SunShakSunday #18: Some Light Housekeeping

Dia and I have a housekeeper. She comes every Monday to clean our home and do our laundry while we are at work. It’s the best. thing. ever. 

Completing household chores has been a point of contention in our relationship ever since we moved out of my parent’s place. I take full blame. I cannot help but keep score when it comes to completing tasks around the house.

I hate admitting this, but I get frustrated when I hit all of my daily responsibilities for the week, and Dia fails to do laundry or clean the bathroom.

I finally got to a point where I was tired of making my wife feel guilty for not doing her responsibilities. Especially when our social lives and my desire to be with her doing nothing were the main things preventing her from getting her part done.

After seeing the benefits, both tangible and intangible, Dia and I agreed: paying a housekeeper was worth every penny. If we had to tighten up our budget in the future, housekeeping would be one of the last costs we would cut.

At the end of the day, I’m really glad we decided to stick to the decision of outsourcing our housekeeping and laundry. I’m looking forward to bickering with Dia about more things neither of us want to do and ultimately outsourcing them.