POLL: Do you have a cleaner?

8 years ago

last modified: 8 years ago

A luxury for many, having a cleaner is something a lot of us dream of! However for city folk and residents in urban areas, having a cleaner is becoming increasingly common.

But do you have a cleaner and would you like one? Or do you prefer to do the work yourself? Vote in our poll and decide!

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Yes!

No - I prefer to do it myself

No - but I'd love one!

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Sophie Spence

8 years ago

i love to clean - most people think i'm crazy but i think it is kind of satisfying...

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User
8 years ago
I have 3 wild children, 1 clumsy husband, and a dog that sheds hair like it's going out of fashion. Without my cleaner, I would be a very grumpy and very lost soul!
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Aisling O'Callaghan
8 years ago
I'm with Soph, I love cleaning. It keeps me calm. (and apparently gives the same benefits as an hour in the gym.. I like to believe that anyway) ;-)
keen bean
8 years ago
Yep - cleaning is good for you. Defo do it myself (and have hubby & 2 kids to look after too). Wouldn't be satisfied that a cleaner had done it properly and I would be running a finger along surfaces to check!

It's so rewarding too. A beeeyooootifully, squeaky clean house does wonders for the mood.
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Stella Michael
8 years ago
I do both, have a bit of help and do some myself. After many years living in shared houses, unless people were clean and organised (rarely) I'd insist on a cleaner. Since getting my own home I still like having the basics done by my wonderful cleaner ... just 2 hours a week but I regularly plan to be home when she comes and we tackle bigger and more awkward jobs together or just work together in the house which makes it more enjoyable. I often schedule a house job I don't want to do for the time she is here so it makes it easier to stick to my resolve and get it done in that time.

When I want to clean curtains, or move the furniture to have a clean behind things now and then or if I want to do some boring job like clear out a cupboard or re-organise the kitchen, it helps to have the help and company, especially of another woman. I remember growing up we would go and do these things with my mum's sisters and my cousins and vica versa, it made it easy and fun. We would take down all the venetian blinds (no mean feat) and hang them on the clothes hoist, soap them up, hose them down and let them dry ... quite fun on a hot summer day and very effective. I don't have sisters or children so this is a great alternative. I also like my cleaner, she has become closer to a friend over the two years she has been working for me and is very kind and generous. Of course I trust her too as she has the keys to my home.
Laraine Clarke
8 years ago
It is lovely to come home on a Friday evening to a sparkling clean home. I recommended my working daughter to get a cleaning lady the minute she could afford to. I'm retired now and do my own cleaning, but as soon as I get to an age that I'm struggling, I will be on the lookout again. Money well spent in pursuit of a quality life in my opinion.
soozmacrae
8 years ago
I used to clean for a very busy couple and three children. She is a friend of mine and as I was a full time homemaker I had the time. I remembered when I worked full time with my husband and boys it was hard. I knew that she appreciated, so much, coming into a lovely clean and tidy home on a Monday and Friday.
June Hulton
8 years ago
Cleaning.. Is one of the best medicines in the mind... A tidy place make a tidy mind.. If there's a place for everything it makes cleaning and tiding so much easier and saves time all round. If you clean as you go then there shouldn't need to hours upon end spent cleaning... Life can be too short. So therefore go out or do what you do... And don't become a slave to your home.. Just enjoy it.. (I must admit I do love cleaning )
Kim Lawson
8 years ago
I am from South Africa and it's common place to have domestic help. many people have one full time mine comes in 3 days a week and then afternoons on the other days as well. I think I would die without help
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Seasons in Colour
8 years ago
I love keeping my house clean BUT there's so little time and I'd rather have my weekends free. After using my
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Seasons in Colour
8 years ago
Cleaner for almost a year I have today decided to give her keys so she won't have to come when we're home too (Saturday mornings currently). A great help!
User
8 years ago
We have one, last year I was studying and working full time and hubby I'll with depression plus cats. in. way I cheat as a neighbours kid that does it so don't pay full cleaner rate. she does the weekly chores then I top it up
User
8 years ago
Not now, but did have a weekly one when I had 3jobs, working 6 1/2 days per week.
User
8 years ago
Please press like if you can see this comment, my comments have been invisible today.
Najeebah
8 years ago
lol. both those were visible
User
8 years ago
Ok, I suspect someone bad followed me to my usual haunts and reported me today. This is not a usual one, or else Houzz cleared me. Thanks folks, much appreciate the likes.
margiepaniee
8 years ago
I share the care of my 92 yr old mother with my sister (who is 70 herself). I still go
Out to work albeit part time and I have my own grandchildren.yother has no other carers except "her girls" and we do everything in the house & garden. So, yes, I do have a cleaner for my own 4 storey Victorian townhouse as I figure if mum won't have paid help them I have to. My cleaner is an angel but her life is made easier as it's now
Only
My husband and I rattling around at home and do don't make much mess anyway.
milfordmaid
8 years ago
Yes - we have a house-fairy. Can be a temperental + unpredictable. House-keeping can be a bit trína cheile but I think she does a wonderful job!!
User
8 years ago
It forces the family to pick things up for her visit.
Average Jo
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Yes, but it's a legacy arrangement from when I really needed the help... now there's just two of us and I'm downsizing so it may be an opportune time to pick up the mop myself :-)
Catherine Hounslow
8 years ago
I don't need a cleaner as I'm retired and live in an average sized house . It is a way of keeping fit and save's money on the gym. Some working full time would find it a practical help and it also make's employment for someone else!
seniordiva
8 years ago
I am also retired but my severe arthritis means I am unable to keep the house as clean as I would like and to do so would take up all my time and energy. I am therefore about to engage a "dust fairy"..........I think after all these years "I am worth it".
User
8 years ago
Yes you are, and I'm sorry about your Arthritis.
honeypoppet
8 years ago
@emmajgrands...hope u r husbands better now...we have cleaners....our house is about 4500 SQ ft so I'm not sure what we'd do without!
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Mirrorworks, The Antique Mirror Glass Company
8 years ago
I wish I did have a cleaner. I run my own business with my hubby & have 2 kids so things are always busy! But just can't justify the spend at the mo...one day!
User
7 years ago
Yes, it's something that I consider a splurge, but well worth the cost.

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