1. Marital Harmony When both
spouses are working full time jobs,
plus raising a family, home life can
quickly become a battleground when
it comes to house cleaning. No one
wants that. In order to keep the
peace and avoid using cleaning as a
trigger to your marital concerns,
why not hire someone to do the
cleaning for you? It may just be a
better investment than most mutual
funds. It will certainly show far
greater returns in a much shorter
time, not to mention it is far less
expensive than couples’ therapy.
2. More Time to Spend on
Hobbies, Recreation and GASP Your
Family. Remember all those things
you find yourself saying you wish
you could do, “If you just had the
time?” Well, make the time by giving
up a chore that most likely isn’t
giving you the warm and fuzzies
anyway. By setting a scheduled
maid service into your weekly
routine, you will find that tidy up
is a breeze allowing you the
opportunity to take up welding, free
form poetic haiku or whatever turns
your crank.
3. Some Services
Will Let your Pet Out for You.
Anyone with pets knows that their
little bladders may not be up to a
full time workday left alone in the
house. Many cleaning services are
more than willing to let your pet
out into the backyard for a romp,
while they clean and to let poochie
back in again before they leave.
Rover gets some fresh air and a
potty break and you get the peace of
mind knowing that there may just be
one less carpet
stain removal for the cleaner to
work on.
4. Coming Home to a
Clean House is So Much More Fun.
Imagine your spouse took a secret
day off to clean your home top to
bottom to surprise you! Right, like
that would ever happen, but it would
be wonderful wouldn’t it? So why not
arrange for it to happen on a
regular basis? Walking in to your
home and smelling fresh clean
carpets and seeing dust free shelves
may just be better for your blood
pressure than yoga. It certainly
couldn’t hurt.
5. Reliable,
Unlike Your Ten Year Old and Spouse.
Not to harp on the lack of cleaning
support from all the family members,
but are they really pulling their
weight? Are you doing way more than
your fair share? If you find you
have to beg, plead and blackmail
people into doing chores, you may
find that your time at work is
becoming your escape from
cleaning supplies. Home should
be a relaxing refuge not a battle
ground, so why not hire a cleaning
service and stop trying to guilt the
family into action. After all, they
are probably just as overscheduled
as you and as an added bonus you
won’t dread those impromptu In-law
drop-ins. The house will be clean
tidy and ready for you to argue
about something completely
different.
6. Easier on our
Overscheduled Lives. With work and
extracurricular activities like
sports, music lessons and dance
classes filling up all of our waking
hours, there may not actually be any
time to clean. It happened to us.
Hiring a
cleaning service didn’t mean we
could do more (I put my foot down),
it just meant that we could what we
were doing and not look like a worst
case scenario for the next episode
of “Hoarders.”
7.
Convenience. It couldn’t get any
easier. Find a company that you feel
comfortable with. Word of mouth is a
good start, followed by a little
research through referrals. Decide
on a cleaning schedule that suits
your needs and budget and Voila. You
can go to work knowing that one less
task is glaring at you when you
return home. Provided you ask the
necessary questions before choosing
a service, you can rest easy knowing
that an experienced cleaner is
taking care of your home and leaving
it in a better condition than they
found it in.
8. Another Pair
of Eyes on Your Home When you are
Away. Many people work outside the
home and are concerned that their
home and belongings are unprotected
while they are absent. Having a
regular cleaning service can act as
an extra
home security measure that will
give you greater peace of mind.
9. Those Shower Fan Filters May
Actually be Cleaned More Often Than
During Resale Open Houses. We all
have house blindness. We see the
memories we have made, we see the
toys on the ground, but we may not
see the accumulated dust, dirt and
debris that can gather in the
corners. A cleaning service will
clean parts of your home that you
may have never got around to
cleaning or may not have realized is
cleanable. Things like that
bathroom fan that may be clogged
up with more hair than your shower
drain.
10. Satisfaction
Guaranteed. You can always fire
someone who isn’t cleaning up to
your standards and expectations.
Start with yourself. When you employ
a service, you set the agenda and
the standard. If you aren’t pleased
you can discuss it with them and ask
for more. Which is so much easier
than berating yourself for never
getting around to the outside
window washing.
Devon
Delaney advocates the wise
employment of cleaning professionals
as the true path to a happy family.
When not sitting back and relaxing
in his sparkly clean home, he is
contemplating the mysteries of the
universe as they pertain to the
miracle of vinegar as a
pet odor removal.
