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Would you feel guilty about hiring a housekeeper to clean (or help clean) your home?

Growing up my family hired someone to come in for a couple hours every week or two to do some cleaning. And that, I'm comfortable with. But I would feel weirder about someone who was around all the time. It feels different somehow.

Nope. They would do a better job than me and I would appreciate the service.

No. Why would I?

No? If money is plentiful and you're treating and paying the person fairly, then that's someone you're giving a job. If someone is seeking to do that, I don't think they'd be unhappy about the money or the opportunity.

No, I guess not. Pretty much the only way it'll get done, because I am a space case.

I do hire someone to clean my home (a few hours once every two weeks), even though I'm on a budget bordering on broke. I'm pretty frugal otherwise and I consider it self-care. I hate cleaning and I suffer(ed) from depression. A dirty/messy home would only make that worse, but I know I wouldn't do it myself.

As for feeling guilty...Sometimes. She isn't well off, I don't think she has many options and she's literally doing something I don't want to do. But I treat her the way I'd want to be treated and pay her a decent amount. It definitely feels weird on occasion though.

I would feel weird asking someone else to pick up after me, or do my dishes.
I wouldn't feel weird about paying someone to thoroughly clean my floors, windows, shower curtain, that kind of stuff.
When I think about it it's kind of arbitrary but that's how it is. My mother worked as a house cleaner for a while and she's paid people to clean stuff for her, so I think I'm following her lead.

No. If I could afford to, I'd pay someone to clean my bathrooms but I wouldn't expect them to do more than just scrub those kind of surfaces and perhaps quick vacuuming, but I wouldn't expect them to pick up or do daily chores, like the dishes.

I'd probably feel weird at first, because I have no experience with that, but not guilty as long as I wasn't skimping on pay.

Nah, as long as they're getting paid fairly.
(I am... not good at cleaning stuff myself. Even without the brainweirds or chemical-induced headaches coming into it.)

Although I'd probably ask them to do more the bigger cleaning tasks rather than the small regular ones like laundry/dishes. Fortnightly thing probably, rather than daily thing.

No I wouldn't. It would keep my house clean, especially since I am chronically lazy, and it would employ a person.

I would also hire a gardening service too, even if all they do is just a monthly mowing because I don't keep a hugely elaborate yard.

I would feel guilty if I was hiring them through a company and I knew the company was only paying them minimum wage. Because in my opinion everyone deserves more than minimum wage.

But then presumably I could tip the person a decent amount, and then I would feel fine about it.

I do have someone who comes by for 2 hours a week, and I don't feel guilty at all. I pay direct, the person probably appreciates being employed, and my house gets cleaned. Win win win.

I wouldn't feel guilty but I probably wouldn't do it. If I didn't put something somewhere myself I can't find it. I just don't remember being told "Hey, I'm moving the umbrella from the closet to the door." when it rains I am going right to the closet and being confused because I know I put the umbrella in it and I haven't moved it since then.

.... if I could pay someone to dump and refill the litterboxes once a week though I'd do that in a minute and not feel the slightest bit guilty.

Assuming I'm paying a fair wage, not at all. Except for the requisite cringe when the cleaner observes my awful house cleaning... that's a bit nasty.

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