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Hiring a Professional Cleaner? Questions to Ask

If the thought of spring cleaning leaves you with chills or you just want to free up some valuable weekly time that you might otherwise spend dusting and scrubbing, then it could be time to hire a professional cleaner for your home. Hiring a professional cleaner can be tough. first you actually have to find someone, and then you actually have to trust them to come into your home. I once knew one woman who booby trapped her house to see if her cleaner looked anywhere she wasn’t supposed to look. Some families skip the stress of a stranger by … Continue reading →

Is Hiring Household Help REALLY Out of the Question?

Earlier this morning, I wrote about how hiring temporary yard care help for the summer can be a good and efficient move for a single parent. Often, we single parents are on a tight budget and are reluctant to pay anything for extra help. It might be, however, that finding money in the budget to pay for a little household help can be money well spent and make our lives easier, and our families more peaceful. When most of us think of having a housekeeper, we think of someone like Alice from the Brady Bunch and assume it will be … Continue reading →