to get a CLEANER when...

[noonar]

... i work 3 days a week and my 5 and 7yo dds are at school?

i work monday to weds as a teacher in a primary school. i leave at 7.45am and am back at 6.30 every day. by the time thurs and fri comes i am totally and utterly shattered and cannot motivate myself to do the house work.

would it be terribly lazy of me to get help for two hours on a friday am? i'm thinking that if i got someone to work WITH me it would force me to motivate myself to do the household chores at a given time. this would mean that the house would get a bit of a blitz in time for the weekend.

AIBU and lazy, or would this a justifiable and worthwhile expense?

I hve a cleaner, all my children are at school and i don't work at all.

If you can afford it why should you not gainfully employ someone.

There is nothing at all to equal spending the morning out somewhere fucking about doing important and vital jobs and getting home to a clean and tidy house.
I like it on the days when I don't see her at all (lovely as she is) as it feels like a small momment of magic. Sometimes I imagine small pixies at work....or house elves maybe
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pagwatch, I'd love to come home to a tidy house (it is clean, but just looks like a shithole) I want house elves (stamps foot)

you know what, you've convinced me. if they did 2 hours, i'd ask them to do the kitchen and bathroom plus hoover the hallways and stairs. does that sound reasonable? that'd leave me with living room and bedrooms.

actually, i think that'd be perfect. we have had a cleaner in the past, but used to spend time tidying the bedrooms before she came, which was a hassle. (then she left and we decided we couldnt afford it. since then i've increased my hours at work)

If you get a half decent cleaner they would do a lot more than that in 2 hours. I would split the living room / bedrooms into 2 (or even 3) groups to do on a rotating basis as well

ok, alice, that's interesting. thing is, it is a large kitchen/ breakfast room and shower is large cubicle with lots of tiles glass so takes a while...

Get one. You deserve one.

Well I'm sold... I thought a cleaner would be a lot more expensive than £8-£10 per hour. I can imagine the sheer joy of coming home to a sparkling clean house... just do it girl!!!!

def get a cleaner. i work from home as a childminder in a small house and hav children in it from 7am to 6pm five days a week. even though on 4 mornings i have 2.5hrs without anyone here, i have so many other things to do that something had to give!

so now with a cleaner, i am less irritable and more likely to get my paperwork up to date and less likely to scream at husband for breathing on the weekends.

15 euro an hour in dublin - guess that is about the equivalent of 13 or 14 sterling. She is worth every cent though!
Absolutely do get one if possible - I am at home but find it difficult to keep on top of other household tasks, laundry,cooking etc without having to do the basic clean also

We had cleaners for about 10 years but got so fed up with them not turning up, deciding what they would and wouldnt do we gave up and I do it (although I work from home alot so it is easier).

I would suggest that you tell them exactly what you want done, we made a big mistake at first and the cleaner ended up doing what she wanted. I cannot stand making beds so she did that and I left out the clean bed linen, I also wanted the showers done and the bathroom cleaned although they turned up their nose at doing the shower. This was in the days of THEM interviewing you for the job and we also live in an expensive area where cleaners could pick and choose who they worked for! Now I am doing it myself I find I can do loads and loads in 2 hours so dont be shy about putting a list together and seeing what the cleaner says can be done!

OP, you've got entirely the wrong idea about cleaners.

The whole point is that you walk into your house and it is gleaming like a new pin. They do it when you're not there.

god if my hours go up I will be getting a cleaner ASAP (3.5 days, one kid at school)
I HATE cleaning - why on earth wouldn't I pay someone else to do it?

Mine was in today and I am a SAHM, I ove Fridays - the house looks reasonable for 1.5 hrs, then ds comes home!

I pay 10 euros per hour, and I'm near Brussels so quite expensive.