Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 11:52     Subject: Re:If you had a housekeeper 5 hours a day
OP this book is very old (written in 2000) so obviously a lot of the chores and tasks are going to need to be updated, but it is still in print. I recall reading it 20 years ago and remember it had lists of tasks for a housekeeper, lots of helpful hints for you.

https://www.amazon.com/Housekeeper-Cheaper-Than-Divorce-Afford/dp/0967963605
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 10:20     Subject: If you had a housekeeper 5 hours a day
Anonymous wrote:I dont think my house would have enough to clean and prep for 5h x 5 days, but if it were one or two days, maybe clean, prep multiple meals, grocery shop, put everything away, organize the pantry, etc.


+1 No reason meal prep has to be light. Grocery shopping 1x/week, taking care of plants/garden, letting in any home repair workers, buying any last minute stuff the kids need but forgot to tell us about (birthday presents for a friend, material for a school project).

Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 10:16     Subject: If you had a housekeeper 5 hours a day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s like you think meal prep doesn’t involve prep or cleanup, dishes, etc. Add in emptying dishwasher and refrigerator cleaning, etc.

Laundry would be wash, dry, iron/ steam, fold, put away I’m assuming.

You could add in meal prep for Lunches and breakfast.

Does the 5 hours include travel?

I guess I WAH and feel like I spend this much a day sorting all this stuff out. It’s probably longer as I’m doing it in between things, I think it’s easy to think that things take less time then they actually take.


These lists are always crazy to me. How often are you really doing these things? Refrigerator cleaning is like a seasonal thing. Laundry is on maybe a 5-day cycle. What % of clothes really need to be ironed?

It feels like every time I read a thread like this, so much of the stuff is either make-work or is due to some OCD-like mental state.


Well, yeah, if you are doing it on your own because you don't have time, then maybe you do laundry every 5 days, but if you are hiring someone to do it, then you step it up and you NEVER have to do any of these things.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2024 10:11     Subject: Re:If you had a housekeeper 5 hours a day
Anonymous wrote:I would first suggest that you attempt to accomplish all of the tasks that you expect them to do in three of five hours. I suspect you might have unrealistic expectations.


+1. Is this 5 hours a day 5 days a week? That sounds like a lot of time, but floors, a load of laundry washed, dried, folded, and put away, meal prep, and then a big task like bathrooms would easily fill the time.