I've been thinking about getting maid for the past donkey years and now my eldest is 9 and youngest is 3 already. I have been "surviving" with the help of part-time maid, once a week, at one time 2x a week. My in-laws (not living with me) used to help with marketing until PP opens, then I do my own. Now hubby travels so often for work - away 2 weeks in a mth. Still considering getting maid but really unwilling to give up the privacy - don't even have room for maid if get one. What's your opinion of letting maid sleep in the living room? 5-rm flat is really small, already not enough room for 3 kids and study rm, how to let maid have 1 rm? I really would like to spend more time with the kids, reading to them, helping them with school work, just doing fun things together but I am always so busy with cooking and household chores. We are thinking of getting part-time to come in every day to relive me of cooking and chores and are willing to pay up to the cost of a maid or slightly more. Still considering, but also hard to get an affordable one and someone whom we can trust.
Anyway, thanks for all the tips and comments regarding hiring maid. Very useful.
It's better to do without a maid, got more privacy. 5-rm flat is really small hard to accommodate more people. Looking at how some maids behave at the parks are really frightening. Yes, we should give them more freedom since they are adults but some of them just don't behave themselves. Behave like spoilt teenagers and sometimes their actions endanger both themselves and their young charges. I personally feel that surveillance is key to ensuring that our maids don't step beyond acceptable boundary, like getting themselves pregnant.
