Back in the day I lived with 4 roommates. One day one of the guys thought our place was so disgusting he paid for someone to come and clean the whole place. I told him that was a ridiculous waste of money. After the cleaning I thought it was probably the best money ever spent. Now I have my own place with my gf but make that call when things start to get out of hand. Don't knock it till you try it.
I don't even know if they offer that here, haven't checked.
have we learnt nothing from seinfeld and the maid?
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Nah, don't need one either. Maybe some day. And a cook. To make healthy foods.
We have a cleaning lady who comes for 4 hours every 2 weeks. Usually she does a bit of ironing as well.
It's the internet. You never know if people are either sarcastic or just bad.
If it's a maid that comes in once a week or two weeks it's actually not that expensive at all. Likely less than your cable/internet package :P now a daily maid that's there6 hours a day might be a different story.
You can get maid service for maybe 100 bucks a month give or take.
I hate cleaning and my place is looking like a dump most of the time. So I hired a male maid for 100 bucks a month. He's stopping by once a week.
Technically they are, but at least where I live in common usage the terms for a part-time cleaner/cleaning service are used interchangeably with maid/maid service, so for all practical purposes you can use either one and they will mean the same thing as its assumed that you mean someone who comes occasionally to clean your house and not having a live-in maid. The term live-in maid itself shouldn't technically exist then, since the original usage referred to the maids who lived in the residence of estate houses, so all maids would be live-in.
It also, anywhere I've lived, means someone who comes and cleans the house, possibly dishes (though we always did our own for the few months we had a cleaner come), but I've never known anyone who uses one for laundry service.
You can make the argument about going out to eat at a nice restaurant. That can easily approach the costs people have been listing for a monthly maid service, but you're still paying for something you can do yourself. The problem is its not always so simple. For someone with a large family, especially when both parents work, its not about whether or not they can clean but rather staying on top of a house with 5 kids is a lot of work and takes a fair bit of already limited family time and it might be a higher priority to spend that time doing something as a family than dusting. Also when your monthly household operating budget is in the thousands, very easy with a decent house and mortgage and a handful of kids, tacking on an extra $100 can seem negligible for the benefit it can provide.Originally Posted by Gamdwelf
Every household should have discretionary spending in their budget at the end of the day, and its not really your place to say what they can or can not spend that on. Many people have hobbies that are just as, if not more, expensive per month than having a maid service; why is it ok for someone to spend money on a frivolous activity but not on a cleaning service so they can simply have some time to relax? I want you to explain this to me, and also provide a list of what sorts of hobbies and services are and are not acceptable for spending a discretionary budget on.
Also you never answered my question from before, where you statedand I asked you what it was but you never gave the amount. Amount please.No I have a pretty good idea what too much is.
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