Re: Cleaning etc

[Guest guest]

, I was impressed to read last week that you were allowed 10 hrs/week

of cleaning help. I mentioned this in envy to a (rich, single,

high-powered, very overworked) friend who looked alarmed and said " Is that a

lot then? That's what I have - no I have 9 hours, that's right - I thought

that was the normal amount? "

I thought a bit and said that most of the people I knew with cleaners had a

half-day a week and did the rest themselves - but then realised that 's

cleaner, in 9 hours a week, leaves her employer with NOTHING to do in the

housework line AT ALL! Oh bliss, oh joy, oh poop poop.

Still, I wouldn't have her job if they paid me as much as they pay her - and

if I did I certainly wouldn't have Toddler Tim!

Anneliese and the terror.

Lily pollen

> P.S. am I a complete whimp because I daren't even look at this

houseworky

>website? the thought of emails telling what I need to do round the

house

>fills me with horror, I have enough emails from NCT people with things

I

>should have done days ago with out any more 'to do's ' arriving round

the

>clock!

>Liz Goudie (untidy wimpy scaredy cat of Edinburgh)

I'm with you there Liz, just speed reading about 10 + digests of coffee

while DH is swimming with 1-3 and 4 sleeping, I simply haven't time to

read anymore emails, never mind act on the content. anyway I though

sinks were where you stored your pans.

Curran

Mum to 4 lovely boys.

[Guest guest]

I sometimes reflect ruefully to DH that at my age (21) my mother had a

cleaner (but always worked alongside her) two mornings a week - an

ironer/mender/babysitter, a gardener ...no 4 yr olds and all children

away in termtimes, no ME etc, ....but a punishing social life....the

advantages of having kids early in life!! (I usually do most of the

house work apart from the evening washing up, bins & locking up (DH)

and the gardening - but did manage to get DH to rake up some leaves

yesterday before he disappeared into the greedy mawls of orchestra

rehearsals..

Caro

> I thought a bit and said that most of the people I knew with

cleaners had a

> half-day a week and did the rest themselves - but then realised that

's

> cleaner, in 9 hours a week, leaves her employer with NOTHING to do

in the

> housework line AT ALL

But what about the ongoing daily tidal waves of mess created by our

beloved children? She'd have to be a daily to cover that......