Someone to fold my laundry and put it away.

[Anonymous]

Weekly housecleaning is a huge help. We (mostly the kids) wash laundry, she folds and puts in our rooms. She puts son's in drawers for him. Awesome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I was in grad school, my one luxury was wash/fold delivery. There was something so nice and comforting to coming home to a pile of freshly laundered and folded clothing on my doorstep.

I wish we had such a service around here. I know I can take it to the laundry mat for wash and fold but it was the pickup and delivery that made it so awesome.

There are wash and fold services with pick up&delivery in DC.

https://www.washdmv.com
http://www.totalcleaners.com/svcwashfolddry.shtml

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I have come to the point that I think it's time to get some help with my household. For some unknown reason, it takes me a zillion years to do housework and I want to hire someone to come over a couple of times a week for a couple of hours to help me out. Basically to fold and put away laundry, help keep things organized, switch dishes, organize the mail. I realize this may seem totally nuts, but I am super inefficient or something and am spending about 2 hours a day just dealing with laundry and dishes and it leaves me little time for just winding down. My husband and I both work full time out of the house and we have young kids and I would rather spend my time focused on them and exercising rather than dealing with the nonstop laundry.

Anyone hire someone to handle these types of things? Is it a pipe dream?

i have a woman for just that - she comes through every day, clans the kitchen, unloads the dishwasher, makes all the beds, does all the laundry and folds and puts it away. We pay $20/hour and have her for 8-10 hours per week.

She also does a grocery run mid-week and sometimes cooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I have come to the point that I think it's time to get some help with my household. For some unknown reason, it takes me a zillion years to do housework and I want to hire someone to come over a couple of times a week for a couple of hours to help me out. Basically to fold and put away laundry, help keep things organized, switch dishes, organize the mail. I realize this may seem totally nuts, but I am super inefficient or something and am spending about 2 hours a day just dealing with laundry and dishes and it leaves me little time for just winding down. My husband and I both work full time out of the house and we have young kids and I would rather spend my time focused on them and exercising rather than dealing with the nonstop laundry.

Anyone hire someone to handle these types of things? Is it a pipe dream?

i have a woman for just that - she comes through every day, clans the kitchen, unloads the dishwasher, makes all the beds, does all the laundry and folds and puts it away. We pay $20/hour and have her for 8-10 hours per week.

She also does a grocery run mid-week and sometimes cooks.

That sounds like heaven. Where did you find her?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So I have come to the point that I think it's time to get some help with my household. For some unknown reason, it takes me a zillion years to do housework and I want to hire someone to come over a couple of times a week for a couple of hours to help me out. Basically to fold and put away laundry, help keep things organized, switch dishes, organize the mail. I realize this may seem totally nuts, but I am super inefficient or something and am spending about 2 hours a day just dealing with laundry and dishes and it leaves me little time for just winding down. My husband and I both work full time out of the house and we have young kids and I would rather spend my time focused on them and exercising rather than dealing with the nonstop laundry.

Anyone hire someone to handle these types of things? Is it a pipe dream?

i have a woman for just that - she comes through every day, clans the kitchen, unloads the dishwasher, makes all the beds, does all the laundry and folds and puts it away. We pay $20/hour and have her for 8-10 hours per week.

She also does a grocery run mid-week and sometimes cooks.

That sounds like heaven. Where did you find her?

Nanny for a neighborhood family whose kids are all in school - they basically need her 3-6:30 for school run, post-school activities, and making dinner and I asked if I could borrow her some of the time after hearing how she was picking up cooking and cleaning in their house to keep up her hours.

It is BLISSFUL.

[Anonymous]

We are a family of six.

We run a load of laundry every night. Clothes get sorted into separate baskets for each person. Everyone is responsible for putting away their own clothes. Sometimes that means clean clothes simply stay in the basket.

I can't imagine paying someone to do this for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of six.

We run a load of laundry every night. Clothes get sorted into separate baskets for each person. Everyone is responsible for putting away their own clothes. Sometimes that means clean clothes simply stay in the basket.

I can't imagine paying someone to do this for us.

You're perfect and the best mom ever.

Is that what you needed to hear?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are a family of six.

We run a load of laundry every night. Clothes get sorted into separate baskets for each person. Everyone is responsible for putting away their own clothes. Sometimes that means clean clothes simply stay in the basket.

I can't imagine paying someone to do this for us.

You're perfect and the best mom ever.

Is that what you needed to hear?

?

Um, no. Did you miss the part about simply sorting clothes into baskets and throwing them in the correct bedroom? No need to bother folding and putting into drawers when leaving them in a basket works just as well. It takes literally two seconds to sort a load of laundry. Even a young child can do it. Why pay a stranger when you can teach a kid to do it?

#delegate
#lifehacks

[Anonymous]

I do this for a living. I've posted in a couple other boards. I'm a house manager and work for several families. Mostly 8-10 hours a week. I charge $25/hour and tidy the kitchen, load/unload dishwasher, do a couple loads of laundry, make the beds, changes the sheets.
For some families, I do less. For some families, I do more. It's great for me because I can make my own schedule (within reason, and I always stick with same days/ relatively same hours with each family), I can pop home for lunch or move things forward/back if I have an appointment, and I like working on my own.

I market myself as a House Manager so I would start by posting an ad in one of the local Facebook groups or Mom type forums. Unfortunately I'm in Boston but I think hiring someone like me is getting more popular in all areas.

[Anonymous]

Our kids fold the laundry and put it away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our kids fold the laundry and put it away.

My teen DD's room floor is covered in different piles of laundry. I guess sorted by school, sports and I'm not sure what some of the piles are really.
It's a good thing out cats are afraid of her otherwise I'm sure they'd go in there and pee on them.
The rest of the laundry is put in a pile on a sofa in the sitting room and sometimes put away, sometimes not.
I guess our family us out of control too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our kids fold the laundry and put it away.

My teen DD's room floor is covered in different piles of laundry. I guess sorted by school, sports and I'm not sure what some of the piles are really.
It's a good thing out cats are afraid of her otherwise I'm sure they'd go in there and pee on them.
The rest of the laundry is put in a pile on a sofa in the sitting room and sometimes put away, sometimes not.
I guess our family us out of control too.

Why not buy every family member a basket so you can sort into their own basket (instead of leaving it on the sofa) and then they can put the basket in their room?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do this for a living. I've posted in a couple other boards. I'm a house manager and work for several families. Mostly 8-10 hours a week. I charge $25/hour and tidy the kitchen, load/unload dishwasher, do a couple loads of laundry, make the beds, changes the sheets.
For some families, I do less. For some families, I do more. It's great for me because I can make my own schedule (within reason, and I always stick with same days/ relatively same hours with each family), I can pop home for lunch or move things forward/back if I have an appointment, and I like working on my own.

I market myself as a House Manager so I would start by posting an ad in one of the local Facebook groups or Mom type forums. Unfortunately I'm in Boston but I think hiring someone like me is getting more popular in all areas.

You do what I want to do! I'd like to move to exclusive house management instead of nanny/house manager. You get enough business posting on Facebook groups and message boards?

Apologies to OP for hijacking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our kids fold the laundry and put it away.

My teen DD's room floor is covered in different piles of laundry. I guess sorted by school, sports and I'm not sure what some of the piles are really.
It's a good thing out cats are afraid of her otherwise I'm sure they'd go in there and pee on them.
The rest of the laundry is put in a pile on a sofa in the sitting room and sometimes put away, sometimes not.
I guess our family us out of control too.

Why not buy every family member a basket so you can sort into their own basket (instead of leaving it on the sofa) and then they can put the basket in their room?

Because laundry mountain is kind of fun?
Plus, the cats like the rest of us and are found of peering in baskets - but apparently can't scale laundry mountain.

[Anonymous]

My kids know how to sort and fold laundry. Happy to send them to op's house to help ;0)