Joy- I can agree with that. I was told once if you make more during the time it takes for somebody else to do it then it make financial sense. For example. If you made $30 an hour and hired somebody to clean for $15 and hour you are best to do this and then spend time with kids etc. Like I said times are different and I have to clean my own boxes now. No I don't make $30 an hour and never did. That was pure example.

I did a little landscaping on the side this year. With some of that money I hired somebody to take out some sod. I usually do it myself and have turned most of the yard into gardens. I don't rent a sod cutter. I do it with a flat tool used for not sure exactly but scrape ice up sometimes with it. Anyway I just didn't want to cut any more sod. Cut some gardens at my extra job too. A lot actually. I couldn't do any more.

I feel like I accomplished something after I have done mine.

I HATE scooping kitty poo and when times were better I DID hire somebody to do it. Not any more though!! I will do everything in the house if hubby just clean the box !) I think it was $50 a month. She would come weekly.

When we put laundry on the second floor and bought front loaders I do it all the time now. I hated old nasty units and icky old basement.

I've never understood able bodied people WITH TIME, hiring someone to do basic household chores. It used to be considered a status symbol,now many of us see it as a laziness symbol. This is the only physical work out many of us get. I do understand busy working Moms and Dads hiring someone to do this if it is an option, but most are unable to fork out the extra cash. Maybe it's just me because I can't understand women who have their hair done once a week either.

What would dog owners do with all the time, attention, and energy spent on dogs if they didn't have dogs?

That's why we'll never get another dog. There's enough to do in life, let alone take care of a dog.

Trained my puppy to poop in the bushes.
dini79- call me we'll trade chores.
twerp 13- I agree completely.
JoyM- best money you'll ever spend.
Guest1234- not looking for a job are you? It'd give you that disposable income you're longing for ;-)
pss3270- serve PB&J 5 days in a row. Family will start helping with choices. Or check online there are websites dedicated to just that. Meals and grocery lists.
My chore of hate? All indoor housework. I told my spouse, "I'd rather build a house than clean one."

Planning meals and grocery shopping. I don't mind putting groceries away or preparing and cleaning up after meals. It's just the foresight to plan different meals and then make sure I buy everything. Never fails, even though I write a list and shop by the list that I forget something. Then, when I make a meal someone has to complain that they don't like it or we're having this again already. My husband and I both work full time and have 2 grade school age kids. I don't have the time or energy to be creative in planning meals and then having the patience to fight my way through the grocery store every week.

My first job was as a housekeeper at a hospital. You learn to clean thoroughly and quickly (and with really, really powerful stuff).
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Unfortunately, I hate doing the things that strangers really can't do for you, like filing paperwork, sorting through boxes, and putting away laundry. Maybe I wouldn't mind those as much if all the other chores were done (toilets, windows, dusting, dishes, laundry, pets, floors). Maybe I will test that theory someday when I have greater disposable income.

I hate heavy housework and always have. When we built this house we had two little kids and opposite shifts, so I hired a cleaning service to do the heavy stuff every other week (toilets, floors, sinks, tubs, vacuumining) for $80 a time. I'm salaried, so if I ONLY (hah) work 40 hours a week, that is $1 an hour out of my salary to NOT have to do something I hate. Then it (theoretically) gives me time outside of work to do other things like laundry, yardwork, etc. Even when my husband was out of work, and we cut way back on other things, this was not yet on the chopping block when he got back to work, because I was still working and he was actively looking for work.

The cat box is worse than doggy doo. I'll gladly pick up dog doo doo in exchage for kitty box cleanings LOL.

I'd be so happy to clean the refrigerators of others in exchange for some of the chores around my house.