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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get rid of the cleaning lady and hire a housekeeper.[/quote]

It sounds like OP needs a 20–30 hour a week housekeeper. Someone who comes every morning or afternoon and handles groceries, meals, cleaning, random errands, laundry, etc. Yes, this is expensive, but that’s the only thing that will make your days bearable. Look into the cost and decide if you feel it’s worth it to spend at least half your raise on outsourcing.

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I posted above about us being double biglaw and I certainly don’t need 20-30 hours of a housekeeper. That’s wild. We have laundry delivery/pickup and twice-weekly cleaners, Whole Foods grocery delivery, and an au pair. I don’t even know what I would use that many hours of housekeeper time for. [/quote]

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DP, but if you add up all the things you get delivery for, plus your twice weekly cleanings, that's easily 20-30 hours/week.  It's a different model: hiring one person who cleans, gets groceries, and does laundry, which combined would take the same length of time you apparently can't conceive of it taking.[/quote]

Agreed.  I have a housekeeper 25 hours/wk.  
Generally, she has something bigger that she does each day that takes 2-3 hours.  Monday she does the laundry for the week.  Tuesday’s she goes grocery shopping.  Wednesday’s she does some kind of bigger organizational or deep cleaning project (blowing out the garage, changing out clothes for the season, putting out decorations, making Christmas cookies, organizing linens, putting up stuff kids have outgrown on amazon marketplace, etc).  Thursday’s and Friday’s she splits up the cleaning of the house.  She also cooks a meal, cleans up the kitchen, and spot cleans bathrooms/entryway, etc.  
it’s definitely harder to manage someone with this job than it is to hire a bunch of services, but I think it’s been good for our kids to have another adult they trust in the home, especially when parents are gone so much.  When the kids were little, she helped them make their beds, fed them little pieces of bacon and cookie dough, and yelled at them if they peed on the toilet seat.  [/quote]

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