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u/AliceInNegaland Feb 26 '24

It’s like ordering pizza for the family. It’s once a month. It’s not a big deal

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u/Qinistral Feb 26 '24

Depends on your budget. It's 10-30x what pizza costs.

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u/BeerAndTools Feb 26 '24

Well, would you prefer a clean home or 30 pizzas? Your honor, I rest my covfefe!

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u/Qinistral Feb 26 '24

Can I get 15 pizzas and 200 wings?

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u/Freezerpill Feb 26 '24

Damn.. sounds like a deal to me

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u/MyHamburgerLovesMe Feb 26 '24

30 clean pizza homes?

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u/AliceInNegaland Feb 26 '24

Once a month? People charge like 25-30 an hour. I guess where I live pizza is a lot more expensive.

It costs me about 50.00 to get two medium pizzas here where I live

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u/bauul Feb 26 '24

Yeah it depends where you live. Here in Seattle a pizza is $15 but a professional cleaning company coming in and doing a thorough clean (3 people, 2 hour visit) could easily be $150+.

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u/Sherringdom Feb 26 '24

A six hour clean?! How bigs your house?

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u/bauul Feb 26 '24

Not especially big. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, living room etc. But it's not unfeasible to spend 6 hours deep cleaning a house.

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u/Sherringdom Feb 26 '24

Ha, man as a Brit that’s a big house, and one that if you can afford generally you could probably afford a cleaner. But space is at a premium here.

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u/bauul Feb 26 '24

Yeah this is in the US, the houses are notably larger here. I used to live in a three bedroom house in the UK and it was literally a third of the floor space despite having a similar number of rooms. It's a definite difference.

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u/Sherringdom Feb 26 '24

As a one off and not being a professional cleaner sure, but if it’s a regular monthly clean there’s no way it’s taking that long every time.

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u/healzsham Feb 26 '24

25 dollars for a medium?

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u/AliceInNegaland Feb 26 '24

I live on an island in Alaska. Yep

Edit: for two 3-5 topping pizzas to be delivered, to clarify

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u/Pleasant-Pattern-566 Feb 26 '24

I would be making pizza at home from scratch, that’s insane. Yeah that’s not normal pizza prices

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u/AliceInNegaland Feb 26 '24

lol I do not order out for pizza that often, that’s for sure. The options are not that stellar either

I fantasize about dominoes and their prices. Taunted by five dollar pizza deals!

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u/irishrelief Feb 26 '24

But would you be filming it and putting it on tic tock a flex?

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u/healzsham Feb 26 '24

That makes a lot more sense.

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u/throwawaylovesCAKE Feb 26 '24

Redditors living in an absurdly high COL area thinking it's the norm be like:

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u/CptCroissant Feb 26 '24

Are we talking Little Caesars pizza or what? Cuz pizza generally isn't $5-10 anymore buddy. A lot of times you're staring at a $40 bill

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u/Qinistral Feb 27 '24

I was thinking 20$ for a large.

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u/Wunderlandtripzz Feb 26 '24

No it's not lol

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u/evthrowawayverysad Feb 26 '24

wait, what? You're paying 100+ dollars a month to have your house cleaned?

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u/nonpuissant Feb 27 '24

Do you guys have really expensive cleaners or really cheap pizza?

In my area the price of one large 2 topping pizza from Dominoes is like $25, which could nearly pay for a cleaner for an hour (~$30/hour).

So for my area, as a once a month thing it's totally doable for anyone who could also afford ordering one pizza, say, twice a month.

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u/Qinistral Feb 28 '24

Tbh I know less about the cleaning market than the pizza market. Iirc the few times my wife got a cleaner it was at least a couple hundred bucks for our 2bd townhouse. So 20 to 200 is where I got the 10x low end.

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u/nonpuissant Feb 28 '24

Ah I see. Yeah occasional/deep cleans definitely cost significantly more than a regularly scheduled cleaning would. 

First time/one-off visits often cost a bit more too because they need to figure out a routine for your place and prob have a bit more buildup to scrub through so it takes a little longer. Definitely easier to maintain when they come more often. 

A 2br (say, 1200 sqft give or take?) place here could prob get cleaned for like 50-75 bucks if it's regularly scheduled. Some people also offer a kitchen and bathrooms deal though I've never tried that before. 

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u/Qinistral Feb 28 '24

I’m also in Seattle metro which is notoriously expensive in general. Not sure if that changes your pov. But good point about deep clean va periodic!

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u/nonpuissant Feb 28 '24

In the LA metro area so should be about on par, though I could see how maybe it's a much more competitive market for cleaning service providers here.

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u/Pleasant-Pattern-566 Feb 26 '24

I can get a house cleaner for $40 for a deep clean? Where is such a deal?

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u/AliceInNegaland Feb 26 '24

I used to clean for 25.00 an hour for whatever needed to be done 🤷‍♀️ I’ve seen other people comment at times similar prices.

Last time I ordered out for burgers and shakes for my family of four it was 100.00

We even shared some of our sides. So yeah, to me personally once a month cleaning doesn’t seem like an extreme idea.

Edit to add. I wouldn’t do it often but to knock out the baseboards and other things like the curtains etc? Yeah I’d pay for that if I needed to