I received a piece of junk mail that said, “Life’s too short to clean your own home.”
It sounds so good and so true if you don’t think about it too hard, doesn’t it? I mean, I work hard all week, so why should I have to do menial labor on top of it? But if I look at it from another angle, thinking about how many hours I’d have to work to pay for a weekly cleaning, then it’s a different matter. I’m salaried, so I couldn’t even work extra hours to pay for the cleaning if I wanted to. The cost of the service would have to come out of what I already make, and let’s face it, that’s not nearly enough to start paying for things that I could do myself for free. Or things that I could just not do and hope no one else notices (this is also known as the “only clean what really needs it” policy, and I think it works well!).