It’s definitely worth it and feels like it belongs in self care. For me, I work and function better when everything is clean but sometimes I don’t have time to go as deep of a clean as I want. It’s honestly like getting your hair or nails done — you can do it yourself but having a professional do it is way better

Don’t feel bad about it at all. Even though you could do it yourself, frankly, you won’t do it as well. It makes a big difference when a professional does it. That’s what you’re ultimately paying for. 

I had someone come in and do a "deep clean" of my apartment a few weeks ago and I was SO thrilled I paid the money for it. I did feel a little weird having people cleaning my space, and I did feel really awkward bc I was home working while they were doing it...but who cares? I'm sure some people will judge you, but if you have the money I think it's totally worth it. 1/2

I have done this before too! At one point, I had someone come once a month for a DEEP clean, and I just did Swifter cleans weekly myself. 

It's expensive (I was SHOCKED at how much it cost, but I was also in NY at the time) but it's worth it. It's a reset you can't do yourself. The one thing that made me uncomfortable was just being home while the person cleaned. I felt awkward about that and at one point offered to help? Which was even more awk.

But this is def worth it, enjoy your clean home!

My apartment has been in desperate need of a real down and dirty deep clean and to be perfectly honest, I'm too busy/wiped out most weekends to just freakin' do it already. I'm sick of looking at the place and caved and hired a local cleaning service because I know how good it will feel to walk into a truly CLEAN apartment.

I've never done this before because I never had it in my budget, nor did it even occur to me to just, hire someone else to clean my place. I have, however, hired movers and used TaskRabbit to have someone dig my car out of the snow, because eff that. 

The price was around what I expected (not terrible but also, I could probably use that money for something else) but I just have guilt that I should really just do this myself. Has anyone used a cleaning service before? Is it worth it or have I doomed myself to feeling bad for the foreseeable future? 

Hired a cleaning service and feeling sort of guilty about it