I cleaned the bathroom today and the kitchen after making homemade marshmallows and Easter egg nests. Oh, and two loads of laundry. That's enough. Maybe I can wash some windows or something during the week.
Errgghh, not fun.
I have a really small house, but it has 24 windows plus the back and front doors have windows, plus the two screen doors. Nope, not happening.
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I am in constant de-clutter mode due to the aforementioned very small house. I always have a Goodwill box or two on the go. I collect a lot of things, and I have to keep on top of them or else my house will look like a thrift store. (Well some might think it already does as most of my stuff is from thrift stores....
) It would be impossible for me to be a minimalist.
They love her, and it just so happens that she's the best cleaner we've ever had - she gets round the whole house in 3 hours, dusting ever surface, cleaning all the windows, mirrors, doing both bathrooms, hoovering everywhere and sometimes changing beds. She will do what she calls a deep clean in 6 hours and the place practically sparkles for a fortnight afterwards.
I keep the place clean, and relatively tidy, but I have just over 800 sq. feet, and STUFF. There is indeed clutter. (nowhere near what it used to be, but I will always have bills and correspondence on the kitchen table, and a permanent box of things to "go through" in my spare room! Too bad)
Hi Brad, I heard there is a place in central Delaware that is a real mountain of socks, can you imagine the smell! My wife and I once found a rotten pop tart wedged under one of our davenports and the stink was out-rageous!I don't care much about the cleanness of my house, I'm just such a kind of person. Sure, I'm not a big fan of mountains made of socks and piles of rubbish in the rooms, but I don't care about spring cleaning or cleaning of every other season. I'm easy going person and clean only if I have a mood for that. Recently I bought new vacuum thanks to https://best4yourhome.com/category/vacuum-cleaners/ and feel happy to clean once a week. Or two. Or three. So don't worry and don't clean much
Just for curiosity, what do house cleaners charge now a days?
I ended my cleaning career 16 years ago when I got the college job, and I was charging $15 an hour, which was very reasonable, and I often had to turn down jobs.
Sometimes I would charge a flat rate for big once in a while jobs, say when someone wanted all their windows done, or their floors stripped and re-waxed. Then I would say, $40 or whatever. Once I had a fastidious Italian lady pay me $30 just to spend an hour sitting in her basement polishing her silver.
