Clean my house, please!
May 22nd, 2007 by PG Chic
Who has time to clean the house? People have full-time jobs, kids, community activities, not to mention a life. Well, if I told my mother I wanted to get a cleaning lady, she would tell me to pay her and she’ll come over. I think today’s woman has a lot of responsibilities as it is and trying to be superwoman is old news. All I’m saying is, “I’m not your superwoman!”
Here are a few cleaning businesses in the area that I am considering —
The Cleaning Authority
Merry Maids
Molly Maid
However, I have also heard that the best resource, instead of a team of cleaners, is to find one good cleaning person and share her (or him…hey, you never know) with neighbor(s) or friend(s).
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May 24th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
You are so right, we are not superwoman. We have been sold a lie in this country that we can have it all and be that superwoman. I have thought about getting a cleaning lady for awhile now and the same guilt trip keeps coming to my mind. I keep thinking my Mom and the older generation will perceive me as being a lazy women who can’t keep house. But the fact is, I just don’t want to spend the little bit of free time I do have cleaning a house. I just need to admit that I need help with the housework and it is okay to ask for help. As soon as it fits in my budget I am going to hire a cleaning service to at least come once a month. I’ll let you know how it goes.
May 26th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I started when I had a home daycare business. According to licensing, I could take one more child and the income from that child would pay for a housekeeper. I just couldn’t get to the bathrooms, upstairs cleaning and changing the linens while I was taking care of other people’s kids almost 12 hrs. per day Mon.-Fri. & then I had my own kids.
I found an ad in the Pennysaver or somewhere like that for a self-employed individual (I think they have more insentive to be good & reliable). She worked great and when I moved from Clinton to Brandywine, she made an attempt to help me at the further location with the bigger house, but it was too much. I asked around and found my next door neighbor was doing it, though she didn’t have an opening at first, I got on her list and she’s great! Obsessive compulsive cleaner.
I’m sooo spoiled!
May 27th, 2007 at 1:23 am
I wish I could be spoiled in that way! I guess I need to make that happen…