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Topic: Good news!
Posted By: busymum
Subject: Good news!
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 10:02pm
After much hmming and ahhing I have finally decided to organise a once a week housekeeper! I found someone to willingly vacuum, mop, change sheets, and give the bathrooms/toilets (2 of each) a once-over, all for $16/hour.  
It sounds silly but I'm quite excited. I meet the lady this week (probably tomorrow morning) and will start her as soon as she's ready - especially since I've just had the roughest week ever (dizziness for a week, and now DH and Hannah have a vomitting bug)  Feels like a weight is lifting off - even though I don't do those jobs regularly or often (except for vacuuming the lounge), it's still a few things off my mental to-do list.-------------  |
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 06 March 2007 at 10:12pm
yay sounds just what you need too i do not no how you do it with 3 babys i only have one although sometimes its feels like 3 ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 6:18am
| ditto - i applaud you for even trying to keep your house straight with three under five!!! Hope the cleaner works out for you. |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 7:24am
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wow, i'm surprised you haven't got one before. i too applaud you! i sometimes find it hard enough keeping the house in some sort of order with only 1 child.
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:24am
| woohoo! so very jealous right now! When i start work, I'm getting a housekeeper - would love to get one now but the budget just won't stretch that far! |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 8:47am
I *made* it fit! 
Truely, we're not on a big income by any means - and it's on-call - but I figure it's worth every cent to take it from our family support. ------------- |
lizzle wrote:Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:16am
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I have a housekeeper too, feels very lazy and slovenly to admit it since I am a SAHM, but it is worth every last cent, and takes a lot of stress off me!! They are worth their weight in gold!! I pay her $30 a week, for about one and a half to two hours. ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:18am
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Yay Teresa! I am in love with my cleaner, you won't regret it! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:21am
| hmm, thats not too much is it really....(runs off to talk to hubby) |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 10:34am
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We've got a lady 2 hours for $30 too ------------- |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 12:11pm
Jeez, I just gave my housekeeper an advance on her wages...She turned up here in tears this morning (she usually comes wednesdays unless it is cool - like today- when she stays at home and does her ironing job) her power was going to get cut off unless she paid $300 straight away. Now, she's on a bene, and just dosen't have $300 lying around. The $300 was a final reading from her last place before she moved up here. She had been paying it off, albiet very slowly.. I had to put the $300 on my C.Card and tell her she will have to work for me for 10 weeks for "free"... lucky I trust her! Now, how to "hide" that from Rod  lol! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 3:02pm
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ooo that's a long time to have an advance for ------------- |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 3:17pm
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yeah, like I said, lucky I trust her... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 3:19pm
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I could have just kept paying her, and her pay me back in bits and bobs, but at least this way I know it will get paid and how much and when... Makes no sense to me to give her $ each week, and then her to turn around and give it back to me? ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 5:02pm
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i clean my sister's ex's house once a week and it pays for my wine ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 07 March 2007 at 5:07pm
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I couldnt live without mine - and we dont even have a baby yet!!! I often think that we are soooo lazy - but the reality is that as we both work from home at the moment, if we concentrate on the cleaning then we dont get any work done and dont get paid! (a bit like being on here!!!!) It really is so nice to have someone that you trust as well. We pay our young lady $15 per hour and she spends 2-3 hours a week, but she does anything that we need her to. today she cleaned the kitchen windows! She is at Uni and I like to think we are supporting her efforts in some small way! I had a nightmare last year - we went through 3 cleaners in 3 months...my standards arent THAT high, I think we just managed to find completely useless people!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Two Blondinis
Date Posted: 08 March 2007 at 8:40am
PERFECT! 
$30 a week isn't really that much at all is it? I'm finding it really hard to keep things "decent" what with working during the day, then demos in the evening and trying to spend quality time with Caitlin (the most important job in the world! )
I might have to have a chat to DH about a cleaner  ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 08 March 2007 at 11:02am
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It does seem kinda silly to have a cleaner when you're a SAHM - that's what I am - but I reckon my time is better used with just *some* housework and looking after the girls (and even resting a bit cause it's a big job!), rather than boring mundane loo-scrubing, shower wiping, and vacuuming. Betty-Ann starts next week, I'm really looking forward to it. And since I'll be here when she's here, I can always adjust the day's list of jobs if I want! ------------- |