I don’t know why I didn’t hire a professional cleaning company to help me out before? I don’t know why I continued to struggle with keeping my house tidy and clean, while holding down a full time job with unsociable hours and caring for 3 children under the age of 6, for quite as long as I did. Had I hated myself that much? Had I enjoyed toiling away the minute I got home from work, with my kids literally tugging on my apron strings?
Aside from being an utter bore, cleaning is often the last feel thing we feel like doing. Whether it’s at the end of a long hard day at work, whether we’re in the middle of caring of our little ones, or whether we have plenty of time to spare, but would rather fill that time doing something more meaningful, we will always perform our cleaning chores begrudgingly. But things don’t have to be this way:
Too busy to clean? Hire somebody else to do it!
I have friends who run themselves ragged trying to keep their homes clean and tidy, rather than paying for somebody else to do it, but I tell them that they’re cutting their noses off to spite their faces.
If by hiring a professional they could spend more quality time with their family, instead of having to rush about scrubbing and vacuuming in every spare minute they can grab, why wouldn’t they?
Too mean and miserly to pay for a cleaner? They cost less than you think!
My friends also tell me that hiring a cleaner would cost them too much, but I argue that it’s only money, and that they wouldn’t have to hire them every day of the week. A cleaner could come in once or twice a week and blitz the place, while they used that time to do things that really mattered to them, like playing with their children, taking their dog for a long walk or even relaxing in a long, hot bath (just make sure the cleaner knows that the bathrooms off limits!).
Not only that, but most professional cleaning services cost less than you might think, and you can pay them to just do the cleaning jobs that you hate the most, rather than cleaning the entire home from top to bottom.
Hate cleaning so much that you cut corners and create more work for yourself? Let the professionals get the job done properly!
It’s not only my friends who are guilty of this; I despise cleaning and giving my oven a really good, deep clean every time it gets mucky from cooking, would save me from having to scrub at it for hours on end every Saturday morning before my kids get out of bed; the food gets so encrusted that I have been reduced to using a paint scraper to try and remove it!
When you are paying somebody to do those godawful cleaning jobs that you hate so much, they are duty bound to do it properly! No more smears on windows, footprints on wet floors or food encrusted ovens that should probably carry a health and safety warning!