Do you have a maid/cleaner?

[Leros]

No, but I want to get one. I keep my house relatively clean and picked up, but I need someone to come in and do a more thorough cleaning every now and them.

 

[wiredspider]

How did you get someone to do that job for basically nothing?

Sounds like a kid's allowance?

 

[Engineer]

Mine's lazy, I might need to upgrade to a newer model.

If your wife is old enough, you can get two at half her age and still get them much cheaper than her. :hmm:

Disclaimer: This is just satire in case Mrs. Engineer is reading the ATOT forums. :biggrin:

Oh, and no, I don't have a maid. Hell, I can't get my kids to pick up their crap and there is no way that I'm paying someone else to do it.

 

[Nebor]

I used to, but after I returned from my last tour in Afghanistan I've had a hard time finding anyone. I've scheduled several appointments with different people, but then they don't show up. So I have to clean myself, which is laborious since I'm alone in a 3,000 sq ft house with a tan\white dog that sheds on all my black furniture. It's also all hardwood floors, so mopping the place takes hours. I have a Roomba and a Scooba to help me out though. I basically spend all day every Saturday cleaning the house. Before, I could just pay someone $75 a week to come clean while I wasn't at home. Sigh.

 

[Kaido]

I don't understand how anyone can not have one.

Depends on your situation, I guess. I personally don't like having people come into my home. I would also feel super lazy when it's something I could easily do myself if I could just lift a finger. And like Mixolydian said, I'd rather have a personal chef :awe:

I can see it in some situations. My friends have a bunch of kids and they both work a lot, so having a cleaner come in every week is hugely beneficial to them, and it provides people with jobs, which is always a good thing.

 

[Black Octagon]

We have one. She does comes once a week for 3 hours at a time. In that time she does the dishes, cleans everything else, and irons the essentials for the week including my work shirts.

We live in an 80 square metre flat in central Brussels and it costs EUR7.50/hr as a standardized government rate. That includes the maid's injury insurance and about 25% of the rate is tax deductible at the end of the financial year

In short, it costs peanuts for us as a working couple and means we can enjoy our weekends in a spotless house instead of cleaning ourselves.

I will cry very far the day I ever move to a place where maids are expensive. If we had the space and money I would totally consider a live-in servant

 

[Leros]

I've looked around at a few services, they all seem to quote the same prices. A cleaning would be about $100 a visit. None of them offer monthly visits visits. You have to get at least twice a month service, otherwise they charge you a much higher "one time visit" cost.

Does that seem normal? I have a 4 bedroom 2.5 bath house. Approximately 2000 sqft.

 

[tokie]

We have one. She does comes once a week for 3 hours at a time. In that time she does the dishes, cleans everything else, and irons the essentials for the week including my work shirts.

We live in an 80 square metre flat in central Brussels and it costs EUR7.50/hr as a standardized government rate. That includes the maid's injury insurance and about 25% of the rate is tax deductible at the end of the financial year

In short, it costs peanuts for us as a working couple and means we can enjoy our weekends in a spotless house instead of cleaning ourselves.

I will cry very far the day I ever move to a place where maids are expensive. If we had the space and money I would totally consider a live-in servant

For the live-in servants: these people are basically like nannies right? I mean, they cook, clean and take care of kids.

If you give them housing you only need to get them an extra income of like $1000/month right?

 

[MonKENy]

We have one that comes every other week.

Not sure what she is paid (My dad pays her I get the benefit YAY)

She mops, vacuums, Dusts, does his laundry, cleans the bathrooms, cleans all the appliances, sometimes does the windows. (we dont require the windows) Works about 3-5hrs.

I dont pay for it So I clean my own room and dont have her do any of my stuff. Although she has said If I leave my door open She will vacuum my room for me. I only have done it once or twice. I dont think its right.

I would pay the 60-100 if I had the extra money and had my own place.

What I wouldnt pay is for a full time gardener. I like mowing my own lawn and doing basic gardening. We have one though so oh well.

 

[Puppies04]

~1000 sq ft per person is my rule if thumb

I'll take 500 sq ft of european still be there in 200 years house over 1000 sq ft of fall over as soon as a strong wind comes in American house any day of the week

 

[Slew Foot]

4000sqft house, maid cleans it for $200/month

 

[Mixolydian]

We have one that comes every other week.

Not sure what she is paid (My dad pays her I get the benefit YAY)

She mops, vacuums, Dusts, does his laundry, cleans the bathrooms, cleans all the appliances, sometimes does the windows. (we dont require the windows) Works about 3-5hrs.

I dont pay for it So I clean my own room and dont have her do any of my stuff. Although she has said If I leave my door open She will vacuum my room for me. I only have done it once or twice. I dont think its right.

I would pay the 60-100 if I had the extra money and had my own place.

What I wouldnt pay is for a full time gardener. I like mowing my own lawn and doing basic gardening. We have one though so oh well.

Might as well take advantage of it as long as you live with your parent(s).

 

[Kaido]

For the live-in servants: these people are basically like nannies right? I mean, they cook, clean and take care of kids.

If you give them housing you only need to get them an extra income of like $1000/month right?

My wife was a live-in nanny when I met her, the rate at the time ~10 years ago was $320/week. That included cooking/shopping, cleaning, and kids. Although she said she recommends having someone else do the cleaning and stuff so that the nanny can focus full-time on the kids. She worked for another family after that for a couple years where they had an offsite maid come in and she said she got to spend a lot more time with the kids because she wasn't trying to do 10 million things at once.

It was a pretty cool service because it was all domestic, so the families got someone from a different state usually, but still within the US, and the nannies got to travel to someplace new, live rent-free, and get a paycheck. Pretty neat way to travel, and you can do it internationally too if you want to see the world.

 

[skyking]

No. We talk about getting help when I get done with the last of the remodel.

 

[SpunkyJones]

We have someone come every two weeks, about $100 per visit, well worth the cost.

 

[MonKENy]

Might as well take advantage of it as long as you live with your parent(s).

yep thats basically how it is. Its a perk I have to admit has made me a bit spoiled.

 

[nageov3t]

I used to, but I wasn't really happy with the job she did... I haven't gotten around to getting a new one, and it hasn't been so bad.

I try to do a little cleaning every day, and Saturday morning just block out an hour or so to scrub the bathtub and mop the bathroom/kitchen floors.

 

[Meractik]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1gfRVZXd74

 

[Midwayman]

I could spend my whole weekend annoyed by cleaning or spend $60. I spend $60.

 

[BurnItDwn]

My fiance isn't working currently, so, she has been keeping the house clean and doing laundry and such in her spare time.

 

[jayzds]

Hell no...there is not many people who could clean better than my wife. She likes cleaning, baking and cooking :-O So I am lucky in that way.

I am spoiled that she enjoys it because I don't care for it but, would do my own cleaning either way because I would not like people I do not know cleaning in my house.

 

[ImpulsE69]

No but damn I need one.

 

[highland145]

Hell no. I'm too cheap.

And the bark collar + remote does wonders for the kid's motivation.

 

[Mixolydian]

And the bark collar + remote does wonders for the kid's motivation.

A kick in the ass does too. :whiste:

 

[highland145]

A kick in the ass does too. :whiste:

Yeah but then I'd have to get off my lazy ass to do it. And the initial surprise look is priceless. Kind of like the one I get when he walks in front of the truck and I blow the horn.