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[quote=Anonymous]I am late 60s and a widow. I have definitely lost the plot with my home of 40 yrs, as my adult kids now live everywhere else but here and have their own things going on.

I need a major clean/reorganizing. The '26 snows have forced me completely behind more than usual as I haven't been able to take out trash or recycling and other things like that. The creepy mansion where you see spider webs hanging and blankets all over the furniture? That's me.

I do think I have found someone mid 20s ambitious and currently unemployed who has done many goodwill tasks for me in the past, she is a friend of my kids and known to them, when I have needed emergent help she and her partner (best friend of one of my kids) have always shown straight up to help me out.

She has already offered to come in and clean and organize, I have just been resistant and kind of caught in my own limbo about everything.

If I were to offer to engage this person, would you do an hourly rate, a project rate, a by-room sort of rate where she could tackle rooms on their own?

I have a 6000 sf home with 3 floors but I am leaving off the basement for now. It used to be finished, we had a flood, all the stuff I could carry up from there myself at the time is on the 1st floor. Contributing to the clutter.

What do y'all think would be the most efficient way to approach her? I want to say that I've been without housekeeping for so long that 5K would not be out of line but I am so out of the market I don't even know if that's overpaying or underpaying. I'm not expecting a perfect house. I'm just desperately out of step with all the stuff and basic maintenance, and she's basically expressed to me that she is absolutely open to helping.

I'm sorry if this is all over the place. So am I and so is my house. TY[/quote]

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