Writing that check every month … but it’s worth it!

I did it.  I broke down and hired a cleaning service to come in and do the heavy cleaning once per month.

I’ve tried before, but I was much more of a clutterbug then. (Lately, I’m all about getting rid of sh** … too bad my eleven year old isn’t.  But that’s the topic of another blog.)  The problem in the past was that there was just too much of that pre-cleaning thing going on.  (Gee, I have to move the clutter off the floor so that they can actually sweep and vacuum the floor!) or (Hey! Perhaps I should take all the dishes out of the sink and put them in the dishwasher!) etc. etc.

I’ve actually managed to become less cluttery and keep a reasonably tidy kitchen (in case it’s not painfully clear already, I am not particularly tidy.  I’m not the gross-yuckiness type (with science projects growing in dark corners of the house) but clothes strewn about, papers everywhere, piles of things on the stairs to take up?  Yeah, that’s me.)

Except, as I’ve said, I’ve gotten better.  But that whole scrubbing toilets and cleaning hard water stains and doing the floors REALLY well just did me in.

So I sucked it up and had someone come in for a deep clean … and the house was so awesome I had to have it once/month! (I aspire to once/week … we’ll see!)

It makes me happy, and since they come as a team, they’re super fast!  And for at least a few days (or, really, hours because as soon as C gets home from school, all bets are off) the house is nice and tidy and smells like woodpolish, which is one of the best smells in the world.

It’s not money I want to spend, but it’s worth it.

What’s your “it’s worth it” money-grabber?  A great car? A cleaning person? Regular spa days?

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