After contributing to another thread where I talked about housework I wondered if I would ever have a cleaner (funds permitting of course).

I somehow find the idea of employing somebody to clear up my mess distasteful. Why should anybody have to clear up somebody elses c**p. I would be the sort of person who would tidy up before the cleaner came.

Do you have a cleaner? Would you have one if you could?

My neighbour 2 doors away from me has a cleaner come to her house twice a month,this woman has no disabilties,she is just a lazy fat C*W.she does not work so I cannot understand why she needs to employ a cleaner she has a husband who works & a 7 yrs old son.I am disabled & I help my wife the best I can,having laminate floors helps & a carpet in the centre of the living room I sit in my wheelchair & hoover,I dry the pots & pans,I peel spuds & so on.I also help decorate ,I can paint upto the middle of the walls & my wife does the above.If you are healthy you do not need a cleaner unless you work horrendous hours & do not have much time.So get those cleaning tools out & have a go you might enjoy it LOL

The only thing that would put me off hiring a cleaner is finding someone who is trustworthy. I don't really like the idea of someone who you don't really know having the house to themselves, supposedly cleaning. I'd be worried that they were stealing things, being nosey, or sitting watching TV. It's an option for the future though since my g/f is not very clean and tidy, and I like cleanliness and tidiness but not necessarily the work involved to get to that state.

I would have a cleaner if I could convince the other half that they wouldn't steal anything.

Call it laziness if you like, but I call it having better things to do with my time and being willing to part with a small amount of cash more readily than I want to part with a small amount of my time.

That's all it comes down too, do I value the 30 mins a day cleaning more or less than I value £20 a week for a cleaner to come in?

i have a cleaner.......she's 13 and never stops moaning about helping around the house.....but i pay her 15 quid aweek when i was her age my mum used to give me 10p a day......so i think she should be grateful and get on with it

I cant imagine getting a cleaner because I am such a saddo and confess to enjoying cleaning and tidying ( just ask my ex-partners, they got a really good deal when they went out with me). I even contemplated setting up in business if I ever left my current employement. After working with numbers all day and having brain ache at the end of it, I do sometimes re-visit the idea of manual work.

Dont you think its a great feeling when you stand back and everything gleems and is spik and span (except bathrooms, dont much like doing them). :)

Originally posted by kirky
i have a cleaner.......she's 13 and never stops moaning about helping around the house.....but i pay her 15 quid aweek when i was her age my mum used to give me 10p a day......so i think she should be grateful and get on with it Give me the job I am handy with a cloth & hoover & I'll only ask £10 per week LOL

I have my own personal cleaner.
She cleans for me day in and day out and i never have to lift a finger.
House dust makes me sneeze and I hate house work anyway.

I get the cleaning done free which is even better.

God bless the wife.
:D

Originally posted by Cycleracer
I have my own personal cleaner.
She cleans for me day in and day out and i never have to lift a finger.
House dust makes me sneeze and I hate house work anyway.

I get the cleaning done free which is even better.

God bless the wife.
:D Buy her a big bunch of Flowers mate

Originally posted by Cycleracer
II hate house work anyway.

God bless the wife.
:D

As she loves it I suppose :wink:

I would have a cleaner and it isn't through idleness.

I have 2 jobs , 2 children and I am at university. So I would appreciate help with ironing and things like that.

I'd say having a cleaner isn't down to be idle. It may be a little, but it's like Cyclone said, if you value your time and could put it to better use then why not.

Also why not pay someone who may only have experience in cleaning and/or enjoys the work to do it. It's keeping them employed too.

We personally don't have a cleaner... but I wouldn't be against the idea.

Originally posted by tosh13
Give me the job I am handy with a cloth & hoover & I'll only ask £10 per week LOL

sorry mate i aint been taken to an unfair dismisal hearing:(

I was brought up with maids, cleaners and gardeners.
I found that having all this help actually made me lazy in later years.
My children were looked after by the nanny and the food was cooked by the maid, The garden mown and looked after by the gardener.

A great life but looking back! the money I would have saved not having any domestic help would have helped me to retire 10 years ealier than I am going to.

As far as having a cleaner now!......I don't think so!. after eating I wash my pots etc, If i open something I throw the packaging away and if I make a mess I clean it up there and then......No need for anyone else to do it for me.

I'd never hire a cleaner, not even if I owned the biggest house in the country and had as much money as Soft Mick! I think it's bone idleness! If I drop it, I pick it up, I open it then I close it and if I sleep in it I make it. How can you expect a normal person, just like you and me, to come in and do your dirty work? No chance!! Get off your back side and do it yourself!

I've never employed a cleaner, but I know a couple of people who have been paid cleaners. I don't see anything wrong with providing money for people who need it in exchange for dusting and hoovering etc.

Personally I don't have the need for a paid cleaner... I can get it done for free! ;)

Originally posted by bonny
I would have a cleaner and it isn't through idleness.

I have 2 jobs , 2 children and I am at university. So I would appreciate help with ironing and things like that. Hi Bonny you deserve a cleaner & a medal well done for having the guts to go & do what you want,hope you pass everything you are doing!

Originally posted by kirky
sorry mate i aint been taken to an unfair dismisal hearing:( Well at least I tried. LOL

I have two (blush!). One does the cleaning, the other does the ironing.

Originally posted by Chloe
I'd never hire a cleaner, not even if I owned the biggest house in the country and had as much money as Soft Mick! I think it's bone idleness! If I drop it, I pick it up, I open it then I close it and if I sleep in it I make it. How can you expect a normal person, just like you and me, to come in and do your dirty work? No chance!! Get off your back side and do it yourself!

Go on Chloe.. Tell em what you really think :clap:

You have a point though, you made your own mess, you clean it! :gag: (thats what my mum always says)

The same way that someone at a company hired me and expects me to come in and do work, because it's what you get paid for!

It's not bone idleness if you have better things to do with your time. There are many things i'd rather be doing with my time than cleaning my house or washing my dishes. Even if sometimes that better thing happens to be having a nap. It's just about the utility of time versus the utility of money, and that's a personal balance everyone needs to decide for themselves which will vary depending on how much of each they have spare.

Originally posted by Chloe
I'd never hire a cleaner, not even if I owned the biggest house in the country and had as much money as Soft Mick! I think it's bone idleness! If I drop it, I pick it up, I open it then I close it and if I sleep in it I make it. How can you expect a normal person, just like you and me, to come in and do your dirty work? No chance!! Get off your back side and do it yourself!

I don't think she does have a point. To your mum I would say, I've made my own money, so i'll use that to clean my own mess. Everyones a winner.

Originally posted by Deejay
Go on Chloe.. Tell em what you really think :clap:

You have a point though, you made your own mess, you clean it! :gag: (thats what my mum always says)

We have one, once a week on a Friday. We both work full time and have Teenage kids.

Its worth every penny when you come home from a long week at work on a friday and the house is all clean.

We do all tidy up our stuff, the night before. The cleaner mainly cleans (kitchen,bathroom, hoovers, dusts etc etc)

yes

I have 2 cleaningladies sent by an agency, for one and a half hrs (3 hrs cleaning) they are a godsend and I wish I had had them sooner when I worked, enabling me to spend my time as I wanted too, not cleaning the house at the wkend.

hazel

Originally posted by mikey
We have one, once a week on a Friday. We both work full time and have Teenage kids.

Its worth every penny when you come home from a long week at work on a friday and the house is all clean.

We do all tidy up our stuff, the night before. The cleaner mainly cleans (kitchen,bathroom, hoovers, dusts etc etc)

That's pretty much the situation at our house - we have a cleaner for 2 hours on a Friday. I also do 2 hours every Wednesday for my Gran (she pays me though :D).

To be honest I am highly suspiciou about the cleaner at our house, she's not very thorough and I always feel like I could have done a far better job and would have asked for less money. Problem is, I live in a house full of untidy people who aren't bothered if the house is a bit mucky, whereas I am!

Isn't employing a cleaner, or ANY staff for that matter just a way of spreading wealth around and giving you time to do other things? For the cleaner, it's a job, for you it's a chore.

I think there are a few on here who feel a bit guilty having others clean up after them - but I don't think that cleaners see it that way.

Personally I'm looking forward to having cleaner a housekeeper, a gardener, a chauffeur, a PA, and somebody to pick up those tiny paper circles that always seem to fall out of my hole punch. :clap:

How much are you lot paying cleaners by the way?

Hi
I first of all had a lady from across the rd who wanted a little cleaning job. I paid £10 for 2 hrs cleaning per wk. when she got herself another job, not being very satisfied with her work, (my neighbour said she went home after half an hour)
I decided I would get an agency in. I am delighted with them they clean from top to bottom once a mth for £29 with 10% off for OAPs.
They always ask what extra job I need doing, windows, skirting boards, etc, and do one extra in the time
They also do cleaning up before and after parties, or a full one off house clean.
I can recommend them

hazel

Originally posted by Mo
After contributing to another thread where I talked about housework I wondered if I would ever have a cleaner (funds permitting of course).

I somehow find the idea of employing somebody to clear up my mess distasteful. Why should anybody have to clear up somebody elses c**p. I would be the sort of person who would tidy up before the cleaner came.

Do you have a cleaner? Would you have one if you could?


I have lived alone for thirty two years and I clean up everyday of my life. EVERY CHRISTMAS DAY:clap: :clap: :clap: