The two hands down best things I've done this year:
1) Buy a pair of slippers. I had always thought of this as a needless luxury, but they make my life way better.
2) Hire a house cleaner. I had resisted having someone else do what I can do for myself for a really long time. But it became pretty evident that I couldn't do this for myself, as was evidenced by my utter giving up on cleaning. Now this did not bother anyone else in our home, but me. Now, every two weeks I come home to a totally clean house. It's pure bliss.
She also rearranges things. I thought I would hate this, and I slightly do, but really, it's so comforting to have other people move your stuff into slightly better (and sometimes wrong) places. It's like having your mother visit.
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I love professional cleaners. But I hate not being able to find anything in my kitchen for the next three days. I also hate being at home when they come b/c I feel so guilty that I'm just sitting around and not helping to clean my own disgusting house, made disgusting by me, so I always have to flee in advance.
Ah yeah--I've never been home for it--and am always happy to come home to a clean house at the end of the day. This week she took one of our left over jam jars and used it as a toothbrush holder. Ingenious! Before that they'd been in a paper cup (because she put them there). Before she ever came, they were just laying there.
House cleaners are AMAZING. Ever since we had Gregory we have used one - the combination of two working parents + kid(s) just makes using them make so much sense.
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