
We paid her £25 a week PLUS train fare back to Yorkshire PLUS an evening meal, sometimes eating out cos she didn't like any of my "funny organic veggie stuff" (!).
When I was sat in the bath in those last few weeks like a beached whale I used to nearly cry looking at the horrible mildew stains and gruby florr cos she lietrally just "gave everything a wipe". I'd then have to lumber about doing it all over again!! After this experienec it put me off cleaners cos I know how hard it is to find a good one.
Too skint now cos of job change so I'm a working Mum who splits the chores equally between me and dh (in theory!). Maybe could economise in other areas but I'd rather have the organic veggies and the odd curry out.
As for ironing tho if it's important to you and you can afford it SAHM or not go for the paid option!! It's THE most onerous household task around. It's not an issue for us, leave dh to his own devices for shirts and stuff and I wear "smart casual" work clothes with a high lycra content so the creases just strech out of them
Irined bed clothes not important to us, did attemot to iron a sheet once but regretted it 2 minutes in what a ball ache! If I had to have smarter stuff for work I'd find a way of economising somewhere to have an ironing person and pay for it myself, lifes too too short to iron.
Similarly if dh wants iroend shirts he can arrange it and pay for them himself.
Sorry gone on a bit as usual