I’m currently in a situation (for the past 1.5 years) where I have a friend living with me who can’t pay rent, so he does the housework.
His “chores” are to keep up with the dishes (which are mostly his), clean the kitchen, living room and bathroom once a week, in the summer keep the weeds trimmed and in the winter shovel the walk.
Like Mrs. Balthisar, I spend a lot of time keeping the house tidy so I don’t look like a pig to the guy I let stay here for free. If I have more dishes in the sink than just a bowl and a spoon (I eat a lot of stuff out of my bowl), I usually do the dishes. I clean my own bedroom and office too.
I kind of get bored with no housework. Before, it was something I did on a Saturday to keep me from being a layabout. Now, I try to do as much non-housekeeper stuff as possible (clean the garage, mow the lawn, etc) but I still find myself doing more “nothing” than I used to.
The one thing that sucks about having a housekeeper - and this is a problem for my brother, too, who has a housekeeper - is being on someone else’s schedule. Since my brother and I both work from our homes, we’re here when the housekeeper is working.
He has to make arrangements for his baby to be out of the way, and I have to make arrangements for me to be out of the way. It really sucks when I am done with a long day of work and just want to lie on the couch and watch TV, and my guy wants to clean because it’s the only hour in the week that he has free.
All in all, having a housekeeper now, I would not get one if I could afford it.
IF I had a busy life, or even if I had a kid - I think a housekeeper would be a godsend if I could afford it. But to clean up after my single ass with my single bowl? Not worth it.
Nice to have someone shovel the walk, tho 