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Thursday, July 22, 2010
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ALBANY, Ga. -- Projects expected to be financed by sales taxes are the planned topic at a monthly meeting in East Albany.
"It is a sneak preview of the Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax projects," said Albany City Commissioner Jon Howard. "These projects between the city and the county of Dougherty will be on the November 2 general election ballot."
Howard's monthly town hall meeting is planned to be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in the East Albany Law Enforcement Center, 1721 E. Oglethorpe Blvd.
The renewal of a proposed 1-percent sales tax could generate about $98 million for six years of city and county capital projects.
The discussion will include but not be limited to projects such as:
* $2.6 multi-sport recreational complex.
* $3 million for a SOWEGA Council on Aging senior citizen center.
* $2 million for a new building at Thronateeska Heritage Center.
* $1.7 million for Chehaw.
* $2.8 million to the Albany Police Department.
* $10.6 million to sewers, street resurfacing storm water drainage.
* $7 million repair of the Broad Avenue Bridge.
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The results of the NHIS-2000 were published in December 1997 (CDC 1997). This survey of approximately 21,000 adults was conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the National Center for Health Statistics. The survey estimated that, in 1995, 25.0 percent of the population age 18 and over were current smokers. Current smokers are defined as those who have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime and answer that they currently smoke, including those who smoke only on some days. This definition is somewhat different from the NHSDA definition of current smoking (any use in the past month) which resulted in a prevalence of 30.0 percent for adults in 1995. The 1997 estimate for adults was 30.8 percent.
School-based surveys have shown increases in smoking rates among students from 1991 to 1997. Past-month smoking rates found in the Monitoring the Future Study (MTF) were 14.3 percent in 1991, 21.0 percent in 1996, and 19.4 percent in 1997 for 8th graders. For tenth graders, rates were 20.8 percent in 1991, 30.4 percent in 1996, and 29.8 percent in 1997. For 12th graders, rates were 28.3 percent in 1991, 34.0 percent in 1996, and 36.5 percent in 1997. Small but statistically significant increases were found for high school seniors only between 1996 and 1997.
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey also found increases in current cigarette use among students in grades 9-12 from 27.5 percent in 1991 to 36.4 percent in 1997 (CDC 1998). The overall prevalences of lifetime, current, and frequent cigarette use were 70.2%, 36.4% and 16.7%, respectively. While the NHSDA trend for youth (age 12-17) smoking has not shown these increases, the NHSDA estimates for years prior to 1994 were apparently substantial underestimates because the data were collected without private self-administered answer sheets. When the NHSDA converted to the use of these answer sheets in 1994, the smoking rate for adolescents approximately doubled. This raises questions about the accuracy of the NHSDA measurement of the trend prior to 1994, even after adjustments are made to account for the effect of the new questionnaire.
The Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health (US DHHS 1994) included smoking prevalence data from a number of sources, including the NHSDA. Comparisons between the various sources were made and methodological differences were assessed. These comparisons were based on NHSDA data prior to 1994, which were based on the interviewer-administered smoking questions, and thus show low rates of smoking in the NHSDA, particularly among youth.
Results from the September 1994 to April 1995, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health described above) indicate that nearly 3.2 percent of 7th-8th graders smoked 6 or more cigarettes a day as did 12.8 percent of 9th-12th graders (Resnick, et.al. 1997). In addition, 7.3 percent of 7th-8th graders used alcohol 2 or more days in the past month as did 23.1 percent of 9th-12th graders.
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Mourners gathered to remember the 35-year-old East Point police officer that was found shot to death in her south Fulton County home less than a week ago.Friend, family and fellow law enforcement officers gathered for the funeral service of Corporal Crystal Parker at the East Point First Mallalieu United Methodist Church on Saturday.Parker's former roommate, Danielle Parker, was arrest this week and charged with her murder. Investigators says she was shot in the head. They are not releasing the motive behind the shooting.Cpl. Parker served with the East Point Police Department for six years. Last year, she received the distinct honor of being named officer of the year.
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The Coming Cloud Stock Shakeout
Dana is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
The recent fall in the price of Rackspace (NYSE: RAX) – from the mid-$70s to the mid-$50s – was just a preview.
The public cloud shakeout is coming.
In the face of falling earnings Rackspace continues cutting prices, locked in a death struggle with Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for public cloud services.
All four companies are growing expenses, despite stagnant top lines, because they fear other companies entering the market – everyone from the old PC companies like Dell to the old telcos like AT&T to the old web hosts, the space that Rackspace left.
They are right to fear this, because all these companies, and doubtless more, are building out their hosting capacity as fast as ever they can.
I have been covering technology revolutions full-time for 30 years, and have followed the cloud market intensively since before it began. I have learned to track technology industry patterns, which always repeat, and I have been tracking those patterns within this market. I'm confident things will proceed as they have in the past, in other areas. I call these patterns "clues," not because they're infallible but because they deliver clear indications of what is likely to happen.
So how should you play this?
Amazon is the Leader
Amazon.com is one of those companies you're always told to buy on weakness, but the weakness never seems to come.
Cloud is a big reason for this. Amazon doesn't break out its cloud revenues from its commerce revenues. Stock buyers are left with estimates from uber-bulls like Macquarie Research, which recently insisted that Amazon Web Services would be worth $19 billion if it were spun out.
Two problems with that. First, you can't spin it out because it is dependent on its parent for capital, and could not thrive as a stand-alone company. Second, that still leaves $98 billion in market cap unaccounted for, for a retailing company with a total of $61 billion in revenues (including cloud). Most retailers are worth a fraction of their sales, not multiples of it.
Any way you look at it, Amazon.com is overvalued. A great company, but overvalued.
The cloud shakeout is going to make this apparent to everyone, but it's important to note that the impact will mainly be to make Amazon affordable, not unattractive. This is the company you want to own.
Microsoft is a Problem
If you think Amazon is opaque about its cloud operations, it has absolutely nothing on Microsoft, with its Azure cloud.
While Amazon is at least selling its infrastructure, Microsoft is using Azure as the center of hope for its entire operation. So Xbox services run on Azure. Office 365 and its other software-as-a-service operations run on Azure. It's virtually impossible to break out Azure revenues as something separate and apart from Microsoft's other operations – they rise or fall together.
Too many of them are falling. While some operations, like Windows licensing and Office, continue generating revenue and profit for the same reason companies like Oracle do it – client lock-in – new operations of all sorts are slowly moving toward cloud, meaning away from Microsoft.
I think you want to avoid Microsoft. The argument will be made, when the weakness in cloud infrastructure revenues becomes apparent, that the company is buttressed by its other operations in the cloud. But this is a story Microsoft bulls have been selling for many years, and it still hasn't come true.
At best, you can hold Microsoft for the dividend. Just don't expect the cloud to open new vistas of profit for you.
Google is Your Best Bet
Google is a little like Amazon.com, in that it's overpriced relative to its performance. And its continuing cloud price war with Amazon.com is going to hit its next few quarters in the revenue.
The hope of the bulls is that all this will get hidden by search engine revenues, by gains at YouTube, and by commerce, not to mention Android and Chrome hardware. But the hardware is a giveaway, the YouTube and commerce programs are unproven. This is a company that lives on advertising.
But Google is the company you most want to own in this space, and there's a simple reason for that.
Google has invested very heavily over the last decade in order to make its cloud infrastructure the best, and the cheapest, in the industry. It has more than succeeded. That's why it offers so many free services, often without advertising. It owns its own fiber, its data centers are built for cash and written off very quickly, and nearly all incremental revenue drops to the bottom line.
This assures that Google can survive any price war. While other companies, even Amazon, need to measure revenues against costs, Google just doesn't. It's letting Amazon lead the price war, responding rather than acting first, but it's more like a poker player that is letting its opponent raise the pot than a company that has to fight to respond.
For the Rest, a Struggle
I started this analysis with Rackspace and I'm going to finish there. I think it's going to struggle to survive. I think it's going to be taken out, at some point, by a stronger player. Not at current prices, but at a substantial discount to them, as the damage done by the cloud price war becomes apparent to everyone.
But however bad things may appear at Rackspace, there will be plenty of buyers from among those companies that are going to do worse. A phone company, or a computer company, could easily take Rackspace out, at a substantial premium over its soon-to-be-depressed price, as a lifeline, as a way to survive and keep its own customer base on board.
I don't know who that will be, and I don't know when, but that's the way these things generally work out, when you have a secular change like this, a slightly-open door only a few players can get through.
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I Told My Mom I Am Gay at Her Casket
It was early April 1997, a cold and unusually snowy day.
Sue Carswell: My friends from New York City were taking the train up to be there to pay their respects to my mother, who had passed away at 63. Before friends were allowed into Albany's McVeigh Funeral Home, there was an open casket for the family to say our formal goodbyes.
No one wanted to. No one wanted to stand in front of the casket, open, seeing her lying there ever so still. But eventually, members of my family took a deep breath and made their way toward her mahogany coffin. Sarah and I just sat in the front row chairs. We kept stalling until she said, "Let's go talk to Mommy."
And so we headed toward my mother, as the snow picked up its bluster outside. It was the most daunting image of my life, seeing my mother lying there, dead. Still, she really did look lovely with the Hermes scarf I had bought for her, tied around her head so lovingly. And she wore her favorite skirt and blouse. My mother always dressed like a classy lady. For some reason, I followed my sister's lead -- and we bowed our heads toward our mom.
Finally Sarah broke the ice and said, "Sue. Isn't there something you always wanted to tell Mommy?" I swore a bit that she had brought it up now, but finally said, "Why yes, Sarah, there is." Then I turned my head to my mother's closed eyes and said, "Mom? I'm gay." And for some morbid reason, my sister and I both just started laughing in the midst of the funeral home. It was all so depressing, but ridiculous that I was telling my mother I am gay not during her life, but when they were about to shut the curtain in the final moments of her now deceased life.
At that point, my father came running up to the casket because he wanted to know what was so funny. Sarah repeated it. "We're good. Sue just told Mom that she's gay." And then, after telling her how much we loved her, we walked away and only then began to wail. My sister cried for her reasons and I cried for mine, namely the fact that I kept something so hidden from my mother for almost five years, as I had come out late in life.
My father knew I was gay, and I remember he once said, "Your mother is fine with having her gay guy friends, but I just don't know how she will take the news about you." And so I never told her, even when I brought a girlfriend (or good "pal") up to stay at our family home. I never wanted to rock the boat with my mother -- and so I never thought it was worth losing her love over my declaring my sexuality to her. Was I a failure not to do so? I don't know.
That following Christmas, my father came down after my mother's death -- and we were enjoying a few martinis when the subject of my sexuality and the memories of my mom came up. "I do wonder what she would have thought if she had known," I said to my father. After a few sips, he said, "She did know. I just forgot to tell you." I was stunned. My mother knew I'm gay? Well, what did she say? "Oh, she was fine with it," he said. "She even mentioned we should talk about it when you came home again. But you know what happened. She learned she had breast cancer, and our world became all about that." Our world did become about illness and far less joy. It was my mother's time, not mine. But I do wish I had known what my father at least knew. I will always wish for that.
That said, have you told your parents that you're gay?
|Sue Carswell is a Vanity Fair reporter/researcher. She is a published author, former senior story editor for "Good Morning America," contributing launch editor for "O, The Oprah Magazine," former executive editor for Random House Inc, senior editor at Simon & Schuster, and former correspondent for People magazine.
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How I Made My Peace with Hiring a Housekeeper
Published on - February 19th, 2010 (Modified on - November 12th, 2013) (by J.D. Roth)
This is a guest post from my ex-wife. It's a response to the debate on Erica's recent article about outsourcing life.
J.D. and I have been employing an independent housekeeper for about 10 years. The one who's been working for us for almost five years, Michele, is fantastic and we feel lucky to have her. (We found her through Craigslist). Housecleaning is her full-time job.
It took us some time to get over our self-imposed barrier of hiring some help with the house chores. I'm not lazy, and it struck me as a weak, self-indulgent thing to do. But, as J.D. freely admits, he's a slob. We'd fight over the mess in the house, and time and time again would try to institute a "system" to keep it clean, only to fail once more and descend into arguments. With both of us working full-time, we wanted to spend our time at home in other ways than cleaning.
Still, I felt guilty for paying someone else to do work I didn't want to do myself. I admit it: It feels weird to pay someone to clean your toilets! And I felt guilty for even being able to afford considering "outsourcing" the housework. After all, anyone can do housework, right?
The "housekeeper dilemma"
Over time, however, I've realized that my guilt is misplaced. (Although it still lingers a bit.) Why would I feel any guiltier paying someone for cleaning my house than cooking my food at a restaurant, or growing my food at a farmer's market, or knitting a hat I buy at a cute store? I can cook; I can grow food; I can knit. But often I choose to pay someone else to do these tasks rather than do them myself. Why does the housekeeper, then, represent such obscene luxury in our debates on the complexities of social economics?
Primarily, I believe it's because we see our housekeeper face-to-face. We invite her into our homes and our lives. We see the struggles in her life (she's a divorced mom of two teenagers) in a way that is invisible for the many other jobs we outsource. The agricultural worker doesn't deliver pears to my door, nor the factory worker bring inexpensive mass-produced products to personally stock the shelves in my pantry. I don't directly pay the garbage-collector, the office custodian, or the guy who sweeps out the theater after J.D. spills all his candy on the floor. For these things, there's an insulating layer of "a company" between the producer of the goods and the consumer. With housekeeping, no such dividing layer exists.
Professional housecleaning, like agricultural harvesting, child-care, and many service-industry jobs, is a job that is frequently performed by people without much higher education or unique skills. (Or they are choosing not to use that education or skills, or perhaps there is no market for their particular talents.) These jobs are typically low-paying, but that doesn't mean the people who perform these jobs are unworthy. I'm all for a living wage, but the more specialized and rare your skills, the higher salary you can command if there is a market for those skills. It's basic supply and demand. And just because a job doesn't pay well does not mean that job is demeaning.
I won't pretend my housekeeper has such a "passion for cleaning houses" that it led her to this profession, but she's a survivor, and has chosen housecleaning for many personal reasons, not the least of which are the flexibility in her schedule, the freedom to choose the clients she serves, and the chance to be her own boss. The trade-offs include a physically-demanding job, inconsistent income, and a relatively low salary (due to not working 40 hours a week, although at $22, her hourly wage is decent).
I think another part of the "housekeeper dilemma" is the historical disregard for the value of work that has been "women's work", and the expectation that if there is a woman is in the house, she shouldn't need to pay another person (usually another woman) to do the tasks she is supposed to be doing herself. If someone is cleaning a house that's not their own, they must feel degraded, right? But any work can be found degrading, sustaining, fulfilling or mind-numbing. I doubt that those of you who clean your own toilets feel degraded by the process.
What matters is not so much the type of work but the working conditions and the self-respect possible for the worker. Michele knows her work is valued in our home. The days I come home after Michele has been at my house are like a treat to me! And she knows it — because I tell her. I'd gladly give up other expenses before I cut Michele out of my budget. For her part, I'm pretty sure she values having us a steady clients who always have the check ready on the table and share the garden produce in the summer months.
Everyone outsources
The popular opinion is that anyone can do housework (so you shouldn't outsource this labor), but does that mean that everyone has to? As GRS readers know, we grow and preserve much of our own food. That's something I truly enjoy. Housework? Not so much. Someone else might think canning applesauce in a hot kitchen on a 90-degree day sounds like pure drudgery; they'll outsource the task and get their jar of applesauce at the store. No one gives that a second thought, but there are a lot of outsourced laborers between the apple tree and that jar. Me? I'll outsource cleaning the kitchen instead.
In my mind, the bottom line is that everyone outsources. Unless you grow, harvest, and process your own food, make your own clothes from fibers you've produced and spun, build your own house, create your own power sources, and are completely independent from the long chain of people in the manufacturing economy, you're paying other people to do that which you do not want to do, don't want to make time to do, or lack the skills to do. In the modern word, specialization is the norm.
So, do what work works for you — I'll be in the garden.
J.D.: What sorts of people hire a housekeeper?
Michele: All sorts of people. Students, new mothers, women with careers. It's usually women, although lately a lot of men have been responding to my Craigslist ad. That kind of makes me a little nervous sometimes, but so far it's been fine. I think they're just trying to give their wives a break.
J.D.: Should people feel guilty about hiring a housekeeper?
Michele: No way! Why should they? I had a housekeeper for a while. I had so much going on that I didn't have the time to clean like I wanted, and I could afford it then. I'd do it again if I could. But I guess some people do feel guilty — especially women. There's this stigma: People think women should be able to do it all — raise the kids, go to work, clean the house — but they can't. A housekeeper helps relieve some of that stress. So I guess women feel guilty because they feel like they're not doing everything they should. But bachelors that hire me? They don't have one ounce of guilt! I think once people get past the guilt, they love having a housekeeper. It's just a matter of where your priorities are and what you can afford.
J.D.: How do you feel about cleaning houses? Is this what you see yourself doing the rest of your life?
Michele: Well, my passion is working with animals. I'd love to work in an animal shelter. And I'm a trained doula, but I just haven't done anything with that. So, I clean. But that's what I do anyhow. It's just what I do. It's in my blood. My dad owned a janitorial service. My sister cleans houses. My mother cleans houses. I clean houses. I like it. I like being my own boss. I like the variety, going from house to house, and I like the flexibility. Last time, you let me adjust my schedule so I could take my son to get a tattoo, for example. I couldn't do that if I wasn't my own boss. And it's pretty good money — if I can fill up my days, which is harder with the economy like it is. But I enjoy it.
This article is about Choices, House and Home
I have a really hard time paying people to do things for me. I always feel guilty.
One thing that I hate is getting my hair cut. I hate the feeling that someone is performing a service for me. It is funny that we feel this way.
I personally think this is fantastic! I would love to have a housekeeper. I love that you shared this story, Kris.
I like the way Ron put it (#2)…we hire people to do a lot of things. In fact, any of us that read a variety of personal finance blogs will see people talk about generating income with a side hustle. Find something that people don't have the time or skill to do and offer your services. This could be consulting, writing, organizing and yes cleaning.
I had a professional housekeeper a few years ago. When I was laid off I had to let her go. Now, I have outsourced the work to a teen in my church. It is an opportunity to discuss money matters with her such as tithing / giving, saving, and investing.
Next summer she wants to start her own business with cleaning and childcare and bring in some of her friends to help….Molly Maids and the Baby Sitters Club better watch out!
My mom cleaned houses for 30+ years. She started one day a week after the last child turned two years old so she could buy a pool for the family. She enjoyed housecleaning and it showed; she is good at it. People started calling her (heard about her from other clients). Some of her clients lived "uptown" – multimillionaires. Some were middle class two income families looking for some help around the house to save some time. They all treated her well, very appreciative of the great job she did.
With four kids, her time was flexible & she could change her schedule in pinch. She was able to get a lot of extras for our family (pool, some vacations at the beach, new furniture, etc), but she liked working for herself the most I think and she was very proud of the work she did. In no way, shape, or form was it ever degrading to her. It was something she was very good at it.
Now that she is retired, she helps out the kids every so often with spring cleaning. Thankfully, all it cost is a cup of coffee & some lunch and some good visiting and not the $20.00/hour she used to make!
Thanks for this. Thanks for reminding me that this needs to be first in line when the credit card debt is paid off!
I've gotten names and numbers from people before, but I've never pulled the trigger.
Very well put.
So JD spills candy on the theatre floor? What else does he do?
What a terrific post, Kris. Thanks for sharing this with us. We don't have a housekeeper, though we probably should. I could identify with your comments about arguing, then making a plan, then arguing some more. We do a lot of that.
Similarly, my husband is very handy and has the skills to fix most anything around the house. What he lacks, though, is time. Because he works full-time outside of the home and we have young twin daughters, he just can't get to it all. Yet it kills him to pay someone to repair something he knows he can fix himself, given enough time and the right tools. He's getting better at letting other people do things, but it's been hard for him.
I grew up in a home where my parents paid a 'cleaning lady' to come in every week. I am totally opposed to this now. Partly, I hate that it's always a woman, and partly, if you can handle your other chores, why not your cleaning? Personally, I would never have a cleaner.
Maybe the weirdness of hiring a housekeeper comes from that person being in your home? Comparing it to having someone cook your meals at a restaurant: How would that feel if the person cooked for you in your home?
Also, how do you people prepare for the housekeeper? Do you do a "pre-clean", just so you don't look like a slob? If that's the case, then I would say a housekeeper is a horrible way to spend your money!!
My wonderful mother paid for a housekeeper to come weekly when I was disabled. I had three children under 10 and had just had a horrible C-section with complications for both the baby and myself. The girl who came was wonderful! There was a tiny bit of "not the way I'd do it" to get over, but I was so grateful for the help that I got over it pretty quickly.
Now that the kids are (mostly) teens, I have lots of help. But I've written the cost of a housekeeper into my retirement plans!
We've been thinking of supplimenting our cleaning schedule with a housecleaner that comes in a few times a month. Just to make sure the best job is done as possible. You don't have to hire a housecleaner for every day.
Housecleaners appreciate the money because it puts food on their table. And if you're busy like J.D. and his wife Kris, a housecleaner sounds like it's a wonderful solution!
If you have the money and it improves your quality of life, then I would say jump on it! We are not to that point yet, but if my wife worked a full time job, the service a housecleaner could provide would be essential!
I think it would be a good idea to be out of debt first, and make sure you can afford it (like J.D.)…
What a great post–I think you're spot on. I'm going to bring up some of these points the next time my boyfriend and I have the housecleaner conversation.
I had been wanting to hire a housekeeper for a long time. I love having a clean house as much as I hate cleaning it. But I lived alone and felt like I should just do it myself. But when my fiance moved in, it was a great excuse to do it. We don't ever argue about chores. If his messes are around, I can just let it go since I know the house will be cleaned again in less than 2 weeks.
We do pick up before she comes, but that's b/c I want her to be able to spend her time actually cleaning, not putting away my stuff. And I don't mind tidying up (in fact I kind of enjoy that), it's the mopping the floor, cleaning the bathroom, etc that I hate.
The joy of coming home from a long day at work and seeing the entire house clean at once and smelling the freshly cleaned house is easily worth every penny I pay her!!
I love your point about 'seeing the housekeeper face-to-face'. I have felt that when I was purchasing an item I knew was probably constructed in a factory with horrible conditions that if the tag had a picture of that exploited worker with story of how the item was made I would be more active to NOT buy the item. It's taken me years to support only companies that have ethical business practices.
I have had a housekeeper, I have been a housekeeper, and currently have no housekeeper…..I miss my housekeeper!
I think Kris needs to contribute an article weekly!
We have a housekeeper as well and we love her. My husband and I both have full time jobs, he works 50+ hours a week. I also have a side job of tutoring on weekday nights. We found ourselves always cleaning house on the weekends and when we were busy or out of town things just did not get done.
Our justification is that I would rather tutor for 3 hours on the weekdays to pay for the housekeeper than clean for 3 hours at the house on weekends. It is a win, win for us both. Now we have a clean house and our weekends back.
PS…I never dreamed we would need a housekeeper for 2 adults with no kids, however I was listening to Suze Orman while cleaning the bathroom, thinking how much I hated this, when she approved someone with our income for a housekeeper. So I figured we could afford it too! Too funny, I am sure Suze would approved us as well.
I could never see us doing this, but we are pretty clean to begin with – you have to be with 2 nosy dogs and a 2 year old running around.
But I like your comparison to going out to eat and paying someone for that service.
I think Michele should raise her rate since you guys clearly value her!
My wife and I have discussed a housekeeper for two years and still haven't taken the step. For us, and particularly my wife, the biggest hurdle is the "how do we know we can trust her" question. Maybe I'm just paranoid, but that seems like a valid question. Aside from personal recommendations, does anyone have any tips for assuring yourself that the person you hire is someone I shouldn't be worried about being in my house unsupervised?
As to the sexism, why is this even an issue? Some jobs just simply have more women (or men) sign up for them. No one would ever tell a man he can't be a housekeeper — but have many of then actually want to do so?
This post was great. My wife is a stay-at-home mom and she works her tail off. Chasing around our son and keeping a 4,100 sqft home spotless. I have a $1,000,000 term life insurance policy taken out on her because if she died, there is no way I could afford to pay someone to do all that she does! Side Note: Ok, the housekeeper interview in this post was excellent…then she dropped the funny bomb, "you let me adjust my schedule so I could take my son to get a tattoo." Wow, that is funny. That is a sentence that I'm sure every mom doesn't think they'll ever say!! LOL
I thought about this a lot after spending some time in West Africa. It seems like everyone there (we mostly spent time with white ex-pats and missionaries) hires "house help". It was neat to see the relationship that the people we were living with had with their help — they were good friends, and there wasn't at all the feeling of "master/slave" that one automatically thinks of, when initially seeing white people hiring an African for labor. In fact, the wife in the house was, as often as not, working alongside the help.
We do not currently hire house help, but after that trip, I've often thought about the stigma that hiring help has in the States. I, for one, wouldn't mind being able to afford some trusted help for the house.
Great post, I really enjoyed it!
I used to clean houses in the summer and never once thought it was degrading. I was happy to have to the work and it paid a lot better than the grocery store job I also had. Cleaning houses was a lot better than cleaning grocery store isles and the people were a LOT friendlier that the typical grocery store customer!
If I ever have the money, I will definitely pay someone to help me clean. It's funny because I enjoy cleaning other people's homes, but hate cleaning my own! (Maybe because the work never ends at home….)
I'm not sure if justification for a housekeeper is a good way to save money in 99% of cases. Maybe for people who have the option to work long hours on overtime their money becomes worth less than their time. But for most people working 9-5 mon-friday on fixed income their time is worth less than their money. One way to get rich is to think like a poor person. Poor people don't have housekeepers. Rich people think like poor people and that is how they get/stay rich. Being lazy is a goodway to stay poor. If people are overwhelmed with work/life balance they should look at going part-time or 30 hour week. The homecooked meals, autonomous housework, less commuting costs, vehicle costs, wardrobe costs can make if financially advantageous. I like this website but once in a while there is a post about something clearly not in line with the purpose of the site…this is one of those posts. On the other hand working nights/weekends as a housekeeper is a great way to make extra cash. Efficent independant housekeepers can rake in 100$ per client/vist for doing some laundry and washing a few windows.
Kris: I think you've skillfully articulated the reasons why hiring a housekeeper makes sense – and JD added the reason why what can seem like a big expense is really a bargain. $180 p./month is cheap for marital happiness.
Bottom line for me: when we had more cash, we hired a housekeeper. I felt guilty as others do, but this woman was a professional – a small business owner. She didn't view her work as artistry, but she was proud of providing value to others, of making her clients happy, of making a decent living and supporting her family. She did a great job, our house looked and smelled wonderful, and no arguments over cleaning. So long as you're not going into debt to pay the housekeeper, I think it's money well spent.
My husband and I have had a housekeeper for over 10 years. And I don't feel guilty about it at all. I have my own business, my husband works long hours; plus, we both dedicate our free time to making art. Without our housekeeper, we would not have time for our passions. It's the most important line-item on our budget.
I worked for a cleaning co. for about a year after my employer moved out of the area. We were a 3 person crew: one would start dusting, next one followed them vaccuuming, 3rd would start on the bathrooms. When the duster finished they went to the kitchen and the other two also finished into the kitchen. We rotated the bathroom/dusting/vaccuuming jobs daily. The employer evaluated each house/business as to size/clutter/filth before giving a quote on cost. It was a good experience and I learned people that design/build/furnish houses haven't cleaned them and clutter and animals are a large percentage of any problem with keeping a house clean.
The one place I disliked the most was a mother with two toddlers that had moved from NYC recently. She watched us and allowed the children to get in our way. Our employer told us she indicated she wouldn't trust us.
I too, enjoyed working with plants more and quit to go to a greenhouse business.
This is a great post! My husband and I recently hired a cleaner ourselves to do the kind of cleaning that we totally fail at doing- it's been really worth it, and actually less expensive than I thought it would be(when a professional cleaner comes in, turns out it often takes less time than if I were to do it myself!) If you can at all afford it and don't like cleaning or can't devote the time you need to it, definitely outsource- assuming you're paying your cleaner a fair wage, it turns out to be a win-win situation for everyone involved.
I'm very much planning to play it by ear, but I would consider hiring a helper once my baby arrives. I've heard those early months are hell. Plus, my hubby will probably be working at his seasonal job at that time, so he won't be able to do it. We'll see. I have money saved if I want to go that route.
But truthfully, I'm really cheap and it would be hard for me to take the plunge. I'm just trying to be open-minded, because our lives are in for big changes.
I think its perfectly normal as we age (and hopefully prosper financially) to feel guilty about some of the "luxuries" we can afford that we couldn't have years earlier. I have a friend who owns a salon and charges me $50 to cut my hair (I go about every 2 months). For years (10+ years) I struggled to find someone to cut my hair – I didn't like the job anyone did be it the person at Fantastic Sam's charging $12 or the salon people charging $35-40. But my friend is great – sure she's expensive, but I can afford her and I'm FINALLY happy with my hair. I felt guilty at first paying an obscene amount for my hair, but I'm getting over it.
Also when my husband and I moved into our larger (and hillier) home we decided to hire someone to do the lawn. Our previous home was in a large city and we cut everything with electric lawn equipment – no way could we do that now. Frankly the thought of spending several thousand on new lawn equipment ($3600 to be exact), having to put it in our garage (where we'd rather put our cars), and having to do annual maintenance on the equipment was not something we wanted to do. Plus I suffer from allergies and can't always help with yard work. So the smart thing was just to hire someone affordable. I still find myself apologizing to my friends when they ask which one of us cuts the lawn. But I'm getting over that, too. And I'm breathing easier as well.
But there are still some things I haven't hired. I'm not doing a housekeeper – I don't have kids, just a large hairy dog, and I don't see why I can't do the housekeeping. I don't enjoy it, but I can't justify getting someone in here to do it. But if I had kids or won the lottery I think I could live with the "guilt" of a housekeeper.
I have many friends who NEED a housekeeper. I agree with Kris: if she goes out for dinner sometimes, and buys her clothes in a store, why not have a housekeeper if you both work so many hours per day (or week)? You're contributing to the economy.
Years ago, I had a male friend with a 18/6 sole proprietorship job. He figured out that it actually cost him $200/hour (his own fee) to clean his own house while he took time away from work, when he could easily pay a housekeeper $25/hour to do it once a week. He actually saved himself by hiring someone, and he felt good about helping a girl with her own job.
I know both you and Kris. I know Kris has a challenging job with hours that can go overtime. I definitely know that JD spends so many extra hours working as well. Consider shelving your mother's guilt to realize the actual financials of it all.
Nice post. I like the idea of doing this, but I doubt I ever will. My mom cleaned houses for a while, and I used to help her. I hated it.
Also wanted to point out that $22/hr sounds like a lot (it's quite a bit more than I make…) until you factor in that she's not getting paid to drive between all her clients, she has to buy her own cleaning supplies, and she has to pay self employment tax (so, double the income tax you'd normally pay). And she probably has no health insurance, or has to pay for it out of pocket.
My wife and I have a housekeeper clean our 1 bedroom apartment. She comes every three months or so for the "heavy" cleaning. She only charges $60/visit, and I really don't miss the $240 I pay her annually.
Haha, I liked this post (MUCH BETTER THAN ERICA'S). Good on you guys. I have a cleaning lady come once a month for the hard to do cleaning that I'm no good at (scrubbing floors, corners, behind the fridge, the oven, etc.) but generally do the dusting, vaccuuming, and bathrooms myself. It costs me $60/month, and its one of the best $/happiness bargains out there besides the gym for me.
Was anyone else gobsmacked by this line:
"Last time, you let me adjust my schedule so I could take my son to get a tattoo"
WTF. Call me old-fashioned but yikes.
I hired a small local maid service on the cheap as a valentines day gift for my fiance. We are both so busy with full time jobs and lots of interests and hobbies, not to mention my own side small DJ business that can take up entire weekends, we still had christmas decorations up!!
The girls that came over helped me get the house picked up and decorations put away. My house hasn't been this clean since an hour after I moved all my furniture in! The girls were fantastic, very friendly, amazingly helpful, fast, and they enjoyed getting paid a pretty dang good amount! Since it was a small local business with no franchise costs (like themaids.com business), the girls cost me a little less than those other services but their take home pay was much better. They LOVED that fact and it made me feel great. I was saving money and helping these small timers buy food for their families!
It was tough though, I was super nervous waiting for them to show up. Being my first time I didn't want to offend them by having such a dirty unorganized home, and I was literally nervous about it. But they laid it down and said "We're here because we need work and we need money and we're happy to help people out and make a difference in their life".
Walking into a freshly cleaned house, all organized and no christmas decorations, was like walking into a sanctuary. There's a big stress factor that can constantly loom over you if your house is unorganized or dirty and you have trouble finding the time to do everything you need and want to do. The calming effect of walking into my house without thinking "I'm going to have to spend alllll weekend cleaning this place up on top of my other stuff" was more than worth the cost of the help.
Needless to say, I'm sold. I will never hesitate to call these people again to have them come out and clean my place. I can't afford them every week or anything like that, but just once in awhile every couple months or something, I will have them out now I think.
Great post Kris! I'm glad you brought up the stigma of hiring out "women's work." I thought the same thing when reading some reactions to Erika's post, and it also, in my mind, intersects with the Motley Fool guest post here on the financial gap between men and women. It is interesting that your housekeeper noted that women feel guilty but bachelors do not. Ladies, learn from the men, we cannot do it all
To Bob, #26, everyone has to figure out if a housekeeper is "worth it" The simplest way for us is that we make more per hour than what we pay the housekeeper. However, my per hour is close. But I have used my free time to work and go to school, so that when I graduate I will be making a large jump in income, my raise alone will be 7.5x what we pay the cleaner. So it is worth it. To me, it is a long-term vs short-term view of your # asset, which is one's own earning potential and career path.
LOVE this post. It answers a lot of questions I've had about whether to hire someone to clean for us. One question: how do you handle the tax/FICA issue?
This was a great article, thanks! I find it very closely parallels our decision to hire a lawn service company a while back. I feel like there's a certain expectation that a guy should cut his own grass, and I still feel a little weird at times when it comes up (even though most people in my neighborhood have moved in this direction over the years).
In the end it boils down to the fact that I would rather spend my free time on the weekends playing with my kids on the lawn rather than cutting it. Worth every penny.
Great post Kris…I'm a new home owner,and LOVE the idea of having someone clean my house. The only problem is how do you find someone you can trust to let in your home when you're not there? I have a full time career during the day, and am in grad school at night, so I would never be home when they would be over to clean. I tried checking the Orlando craigslist postings and was a little overwhelmed…any suggestions for finding a trustworthy house cleaner in a big city?
For all the reasons mentioned here, we thought long and hard about hiring a housekeeper to come in twice a month.
Now, I can't believe we waited as long as we did! It has reduced my stress level like I never would have imagined and I think it is some of the best money we spend in our rather frugal budget.
Great post Kris! Could you do a small follow-up post on how to find a good housekeeper? I don't like the idea of someone new coming into our home when we're not here. How do you get over that and how do you initially interview someone? Thanks!
To Lynn #39.
Your point is totally valid. I just fear that some/many people may not be making use of that extra time. My father's wife used to clean houses. 25-50% of the houses she cleaned were the households of "yuppie" hosuewifes. None of them were millionaires or anything. They would drink wine and watch TV or run on the treadmill while she cleaned. This was only a year ago…at the height of a recession!
But like I said in some cases sit makes sense…I would argue in many cases it should be the first thing to cut when going onto a tight budget. I don't think household cleaning is "that hard". I like to keep ontop of things and do abit at a time to avoid needing to do a massive amount at one time.
I have 2 small children and 3 dogs, my husband I both work full time, and I am also working on a Ph.D. in engineering. Between the commute, the kids, the dog hair, and school, I just wasn't able to keep the house where I wanted it. As soon as I got something clean, either my husband or the kids would mess it up. Or, I would spend all of my weekends trying to clean and wasn't getting quality time with my kids. My husband and I have totally different standards of clean also, and we were fighting about it a lot. Finally, we sat down and I told him that it was really stressing me out, and I really needed the help. I felt terribly guilty about having the service come in, but it is SO worth it. Aaron and I both agree now that we could give up a lot (cable, cell phone) before we could give up the cleaning service. It is like Christmas every 2 weeks to come home to a spotless house! I feel like I have bought time with my family back by spending the money, and I've outsourced my stress! I love to cook and can, just like Kris, so I've had more time to pursue things like learning to make my own chicken nuggets (for the kids), granola bars, spicy black bean burgers, and I now bake all of the bread for our family.
Oh, and J.D., you are getting a really good deal- we pay $115 every 2 weeks, and I'm certain that your house is larger than ours! Michele should ask for a raise!
I guess I'm in a different demographic than a lot of your readers. My wife is a stay at home mom and we get by on my income. We don't have to pay for day care, or a maid so she can work. I agree with what bob said above "Being lazy is a good way to stay poor."
I'd just like to add that like Peggy #13 there are times that the help from someone cleaning can be very justified.
When I cleaned our crew's favorite place wasn't the cleanest.
It was the family that's life did a 180 when the father was paralyzed in an accident. The mother went to work with a long commute and they had two teenage boys. It was obvious from pictures in the house that the father had been very active in sports with his sons. Even though the boys didn't pick up their room like they were suppose to, we worked harder, did more and asked if there was anything more we could do (the only place we did). They didn't need on top of it all a depressing, dirty house. The man was very nice, stayed out of our way and was very appreciative.
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Jameis Winston picked the wrong week to shout something demeaning to women. The NFL is in freefall, with limbs reaching for a toehold like Wile E. Coyote after he begins to plummet. The commissioner is explaining why he shouldn't be fired. Two pl...Blog | September 20, 2014
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PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- In his first three seasons, they said about Gary Nova what they've said about Rutgers for a long, long time. The potential is there, but where are the results? Nova has the body (6-2, 220). He had the pedigree. Nova went 24-0 a...Blog | September 12, 2014
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If the referendum for a transportation sales tax in metro Atlanta fails this month, the cause is likely to be a lack of trust.
The most obvious trust gap is the one that separates most tea partyists from government spending. No surprise there. But the trust deficit that matters most in the July 31 vote, and the one that runs the deepest, separates white and black in metro Atlanta.
Or, if you prefer to keep things on a more civilized plane, it creates a divide between Democrats in Fulton and DeKalb counties on one hand, and Republicans in the other eight counties on the other.
All along, the strategy for passage of the transportation sales tax has been based on keeping the vote close in GOP strongholds such as Cobb and Gwinnett counties, then running up the score with strong African-American support in Atlanta and areas south of I-20.
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SPIRIT LAKE, Idaho -- Teachers across North Idaho are celebrating the defeat of three education reform laws.
Idaho voters rejected all three of Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna's laws to overhaul education.
The reforms, passed by the 2011 Idaho Legislature, limited union bargaining and job protection for teachers, promoted merit pay, created online-class mandates, and leased laptops for high school students.
Kristie Mitchell and Kathy Gray teach in schools in Spirit Lake, Idaho, who said they were hurt and insulted the law existed in the first place. Mitchell and Gray disapprove of merit pay, and do not believe a computer-based program can replace what teachers can do in the classroom.
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Erick Erickson, the editor of RedState.com and a conservative commentator for CNN, has a new book coming out. Here he gives us a sample of what to expect. He doesn't have much good to say about the two major parties, but dismisses third parties out of hand.
They're all terrible. All of them. Democrats. Republicans. The so called "leaders" of both parties do nothing but compromise away our freedoms. The good guys are few and far between and need reinforcements…
Therein lies the terrible conundrum for voters. We're not choosing the lesser of two evils. We are choosing between the assorted evils of two lessers. The problem is compounded by a very simple fact: there are no betters than these two lessers. No third party is or will ever be viable. The deck is stacked against them. [emphasis mine]
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Fargo-Moorhead area leaders spent Friday morning at the state capitol pleading their case for state funding for the Red River diversion project. Amendments to the state water commission budget, approved by the house last week may threaten the project, saying no state funds could be used until federal funding is assured.
Before the Senate appropriations committee at the state capitol Friday, area leaders had an hour to plead for changes.
"It's very important that you understand that the amendments as they stand right now are very problematic for us," stated Cass County Commission chairman Darrell Vanyo.
They want to change several portions of the newly amended house bill, seeking to alter sections that say public funds cannot be used for ring dikes and water retention projects... something Oxbow mayor Jim Nyhoff questions.
"10 miles south of Fargo where there's a 50-year flood, Oxbow has a 100-year flood. We need a ring levee," Nyhoff says.
Another change would delete a section that sets a cap of $325 million dollars for flood control.
"This may be questioned by congressional people reviewing our project and our readiness for financing," Vanyo explains.
City leaders also want to point out the fact that the diversion has been approved at a federal level. They simply need Congress to act and have funding administered. They want state backing heading to Washington D.C.
Supporters of the new amendments to house bill 1020 had their chance as well.
RaeAnn Kelsch with the Minn-Dak Coalition says, "This becomes a state funded project and I believe the amendments, and we do support the amendments…I believe the amendments add accountability to state tax dollars."
Several had concerns over how Fargo will continue to fund the project. Others pointed toward strong support for the amendments that block money being used for ring dikes.
From here the Senate appropriations committee will go into subcommittee after another hearing. Senator Tony Grinberg says there's a lot of work to do in coming weeks.
"This is a complex project," Grinberg says. "This is a big project. And what I'm hopeful is that we can work with both groups in the subcommittee to come up with some kind of a reasonable compromise."
That second hearing will be held in the next couple of weeks. A couple days after that is when the subcommittee discussions about both hearings will begin.
A delegation from Fargo, Cass County and the Corps of Engineers presented their case for state funding of the Red River Diversion project before the Senate Appropriations Committee Friday morning at 9:45. The group was given 40 minutes to state their case.
Diversion Authority Co-Chair Darrell Vanyo says the project's future is on the line, so he's relieved senators have given the delegation more time. Vanyo says they're asking the senate to restore state funding for the diversion.
Vanyo says amendments tied to the State Water Commission budget, approved by the house last week includes language that threatens the diversion. The last minute changes were sponsored by House Majority Leader Al Carlson.
Valley News Team's Brandon Clark is at the committee hearing in Bismarck, he says the delegation supporting the diversion money spoke for one hour Friday morning and the opposition was given one hour to state their case immediately following. Among those speaking against the state funding are the Superintendent of Kindred Schools Steve Hall and RaeAnn Kelsch, who is part of the Minn-Dak Upstream Coalition.


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VMware Plans Virtualization for Mobile Phones
The virtualization specialist adopted the know-how for the product through its acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors
The virtualization specialist adopted the know-how for the product through its acquisition of Trango Virtual Processors. VMware predicts that the coupling of hardware and applications in one thin software layers means handset manufacturers can produce their devices more quickly. For users, the benefit would be combining private and business usage as separate personalities into one handset, thereby reducing the need for multiple devices.
VMware MVP itself supports among other operating systems Windows CE 5.0 and 6.0, Linux 2.6.x, Symbian 9.x, eCos, µITRON NORTi and µC/OS-II.
According to Gartner Group's Monica Basso, VMware seems to have hit the mark with its product, calling it a "very promising and potentially fast emerging market." She predicts that more than half the smart phones shipped in 2012 will be virtualized.
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Internet Giants Launch Collaboration to Improve Open Source
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All websites that use these popular CMS tools could be vulnerable to denial of service attacks if users don't install the updates.
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According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
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