If you thought household help was only for the rich, think again. Heres a case for outsourcing time-consuming chores -- or ones you simply hate.
By Jennifer Mulrean
When Kathy Fitzgerald Sherman decided to stay home with her first child, she thought shed pursue her lifelong dream of writing. Five years and another baby later, she realized the endless piles of laundry, diaper changes and general household upkeep were leaving little time, let alone inspiration, for the writing career shed imagined.
I was exhausted, and I was not being intellectually stimulated, Sherman says.
So, she analyzed how she was spending her time -- and found that she was putting a whopping 35 hours a week into housework. That was in addition to the three hours of cleaning by a paid weekly service.
Sherman decided shed had enough. She hired a housekeeper for 20 hours a week to cook, clean, grocery shop and do laundry.
