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Do you hire someone to clean your house? (2 Viewers)

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$20/hr/person. I usually get two women for 3hrs every 6-8 weeks. 3 bed/2 bath home and they pretty much get everything done in the 3 hours for $120. I'll tip another 10-20 each on top of that. 

 
About once every 3-4 weeks.  2800 sq ft = $180-220 with tip, depending on add-ons (e.g., fridge, blinds)

 
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For my birthday, wife hired someone to clean the hell out of my house.  Which was.... awesome.  That person has offered to come in every two weeks for $100/visit.  I think we may do it.

 
Yeah they clean more thoroughly than I do. We have some nice minorities come every so often, usually before we have houseguests. $150 I think.

 
We used to have someone come once a month, but our cleaning lady moved to Florida last fall.  Need to find someone again.  The $100 was well worth avoiding the crappy mood my wife gets in when we clean together.

 
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Henry Ford said:
For my birthday, wife hired someone to clean the hell out of my house.  Which was.... awesome.  That person has offered to come in every two weeks for $100/visit.  I think we may do it.
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That's really good.  In what area do you live?  We had an 850 sq ft condo in Boston and never got under $200.  Granted, it's Boston and everything is insanely expensive, but...it also was only 850 sq ft.  

And, yes, coming home to a clean house is so awesome. Our 2-year-old messes it up by the end of that first evening, but for just those few hours, it's wonderful.

 
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Henry Ford said:
For my birthday, wife hired someone to clean the hell out of my house.  Which was.... awesome.  That person has offered to come in every two weeks for $100/visit.  I think we may do it.
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Highly recommend it. Nothing better than coming home to that clean house. And - at least for me - there's no way I would get it as clean as she does.

 
cobalt_27 said:
That's really good.  In what area do you live?  We had an 850 sq ft condo in Boston and never got under $200.  Granted, it's Boston and everything is insanely expensive, but...it also was only 850 sq ft.  

And, yes, coming home to a clean house is so awesome. Our 2-year-old messes it up by the end of that first evening, but for just those few hours, it's wonderful.
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Rural Louisiana.  I could probably get cheaper, but it was a good service and the woman was nice to my wife and seemed trustworthy.

 
The General said:
Every 2 weeks. $75.

Haven't cleaned a tub, toilet, floors, in 8 years. House is very clean. Highly recommended.
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This - although we stopped for a period of time so the kids could help out more.  Good parenting idea but bad for the house being as clean.  We've started back and will do both.  

 
johnnycakes said:
Can one be a married FBG and answer "no never"?
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At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis

 
Same woman has cleaned my house for almost ten years (three different places during that time span). Single guy with rotating girlfriend pictures on the end table. Married guy. Guy with kids. She has to clean much harder today than she did with single-years Cap. 

Two short but (somewhat) interesting stories:

1. Current lady was referred to me by a colleague. It was, I kid you not, five years before I ever laid eyes on her. I left instructions for where to find the key and she handled everything while I was at work. Was years before I happened to be home one day when she showed up. It was like "oh, so THAT'S what you look like."  :ph34r:

2. A couple of misfires before finding my current awesome lady. The worst was finding out from a younger friend/acquaintance that his wife and her mom were cleaning houses to make extra money. I agreed to hire them. I came home that night to find they had "switched out" my higher end broom/dust-pan/toilet-brushes/etc for the dollar-store versions they had apparently brought (I guess they assumed I wouldn't notice) and had left dirty paper towels in several places on the floor of my living room and bedroom (apparently when they finished using a towel for dusting/cleaning, they just dropped it on the floor...presumably intending to pick it up before they left but who knows?).  :rant:

Oh, and several weeks later, I realized I had a watch missing from a drawer. Not super-expensive, but still. Geez...  :thumbdown:

 
Henry Ford said:
For my birthday, wife hired someone to clean the hell out of my house.  Which was.... awesome.  That person has offered to come in every two weeks for $100/visit.  I think we may do it.
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I'd jump on it.  We were paying $75 every two weeks until the tree went crashing through our house.  During the 8 months we were out, the girls who clean the house got out of the house cleaning business....now I can't find anything for less than double that :kicksrock:   

 
Dentist said:
At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis
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I'll give you 75 to come clean my house every two week.

That's 2 years of early retirement :lol:

 
Just me and the wife, no kids, no animals. I do 80% of it myself, she does the other 20%. No big deal, not that hard, and I know I won't steal from myself. Not to mention, I'd be a little uncomfortable with people I really don't know going through my stuff. Plus, just like with yard work, just seems like a total waste of money to do something I am quite capable of myself. I could see where having toddlers could change all that however.

 
Yes, a 60-ish Hispanic woman.  She's here illegally so I feel good that she's not out there raping and murdering.

 
Dentist said:
At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis
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The same could be said for your TV bill, cell phone bill, the vacations you like to take, the sporting events you like to go to, etc.

So, if you spend 3 hrs of your off time/week x 52 weeks x 25 years, that's almost 4000 hours.  At $25/hour, that's a personal decision as to whether or not it's one of the things you want to spend your free time on.  And that's not factoring not only the time spent but the fact that cleaning is generally an activity people don't enjoy doing AND having an unclean home is stressful for many people.

There are far more wasteful things, IMO.

 
Eminence cleans my house

hes welcome to any change he finds

 
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Once again ffa, I'm proud of you.   Eff this paying people to clean your place.   There's no shame with living in a messy house. 

 
For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!  
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Average salary will probably be $150k by then so it will about a year. 

Also, what would a divorce brought on by fighting over housework cost?

 
Dentist said:
At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis
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Totally.  I don't know how I would live with myself if I spent money on something that would allow me more restful time at home while working 60+ hour weeks.  What I should do instead is spend a few more hours doing manual labor, because rest is for the weak.

This isn't a choice for me between doing it myself for minor inconvenience or paying someone.  It's between paying someone and being angry and scattered all the time because my house is going to be a disaster the way things are going.  The savings in takeout alone are worth it because when my house is a mess, I don't cook.

How about you decide what you want to do with your money, and the rest of us decide what to do with ours, eh? 

 
Dentist said:
At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis
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Purely objectively - cleaning our house fairly well takes more than 3 hours per week but let's use that to start. 3 hours I can be enjoying a book, hanging with friends or whatever, basically stuff I might do when I retire.

  3 hours x 52 weeks = 156 hours or roughly 4 40 hour work weeks each year.  Over 25 years that's 100 weeks, or two years. So it's a wash. 

We don't pay for cleaning right now because my wife does it and is teaching our kids to help.  Teaching them to work, and we do pay them for some chores, is more important to us right now. 

Eta: we did pay for one in our last house monthly as my wife volunteered a lot.  But not here yet unless you count the kids. 

 
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Dentist said:
At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis
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Sure it's somewhat significant. But I don't buy $5 lattes ever. You pick and choose. I choose not to clean toilets.  I also don't mow my own lawn - I did enough of that growing up

$80 every two weeks for a fairly large house

 
dparker713 said:
Sure it's somewhat significant. But I don't buy $5 lattes ever. You pick and choose. I choose not to clean toilets.  I also don't mow my own lawn - I did enough of that growing up

$80 every two weeks for a fairly large house
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Should have bought a smaller house, Rockefeller.

 
Dentist said:
At $2400 a year for home cleaning over the next 25 years, assuming that money was invested at just a paltry 4%,  that adds up to over $100,000

Not to mention at some point the price of this service is going to rise over that time period.

I think you could conservatively estimate that that total cost is going to swell to nearly $150,000.

That's going to cost me well over a YEAR of additional working time spent when for a few minutes each evening and maybe another hour or 2 on the weekend between the wife and I that we can maintain the home's cleanliness....

For most people that's going to cost them 2-3 years of retirement...    YEARS!    Is running the vacuum and spraying a little pledge and bathroom cleaner that hard?   You can also teach your kids the value of hard work and cleanliness whilst you do it, and listen to some good music and get a little exercise in all at the same time.

Is it beneath my hourly rate?  Sure...   so is mowing the lawn...  but it's not like I was going to be doing a handful of fillings or a root canal during the hours I would've spent cleaning anyway.

The waste around here......the lifestyle inflation... I assign 2% of the blame to Otis
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People who own, pay for gas, storage, and maintenance for boats should not be giving other people #### about how they're wasting their money.

 
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