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Toddlers: 24 Months+
do you have a cleaning lady?
if you do, and its not too much trouble, can you tell me how much you pay her, and when does she go to clean.. i need some extra money and i'm gonna put my little add in the grocery stores near by and maybe get a little saturday job as a cleaning lady.. ideas please? i was thinking on doing it only on saturdays so dh can watch ds while i go and do that.. so please tell me how this works! thanks! 
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Re: do you have a cleaning lady?
We have one that comes every other week. I pay her $90 each time. She has 2 helpers most of the time and it takes her about 3 hours. I make sure that the house is picked up so that she can actually clean. She cleans the kitchen (empties dishwasher, puts anything that's in the sink in the dishwasher, wipes counters, cleans out microwave), bathrooms (shower/tub, toilets, sinks, mirrors), dusts and vacuums the entire house, and cleans all of our hardwood floors with the cleaner and mop thing. If I put the sheets in the washer in the morning, she'll throw them in the dryer when she gets there and then put them on the bed.
She has a key to our house so she always comes when I'm at work. I like that much better because then I don't have to worry about being in her way.
hell yes I do!
We go through Molly Maids because DH wanted someone licensed, bonded and insured in case something happened to them in our home.
They are $95 each time, and they come every other week. There are two ladies there and I can't imagine they are there longer than 90 minutes.
They charged me $200 to get the house "ready" for their first cleaning.
agree with pp - I got a house evaluation by the owner who decided how much our house would be based on size, number of knick knacks, pets, etc.
Mine will sometimes wash the rugs that are in the bathroom. She'll fold up laundry that might still be in the dryer from when I left it washing in the morning. Usually I'm washing sheets in the morning, so that's easier to fold up. One time she seriously went through my linen closet and straightened it up, it was a HUGE mess before that, now its all pretty. She is extremely detailed. She dusts in areas that I haven't dusted since we moved into the house (like on top of our cabinets, on top of our entertainment center, shoot our fans!!!!). She moves all of the couches out of the way and all of the toys out of the way too before she cleans the floors. She even polishes the legs on our dining room table! She even cleans the inside of our microwave and oven oh and even our tiny toaster oven I've noticed is cleaner than if I had done it myself. So yeah she does extra stuff. I was surprised that she would be there for 5 hours, I'll never get rid of her because of her extreme attention to detail.
Haha NEVER!!