To want to get a cleaner?

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I only have a two bed but I find it so hard to keep on top of! I work from home but have quite a demanding job working 12/13 hours some days and I try to do bits and pieces before and after but it doesn’t leave me much time especially with cooking and cleaning up before bed each night. I feel like I should be able to easily do a 2 bed house but it’s just such a struggle, I feel like I spend all of my weekends cleaning and tidying.

I’d just want someone to do the bathrooms (I’ve got a downstairs toilet and two bathrooms), the kitchen and just general dusting and cleaning. I hoover every day and tidy up as I go as I’ve got two cats and my DSS so it’s just a good clean every two weeks I’d need. My DP thinks it’d be a bit lazy but he also works FT and doesn’t do much either except the odd bit of hoovering so I’m ignoring him haha.

AIBU? Am I just lazy?

Absolutely get a cleaner. We have them come every 2 weeks and just blitz everything top to bottom and it helps a lot.

That sounds like exactly what I need! I’m happy to do everyday tidying, hoovering and all the washing I seem to collect, I just need help keeping it generally clean and not spending all my time scrubbing bathrooms and deep cleaning as it takes so much time!

I feel wewould need to tidy so the cleaner can clean which would t add another we have to do in time for a person to clean, so we just clean when it suits us

But if it works for you great

I also would not want to pay for them to tidy first

Getting a cleaner was the best thing I ever did when I was working. She came every two weeks and I loved the day she came. Coming home to a sparkling house that smells freshly cleaned is utterly joyful. I’m seriously considering getting another now and I don’t even work any more.

You're not lazy at all, it makes sense to have a cleaner when you are working. I did, fortnightly, and it was wonderful!

Of course you're not being unreasonable. If you can afford it, why not? Getting a cleaner is no different to getting a take away or paying someone to paint or whatever. You COULD do these things yourself, but you don't have to. Go for it and enjoy your clean house!

We have someone come a couple of hours every other week. One visit they do downstairs plus bathrooms, next visit, upstairs, kitchen floor plus bathrooms.

We have a robot hoover that hoovers every day downstairs.
Bathrooms get a clean every 3 or 4 days (but a quick wipe/loo clean not a fill clean iyswim)
Works for us, though so.e MNetters would think that beyond grim

YANBU.

I want a cleaner, and I only work 17 hours a week and there's only me in the house.

I've blitzed the living room this morning (well, by my standards - I didn't move the sofas or the bureau or anything, because I can't shift them on my own) and now I'm knackered and my back is killing me.

Housework is soul-destroying and thankless imo. You can dust, and it just seems to reappear in a couple of days, cobwebs reappear overnight and you can wash all the dishes, clean the worktops and after another meal and a few cuppas, it's like you haven't bothered.

Cleaners round here are £15ph, which is more than I earn, so I absloutely can't justify it.

If you want a cleaner and can afford one, get one. You don't need permission.

We got one last year after resisting for years. It's wonderful. I couldn't recommend it more.

If your partner doesn't do 50% of the housework then HIBU saying don't get a cleaner. Lazy sexist arse.

Get one it's amazing!

In your situation I think having a cleaner would be beneficial. Having three bathrooms alone to clean sounds like a daunting painting the Forth Bridge sort of situation to me.

I love my cleaner more than my partner (semi joke) and mostly more than my cats. Do it!

This is so odd. What’s it got to do with laziness? I have a cleaner. For the Simpl reason I’ve better things to do with my time and can afford it.

no one says on the death bed, I wish I personally cleaned my bathroom more and didn’t outsource.

how messy is your house then?

I too used to feel that we should tidy up (a bit), the night before the cleaner came :-). It's not that unusual. We were very messy and untidy. It was really lovely to come home from work the next day to a fresh smelling, gleaming house.

Good for you, op, go for it. Life is too short to be worrying about cleaning - and it will be one less issue to worry you.

Best thing I have ever done. Do it, it means all I have to do is tidy and run the vacuum cleaner round mid week!
Because family don't want to clean the house stays tidier too!
No regrets here

Of course you're lazy, so am I. Get a cleaner, why clean if you can pay someone else to do it. You won't regret it! 😀

Do it! I'm in a similar situation and have someone coming round to quote soon. I work full time, as does DH, and have no wish to spend my evenings and weekends cleaning.

I don’t blame you for getting a cleaner. But why if you are both working FT are you doing the bulk of the housework when your DH does a “bit of hoovering”? Is your DSS old enough to do odd chores?

I have one for a tiny house. I hate cleaning! Though she's just put her prices up.

We love having a cleaner! I'm currently on mat leave so affording one is harder but it helps us keep our house so much nicer I think we'd rather make other sacrifices and keep the cleaner!

Get a cleaner, they are a godsend and means you get one good clean a week and you only have to do bits. Mine comes for a few hours a week, hoovers, dusts, cleans the bathroom and kitchen, changes the beds and mops the floor. I love Tuesdays as I know the house will be lovely and tidy, clean and smell nice each week

Absolutely not being unreasonable.
If you can afford it, go for it.
This way - you get a clean house and your employing someone - it's all positive all round :)