If my math is right, then 20 pounds = $31.20. I can’t imagine any housekeeper working for $31.
Heck, out here is West Texas, where COL is relatively low, you can’t find somebody to come to your house once a week for less than $100, and that’s if you pay them cash because they’re illegal. A “reputable” company will cost $150 at an absolute minimum.
Not to hijack the thread, but I find this 100% unbelievable.
The cleaning cost is minimal - I think his point is that his wife accuses him of being lazy, but does no work herself, instead hiring a cleaning service to do her housework.
And yes, a polish cleaner charges£10ph which is standard rate in London. Min wage in texas is $7.25ph which is half what I pay my cleaner, so I don’t see why it’s unbelievable.
Mrs and I apologized to each other. Turns out I was being the tw@t and it’s my fault. But I have managed to set a spending budget for ibiza which will be £600 for the 3 days. I am pretty broke right now…but payday is on the 25th so hopefully see me back into the black. And she has promised to rain the spending in for the rest of the year and until we get the house fixed.
She has also said how grateful she is for the things I do in the house etc and she was wrong for all the horrible things she said… So I am more happy now.
Thanks for all the advice. Sometimes I just wish I could marry you guys instead (no homo).
Get a divorce ASAP. She won’t change and you’re just hurting yourself emotionally and financially. I have a good friend that is going through this right now.
the way you tell her parents is important. don’t call them up abruptly and demand they take action. next time you’re drinking with the father-in-law, let it slip. he’ll then quietly relay it to the mother-in-law. then the MIL will rain down pain on the wife. then you can say to the wife that it never was your intention but that they have a good point. this is a great way to avoid a major conflict and get the job done. always let the MIL be the aggressor. that’s what they’re good for.
Not quite related, but I am now a personal hater of trophey wives. I just had the (dis)pleasure of meeting a client’s bimbo wife on a home engagement. She was pushing a 9 on looks, a 5 in personality, and a 3 in intelligence. I don’t know how the fugg he puts up with her. She was nearly worthless when it came to performing anything a normal housewife could do. She couldn’t cook for shit, bitched about cleaning, and constantly tried to jam her political/social views on our business conversation. I don’t know how this (rich) poor sap puts up with her.
As a respected financier, I feel it’s my fiduciary duty to link him to the craigslist depreciating asset dating post. This poor guy will be with a dried up saggy broad in a few years and begin sucking him dry for lipo, cosmetic surgery, and so forth.
Like my pops always said. Appearance is only skin deep. This works for beauty as well as color.
