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I pay someone to clean once a month. I hate cleaning and it's worth the $200 to me.
I keep my sink clear of dishes and take out my own trash, but the rest is just stuff I don't want to do.
I take a day off work occasionally to clean my apartment. It can be hard to remain motivated doing it on my own time during the weekend, but if it's Monday during work hours it's not so bad!
What do they do? I've been thinking of getting a cleaning person but I just wonder how much they can do if they come once a week or every other week.
Like, I don't think I have cleaned the windows in the 3.5 years I've lived in my previous apartment. And I absolutely do not want to waste money on someone cleaning windows more than once a year. I have to clean the kitchen every day at least once because I cook a lot and it's a dirty mess and otherwise there is just no room to cook. I need the dishes, so the dishwasher is running once a day. I also have to at least sweep the kitchen floor once a day. The apartment floor is constantly dirty so I sweep here and there all the time too. It's not very tidy in here, but we have a toddler and even if everything was super tidy it would stay that way for 15 mins max. Also it would take me longer to explain where stuff goes (we do have a lot of stuff) than to put it away myself or just surrender to untidiness. I don't care if some vase or decoration has dust. I have a lot of laundry and no dryer so I cannot wait for a cleaner to come and do my laundry every other week.
So the only thing that is left that I can outsource is maybe the bathroom. But it then seems ridiculous to have a cleaning person come in to just clean the bathroom. (This is actually the room I enjoy cleaning the most, but I rarely get around to doing it.)
https://wecandoit.coop/services/
The cleaning person seems to take as long as it takes. The first time someone from there came, she was here for like 8 hours. Now that they come monthly it doesn't need as much work.
I used to use another service but they weren't great. More expensive, less cleaning, missed appointments, gig work nonsense.
Most formal cleaning companies will do a deep cleaning to form a clean baseline, or let you add on extras per session to address when you need. Usually it's hourly based with a minimum time requirement. If you don't need them to do something, it might work out to be cheaper if doing it would have put you over the minimum time.
If you find a self employed cleaning person, they are more likely to be more flexible and able to handle the odd tasks like tidying up or handling laundry. Maybe even help organize or do other routine tasks that you don't have the bandwidth for.
Preach. Also
Me eating ass: “don’t put clean dishes on the cat feeding counter, it gets bits on it!”