How much do you spend on a cleaner a month?

[Dilemma4ever]

My friend gets a cleaner in twice a week - 4 hours each time - and ends up spending £600 a month on the cleaner (in London)

C£2,000 pa/ £167 per month plus a Christmas bonus of two and a half weeks' money. She is highly respected, valued and loved.

£400 a month for four hours a week

£380 per month.

I am my Dads cleaner, which I do for 4 hours every Saturday. He pays me £25 per hour. That is the going rate round here. Oh and a bonus is that I work full time, clean my own house and keep so busy, that I have lost 3 stone this year. No need for a gym membership or mounjarro!

I don't consider it beneath me. I and my husband have full time busy, demanding and highly paid jobs and also have community roles which take up time outside work. As well as having kids. No point in earning it and not making the money work for us as we need it to.

I don't know where uou got your 17% from but maybe only 17% care enough about their habitat to be willing to outsource to professionals rather than not do it very well themselves. Or like many people, they do not clean at all. In other words, you have no fucking idea.

In answer to the OP, I pay about £200 a month, but my cleaner only asks £15/hour and only comes once a week. 2 visits of 4 hours in London costing £600 seems entirely reasonable.

£240 - £300 a month.

Our cleaners are lovely. I don't think I'm too good to clean. I just can't be bothered and I'm lucky enough that I can afford it. I don't feel guilty as it creates a job and the money would just sit in an account otherwise.

On the flip side, I rarely buy myself clothes. Most of our furniture is secondhand. Baby's clothes are second hand. I don't go out drinking and I don't smoke. So this is my luxury I guess.

£100 a month, 3 hours every fortnight, I love my cleaner she is a lovely lady and I fucking hate cleaning!

You don't need to justify yourself. I have a cleaner and I buy a lot of new clothes, take a lot of holidays, and eat good quality food. Because I earn enough money to do so. I don't look down on anyone for what they do or don't spend their money on, it is theirs to do with as they please.

Also, I don't understand why the people who don't have a cleaner bother answering a thread that asks about the price of cleaners. Just scroll past!

£20 an hour, 2h a week, so £160 a month.

Nothing.

£80 a month for two hours every fortnight

Just me and the cat here and we don't make too much mess. I've got a chronic back issue so she's invaluable. She's lovely and we are friends now

You are so right.

I grew up in a stiflingly frugal household. As a result I definitely have a chip on my shoulder about spending money on something I could do myself, despite being in a good financial situation.

Nothing. Every one I’ve had has not been good/ left well before the 2/3 hours is up etc. so instead I’ve bought a robot hoover that mops as well and I do the rest myself. So much easier.

What, your cleaner works for free? That sounds exploitative!

£200 in the Midlands. I have three small children, a very muddy garden and a front door that opens into our main living room. It'll be the heat death of the universe before I give up our amazing and brilliant weekly cleaner.

And yet you pay her just over £10 an hour.

£80 per month for 2 hours every fortnight. Money well spent, I'd have her weekly if she could fit us in

I only work 4 days a week so I clean my own house!
well I say I clean it, my husband if home before me will dust and hoover and he does his own laundry, I clean on my days off and I do my own laundry and do the bed.
i cook and wash dishes, husband dries and puts them away

I pay £38 for 2.5 hours per week, I also pay a fee to the agency which is about £20 a month

Indeed.

It’s further quite internalised misogyny too as domestic SE cleaners are mostly women and quite often mothers of young or school-aged who are able to clean flexibly around childcare commitments and set their own schedules. A couple of women I know have started cleaning businesses after maternity leave instead of returning to their jobs because it allows them flexibility and agency over their own schedule.

Assuming that they are downtrodden or being taken advantage of is just patronising. My cleaner has a successful business that she’s run for many years. Why shouldn’t we use a service being offered by a local business?

£272 a month, well every 4 weeks. We have a cleaner 4 hours a week. Messy bastards and we both work full time and struggle to keep on top of it. Worth every penny and we can afford it.

4 hours a week at £20 p/h so £320 p/m.
Best money I spend tbh, dh and I work full
time and can afford to outsource to make our lives easier. Same as the window
cleaner, someone to deliver our food shop, the oven cleaning people came this week, anything we can afford to outsource that makes family life run smoothly I’m all in favour of.

£40 a week, there's no set time they come for, they clean for as much time they need to get the house clean.

We both work full time and it's worth every penny!