Question about cleaning ladies

PrairieMom wrote: Would you ever use a cleaning service for your home? I was talking with a few other ladies who do last night, and they LOVE it, but I could never use one. It just seems like a personal violation of some sort, to have someone in my space touching and moving my stuff, opening my drawers and cupboards, I would rather stand in front of them naked. Like literally.

msoulz replied: Yes I would, if I could afford it and justify it. I am procrastinating cleaning as I type! It's not my gig, I am not that great at it because I don't enjoy it, so if I could have someone else do it well I would JUMP at the chance.

mckayleesmom replied: I would if I had the money. Then again I always say that and I would probably feel violated like you said Tara.

I'm one of those Army wives that pack my stuff even though the movers are going to unpack what I packed and do it all over again. So I would probably clean before the cleaning lady came..

PrairieMom replied: yeah, the idea of a mover makes my skin crawl. I hate the idea of people going through my stuff.

mckayleesmom replied:
I usually pack all the stuff I wouldn't want movers to see with me...Jewelry, underwear...

lovemy2 replied: I would KILL to have a cleaning lady but I also work 4 days a week which IMO makes it harder to keep up with cleaning - I would probably only want one once a month though to do a good deep cleaning

Kaitlin'smom replied: I would like to have one for things like dusting, bathrooms and deep cleaning every so often. I cant dust and have to rely on DH or Kaitlin to do it. Oh its not that I dont know how, I just get really bad congestion from doing it.

BecauseIsaidSo replied: I had a cleaning company that I used when I was pregnant with my last child. I always found myself doing a light cleaning before they came~more pickup than cleaning. Cleaning companies dont pick up and put away like a regular housekeeper (who knows where everything belongs).

I then switched to a husband/wife couple that cleaned my house but kept them for about 6 months.

Skip ahead 10 years and I was trying to help a friend out and she cleaned my house about 4 times. She was very thorough but just wasnt as fast as I would have liked. I only had her clean XXX amount of rooms. I paid her 50.00 for 3 hours worth of cleaning. She is very particular about her house and that is why I decided to let her clean mine. I didnt let her do my bedroom or bathroom because that is my personal space. She stopped cleaning when a non cleaning job became available.

lisar replied: If I could afford it I would. I would want to be there while they did all the cleaning though.

moped replied: Oh yes I could. When we left for xmas I had a cleaning lady come and clean while we were gone - came home to a FABULOUSLY clean house - will do it again in a heartbeat!

jcc64 replied: I used to have a cleaning guy (how cool is that--a guy doing the cleaning) back when I was working full time. It was AWESOME, and I had no problem whatsoever with someone in "my space," as long as it was getting cleaned by someone other than me. It freed me up on the w/e's to spend time with my kids and all of their activities, instead of spending hours with my head in a toilet or sweeping under the beds.
I loved having a clean house all the time, and when I return to work full time, I intend to hire another guy.

BecauseIsaidSo replied: I had a teacher friend that had a young gal that cleaned her house. One day the Friends highschool kids got home from school and found her coming out of the bathroom with her hair wrapped in a towel. She had taken a shower in the bathroom! OH MY!! They also cuaght her "resting" on the bed one day when they got home from school. She was not invited back. LOL

cameragirl21 replied: I have had someone come weekly and still have her come sometimes, just not weekly as I'm trying to cut back a bit and I loved it, plan to do it again asap.

3xsthefun replied: Yes, if I could afford it.

Calimama replied: No, I grew up with one though. I like to clean and organize myself.

Boo&BugsMom replied: YES, if I could afford it. However, Troy seems to think because of my high standards in cleaning that I would not be satisfied and have to do it again myself. However #2...if I knew I didn't have to clean anything hardly ever again...then I wouldn't care, as long as I wasn't the one doing it. I am OCD about cleaning, but I HATE doing it. I also wouldn't care about someone else being in my space. I'm a pretty open book and don't really care if people see my stuff.

DVFlyer replied: If both parents worked and the kids were not old enough to pitch in and it was in the budget.... maybe.

Otherwise, I see no reason to hire someone to clean a house.

Hiring people should be reserved for things that you *can't* do....

cameragirl21 replied:
I don't like house cleaning and I'm not good at it. That's good enough reason for me.

My2Beauties replied: If I could afford it I would. My cousin cleans houses I've thought about having her come over and deep clean my house really good (base boards, cieling fans, you know the nitty gritty that I don't want to begin to do) but I haven't gotten around to asking her yet, she charges like $20 an hour and it would proabably take 5-6 hours to deep clean my entire house because we have 4 bedrooms, a full basement, 2 bathrooms etc... So it'd be about $100 cleaning job. I'd rather go buy me an outfit!

moped replied:
But what if I just can't find the time to do it?

Would you like a run down of my days?

~Roo'sMama~ replied: If I had the money, I would! But just for the stuff like cleaning the bathroom and mopping and vacuuming and dusting, and all those types of things that I hate to do. I wouldn't want anyone organizing my stuff and picking up my dirty laundry or anything like that. I'd probably want to do my own laundry too... I don't like other people handling my clothes, and I'd be worried that someone else would miss stains on the kids clothes that I knew were there. I actually don't mind laundry anyways, it's everything else that I hate.

MommyToAshley replied: Even if I could afford it, I don't think I would have one. I'd clean before he/she came so there would be no need to hire one. And, I am sure DH would obsess over what kind of cleaners are used... he is very particular and I have to use bleach when he's not around.

My3LilMonkeys replied: If I could afford it I would love to have someone come once a month or so and do a deep clean for me - I'm good at keeping the house picked up & presentable but the big things like scrubbing walls, washing outside windows, etc never seem to get done.

moped replied:
Oh are we supposed to do those things?

Cece00 replied: We can afford one and we had one a few months back...but DH didnt like her/the job she did (he didnt think she was good enough) and then something happened to the computer and he was convinced she had something to do with it, so we got rid of her...havent had one since, so we've either been having a dirtier house or cleaning it together. Mostly its been a slightly dirtier house...hey, we work FT and have 4 kids, you cant expect perfection.

~Roo'sMama~ replied:
Lol my thoughts exactly!!

DVFlyer replied:

DVFlyer replied:
Only if you are open to me pointing out when you could be cleaning.....

Seriously.... I'm sure there are some people (maybe you) who are just too busy EVERY day to clean. Generally speaking though, unless there are extenuating circumstances, the only reason one could not clean is because they don't want to.

cameragirl21 replied:
ok, fine, I don't want to. I also don't want to change my own oil so I take the car to a shop to get it done. I don't want to cut my own hair either, even though I'm sure I could figure out how to do it.
I don't want to do my own plumbing, I don't want to clean my own pool, etc.
So I don't want to clean, does that make me a terrible person?
How often do you go out to eat because you or the wife doesn't want to cook?

moped replied:
Yes please tell me when I can clean

ha, actually I do a quick tidy after the kids are in bed, but the deeper stuff needs to wait til weekends after they are in bed. I can do easy things when they are up but the others have to wait.

DVFlyer replied:
ha ha ha! We have a breakthrough!!

Terrible person? No one mentioned that.. maybe a few more sessions with Dr. Fraud can help you through that.

While I understand where you are coming from with the haircut and oil change comments, the same could be applied there. I don't change my own oil because I don't want to make the effort.. same with cutting my own hair.... although my wife has done it... once..

Eating out... same thing. We're too lazy to make the effort to cook.

You're making my points for me.

And, I'm not saying it makes one a bad person to hire someone to clean your house... I said I see no reason for it (based on my original criteria, of course. ).

DVFlyer replied:
Looks like you already know....

holley79 replied: If I could afford one I would. DH and I both work fulltime and if I had someone to come in twice a week just to knock down cobwebs would be awesome.

HuskerMom replied: Even if I could afford one I wouldn't hire one. I guess I'm not trusting enough to have a stranger clean my house. If it was someone I knew and trusted then I might. My mom had hired one several times and the last time she noticed that her grandmother's necklace was gone. She hasn't hired one since.

luvmykids replied: I used a cleaning service for awhile when the twins were very small and the house wasn't too bad I loved it, we'd leave for two hours and come home to a spotless house But a few years later, when I tried again, it was awful because I did feel like I had to clean before the cleaning ladies came. A big part of it was my own paranoia, but honestly to ask them to come clean "as is" would have been above and beyond.

I think I could hire one now in that sense, since we just moved I'm pretty de-junked