In case you didn't know...I have a housekeeper...her name is Vanilla. She doesn't really do a good job in tending to 'home related things' such as cooking, cleaning, ironing, laundry or anything that's chore related.
I just found out today that I know more than 1 person/family that has a maid or 'hired help' to come tidy around their homes on a semi-regular basis. I have thought about it a bit in the past...hiring someone to come once every 2 weeks or so would be soooo good, but then I really start thinking...
Let's assume $15/hour is the going rate and assuming each time the hired help needs 3.5 hours to tidy up (my place is not the neatest of places, but then again I don't live in sty either), this would equate to $52.50 for services rendered. And having this hired help come every other week, it would cost $105 on a monthly basis.
This seems to be a pretty good alternative to have your place cleaned on a regular basis, but with $105 I could be spending this money in other worthwhile ways...for example, I sponsor a Hope Child through World Canada. This means all children through this sponsorship program have in one way or another been effected by AIDS (whether it be their friends, family, etc.). At $40/month, this provides the child with a better quality of life (food, education, health vaccinations, etc.). With this $105/month, I could sponser an additional 2 children.
Or I could donate this sum to an inner city elementary school on a monthly basis so that some kids that don't have lunches could enjoy a warm lunch on a more frequent basis.
I guess there's a ton of different organizations that would benefit from this donation so...no matter how many times I want to try to justify hiring help, I can't bring myself to do it. So with that being said...I gotta go dry my laundry now :(
~DISCLAIMER~ I am in no way judging or critizing those that do have the privilege of hiring help. I'm more than anything--envious--of your decision! This post was not written to offend!
2 comments:
That was a funny post Conster. Now i'm going to have differentiate your alter egos: Vanilla and Conster.
I must say, I like cleaning. If I were to live on my own, I would hire someone to cook though. ;)
I don't actually like the idea of having a maid come in every two weeks. I could see it being something you'd do somewhere between every 4 weeks and every 6 weeks, *maybe*, if it was inexpensive.
In some situations if you're realyl bsuy and this allows you to make more judicious use of your time, it's pretty handy - three hours of my time is pretty valuable to me! If I can pay someone to occasionally come in I think I might.
But it would have to be cheap!
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