To want a cleaner that will pick my clothes up off the floor?

[Zamphina]

Dp and I work very long hours during the week. We’re out of the house 9-10 minimum. We eat dinner in the office. When we get home we’re exhausted and just want to sleep. So often the kitchen has our breakfast stuff. We’ve left clothes on the floor. There might be sunday’s dishes on the table. The laundry has been left out drying.

We earn an OK salary and have a tiny flat to save money, so a cleaner coming 2-3 times a week for two hours a time won’t be an issue.

But obviously I’m slightly embarrassed for someone to see my home in such a mess. Are there any cleaners who will sort all of this? Pick up the clothes, put them on to wash, load the dishwasher, and clean the bathroom etc?

I agree. That is not a sustainable workload. Not even for a few weeks.

Your body won't thank you for it.

I think you need a housekeeper not a cleaner. I have one. She'll do pretty well everything BUT... I have a laundry basket in the bathroom so I get changed in the bathroom (have to go in to clean my teeth anyway). So clothes come off and go straight in the laundry basket. HK then empties the laundry basket when she does the laundry. She puts clean clothes away - I put peelable labels on the drawers and above my hanging rails wen she started until she'd learned where everything went. Total time spent 5 seconds in the evening after cleaning my teeth and 30 minutes max to label the drawers etc and talk her through when she started.

Dishes go in the dishwasher as soon as I've finished with them unless its a pan soaking in the sink. HK will check the dishwasher and put it on/empty as necessary. There might be the odd glass or mug left around which she'll tidy p.

TBH I think it is pretty disrespectful to expect someone else to pick up your dirty knickers. My HK is a lovely lady and we treat her with respect - I've always insisted that my children thank her and DH and I do so also every time we see her. Wold you like the thought of you or your mother going to someone's house and picking up their dirty underwear?

Presuming you don't work them hours 7 days a week?

I'm out of the house 13/14 hours a day.

I have a routine. I load the dishwasher before I go and set it going. Or load as I go, and set the washing machine on a timer so it finishes just before I get home then I hang it up whilst my bath is running.

Literally on my feet for 13/14 hours on a busy nicu ward, I'm always exhausted. Sometimes the house gets messy, but I also have teenagers at home

Use a basket, put it in your bedroom if it makes it easier.

And I'd love to know what people in that kind of job that is apparently worth so much more salary than nursing or teaching?

Nurses also work those stupid hours and get paid far less. I struggle to see why health care is valued less than being a corporate lawyer.

Picking your clothes up is not a big deal, even when working long hours.

Its slobby to just leave them.

Except it is a sustainable workload and many people do it for a great deal longer than a few weeks.

@VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia They are being played. The long hours make the pay pretty average. If they do 11 hours a day, 5 days a week, say for 45 weeks a year. On £60k a year (OP says their joint income is £120k) that is about £10 p/h. Less than minimum wage.

The idea with those types of firms is they get to work you like a dog in your twenties and you may make partner by 40. Plenty don't make it.

I did these hours for many years as a City banker but the pay was very good.

@VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia I completely agree with you. Teachers and nurses are woefully underpaid and overworked. Unfortunately they’re public servants and taxpayers’ money only goes so far.

This isn’t relevant to the thread is it?!

Here's an idea OP, don't throw your clothes on the floor in the first place and then you won't need someone to pick them up for you.

It takes no more effort to put dirty clothes into a laundry basket than it does to drop them where you stand.

Exactly - the point being made wasn’t about the value of different types of jobs, but about the type of job the OP has which necessitates long hours, but enables her freedom to pay for an extra level of service above and beyond standard cleaning.

It’s perfectly fine for a few years - and very common for the first 5-7 years of a career in lots of areas of law, banking, media, management consultancy etc. Many people view it as worth it for a big salary and control over your hours later on.

And obviously there are plenty of people working two low wage jobs on similar hours because they simply have no choice.

Honestly - at this point in the thread, I don’t think anyone has anything to add that hasn’t already been suggested many, many (many) times.

And the OP clearly isn’t coming back!

I agree nurses are very poorly paid but isn’t their average working week closer to 37.5 / 40 hours a week?

Generally out of the house for 10-12 hours each day with work school run and extra curricular activities.

really no excuse to not wash dishes before going to bed, I generally leave ours in the rack and either put them away when dry in the morning or reuse them for the next night.

laundry goes in a big basket. Put it in a timer for during the day while at work and then hang it out. Only need to do this a couple of times a week.

there’s two of you, the basics of cleaning dishes and putting laundry on shouldn’t be too difficult, it’s like ten minutes max.

paying someone to pick your dirty undies up off the floor is just embarrassing and plain entitled.

Yes it might be normal for a few jobs, but doesn't mean it's right.
It's terrible that people feel they have to work all hours of the day just to put food on the table.

You'd be shattered. It isn't sustainable for physical or mental health.

No one beyond the age of about 3 isn't capable of putting their clothing in a laundry basket. Don't be so slobby! And how could you stand to have a stranger handling your worn underwear for a start.

I think they're actually looking for a Mum, tbh.

My four year old hangs her own clothes up

I bet your house is like a squat. Sounds revolting

No matter how tired or busy I was I wouldn't want anyone doing my laundry for me let alone picking it up off the fucking floor.

I cannot get over how judgemental some posters are on this thread. The OP asked if a cleaner would help with specific house hold tasks, not for your opinions.

People have different priorities. Clearly this woman’s priority is work and maybe other things in her life. If she wants to spend her money on help, that is fine and frankly no one else’s business.

I don’t think you quite get how discussion forums work.

I do. But what I don’t get is why people are so judgemental