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Katydid13's avatar

If anyone in DC is looking for a co-op house cleaning service, I highly recommend https://www.dulcehogarcleaning.com/

It’s a co-op of BIPOC primarily women. You can have the same person regularly.

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Rebecca | Your House Machine's avatar

There is so much guilt around hiring someone to clean your home. My take: there is still SO MUCH domestic work to do in addition to scrubbing the house clean, so if you can afford it by all means hire it out. Do the things yourself that you can't outsource, but outsource everything you can (ethically of course).

We don't get twisted up about using a dishwasher, hiring Land-O-Lakes to churn our butter, letting others milk the cows (or cashews) for us. We don't have to do all of the things by hand ourselves to be a good person. (KC Davis emphasizes this so brilliantly in her book "How to Keep House While Drowning.")

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