{"id":130,"date":"2012-09-20T17:47:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T23:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=130"},"modified":"2013-02-06T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T19:25:06","slug":"thursday-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Cleaning Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ya wanna know how to save your family $500 in one fell swoop?\u00a0 Fire your cleaning ladies ($150 every two weeks) and start making lunches for your kids (instead of buying hot lunches at $3.50 a pop).<\/span><\/p>\n

More to come on the make-your-own-lunches effort because that hasn’t started yet (October 1st<\/sup> is when the magic happens there).<\/span><\/p>\n

Tomorrow is\u00a0supposed to be the two-week cleaning lady visit but I called this a.m. and asked them not to come (and used the job take as the fall-guy for why we couldn’t be customers any more). <\/span><\/p>\n

And now I\u2019m sitting here hyperventilating because I\u2019m not really sure I remember how to clean a house all by myself.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

I do know that there are two schools of thought here.\u00a0 The first\u00a0is\u00a0that\u00a0you do a little housework each day and by the end of the week, you’ve run through the list only to start all over again the following week.\u00a0 (I have a friend who subscribes to this school and in fact, she\u2019s the one I heard it from and this is now her biggest fear come true – to see herself highlighted in my blog!\u00a0 Hi, L.C.!!!)<\/span><\/p>\n

The second school (the one I will be subscribing to \u2013 Hi, L.C.!!!) is that you get \u2018er done once every two weeks.\u00a0 Kinda\u00a0like a cleaning lady employed by a working mother.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

But where to begin?\u00a0 Should I have some sort of caddy to carry all of my supplies in as I move from room to room?\u00a0 I can tell you right now the supplies will mostly consist of rubber gloves.\u00a0 I\u2019m gonna go broke from all of the rubber gloves I\u2019m gonna hafta buy.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine how the cleaning ladies feel cleaning up after someone else\u2019s barely-human children.\u00a0 It\u2019s MY family making the mess and I can\u2019t even clean a toilet without gagging my way through the whole thing.\u00a0 In fact, I think I need a rubber suit.\u00a0 And what about a harness?\u00a0 So I can carry the vacuum cleaner around on my back.\u00a0 Why were you<\/em> thinking I needed a harness??\u00a0 The only question now is whether it\u00a0goes over the rubber suit – or under?!\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

But really, the biggest conundrum that presents itself as I take over the housecleaning duties is what to do with the showers.\u00a0 Do I take FOUR showers on cleaning day?\u00a0 How do you clean a shower without actually TAKING a shower??\u00a0 This seems hard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I think about it\u2026I\u2019m not sure I EVER knew how to clean a house.\u00a0 Back before I had cleaning ladies, I vaguely recall some sort of debacle with the shower and a can of Scrubbing Bubbles.\u00a0 What I mostly remember was buying the Scrubbing Bubbles just to see what they looked like when they came out of the can.\u00a0 I mean, do the bubbles really smile and scurry around like that?!\u00a0 It gave me the same feeling of anticipation I had when I was a kid and bought those sea-monkey eggs from the back of the comic book.\u00a0 I placed them in the container in the sunlight just as instructed.\u00a0\u00a0And I waited.\u00a0 And waited.\u00a0 I was DYING to see those smiley faces on the monkeys.\u00a0 Would a few of them be wearing crowns like in the advertisement??\u00a0 I never did find out because the family dog, Lady, drank the water before they hatched.\u00a0 But really, were they ever gonna hatch and walk around with smiles on their faces and crowns on their heads?! <\/span><\/p>\n

Whatta scam.\u00a0 And it\u2019s the exact same way I feel about the bubbles.\u00a0 They don\u2019t smile.\u00a0 They don\u2019t talk.\u00a0 They don\u2019t even say weeeeeee as they go down the drain.\u00a0 And they sure as heck don\u2019t do your cleaning for you!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m loving the whole stay at home mom thing, but it may be worth it to get a job just so I can have my cleaning ladies back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ya wanna know how to save your family $500 in one fell swoop?\u00a0 Fire your cleaning ladies ($150 every two weeks) and start making lunches for your kids (instead of buying hot lunches at $3.50 a pop). More to come on the make-your-own-lunches effort because that hasn’t started yet (October 1st is when the magic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}