You can come over and eat off my floors on Friday if you want
So. We hired a person to come clean our house.
Not just once. Like, regularly.
I’m almost embarrassed to even talk about it because, seriously, who am I? Why can’t I clean my own damn house?
Well, the answer is, I just can’t. With work, more work, a shit-ton of work, raising a baby, and trying to have a life/relationship/conversation with my husband that’s *not* about work or raising a baby, this needs to happen. It needs to happen badly.
She’s coming every other Friday. To clean my house. And not half-ass clean my house, like I would do. She talked about wiping down baseboards. And mopping. MOPPING, I TELL YOU. I almost wept.
Yes, it will cost money. But, as my friend Susan (who also has this same lovely lady come into her house once a month) put it, “If you can wake up Saturday morning and think, ‘What am I going to do with my lovely husband/child/dogs today?’ instead of thinking ‘Now I have to get up and clean up after my stinky husband/child/dogs today EFF EVERYONE!’ then it’s worth it.”
Couldn’t agree more, really.
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Ah, I’ve always wanted to do this. I’ll be interested to hear how it goes! And maybe someday in the foggy future when we’re sure we can afford to feed ourselves, we will do the same! You guys are official grown-ups foreal.
on a related note, everyone in dc has a cleaning person for their tiny apts which i think is odd. that everyone doesn’t include me though.
also, i was thinking last night that i haven’t read a post in a very long time about your dogs…i need to hear about them.
see you soon!! love,
SO SO SO jealous!
I mean, you just gave someone work in tough economic times. You’re not just saving your sanity, your helping someone while you’re at it. If we had the dough I’d do the same thing!
Dogs+babies+baseboards=gross. Go for it.
You’re my hero.
I envy you
That’s the next thing we’ll be adding to our budget!
you need a “like” button – like my other favorite website
baseboards are a bitch
We were so young and hopeful earlier this week.