Fearless Money

As I mentioned in my previous post Getting help=more time to make money, it is time for my family to get a maid.

Both my wife and I spend far too much time taking care of the routine cleaning tasks generated by a household of two adults, three children, two dogs and two cats. That time is quite literally stolen from either our family time or our personal time, and we want to get some of that back.

In fact, when I was talking with Dustin last week about goals and dreams for the coming year, she said that was the single biggest dream for her. Anything else, even her long dreamed-of trip to Paris, is less important to her.

Well OK then, what are we waiting for? This morning I made an appointment for an estimate from a maid service that comes highly recommended by a friend. Hopefully we can start next week.

One person whom I told about this plan said with honest puzzlement in her voice, “But then you miss out on the little rituals of life.” I was struck dumb by the statement/question. What?

Now that some time has passed, I can answer that I believe life is so much more than scut-work. Yes, you can find meaning in such work, it is part of the human condition that absolutely anything, if focused upon hard enough, will be found to have some deep meaning it can yield. I certainly don’t judge people who find meaning in rote cleaning tasks, I simply choose to find my meaning elsewhere.

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