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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, though for me, it’s mostly labor/time-savers and vacations. I’m finally at the point that paying to have someone clean my home before a party is palatable. And I can go on vacation without calculating how many hours I need to work overtime to pay for it. [/quote]

[b]It's the labor savers that highlight how different I am from my parents. My parents would never have spent money on house cleaners, lawn mowing, grocery delivery, etc.[/b] [/quote]

Hear, hear. I felt really guilty about hiring cleaners. It just wasn't done in the little town where I grew up, not by very middle class folks like us.[/quote]

I haven’t been able to bring myself to hire a house cleaner. I can afford it, but we also have the time to do it on our own.[/quote]
+1, but I don't really have the time to do it on my own, dislike doing it, and don't do a very good/thorough job. But I don't want to pay someone to do it bc I feel like it's a waste of money, and that I [i]should [/i] be doing it. Unless I could literally replace the money spent on the cleaners by earning that money back in the time lost, I probably won't hire someone to do it...[/quote]

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