How many domestic responsibilities can realistically be outsourced?

[Anonymous]

Is it possible for anyone to outsource everything?

Things like: washing dishes, cooking dinner, washing/folding/putting away laundry, cleaning the cat litter, feeding pets, getting and sorting mail, all household organizing and tidying, scrubbing/mopping/vacuuming

[Anonymous]

You can outsource pretty much everything in your life with enough money.

[Anonymous]

If you're willing to pay enough, sure.

[Anonymous]

You can even outsource managing all this, with a house manager who then hires people to do all this.

[Anonymous]

Yes obviously, but not at a price that would be affordable to most Americans. (And then if you do you have someone in your space all the time, which is not a lifestyle most Americans like. This is why some women stay home!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can even outsource managing all this, with a house manager who then hires people to do all this.

OP again. Do people who outsource everything have multiple shifts of domestic staff at their homes 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week? Because breakfast needs to be cooked early, and dinner dishes need to be washed late in the evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes obviously, but not at a price that would be affordable to most Americans. (And then if you do you have someone in your space all the time, which is not a lifestyle most Americans like. This is why some women stay home!

This. I hate having anyone in my space. I barely tolerate a weekly cleaner and do not get me started on a handyman or plumber who has to come back like three times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can even outsource managing all this, with a house manager who then hires people to do all this.

OP again. Do people who outsource everything have multiple shifts of domestic staff at their homes 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week? Because breakfast needs to be cooked early, and dinner dishes need to be washed late in the evening.

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can even outsource managing all this, with a house manager who then hires people to do all this.

And it is not unusual to have a house manager at each location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes obviously, but not at a price that would be affordable to most Americans. (And then if you do you have someone in your space all the time, which is not a lifestyle most Americans like. This is why some women stay home!

This. I hate having anyone in my space. I barely tolerate a weekly cleaner and do not get me started on a handyman or plumber who has to come back like three times.

Same. I think it's to do with treating people like people. In the great estate days, the rich folks treated their servants like furniture, at best. Just ignored them til they were useful, then went back to ignoring their existence. I can't do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can even outsource managing all this, with a house manager who then hires people to do all this.

OP again. Do people who outsource everything have multiple shifts of domestic staff at their homes 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week? Because breakfast needs to be cooked early, and dinner dishes need to be washed late in the evening.

My friend lived in Asia and they had this. It took just one housekeeper. She came in at 8am and made breakfast, and then left at 5 or 6pm after dinner was made. They left the dirty dishes in the sink and she did them the next morning.

She was off on weekends and woudl leave labeled containers in teh fridge with dinner for each night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can even outsource managing all this, with a house manager who then hires people to do all this.

OP again. Do people who outsource everything have multiple shifts of domestic staff at their homes 12-16 hours a day, 7 days a week? Because breakfast needs to be cooked early, and dinner dishes need to be washed late in the evening.

Well, the staff lives there. I knew a family who lived in a house with four kitchens, one of which was just for the staff. (Why they had four kitchen and not just two is beyond me). So the family could be in the family kitchen making coffee or hanging out and the staff would be preparing breakfast in the staff kitchen and would just bring it in. Maids did the rooms when they were out of them, so the kids would go to school and then the maids would go into their rooms and make their beds, pick up and wash their clothes, and have everything neat and tidy for when the kids came home. Then when they were down eating dinner the maids would turn the beds down. I remember the mom fired one maid because she turned the bed down of a kid who was spending the night at a friend's house and therefore wouldn't be using her bed that night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes obviously, but not at a price that would be affordable to most Americans. (And then if you do you have someone in your space all the time, which is not a lifestyle most Americans like. This is why some women stay home!

This. I hate having anyone in my space. I barely tolerate a weekly cleaner and do not get me started on a handyman or plumber who has to come back like three times.

Same. I think it's to do with treating people like people. In the great estate days, the rich folks treated their servants like furniture, at best. Just ignored them til they were useful, then went back to ignoring their existence. I can't do that.

Also, people who have staff at the level aren't living in 5-7K sq ft McMansions, they're living in truly huge estates.

[Anonymous]

A live in butler?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it possible for anyone to outsource everything?

Things like: washing dishes, cooking dinner, washing/folding/putting away laundry, cleaning the cat litter, feeding pets, getting and sorting mail, all household organizing and tidying, scrubbing/mopping/vacuuming

All of the tasks you described are done by our two hired staff at my house.

House Manager:
-Grocery shopping
-Cooking & dishes
-Light tidying (like sweeping up crumbs in the kitchen)
-Laundry (except for bedding)
-Pet care
-Organizing kid activities/playdates/rides
-General household organization
-Books all household maintenance appointments & car maintenance appointments
-Runs general errands

House cleaner:
-Washes all bedding
-Cleaning
-Does a deep clean each quarter