A_Princess'_Daddy
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 5, 2010
Hire a housekeeper. There is no way I want to clean my 3200 sq ft, 4bed/3.5 bath house. I went to college so I wouldn't have to do manual labor.
Housekeeper comes every Friday, she washes all the bed linens and towels and changes all the sheets along with all the mopping, dusting, vacuuming, toilet cleaning and heavy kitchen cleaning,etc.
I load the dishwasher and wipe down the counters after cooking, but I generally try to make whatever "messy" dish (spaghetti, frying, etc) I am craving on a Thursday night so that the stove will get a nice cleaning before the weekend.
Wow...I have three degrees from an Ivy League school and just tonight I was elbow deep in guinea pig poop.
In addition to my B.A., J.D. and PhD., I am married to a graduate of a top two liberal arts college with an M.B.A. from an Ivy League school. I work in I.B. and she's an executive with a major global financial services company, we have a 5,000 s.f. home with 6.5 bathrooms and 5 bedrooms, and while we do have a housekeeper who comes several times a week, I still manage to clean and hardly consider myself above it. In some ways, I find it rather peaceful...
If you think you are above cleaning, I encourage you to rethink that mindset. My father was Chairman and CEO of a Fortune 500 company and he mowed the lawn and cleaned the bathrooms with the best of them, despite the fact that we had housekeepers to help.* Not cleaning doesn't mean you're better educated, it just means you don't clean.
* My father's father, BTW, did manual labor his entire life and I can assure you that I never knew a more intelligent or cultured man than him. Please don't denigrate manual labor or the people who do it. It deserves respect, not contempt.