I wish it was more "socially acceptable" to hire cleaning people, because I would gladly give up a few weeks of beer money to have someone come and clean my apartment. Shit is hard on a full-time work schedule, and my neuroses don't make it any easier.
I think this just shows how much our current schedules assume the unpaid housekeeping labor of wives when they were set. It’s impossible for my partner and I to both work full time and keep our house in order.
Tho personally rather than hire a fleet of house cleaners I’d rather we just distribute the surplus value more efficient such that we needn’t work 40-60 hours a week and could actually take care of it ourselves
In the UK it is. I've lived in a few shared houses where because we're all working during the day and responsibilities in a shared house are a pain in the ass that cause conflict it is far easier to pay for a once per week cleaning service that comes in and runs over the house for an hour or 2 while everyone is at work.
There's no stigma around this, no issues, it's fairly normal particularly in shared situations. Cost us like £40/wk shared 4 ways which is pretty ok given other home costs also shared 4 ways make it affordable for people with even entry-tier office job wages. Our cleaners may have been earning more than I was at that time actually.
Anyway it's something I'm quite happy to pay for when sharing accommodation with others purely because it removes any conflict that would come over cleaning responsibilities and people who come up with petty shit to argue about. I don't want any person getting upset at another because someone didn't properly clean up after themselves resulting in someone else having to do it. It's really helpful in that regard.
I wish it was more "socially acceptable" to hire cleaning people, because I would gladly give up a few weeks of beer money to have someone come and clean my apartment. Shit is hard on a full-time work schedule, and my neuroses don't make it any easier.
I think this just shows how much our current schedules assume the unpaid housekeeping labor of wives when they were set. It’s impossible for my partner and I to both work full time and keep our house in order.
Tho personally rather than hire a fleet of house cleaners I’d rather we just distribute the surplus value more efficient such that we needn’t work 40-60 hours a week and could actually take care of it ourselves
In the UK it is. I've lived in a few shared houses where because we're all working during the day and responsibilities in a shared house are a pain in the ass that cause conflict it is far easier to pay for a once per week cleaning service that comes in and runs over the house for an hour or 2 while everyone is at work.
There's no stigma around this, no issues, it's fairly normal particularly in shared situations. Cost us like £40/wk shared 4 ways which is pretty ok given other home costs also shared 4 ways make it affordable for people with even entry-tier office job wages. Our cleaners may have been earning more than I was at that time actually.
Anyway it's something I'm quite happy to pay for when sharing accommodation with others purely because it removes any conflict that would come over cleaning responsibilities and people who come up with petty shit to argue about. I don't want any person getting upset at another because someone didn't properly clean up after themselves resulting in someone else having to do it. It's really helpful in that regard.