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Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

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DKF1016
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Gonnacatchapeacock

Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

I'm curious...if it's actually worth it.
We spend many days and hours doing a so-so job on our lawn. We also live on a corner with lots of trees so there are LEAVES EVERYWHERE even now, you'd think it's the fall already. The floors..the windows...etc.
DH and I only get like 1-2 days off a week.
Sometimes it's hard to fit it all in.

Cleaning ladies - how often do they come? Around how much are they? Is it worth it in your opinion. I would be scared to leave them alone in my house. Are you home when they are cleaning?

thanks for your input.

Message edited 8/24/2006 1:04:56 AM.

Posted 8/24/06 1:04 AM
 
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danielleandscott
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Scott

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

I have a landscaper - I also have a lawnmower. I just recently hired the landscaper, and that $25 a week is well spent
Scott

Posted 8/24/06 1:19 AM
 

LIMOMx2
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

Yes. We have both. So worth esp. now with the baby. We don't want to waste our time doing that stuff. The cleaning lady comes every 2 weeks.

Posted 8/24/06 6:44 AM
 

Tah-wee-ZAH
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

Neither and we have a big colonial and a half an acre.

Posted 8/24/06 6:54 AM
 

LIMOMx2
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH

Neither and we have a big colonial and a half an acre.



You will once those twins arriveChat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 8/24/06 6:55 AM
 

Tah-wee-ZAH
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

Posted by 5ofClubs

Posted by Tah-wee-ZAH

Neither and we have a big colonial and a half an acre.



You will once those twins arriveChat Icon Chat Icon




We are planning on a cleaning lady once or twice a month (If I can finally find one that cleans as thoroughly as I do... I finally gave up at #10 or so) but no landscaper. DH really likes to do it.

Posted 8/24/06 7:33 AM
 

Teri
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

Posted by 5ofClubs

Yes. We have both. So worth esp. now with the baby. We don't want to waste our time doing that stuff. The cleaning lady comes every 2 weeks.



same here. We were spending WAY too much time on the weekends - the cost is worth our free time and relaxation.

I'm an anal cleaner too, but with someone here to help I can get to the other stuff I wouldn't have normally had time for.

Posted 8/24/06 8:17 AM
 

MommaG
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Gloria

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a landscaper but no cleaning lady. DH cannot find anyone that cleans to his satisfaction (the last lady actually stood on my bed to clean the ceiling fan and took one of DH's tee shirts to clean a mirror). We stopped looking.

Posted 8/24/06 9:41 AM
 

~Colleen~
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guess

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a landscaper, no cleaning lady. Worth every penny we spend - while DH really loves working on the yard (and he will fertilize and etc) we just do not have the time to do it properly. The guys are in and out in 10 minutes - there is no way we could get all that they do done in that time...it would take hours. (cut, edge, blow, etc)

Posted 8/24/06 9:46 AM
 

kerrycec03
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Kerry

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

my mother has both. She pays $125 every two weeks for her cleaning lady.

I don't know how much for the landscaper

Posted 8/24/06 9:48 AM
 

june262004
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Kristin

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We don't have either. I clean everyday and do my major cleaning on Saturdays.

Mike likes mowing the lawn.

I think its money WELL SAVED

Posted 8/24/06 9:50 AM
 

ODonnell
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a cleaning lady - once every two weeks. I would do without buying something just to have those precious 3 or 4 hours at the weekend. ETA: I'm not home when she cleans and I trust her 100%. All my friends have tried to get her, but she is fully booked.

DH is in landscaping and spends every minute he can in our garden. I think he's just trying to get time away from meChat Icon

Message edited 8/24/2006 9:54:14 AM.

Posted 8/24/06 9:51 AM
 

dawnie
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We don't have either and I would like to have both!
Especially the cleaning lady!

Posted 8/24/06 9:51 AM
 

Melbernai
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Melissa

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

I don't have a cleaning lady -- and live in an apartment so I don't need a landscaper.

If I got a cleaning lady though I'd have to have her come every day after my DH went to sleep to clean up after him.

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Posted 8/24/06 9:55 AM
 

MrsERod
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

we don't have either.

we'll be looking for a landscaper soon though...our lawn is HURTIN'!! Chat Icon Chat Icon

Posted 8/24/06 9:59 AM
 

MrsRbk
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Michelle

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a landscaper because DH and I are both too lazy to take care of things ourselves Chat Icon Seriously, we have no clue about anything, so DH would rather pay someone than have to do it himself. Our landscapers do alot also! $175/month

We just hired a cleaning service to come everyone other week and clean, they start next week $180/month.

Posted 8/24/06 10:03 AM
 

LisaW
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a landscaper.

This is our first year in the house, and we considered buying a mower to do it ourselves, but we just have too many other projects going on right now.

Posted 8/24/06 10:17 AM
 

jenny
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a landscaper and a cleaning lady. My cleaning lady come 1-2 times per week and it is worth every penny.

Posted 8/24/06 10:18 AM
 

Beth
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

right now just a cleaning lady

next year when we buy a house- we will have a landscaper also

our weekend are worth more to us- then what it cost to pay someone else to do those things for us

my DH doesn't work 12 hours a day to have to mow the lawn on Saturday!

Posted 8/24/06 10:22 AM
 

Blu-ize
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

we have both. Landscaper is $25/wk not including seeding, fertilizing, weed killing and spring and fall cleanups.

We have our cleaning lady come every two weeks and she gets $70 each time.

Totally worth it IMO. We work long hrs and the precious few we have together are not sacrificed.

Message edited 8/25/2006 12:15:31 PM.

Posted 8/24/06 10:24 AM
 

anjerandunder
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J

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

No but I wish I couldChat Icon

Posted 8/24/06 10:45 AM
 

Chatham-Chick
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have landscapers who come weekly to cut the lawn (1 acre) and plow our 150ft driveway/shovel our walkways in the winter. They also do Spring & Fall cleanups (get all the leaves, clean the flower beds, etc.) We also have them trim the shrubs (we have 300+ ft of shrubs.)

We started out doing it ourselves (DH has a riding mower), but found that it was really taking up a lot of time on the weekends.

$35 a week...BEST MONEY WE EVER SPENT! (That's for the lawn cutting. The snow removal costs differently.)

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We're now on the hunt for a cleaning person. Both my neighbors have a cleaning lady, so DH is probably going to ask one of them.

Posted 8/24/06 11:54 AM
 

MsG
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G

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have neither. But I really want a cleaning person.

Posted 8/24/06 12:16 PM
 

karacg
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Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

I have a cleaning lady - once a week, $60.
Lawn Maintenance - once a week, $29.

It is worth it to us.

Posted 8/24/06 12:25 PM
 

karen62794
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Karen

Re: Do you have a landscaper and a cleaning lady?

We have a landscaper who cuts the lawn bi-weekly (we have a small property) and who does spring/fall cleanups and puts chemicals down.

I think we pay $28 every 2 weeks.

I wish I had a cleaning lady.

Posted 8/24/06 12:26 PM
 
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