Good Morning Thursday Birds!

[Smowball]

Hope we are all well this morning?  Not raining (yet!)so hoping it stays this way. Have lots of washing as I stripped bed yesterday but don't honestly think it's going to dry much if I put it outside lol. Usual list of household jobs do fit in between work. ......why does this list never end?? You can never say 'Ahh that's it, the house is all clean & tidy, I can now sit down & relax', because by then it will be another meal time to cook/cleanup after, another load of washing to do....... it never ends lol. Mr Smow suggested recently(after I'd had the bad asthma attack/breathing episode)that we considered getting a cleaner in once a week to do the more strenuous jobs, especially with my spine injury, & I looked at him as though he was mad! What jobs?? I said. Ohh things like mopping all the floors(we have all hardwood & tiled floors apart from our bedroom), cleaning the wooden Venetian blinds in lounge & one bedroom(that is indeed a job I loathe), & then he said change the bedding as it's a king size bed. And then I said Nooooooo! I could never ever have anyone change my bedding! Why he said?? Erm.... I just couldn't , it's sort of personal lol. So what about the rest he says? And I said 'I know exactly what I would be like - I'd end up going round tidying up before he/she got here!!' lol. Which I probably would! So we're at a kind of stalemate, but bless him for suggesting it. 
Anybody here got or ever had a cleaner?? And your thoughts, good and bad??

Hope you all have a wonderful day x

[DDIL]

Morning, I had a cleaner for several years because my husband is a lazy arsed git!!!

The only reason I stopped was she went back to Russia and I didn't find another that I liked as much or who cared for my animals as much as she did.

With the greatest of respect your husband needs to do more and you need to accept help.  

[Khandro]

I've just dropped off Mrs K. at the clinic where she is having an operation on her right hand for numbness, today. She had one last year on the left which was very successful so we know what we are in for.

I shall collect her probably late this afternoon, but she will be incapacited for a while with her hand out of action so I shall have to do everything including the cooking & shopping.

I'm not really great shakes in the kitchen; I shall have to make things which she can manage to eat with only the use of her left hand. I can do an egg stir-fried rice in the wok, and maybe soups & porridge type things.

Any suggestions welcome please? 

 

[Smowball]

DDIL - he is great, honestly. He works long long hours, every day. And when he isn't doing that he will do what ever I ask or think needs doing, but he isn't a professional cleaner x

oh Khandro - I do hope she is ok. I'm assuming that after surgery she isn't meant to use the hand at all. What about things like mashed potato, curry, things like lasagne even if you bought a prepared one - could be eaten with just the use of one hand. 

[Canary42]

Good Morning Smow et al.   With the onset of increasinng infirmity I have thought about a cleaner but fear that I too would spend a lot of time getting the house ready for them 😁.

The same goes for getting a gardener.

Have a good day folks (no rain expected here).

P.S, I am amazed at how utterly incompetent some men are in the kitchen. They should be ashamed of themselves.

 

 

[Khandro]

//..I am amazed at how utterly incompetent some men are in the kitchen. They should be ashamed of themselves.//

😔

 

[Hazlinny]

Good Morning!  Smow, I think you might find it difficult if you saw a cleaner not doing things the way you would like them to be done?  However, you often seem to be unwell so it might be an idea to have help for the not so easy jobs.  Going back to a previous thread, did your friend ever discover if neighbour had actually died?
 

[DDIL]

But you work too and of course we can only go on what you post on here but you do the driving whilst he sits there and 'works' despite barely being able to move!

My beloved told me the other day 'I have emptied your dishwasher'!! I promptly told him that it was not my dishwasher, those dishes are the dishes that he also ate off of and that if he didn't drop the attitude it will be the last meal I cook for him!

It just annoys me that some men have to be told what to do! Also, the professional cleaner bit - is a cop out - he doesn't need to be a professional cleaner to mop a floor or run a hoover over it!!

[Canary42]

///// your dishwasher'!! /////

That's amazing, so 19th Century.  

[Rosetta]

I gave in the middle of last year and we now have a cleaner for 2hrs every fortnight. its been a godsend given OH and my health problems. She does the heavy things like bathrooms, hall and stairs, bedrooms. At first I tended to tidy up before she arrived but I am over that now and I don't think I could keep on top of things without the help 

[calda49]

Good morning Smow and everyone. I agree with Rosetta. I had a cleaner in the past and used to tidy up before she came, but once I got over that she was a blessing.

Khandro: Pasta meals in the microwave are great if you are eating one handed. I especially like macaroni cheese with an avocado cut into slices. Also Ben's Original Rice in the microwave has lots of flavours and you can add all sorts to it, even meat if it is cut up. A tip : before you cut the packet to put in the micro,lay the package flat and with a clenched fist break the rice up so it is not in clumps. I would imagine fish fillets would be manageable also.

Hopefully getting the lawn cut later on today and might have a go at tidying up the borders. Weather here is dull but fine and no rain forecast.

Have a good one everybody.

[Smowball]

Yes I do admit that despite OH working very long hours he actually rarely leaves the house(that's a sore subject, not for today lol). If I ask him to do anything at all he would do it, he just doesn't think of the things that I see that need doing - maybe it's a woman thing lol. 

[Smowball]

Hope your wife's op went well Khandro.x

[Cloverjo]

Hi, I do have a cleaning lady. I felt uncomfortable with the situation at first as I'm not a typical 'having a cleaning lady type person'. I inherited her when I moved in with husband. I'm perfectly capable of cleaning for myself, but I'm a bit lazy. She does all the floor mopping that I don't bother doing. 
 

I think getting someone in once a week would be great for you, Smow. Like you, I'm a bit bothered about her changing the bedding so she doesn't do the bedrooms. 

[Blubster]

I have a cleaning lady (actually daughter No. 2) who cleans the house every Tuesday as I'm not able to do the work myself. She does an excellent job, I have to say, vacuuming, and dusting, and changes the bedclothes once per fortnight (including changing the duvet cover, a horrendous job). When she's finished, the house looks amazing, and I'm reluctant to disturb anything. 😊

I pay her £30, and it takes her an average of 2–3 hours. Money well spent.

Daughter No. 1 cuts the Longeat-sized lawns and tidies up the garden once per week. She's just finished doing it today for £30 - again, around 2 hours.

 

[calmck]

I have a cleaner three hours twice a week, daughter of the cleaner my sister had till she retired at 72. Cleaner not daughter that is. I strip the beds and she puts the clean sheets on, hangs the laundry out that the machine washes overnight. Laundry is also for daughter and 2 grandkids. She puts dishes away, mops or hoovers floors, does windows on rotation, irons. If I am away she sleeps over to feed animals morning and night. She leaves during the day. Pay is €7.50 an hour and 10 euros a night if she stays over