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Do you hire someone to clean your house? (1 Viewer)

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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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Rural Louisiana.  I could probably get cheaper, but it was a good service and the woman was nice to my wife and seemed trustworthy.
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This reads like an adult mad libs game played by Mormons.

 
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DallasDMac said:
Wow, you are messy.
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We have four boys 5-13 and two dogs, in a 3500 sq ft house,  so yeah.  

Even if we didn't have a big family, it takes time to throughly clean your house.  Most people who don't pay a housekeeper don't have as clean a house. 

 
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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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I liked this post and I didn't read more than 2 words of it.

 
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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Definitely a good idea. You could also have that women come back to clean your house again.

 
Henry Ford said:
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? 
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You do realize Dentist is pretty much all shtick, right?

 
I encourage Mrs. Smails to get it done more often.  I'd rather have her focus on something other than scrubbing porcelain and tile.  When the kids were home we had a maid come every 2-4 weeks.  $100.  Worth every penny.  Now that the kids are gone she may get one a few times a year (before parties, etc).

 
Henry Ford said:
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 

How about you decide what you want to do with your money, and the rest of us decide what to do with ours, eh? 
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Sixty hours?   Gross, I'd get a different job.  

As for the latter, what's the fun in that? 

 
James Daulton said:
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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You realize I have a 1970 boat that was a gift right? 

I store it in super cheap storage.

I spend under 1500 a year on it.

 
FUBAR said:
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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Now that is the type of objective analysis that could get me to rethink things.

Trading time for money and money for time.  It's definitely a complex formula.

 
Henry Ford said:
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? 
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SMH, you're better than this Henry.

 
Dentist said:
Now that is the type of objective analysis that could get me to rethink things.

Trading time for money and money for time.  It's definitely a complex formula.
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Chung Mee:
Opium is my business. The bridge mean more traffic. More traffic mean more money. More money mean more power.

Lawrence Bourne III:
Yeah, well, before I commit any of that to memory, would there be anything in this for me?

Chung Mee:
Speed is important in business. Time is money.

Lawrence Bourne III:
You said opium was money.

Chung Mee:
Money is Money.

Lawrence Bourne III:
Well then, what is time again?

 
Dentist said:
You realize I have a 1970 boat that was a gift right? 

I store it in super cheap storage.

I spend under 1500 a year on it.
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Now Dentist, you seem like an upfront dude, but unless you take the boat out < 5x per year, and have the only boat known to man that never breaks down, I'm caling bs on $1500/yr for gas and maintenance .  Let's call it $2,000 per year, ok?  And you're a super savy investor so at a poor rate of return for you of 7%, that's over $135k.  Let's round up to $150k for future cost inflation.  That's a couple of years of extra working for a few paltry hours of on the water enjoyment!  How do you live with yourself?

I'm not even going to go into the Royal tickets.  Those have probably been a net negative enjoyment for you save the last few years.

You've gone from a frugal, nomarriage.com Dentist, to a wild-spendng, married with kid Dentist.  If you ever drop the chest dumping schtick we won't even recognize you anymore.  Next thing you'll be posting how much you love Dentistry!  

 
Captain Fantastic said:
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:
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This is why I use a company (merry maids) if I ever had problems like that, I would call the company any ask for recourse. I also like using a company, because I can adjust the weeks they come for vacations and guests easily.

BTW, we have cleaners come every other week for $125 for a 2000sf house with a finished basement (I forget if that gets included in the 2k). I have 3 kids, 2 cats (longhair!) and a dog, and we love having our cleaners.

Growing up our neighborhood had a posse of Guatemalan ladies that would come thru and clean the houses for $35 (80s) but it had to be all cash, as I would bet this was under the table.

 
2 bathrooms only

50 USD weekly

It prob takes her about 30 minutes to take care of business.  I try not to miss the toilet and I #### at work, so I'm a team player.

 
$165 every 4 weeks for 2500sq ft.  Worth every penny.  We hate cleaning and they do a much better job then we have ever done.  It gives us more time to do what we want.

The Dentist shtick is sad. 

 
If you and your wife both work full time, and your kids are either too young to do a good job, or too old and out of the house, how could you NOT hire a cleaning company?  Unless money is tight for some reason obviously.

That said, no, we have never hired a cleaning company for routine cleaning, though I work full time and my wife part time, and our 12 year old daughter does some of those duties.  The only time we hired anyone was last year when we bought our house and had a couple people (friends of friends) come in and clean the absolute hell out of the place for about 300 bucks.  It sounded expensive at the time, but they spent quite a few hours and cleaned every damn square inch of the floors, walls, sinks, tubs, and whatever else got in their way.

 
James Daulton said:
Now Dentist, you seem like an upfront dude, but unless you take the boat out < 5x per year, and have the only boat known to man that never breaks down, I'm caling bs on $1500/yr for gas and maintenance .  Let's call it $2,000 per year, ok?  And you're a super savy investor so at a poor rate of return for you of 7%, that's over $135k.  Let's round up to $150k for future cost inflation.  That's a couple of years of extra working for a few paltry hours of on the water enjoyment!  How do you live with yourself?

I'm not even going to go into the Royal tickets.  Those have probably been a net negative enjoyment for you save the last few years.

You've gone from a frugal, nomarriage.com Dentist, to a wild-spendng, married with kid Dentist.  If you ever drop the chest dumping schtick we won't even recognize you anymore.  Next thing you'll be posting how much you love Dentistry!  
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Ok 2000 is fine.

Don't look now but I've actually enjoyed dentistry more lately than in years.

 
The reason I don't hire anyone is  bc 2 days after we clean the house, it's a mess again.  No way I'm dropping 100 bucks every 2 weeks so that it's messy 12 of the 14 days.  Instead, I'll take that 2.5k and play 50 rounds of golf and do the basic cleaning myself.  

 
When the Mrs used to work, every week. 

ever since she's been stay at home, every other week. 

Best money ever spent on any service. Haven't cleaned a bathroom or floor or anything besides dishes in a decade.

Free Time > money. 

 
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joey said:
When the Mrs used to work, every week. 

ever since she's been stay at home, every other week. 

Best money ever spent on any service. Haven't cleaned a bathroom or floor or anything besides dishes in a decade.

Free Time > money. 
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Yeah, I like enjoying my time at home.  I get little enough of it.  We pulled the trigger and hired her yesterday. 

 
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