Someone to help you in your home

[Krikit 1,164]

Definitely a housekeeper. I love gardening and cooking, and there is generally quite a mess after I prepare a large meal for friends, so I could do without that cleaning!!! And since I am by myself, I pretty much do a daily walk to the grocery store for the items I need for my next few meals. This gives me a chance to get a bit of exercise, walk the dog and decompress from they day all in one!!

That's what I used to do too. I miss that. Plus, they sucker you in, here, with all their "buy one get one free" deals. Or even better.... buy one get 2 free. They have crazy sales here. Which is a good thing. Except that I end up having way too much food in my fridge and freezer.

[JillA 2]

Definitely a housekeeper. I love gardening and cooking, and there is generally quite a mess after I prepare a large meal for friends, so I could do without that cleaning!!! And since I am by myself, I pretty much do a daily walk to the grocery store for the items I need for my next few meals. This gives me a chance to get a bit of exercise, walk the dog and decompress from they day all in one!!

That's what I used to do too. I miss that. Plus, they sucker you in, here, with all their "buy one get one free" deals. Or even better.... buy one get 2 free. They have crazy sales here. Which is a good thing. Except that I end up having way too much food in my fridge and freezer.

They have so many buy 1 get 1 free deals! At my local grocer, sometimes it's 5 for $5 so I end up stocking wayyyy too much, I don't have enough cupboards for all the canned goods!

[Krikit 1,164]

They have so many buy 1 get 1 free deals! At my local grocer, sometimes it's 5 for $5 so I end up stocking wayyyy too much, I don't have enough cupboards for all the canned goods!

That confused me so much when I first moved here. What do you mean 10-for-$10?! But I don't NEED 10!! I just need one! Finally, someone put me out of my misery and told me that they prorate the sale price to the number of items.... that you don't have to buy all 10. I was so relieved.

[Emancipation 2]

That confused me so much when I first moved here. What do you mean 10-for-$10?! But I don't NEED 10!! I just need one! Finally, someone put me out of my misery and told me that they prorate the sale price to the number of items.... that you don't have to buy all 10. I was so relieved.

gal you just made my week!

[Krikit 1,164]

At Easter they had buy one ham @ $15, get two free. And they were huge-as$ hams, too. I mean, it was the whole back quarter of the pig. What the heck would I do with THREE of them? Now for sure I'm not going to buy one because if I just need one and I don't take the other two, now I'm paying the same price for one when I could have had three! It would be alright if they had a big bin or something where you could just give the other two to a homeless shelter or to someone in need. But what the heck? Do people really need that much ham? Why not just sell me one ham for 5 bucks?

Edited June 18, 2009 by Krikit

[Marilyn. 340]

the people I work for have two ladies that come and clean their house every two weeks.. not sure how much they pay them though

[carslo 0]

Hmm maybe I should start my own business cleaning houses. Seems like a lot of people would hire me.

I really don't mind cleaning at all.

It would be interesting to know how much money could be made cleaning houses!

I charge $25.00 and hour and both places that I clean for say that I am the best they have ever had. When I was away in the USA last year a friend of mine did their cleaning; she has a few other jobs too clean one at $25.00 an hour and then other place $30.00 an hour. One of my clients only had her once, they other place will have her back when I finally get to go to the US. However, she wasn't as meticulious as me but it is hard to find a decent cleaner that doesn't break things or deep cleans. I am usually there to clean 3 - 3.5 hours.

As in anything you get what you pay for

Janet