Our nanny does clothes and our housekeeper does sheets and towels. The housekeeper puts her stuff away - our nanny puts it folded into laundry baskets. My dream is for someone to actually put them away for me too

I think it makes perfect sense. It would make your life a lot saner. I don't mind cleaning at all, but can't stand laundry. I'm sure you can find someone to do laundry- I bet you could get someone (a student, sahm with kids in school, etc. looking to make a little extra $, etc. )for a reasonable amount.

Laundry folding is so annoying and endless. My mom irons everything too! Sheets and towels, no joke. I would also pay somebody to fold my laundry, I do it like the other pp said, put a load in the evening, dry it an hour later, or if I forget, put it in the drier first thing in the morning. But, if you can, yes definitely hire somebody. People need work, and if you can pay, why not. Also, I would like to add that it is not necessary to use new towels every time kids and you shower. My DH and kids do it and it creates so much laundry. Unless you are having kids rolling in dirt, and even then, I assume you towels them off once clean, put towels to dry and reuse them a couple of times. We did this as kids, but now it seems that we everybody just dumps everything after one use.

Anonymous wrote:So I have come to the point that I think it's time to get some help with my household. For some unknown reason, it takes me a zillion years to do housework and I want to hire someone to come over a couple of times a week for a couple of hours to help me out. Basically to fold and put away laundry, help keep things organized, switch dishes, organize the mail. I realize this may seem totally nuts, but I am super inefficient or something and am spending about 2 hours a day just dealing with laundry and dishes and it leaves me little time for just winding down. My husband and I both work full time out of the house and we have young kids and I would rather spend my time focused on them and exercising rather than dealing with the nonstop laundry.

Anyone hire someone to handle these types of things? Is it a pipe dream?

What will you pay?

We do our laundry but our weekly cleaner folds it. It's very easy to put away once folded. We pay $5 extra a week.

Our housecleaner does laundry. We pay $20/hour to clean our house and do about 4 loads of laundry.

When I was in grad school, my one luxury was wash/fold delivery. There was something so nice and comforting to coming home to a pile of freshly laundered and folded clothing on my doorstep.

I wish we had such a service around here. I know I can take it to the laundry mat for wash and fold but it was the pickup and delivery that made it so awesome.

On the laundry front, I will sometimes just take my stuff to the cleaners and have them do it. Not my undergarments but shirts, jeans, pants, etc.

There are some days I'm too busy and just don't want to wash/fold myself. It's not cheap but it's worth it to me.

I would love to do this!

I feel like I'm always doing laundry. At least a load a day. We also have a storage problem - we live in old house with basically no closets so we have dressers that are filled to the brim, so I definitely can't get more clothing until I fix the storage issue. I also want someone to sort the mail as we get a ridiculous amount of stupid mail that I try to get to stop (countless catalogs, etc.), but somehow keep coming! I am just overwhelmed with all of this stuff. I was great when it was just me, okay when it was my husband and me, on the edge with kid #1, but the second kid has sent us over to pandemonium. Clearly, I have something wrong with my ability to organize and deal with this pretty ridiculous stuff myself.

FWIW, my kids are 4 and 2, and their folding skills are pretty nonexistent though I have taught them to deal with socks, so that's a bonus.

We have no cleaning service at all, which is another thing I am looking into. It would be so great for someone else to be cleaning the bathrooms and mopping floors, dusting, for a change.

This would be easier if my husband cared, but for some reason, he simply doesn't care about messes. They really don't bother him. So he could leave six baskets of clean clothes, unfolded, randomly around the house without a care in the world. Or, worse, he will just dump them on a table and pick through them. I have long realized that he just doesn't even see this - that it really is not something that he notices. I also don't think he has ever cleaned a toilet, and he does not care how gross they get.

Anonymous wrote:So I have come to the point that I think it's time to get some help with my household. For some unknown reason, it takes me a zillion years to do housework and I want to hire someone to come over a couple of times a week for a couple of hours to help me out. Basically to fold and put away laundry, help keep things organized, switch dishes, organize the mail. I realize this may seem totally nuts, but I am super inefficient or something and am spending about 2 hours a day just dealing with laundry and dishes and it leaves me little time for just winding down. My husband and I both work full time out of the house and we have young kids and I would rather spend my time focused on them and exercising rather than dealing with the nonstop laundry.

Anyone hire someone to handle these types of things? Is it a pipe dream?

I will do it for $200 a week.

How often do you do laundry? I do separate loads weekly for each member of my family and general household (sheets/towels). If I don't do it weekly, I get behind and it feels impossible to catch up. If your kids are over 2, they can help food/put away their stuff. It also helps to clean out your drawers to make it easier to put away.

Can you have the kids (and yourselves) put your clothes directly into the washer at the end of the day and start it up before bed? Then switch it in the morning. When you get home you have only one day's worth of clothes to put away.

Our cleaner does it when she comes. We pay her extra for it. We have also gotten to the point where we have enough clothes to not do laundry all the time. So we do laundry every two weeks, she corms and folds it all, separated by person. We put it away, which takes like 10 min total. And so on. It felt weird to only do laundry that often. But honestly, dirty clothes in an out of sight hamper is way better than clean clothes on the basement couch that never fully were getting put away.

So I have come to the point that I think it's time to get some help with my household. For some unknown reason, it takes me a zillion years to do housework and I want to hire someone to come over a couple of times a week for a couple of hours to help me out. Basically to fold and put away laundry, help keep things organized, switch dishes, organize the mail. I realize this may seem totally nuts, but I am super inefficient or something and am spending about 2 hours a day just dealing with laundry and dishes and it leaves me little time for just winding down. My husband and I both work full time out of the house and we have young kids and I would rather spend my time focused on them and exercising rather than dealing with the nonstop laundry.

Anyone hire someone to handle these types of things? Is it a pipe dream?