Home help/Housekeeping

hmmm. home help that would be GREAT! i know how you feel, i have a 4 year old, 2.5 year old and 2 month old! i am very fussy hate a messy house! so for the early days when i just had kayla i was frantically cleaning and keeping all the chores up-to-date, and i got exhausted. but im not one to ask for help, i like it to be offered, feel bad if i ask anyone. i enjoy vacuuming and the odd other job, but i reckon it would be a great help for someone to do washing and cleaning bathroom and toilet etc... something time consuming. i find it hard to get out of the house to hang washing on the line with the kids, screaming etc... so that would be a big one for me.

oh I would so get someone to come in to do the big clean each week like the bathroom etc. Have you looked into weather you can get subsidy's I knoe if you have a certain number of children under a certain age not sure what that is tho.

When I have number 3 depending on when that is I am so getting help with the big stuff.

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I have a cleaner who comes once a week for 2 hours and it costs me $60. They supply all the cleaning products and she does everything - kitchen, toilets, bathroom, vacuum ,dust, mop etc. I got them thru an agency about a year or so ago.

I am also getting home help now subsidised because of having twins. To qualify for the subsidy ($11 per hour) you have to have twins and another under 5 yo, or triplets or more, or have a "domestic emergency" which I guess means just not coping? Not sure how they define that.

The nanny I have is costing $16 an hour so I have to pay the extra $5 per hour. She is going to come 18 hours a week - 3 mornings and then all day Thurs so I can spend time with Maya one-on-one. I organised her thru Homegrown Kids (www.homegrownkids.co.nz) who are like a nanny support agency. My nanny helps out with the kids, does light housework like folds washing, vacuums etc and does meal prep and stuff like that.

I wish they did that here in Auckland Becca !

what about student job seacrch? it may be good if you plan to stay home during that time and supervise kinda. i wouldn't leave the home with them there, well at lest not for a while, but some students are only looking for a couple of hours work a week and work for pittance.

From all the young students out there @ you Liz.

I know what you mean Nikki! My DH has been full-time student for 3 years since we married then his next job was only slightly over minimum wage.... and it felt like gold. Very sad!