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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I finally decided we needed more than our weekly cleaners, and we're trying to hire a housekeeper for 20-25 hours a week (or as few as 12-15, if we also keep our weekly cleaners).  I've interviewed (on the phone) like a dozen applicants from care.com over the past month and none are even willing to do what we want - and all I want is for someone to do what *I* and *most parents* do on a regular basis: clean up the kitchen in the morning, empty the dishwasher, make the beds, do some laundry, etc.  We want four or five days a week, for 4-5 hours a day.

What am I doing wrong here?  We're offering $20-35 an hour depending on experience, and we've only rarely gotten to the point of discussing pay because no one gets that far.

I get that this isn't a full-time job, but our weekly cleaners are only paid 180 per visit, and it's two women working 4-5 hours, or about 20 dollars per hour per person - and they work A LOT harder, physically, than someone just putting away dishes and doing laundry would.

Seriously, how do I make this job more appealing?  Or do I just keep at it and hope someone eventually comes along?[/quote]

Can you get your weekly cleaners to come more often?[/quote]

Op here. We actually did ask our cleaners to come more often and fold some laundry, and they did for a while. Then she told me she didn’t want to do laundry anymore. She said she considered herself a business owner and didn’t want to be a personal housekeeper. I think it’s a status thing I don’t fully understand; she’s an independent contractor housecleaner, she doesn’t have a larger business or anything, but I think she wants to feel like she has “clients” not a “boss”. Regardless, she was very clear that she prefers coming to scrub our showers and toilets than to folding laundry - and I even offered to pay her more!

I do think I need to look some place other than care.com. I just looked at housekeeper.com and it showed over a hundred local house cleaners but only twenty of them selected “laundry” as something they’ll do. Seriously I don’t get why cleaners won’t do laundry.

To the PP who suggested sending it out, I tried using Rinse and it came back in this giant bag and took forever to sort among the five family members, and it cost almost 100 dollars - and I really don’t think it was four hours of labor, so it just seemed like something I should be able to hire someone to come to my house and do.

Anyway I appreciate the suggestions and commiseration all.
[/quote] have you asked your current housecleaner for a recommendation, since she did not want it?

Since you are willing to go to $30 an hour and 20+ hours a week, I would think you will eventually get someone.  Maybe people here can help you write the ad. [/quote]

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