MIL offered to pay for cleaning service ...

mjartlip

... and my DH refused it! Who does that? He said "We aren't the cleaning person type of people. I can clean in 10 minutes." Granted, he is a GREAT cleaner, but i imagine life is going to be much different with baby around. Plus he's not a deep cleaner, which is what a cleaner would do.

 What do you think? Would you take your MIL up on a free cleaning lady for a couple months until you get in a routine?

ladipale

Yes, I would take the offer! When my husband was studying for the bar, his parents paid for our house cleaner... we kept them. They come every other Monday and its the best thing ever.

Slosey

Although I LOVE the idea of a cleaning lady....I DON'T love the idea of taking anything from my MIL.  She is a real tool!  But, if you and your MIL get along really well and she doesn't hold things over your head and guilt you into things....I say go for it!

Molluskwrangler

I totally would, but my DH hates cleaning and would be all about it.

tfarabians

First I would beat dh over the head and then I would take up mil on her offer!!  BOTH you and dh will be exhausted for a few months after the baby arrives and he is not going to have the energy to clean and you will want things deep clean with a baby in the house. 

mjartlip

My MIL and I are like best friends. I know, weird, huh? My mother passed away six years ago, shortly after my DH came into my life. She's cautiously filled in in so many ways over the years. With that we've become very very close.

I'll try to breach the subject with DH again. What do they all do? I assume toilets, vacuum, dust all that?

tfarabians

mjartlip:

My MIL and I are like best friends. I know, weird, huh? My mother passed away six years ago, shortly after my DH came into my life. She's cautiously filled in in so many ways over the years. With that we've become very very close.

I'll try to breach the subject with DH again. What do they all do? I assume toilets, vacuum, dust all that?

Our housecleaners change the sheets on our beds, take out the dirty diapers, vaccum and mop all the hardwoods, scrub all the bathrooms, scrub the kitchen (right down to cleaning out the toaster, microwave and refrigerator) wash windows (inside only) dust and wipe down everything. Take out all the garbage and recycling.  Ahh I love coming home to wonderful clean house!  We have our housecleaners come every other week.

Rochell

Hell yea I would take that offer lol

tinytraxx

I would definitely take the cleaners. I told my husband we are going to get cleaners in here before baby comes for at least 2 deep cleanings. It needs it and I just dont have the energy to get into all the crevices.

M&M-7/7/07

I would take it, unless you have the hold it over your head later type of ILs. As long as they're not going to bring it up later on and use it to guilt you into doing something for them or paying them back, then that help would be amazing! My ILs are fantastic so I would tell DH to apologize to MIL for his stupidity and agree to accept the offer for a few months! From what some pp's have said about cleaners, it sounds like it would be a lifesaver while you're getting into a routine with LO!

mechanicswifesd

My MIL has offered to help clean my house and I have let her a couple times while she has been over and I stuck doing homework and she will kinda hang it over my head in conversation, but it depends on your situation and she is doing it in a way to help out since she is unable to be ther to help and isnt going to hold over your head, I would say go for it. If it works out well, take her out to lunch or do a gals day with her for a thank you gesture.

Doodle2011

You need to veto him on that and have him at least try it.  I would love to be able to afford a cleaning service....that is an awesome gift.

Ceefome

Um, if my DH did a boneheaded thing like that, he'd have to do all the cleaning to my standards and he'd find out that cleaning cannot be done in 10 minutes. 

I told my DH that we'll need to get a housecleaner a few times a month for a few months starting in December.  I'll be too big to clean bathrooms by then, and we might as well keep the service when the baby is little.  If my ILs offered to pay for it, I'd be over the moon!