Does Your Family Have Household Help?

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Many times on this forum I read comments indicating problems in family life that can be attributed to extreme stress and fatigue. I am just wondering, how many of you hire help to keep your household running? Does it help? What advice do you have for others?
We have basically had household help since my children were tiny. We started with a girl from church and graduated later to a fulltime housekeeper. As of now I have a teenager grandmother’s helper who comes to help when needed.
If you don’t have help, do you wish you did?
 
Yes.

We hired a woman 6 months ago. She helps me with cleaning, ironing and with the children. I was completely overwhelmed before, since I had no help at all. My husband and I moved abroad last year and that introduced some new challenges in terms of adaption to the new circumstances, atop of the regular stress of daily life with little children.

This is the best money we have ever spent and I would recommend it to people, if such a thing was an option for their family.
 
We do not, I haven’t really budgeted for it although we should be able to afford it. I am used to doing everything myself and when my eldest and only daughter was still home it was easy, but she got married a few years ago.
Now I have three sons still home and am progressively disabled so a lot gets left undone. My poor husband is overwhelmed and I feel guilty. It is past time to find someone but very difficult to find the right fit. Several friends clean for extra money but that seems like a bad idea.
The boys do help, but they have jobs and school and it is a very big house with two dogs.
 
no, we cannot afford it. I watch other people’s children to make ends meet 😉 It is hard to get housework done during the day!
 
We can’t afford it either. Would be nice to have help then one can concentrate more on home schooling, religious studies, etc.
 
No, but we have thought about it.

Right now, my husband picks up the slack.

So after all day at work, he comes home and washes clothes and does dishes.

I have a chronic illness that is helped by a daily nap. So I nap, he cleans. 😊
 
No, I can’t afford help. It’s is very difficult at times to keep up with my house even with the kids gone. I want to sell it but my husband doesn’t. I work at our business, cook, clean 5 baths, do all the gardening and maintain and do all the repairs that I can on the house and the pool. We live on an acre and a quarter so we do have a guy mow the lawn once a week but he leaves a lot of grass all over and we still have a lot of clean up.

Cleaning isn’t too bad with the kids gone but having to do the maintenance jobs on the house and pool and the landscape are killing me.

Would a cleaning service reduce my stress? I sure think it would.

Best wishes with your decision.
 
In the summer we get a landscaper to cut the grass and trim the hedges. DH can’t because of allergies.

We used to have someone come in every 2 weeks to help clean, but it’s too expensive now so we had to stop.
 
For those that have help or have had help, how much are we talking? 🤷
 
No, I don’t think our house is too big to manage. It looks clean enough to me, don’t look for dust bunnies or you will find them. When the kids were young they had chores, hubby takes care of fixing things and I like to ride the mower around the yard. As I walk by something out of place, I carry it to where it belongs, so that keeps clutter from getting out of control. I don’t work full time either.
 
I generally pay $7.50/hour. But that’s only for a few hours a week right now. We are soon to have fulltime care of a newborn as well as my other grands, so I am hiring a housekeeper for every afternoon to help. My children pay for babysitting while they are at work, so it doesn’t come out of my pocket.
 
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