I still flinch every time we pay it, but then remind myself we work hard so we can play hard. If we didn’t pay a housekeeper, we would spend all our free time cleaning. So instead of work hard play hard it would be work hard work harder.[/quote]
Totally agree with you, svelte. Especially when you are very busy at work, commuting, kids. It is SOOOOOO worth it. When I did it myself it was just a ‘piece’ now, a piece later, almost never the whole house. Never had that feelinng ‘oh, the whole house is clean now, it smells clean, looks clean and tidy’. When you do one task/room at a time it’s almost doesn’t look like you are doing much. By the time you get to the next task, the previous part is already semi-messy/dirty.
To reply to the OP – I pay $110 every 2 weeks(including tip) for a 1800 sf 3 story townhome. I have kids and I live in La Jolla/UTC – it IS in general more expensive here. I paid less than $100 in Rancho Bernardo for a 1600 sf 2 story townhome, 3-4 years ago.
