Do you clean your own house? - Page 6

Lucky Charm · ‎03-09-2010

Yes. I clean our home and 3 other properties we rent out. They are for the most part weekly, bi- weekly or monthly beach rentals. Our 3rd property is hundreds of miles away, but it's seasonal. We go in and do a spring cleaning and prep it for the summer. Go afterwards and do a fall cleaning.

I choose to do it myself (okay dh helps) as I've seen the other cleaning services at our neighbors' homes come in and take less than a half hour to clean. That's just disgusting.

So we have a 4 hour window to go in and clean each home on Thursdays, Fridays or Saturdays. Sound glamorous? LOL

I have no desire to ever let anyone come in and clean our home. I don't think anyone could work for me, I'm too picky, fussy, and neat.

wilma · ‎03-13-2010

My DH and I do the cleaning ourselves.

RASHIKE · ‎04-05-2010

Nah, the house fairy does ours!

Boehm Collector · ‎03-09-2010

On 6/7/2014 Sharke said:
On 6/6/2014 Carmie said: I always have cleaned my own house and would never allow anyone to do the cleaning for me. I am very private and do not want anyone going through my stuff. Cleaning people know more about you than your own family. Just saying.....

That's true. I'm not comfortable with another person in the house and I would have to hide valubles everytime I knew they were coming. Just do it yourself , then, U don't have that to worry about. When times comes I can't I'll go to assisted living and would had sold off my pretties by then.

I have always kept my valuables and important documents (including bank accounts; etc) in either our large safe in the basement or a large, locked walk-in closet..... so I do not have to worry. In addition, I would never hire a cleaning service because you never know who will be working in your house. The only two housekeepers I have ever hired work/worked alone and came very highly recommended by family and friends. I had to make sure that I had an honest, reliable person in my home. The first housekeeper I had worked for my family (she started working for my Mom when Mom was no longer abler to do the housecleaning herself) for about 16 years. Unfortunately, I ended up firing her. I knew that I could leave her in my home without having to worry... in all the years she worked for us she never stole anything and only broke something once and offered to pay to replace it (which I refused to let her do). But she was no longer doing a good job cleaning my house. Whenever I would say anything to her she would tell me I was "too picky". I put up with it for a long time because I knew she and her family were having financial problems and I did not want to hurt her. We were good to her: We gave her a raise when we found out about her problems. We GAVE her (gave not sold in spite of the fact that I could have gotten several thousand dollars for it) my Mom's car after Mom passed away because her car was on its last legs and she could not even afford to purchase a used car. And to thank us she stabbed me in the back on the one occasion when I really needed her. I had told her that I desperately needed her on a particular day. On the day I needed her she called me 10 minutes before she was scheduled to arrive to inform me she was not coming. Didn't even apologize or ask how I was going to manage without her.... she knew that without her help I was going to have a HUGE problem on my hands. It turns out she knew from the moment I had told her I needed her that she had no intention of showing up. When I confronted her about the lie she had given me for not being able to come she just kept feeding me one lie after another. With each lie I caught her in she would just give me another (none of which were even remotely credible).... then ignored all the text messages I sent after our confrontation. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. If she had been truthful; if she had apologized; I would have dropped the entire issue. Now I have another housekeeper who, not only is honest and a hard worker, but is doing a much better job cleaning my house. She does as good as, if not, better job than I would do myself.

annespan · ‎02-11-2012

Hi Summertime3215, you may want to check out this company to organize a task-specific housecleaning. https://sweeps.jobs/

I have been considering this myself as there are just particular chores I could use some extra help with -- cleaning floors and baseboards and windows whereas I do not need any help with more routine chores such as laundry, dusting and such. ${#emotions_dlg.biggrin}$ Two friends of mine used sweeps team for yard clean-outs and praised them to the hilt!

Abby Grace · ‎06-12-2011

I currently clean my own home, and work full time. It's not as clean as it used to be, as I now make time for exercise, relaxation, stress reduction, and fun. In the past, I was able to clean the entire house weekly. Today, some rooms are cleaned weekly, others twice monthly, and other rooms monthly.

I've been on a decluttering mission the last two years, and have found it easier to maintain the weekly cleaning. I'm also not sure how long I will be able to clean my own home, and will hire help when the time comes.

Annabellethecat66 · ‎03-12-2010

As soon as I see anything about 'privacy' I find myself (sometimes saying out loud), "Yes, yes. That's me!"

I have so many personal and business papers in boxes and boxes (right now the boxes fill the dining room table).

I need to have someone come into my house, organize it and get rid of more than 1/2 of the stuff in it. (There are many widows just like me).

I even joined Angie's List and was like, "OK now I'll find someone". Then I read where someone hired a company and jewelry was stolen.

Angie commented that the person was punished by the law, but my response is, "So what!"

So, I'm leary about trusting anyone to come in here, look at my papers.

Deanie · ‎03-09-2010

I have always kept my valuables and important documents (including bank accounts; etc) in either our large safe in the basement or a large, locked walk-in closet..... so I do not have to worry. In addition, I would never hire a cleaning service because you never know who will be working in your house. The only two housekeepers I have ever hired work/worked alone and came very highly recommended by family and friends. I had to make sure that I had an honest, reliable person in my home. The first housekeeper I had worked for my family (she started working for my Mom when Mom was no longer abler to do the housecleaning herself) for about 16 years. Unfortunately, I ended up firing her. I knew that I could leave her in my home without having to worry... in all the years she worked for us she never stole anything and only broke something once and offered to pay to replace it (which I refused to let her do). But she was no longer doing a good job cleaning my house. Whenever I would say anything to her she would tell me I was "too picky". I put up with it for a long time because I knew she and her family were having financial problems and I did not want to hurt her. We were good to her: We gave her a raise when we found out about her problems. We GAVE her (gave not sold in spite of the fact that I could have gotten several thousand dollars for it) my Mom's car after Mom passed away because her car was on its last legs and she could not even afford to purchase a used car. And to thank us she stabbed me in the back on the one occasion when I really needed her. I had told her that I desperately needed her on a particular day. On the day I needed her she called me 10 minutes before she was scheduled to arrive to inform me she was not coming. Didn't even apologize or ask how I was going to manage without her.... she knew that without her help I was going to have a HUGE problem on my hands. It turns out she knew from the moment I had told her I needed her that she had no intention of showing up. When I confronted her about the lie she had given me for not being able to come she just kept feeding me one lie after another. With each lie I caught her in she would just give me another (none of which were even remotely credible).... then ignored all the text messages I sent after our confrontation. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. If she had been truthful; if she had apologized; I would have dropped the entire issue. Now I have another housekeeper who, not only is honest and a hard worker, but is doing a much better job cleaning my house. She does as good as, if not, better job than I would do myself.

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Your story is a very interesting one. It is always amazing to me how the very people we do the most to help never fail to disappoint us. Unfortunate but true. I do not know why that is so; but, but it is so, more often than not. It is a very hard lesson for some people (like myself) to learn, but is one of life's most important lessons.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

When I became unable to continue to clean my home as I wished it to be I told my DH he would have to start helping me. He thought that over and came up with a plan - we hired someone to clean every 2 weeks. She does a wonderful job and I feel her price is very reasonable. She does all the areas that I can no longer do - that require getting on a ladder or crawling on the floor to dust my large and beautiful but hard to keep clean baseboards and under the furniture. Besides that she, of course, dusts and cleans everything else. But she is well aware that the high areas and the low areas are my main focus, as I can do the things that don't require getting on the floor or on a ladder. We have high ceilings and high built ins that do require being dusted but also require getting on a ladder. Both bathrooms have mirrors that go from the vanity all the way to about 6" from the ceiling - and DH's shower is also all glass enclosed and the doors and tile go up very high.Our bed is one of the newer style ones that don't require a dust ruffle but you can see all the way under there so it has to be vacuumed often - I can't get down on the floor to do that. Well, I can get down - i can't get back up!So household help is a must for us. Sometimes when i go into some of my neighborhood homes i see cobwebs hanging from the high ceiling. That would drive me crazy in my house, and my housekeeper makes certain I never see any of that.