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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m kind of with you, OP.  
  Outsourcing to a cleaner every other week helps somewhat, but it isn’t that helpful.  If we were really only talking about 4 hours/wk of work, then all of this complaining would be ridiculous.
  But outsourcing daily cleaning really isn’t that expensive.  It’s not cheap, but it’s considerably less expensive than other alternatives like divorcing and maintaining two households or quitting your job/going part time (as long as you make a higher hourly wage than your housekeeper).

Also, I would argue that it isn’t any harder to teach kids to clean when you have a regular housekeeper.  When you have this, then kids are used to things being clean, and they feel like that’s the way things ought to be, so they tolerate less mess.  My kids were used to having a clean room, dusted and vacuumed, with a made bed and clothes put away.  Now that they are older, and we don’t need a daily housekeeper anymore, when they have to clean their rooms, they only feel clean when they are dusted and vacuumed with made beds and clothes put away.  Same goes for bathrooms, kitchen, etc.  If it had been up to me, they would have spent their childhoods digging clean clothes from a huge pile in a hamper that I never completely got folded.

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We had a daily maid growing up and I had no problem keeping a clean dorm room at college and an immaculate apartment after that. My whole life I've been neat and clean and I now have a maid and my kids don't do cleaning but they do make their beds, put their laundry in the hamper, clean up their toys, set the table, and put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher. At age 7 we're not doing laundry yet and they can't reach to put away most dishes but we'll get there. Doesn't mean they ever need to scrub toilets. I do have girls though, so I may feel differently if I had boys. [/quote]

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