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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a SAHM and drowning since I had my second kid. We have biweekly cleaners for about $350 a month. Am contemplating getting a part time nanny/housekeeper to help but it also feels like a luxury to have help around the house when I already don’t work. For those in similar boats, how much do you spend?  [/quote]

You have biweekly cleaners and you still can't keep your house picked u,p.  You and I have two children and one is an infant whose only messes are made by you.  This is how we common people keep our houses picked up and worthy for unexpected royal/presidential visits:

1.  Every day when older child/children is/are finished 
playing with you/toys, we have trained them to put toys in large plastic laundry basket used to store toys.  Toys are only allowed in large basement/recreation room.

2.  Every evening kitchen is left cleaned, this takes no more than 30 minutes.  All community rooms are 
picked up and this takes all of ten minutes.

3. Quilts or comforters on beds and easy to make beds in morning.

4. Bathroom etiquette is taught from early age and no clothes, towels, shoes are left on floor. There are laundry baskets in bathrooms and bedrooms and even very young children can be taught to put them dirty clothes in hamper.

The key is organization and desire to have a clean and picked up house and plain old common sense.[/quote]
What a beetch.[/quote]

So many American women are indolent and slothful.  I have seen houses so filthy that if they were a restaurant the health department would lock their doors![/quote]

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