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[Sosokrates]

Vaccuming, dusting, wiping down surfaces, washing dishes, taking out the trash, laundry, coeaning the bathroom, making the bed, mopping the floors, cleaning the fridge,freezer, microwave etc etc

These tasks in life are things we all have to deal with.

How do you find balance with this time consumer, do have a cleaner? And if not how to you deal with it.

Would rather hear from people who live alone, because I do.

I imagine living with other people its a lot easier to split up the chores and make it more manageable.

 

[Robot Carnival]

cleaner? or "cleaner"?






jokes aside, I've hired some cleaning service to do some cleaning of my place once. just vacuum and mop the floor, and some cleaning of the kitchen that's it. was a one off thing and had not really need it again so far.

 

[Con_Z_ǝdʇ]

I like it more tidy than clean so usually i look for order and she cleans. At least she cleans more than me. It helped me to do just one room if i feel the need to clean. With that it doesn't take forever and i feel motivated to do more the next day or the day after.

I imagine living with other people its a lot easier to split up the chores and make it more manageable.

Although you can split you also have double the amount of everything if not more. For dust it feels like an exponential increase with every new member of a household. It definitely was less overall work when i lived alone but now i don't do things like ironing anymore.

 

[Dural]

Vaccuming, dusting, wiping down surfaces, washing dishes, taking out the trash, laundry, coeaning the bathroom, making the bed, mopping the floors, cleaning the fridge,freezer, microwave etc etc

These tasks in life are things we all have to deal with.

How do you find balance with this time consumer, do have a cleaner? And if not how to you deal with it.

Would rather hear from people who live alone, because I do.

I imagine living with other people its a lot easier to split up the chores and make it more manageable.

We've had a few different cleaners over the years, the only one worthwhile was a cleaning company but it would end up being $300 every time they came. I have four kids, a large dog, and two cats so the house gets pretty bad pretty quick. Trying to get the kids to do anything is a chore in itself and my wife is too addicted to her phone to help much. I pick up as I'm walking between rooms and do the dishes while I'm cooking. Laundry is never ending with four kids, always a pile to be washed by the laundry room. Most of the time our house is not in presentable condition, been trying to figure out how but don't want to pay someone $100/week to keep it that way.

 

[Taxexemption]

No, and I disapprove of people hiring cleaners. You need to take care of the space you live in and thinking you are too good to clean your own house is inherently problemetic. It's a kind of pride that will ruin a person and causes them to be out of touch with their fellow man. Even among the wealthy I view employing cleaners as the result of lack of moral character.


People who hire cleaners lose perspective on what they consume and the messes they make. You are not too good to clean up after yourself, and if you think you are that is the kind of pride that will lead you to ruin.

Make a list of the tasks you need to do to keep your house reasonably clean, and then put them on a schedule.

 

[AJUMP23]

We have a person that comes every 2 weeks. Both of us work, and this helps maintain the clean state of the house. We have had the same person since our first child was born 11 years ago.

 

[AJUMP23]

No, and I disapprove of people hiring cleaners. You need to take care of the space you live in and thinking you are too good to clean your own house is inherently problemetic. It's a kind of pride that will ruin a person and causes them to be out of touch with their fellow man. Even among the wealthy I view employing cleaners as the result of lack of moral character.


People who hire cleaners lose perspective on what they consume and the messes they make. You are not too good to clean up after yourself, and if you think you are that is the kind of pride that will lead you to ruin.

Make a list of the tasks you need to do to keep your house reasonably clean, and then put them on a schedule.

the hottest of takes.

 

[eddie4]

No, I just move into a new place every week.

on a serious note, we keep our place clean in the first place and obviously dust and vacuum every week.

 

[p_xavier]

I used to but I agree to take care of the things you own. If you don't have time to clean you need to have better life priorities.

 

[IDKFA]

No. I don't live in a huge mansion and have time to clean it. My wife and I split the chores evenly and a majority of it can be done in half a day cleaning wise. Odds bits are done of course throughout the week, such as washing the dishes, clothes, ironing etc.

I understand why some people would need to hire a cleaner. If you live in a huge mansion and/or work insane hours, then a cleaner would be a good idea if you can afford it.

 

[Sleepwalker]

We have a maid that takes care of all that, best money spent.


Chores are fucking awful and take up too much time. I like cooking tho

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

No, the butler does everything.

 

[Sosokrates]

We've had a few different cleaners over the years, the only one worthwhile was a cleaning company but it would end up being $300 every time they came. I have four kids, a large dog, and two cats so the house gets pretty bad pretty quick. Trying to get the kids to do anything is a chore in itself and my wife is too addicted to her phone to help much. I pick up as I'm walking between rooms and do the dishes while I'm cooking. Laundry is never ending with four kids, always a pile to be washed by the laundry room. Most of the time our house is not in presentable condition, been trying to figure out how but don't want to pay someone $100/week to keep it that way.

$300? Thats a lot.

I guess it depends how messy your house gets.

I have once worked cleaning holiday rental apartments I would get £9/hr and i think the company I worked for would charge £20/hr. 1bed apartment would take an hour a 4 bedroom house would take 3hrs.

However because they were holiday apartments they wouldn't be to dirty.

 

[Sosokrates]

No. I don't live in a huge mansion and have time to clean it. My wife and I split the chores evenly and a majority of it can be done in half a day cleaning wise. Odds bits are done of course throughout the week, such as washing the dishes, clothes, ironing etc.

I understand why some people would need to hire a cleaner. If you live in a huge mansion and/or work insane hours, then a cleaner would be a good idea if you can afford it.

I make the mistake of letting mess pile up, if I did 30mins a day I probably wouldn't have an issue.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

A person comes to my house every 2 weeks for a 5-hours cleaning. I do all the rest and seriously, it may show my moral fibre and all, but even if you change clothes every other day and your bedsheets every 5 days or so, the ironing alone takes a lot of time I’d gladly spend in many other different ways. And that’s living alone. Dishes and laundry for two is exponentially worse, and I just can’t figure how a working couple can cope with laundry for two or more kids. No shame in sharing that Sisyphean task with some external help, imo.

 

[Rival]

Yes I do. His name is The Wolf.

 

[Jennings]

Where do you hide when they show up and clean? Do you just sit there playing Xbox and watching them scrub your body fluids off the walls, or do you lock yourself in a bedroom or what? How can you look them in the eye when they show up and you're home?

 

[Yamisan]

No, I'm not lazy and take care of myself and my house. If you're not a slob and clean up after yourself you never really need to spend a lot of time doing any long term cleaning.

 

[Aesius]

I agree that it's pretty lame and wasteful to live like a pig and rely on others to clean everything for you. But hiring people to deep clean every month or so is incredibly nice. IMO there's a vast difference in effort/energy cost in keeping things neat and "relatively clean" and actually scrubbing your living space/deep cleaning.

The former is easy provided you stay on top of it. The latter is always backbreaking and well worth paying someone $100 or so once a month. That's $1,200 a year to live in a much cleaner home without needing to take several hours out of your precious weekend hours or days off.

Hiring people to do bullshit tasks is one of the best ways to take advantage of having some disposable income. Of course, you have to do it intelligently and sparingly to really maximize the cost-effectiveness. As long as you don't let shit get out of hand and are able to knock out the small stuff yourself, hiring people to take care of the truly tedious/labor-intensive stuff is so worth it.

 

[GymWolf]

Nope, still searching for a cleaner with a good cleavage to hire.

 

[eddie4]

Where do you hide when they show up and clean? Do you just sit there playing Xbox and watching them scrub your body fluids off the walls, or do you lock yourself in a bedroom or what? How can you look them in the eye when they show up and you're home?

 

[Taxexemption]

A person comes to my house every 2 weeks for a 5-hours cleaning. I do all the rest and seriously, it may show my moral fibre and all, but even if you change clothes every other day and your bedsheets every 5 days or so, the ironing alone takes a lot of time I’d gladly spend in many other different ways. And that’s living alone. Dishes and laundry for two is exponentially worse, and I just can’t figure how a working couple can cope with laundry for two or more kids. No shame in sharing that Sisyphean task with some external help, imo.

Dishes are easy. If you ate off that plate you immediately rinse it off and wipe any food off, and put it in the dishwasher. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, do not make exceptions for Children over 6 years old.

Dishes are only hard if you let them pile up and the food eaten off of them solidify.

 

[DGrayson]

We have a cleaning lady. It's approx 60 per week depending if she does ironing or not (usually no)

I hate spending this money each week but I admit it's nice not to worry about that. We still clean pretty good each day and the day before she comes but at least vacuuming and stuff we don't bother with

 

[AJUMP23]

No, and I disapprove of people hiring cleaners. You need to take care of the space you live in and thinking you are too good to clean your own house is inherently problemetic. It's a kind of pride that will ruin a person and causes them to be out of touch with their fellow man. Even among the wealthy I view employing cleaners as the result of lack of moral character.


People who hire cleaners lose perspective on what they consume and the messes they make. You are not too good to clean up after yourself, and if you think you are that is the kind of pride that will lead you to ruin.

Make a list of the tasks you need to do to keep your house reasonably clean, and then put them on a schedule.

People who use TAX EXEMPTIONS and don't give the government every dollar they can are selfish and holding out on what that money could be doing to help Senators or Congressmen pad their cronies pockets. It shows a real lack of moral character to use tax exemptions.

 

[Pejo]

Yes but she gets mad if I call her that.

 

[thefool]

Yes, I do. Comes once a week.
I still do tons of stuff.

 

[DarkestHour]

I was raised to clean my own messes and I make sure to clean twice a week. Wednesday and Saturday. I am strongly against paying someone to clean up after me especially with having kids. This is a terrible attitude to teach children. I look down on people that can't clean their own homes.

 

[EverydayBeast]

A large amount of homes have cleaners, holiday times especially, where the weather is worse. Dirty houses generate work. Things like trash you do everyday. Most people develop their own routine.

 

[Dural]

$300? Thats a lot.

I guess it depends how messy your house gets.

I have once worked cleaning holiday rental apartments I would get £9/hr and i think the company I worked for would charge £20/hr. 1bed apartment would take an hour a 4 bedroom house would take 3hrs.

However because they were holiday apartments they wouldn't be to dirty.

The $300 was for multiple people for 4+ hours in a 3200 square foot house and they did a deep cleaning; moved furniture, wiped everything down, mopped all the floors. We had some cheaper people come in, but they could only be there an hour or two and didn't clean under anything and barely wiped anything down. Just didn't seem worth it.

Dishes are easy. If you ate off that plate you immediately rinse it off and wipe any food off, and put it in the dishwasher. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, do not make exceptions for Children over 6 years old.

Dishes are only hard if you let them pile up and the food eaten off of them solidify.

I've been telling my wife and kids this for years, still doesn't work. We have a giant farmhouse sink and my wife likes to throw everything into it without rinsing anything off, then my kids will pour out their cereal bowls so there's all the leftover cereal and milk in addition to the food. It's disgusting and pisses me off and they know it as I'll be yelling while I do the dishes and cook dinner.

 

[Kilau]

We have a cleaning lady. It's approx 60 per week depending if she does ironing or not (usually no)

I hate spending this money each week but I admit it's nice not to worry about that. We still clean pretty good each day and the day before she comes but at least vacuuming and stuff we don't bother with

 

[poppabk]

Dishes are easy. If you ate off that plate you immediately rinse it off and wipe any food off, and put it in the dishwasher. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars, do not make exceptions for Children over 6 years old.

Dishes are only hard if you let them pile up and the food eaten off of them solidify.

I find people who have dishwashers to be of low moral fiber. If you are unable to wash your dishes by hand and rely on a mechanical washing apparatus to keep them clean then I feel you need to re-evaluate your priorities. Same with washing clothes, at least take them down to a river and scrub them on a washboard (a washboard I consider a sign of low moral character, but such are the base times we live in).

 

[Hawking Radiation]

The more you clean, the less cleaning you have to do, if that makes sense. My partner and I split or do chores together which lightens the load on either of us.

Don't allow your place to get too dirty then the work it needs to clean it up is 10 fold.

Also cleaning keeps you active kind of like a little workout lol

 

[Taxexemption]

I find people who have dishwashers to be of low moral fiber. If you are unable to wash your dishes by hand and rely on a mechanical washing apparatus to keep them clean then I feel you need to re-evaluate your priorities. Same with washing clothes, at least take them down to a river and scrub them on a washboard (a washboard I consider a sign of low moral character, but such are the base times we live in).

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You're welcome.

 

[BadBurger]

Every few months I we hire a local small business to send a few cleaners over to do a deep clean, yea.

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

No but I fucking well need one.

 

[T8SC]

Kinda ...

 

[Great Hair]

Is cleaner an euphemism for eFiW? I don´t like the idea of having strangers pay me a visit, clean up the place, while eating the fridge empty and poking around all in exchange of some pennies.

It´s good to have a bit of dust, especially if you are allergic. Don´t be lazy, move that fat arse of yours.

No matter your job, status quo, heritage, boob job, kill death ratio
... you are still going to wipe your arse yourself.

 

[poppabk]

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. You're welcome.

Yeah I saw your post and had to keep the joke going.

 

[fran.fernandez]

When I livid in Brazil / Chile and Taiwan we had maid who do the cleaning

In japan we have only some days a week. Kinda expensive here.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

My wife does most it

We split up chores. I walk the dog multiple times a day, cook, do the grocery shopping, etc

She cleans

It works out as I hate cleaning

 

[Winter John]

We got a cleaner for the bar but not for our home unfortunately. I'd like one but my wife is against it. My parents hired a cleaner once. They were both working full time and had long commutes so it made sense. Thing was they hired a dude. I saw him once, some middle aged guy. I was having breakfast when he walked into the living room and started cleaning. It was embarrassing as shit. I don't know why. I've worked with plenty of kitchen porters/dishwashers and never thought anything of it. It just seemed weird having this dude cleaning the room while I was watching TV.

 

[RoboFu]

Lol no .. when I was single my place was super clean all the time. It’s much much easier to keep everything clean and tidy by yourself. Then when you add kids to the mix it’s basically like living in a landfill most of the time..

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I can vacuum, wash the bathrooms, clean the kitchen all in less than an hour. Probably 30-40 minutes tops. Then again I'm one person and live neat and tidy to begin with.

Only time I've hired a cleaner is to clean one of my investment properties years ago before selling. Seemed reasonable at $150. Did an ok job, but next time I'll clean it myself.

The cleaners some reason dont clean the oven, or the vents near the ceilings (with a duster). Those are the biggest pain in the ass tasks to clean. Anyone can vacuum and clean kitchen and bathroom counters. And it looks like they dont clean the inside of kitchen cabinets and drawers. I had to wipe down and handi-vac those myself.

 

[nush]

Lol no .. when I was single my place was super clean all the time.

Yeah, the myth of the single guy living alone surrounded by empty pizza boxes and beer can in most cases is absolute bollocks. You know how much we are paying to live here? Better make sure that place is on fucking point at all times because you never know when there's a random opportunity to bring a lady home. Don't want to cockblock yourself with a smelly home, disgusting toilet and dirty sheets.

 

[nush]

The cleaners some reason dont clean the oven and vents near the ceilings (with a duster). Those are the biggest pain in the ass tasks to clean.

Because they get paid shit.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yeah, the myth of the single guy living alone surrounded by empty pizza boxes and beer can in most cases is absolute bollocks. You know how much we are paying to live here? Better make sure that place is on fucking point at all times because you never know when there's a random opportunity to bring a lady home. Don't want to cockblock yourself with a smelly home, disgusting toilet and dirty sheets.

100% correct. I also always make sure my place is stocked with cold drinks of all sorts for anyone that stops by too.

I love it when people I know come over to my place for the first time (doesn't matter if it was my old condo or the house I live in now). They think just because I like eating fast food for lunch at the food court, they think my place is a heap of trash with crud everywhere. They come in and they're like wow. You're place is really nice. Well no shit. Every place I live in I renovate it, it's neat by default and when you guys come over I clean it the morning of spending half an hour cleaning my place (including the bathroom they will use) so it's spic and span. Always 10x more neat than when I visit their homes.

And some think I'm the slobby burger combo eater? You guys invite me and others to come over for your dinner and I walk into a messy house, unorganized dinner preparations, no cold drinks in the fridge and the bathroom we are supposed to all use as guests has a toilet roll down to it's last 10 sheets. So I guess you want us to look around your bathroom cabinets for spare rolls of TP. You guys are fucking slobs.

 

[Batiman]

Nah I don’t like ppl in my place. The trick is to clean as you go. Little bit every day. Dust, Vacuum etc. Then again I don’t have a big place and part of the reason I don’t care for one. Too much work

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

No, and I disapprove of people hiring cleaners. You need to take care of the space you live in and thinking you are too good to clean your own house is inherently problemetic. It's a kind of pride that will ruin a person and causes them to be out of touch with their fellow man. Even among the wealthy I view employing cleaners as the result of lack of moral character.


People who hire cleaners lose perspective on what they consume and the messes they make. You are not too good to clean up after yourself, and if you think you are that is the kind of pride that will lead you to ruin.

Make a list of the tasks you need to do to keep your house reasonably clean, and then put them on a schedule.

There's lazy and paying someone shit wages/slavery to do all your shit and then there's taking some of the load off. I'd recommend you look into opportunity cost or mental health a little before making such statements. I own a company, work plenty, worked even more to get where we are and the misses works part time as well. We have kids/pets as well. We do our own dishes, shopping, clothes washing, major cleaning e.g. walls, floors etc still and more. We hire a cleaner to come for 2-3 hours every other week and sometimes on special occasions before we host things. The shite jobs such as oven cleaning, toilets, showers and the like are what we specifically hire them for so we can relax a week and do it ourselves every other week. The same person for 3 years now and they get paid quite well, between $75-$100 per visit.

For the time involved and the current life stage we're at it makes financial and time sense for us to have those small wins. It's not like the USA where slave level wages are paid to cleaners and the house owners do absolute zero. I also have a separate dwelling for my home office they clean, just like a corporate office a cleaner comes in. There's a bit more gray in people's lives than your reply oversimplifies mate.

I guess/suspect you don't have kids either or they don't have a lot of time commitments such as sport/out of school activities. There's a huge difference for each person/family and what their living standards are as well as what their schedule entails.

 

[Biff]

Yes - $100 every 2 weeks (Canada). We were doing well managing cleaning on our own until we got a shedding puppy. Ended up spending allocated cleaning time solely vacuuming which then meant either spend more time cleaning, lose the mess battle, or hire a cleaner.

We are fortunate to be able to afford a cleaner and tbh we are way happier now. If $100 gets me 4 extra hours of gaming time then I am happy to value that at $25/hr!

 

[StreetsofBeige]

We are fortunate to be able to afford a cleaner and tbh we are way happier now. If $100 gets me 4 extra hours of gaming time then I am happy to value that at $25/hr!

You hear a lot of people say "time is money". But they never actually equate it to anything. Empty words.

But this guy has it down to price per gaming hour. Genius.