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I've been thinking about getting a cleaner too. A lot of my friends around here though feel the necessity to get someone that is referred to you. what do you think?

Oh man... well I'm lucky enough to be marrying my personal chef.. but yah that sounds sweet. Would be pretty expensive no.. courtie?

Originally Posted by griffey24

Oh man... well I'm lucky enough to be marrying my personal chef.. but yah that sounds sweet. Would be pretty expensive no.. courtie?

Most of them come to your place once or twice a week to make food for a few days. Then you just reheat as needed. Doing it that way it's a lot more affordable. Our food bills will probably go up by 200-250%, but if we work for even half of the hours we save by hiring the chef, then it pays for itself. If we work for all the hours we save by not cooking/cleaning, then we make money.

Originally Posted by donkbee

Most of them come to your place once or twice a week to make food for a few days. Then you just reheat as needed. Doing it that way it's a lot more affordable. Our food bills will probably go up by 200-250%, but if we work for even half of the hours we save by hiring the chef, then it pays for itself. If we work for all the hours we save by not cooking/cleaning, then we make money.

Have you read the four hour work week by Tim Ferris?

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

Have you read the four hour work week by Tim Ferris?

No I haven't. Why do you ask?

Originally Posted by donkbee

No I haven't. Why do you ask?

one of the ideas he brings up for maximizing your time is a personal chef. he talked specifically about ones that cook up a ton of meals for you to preheat and implies it being massively +EV so was curious if you got it from reading his book. is full of little pointers to improve efficiency at work and such

Originally Posted by Micro2Macro

one of the ideas he brings up for maximizing your time is a personal chef. he talked specifically about ones that cook up a ton of meals for you to preheat and implies it being massively +EV so was curious if you got it from reading his book. is full of little pointers to improve efficiency at work and such

Sounds like it's worth reading. It's on my book shelf so I'll prob give it a shot; thanks for mentioning it!

What do you do for meals and such? I seem to remember you had a PA that cooked you food. Do you still have that?

Also I had cleaners at my place yesterday for the first time ever. Definitely worth it! I don't need them every week but twice per month seems like it's going to work out great.

Originally Posted by donkbee

What do you do for meals and such? I seem to remember you had a PA that cooked you food. Do you still have that?

Also I had cleaners at my place yesterday for the first time ever. Definitely worth it! I don't need them every week but twice per month seems like it's going to work out great.

Mostly cook for myself, and eat out when traveling. There's maybe 3 places in town I frequent for food, two are thai the other is persian. American food sucks. Trying to eat clean these days, despite the thai dishes being jacked up on sodium. Meal replacement bars for when I put in long grind sessions are at the work station. Currently out of them though, and volume has been slacking... funny correlation there. They aren't really good for you but neither is starving.

Let us know how your meal plan works out for you.

Originally Posted by griffey24

I've been thinking about getting a cleaner too. A lot of my friends around here though feel the necessity to get someone that is referred to you. what do you think?

Oh man... well I'm lucky enough to be marrying my personal chef.. but yah that sounds sweet. Would be pretty expensive no.. courtie?

My current cleaner was actually referred to me by my old one after contacting her to see if she knew anyone in the business since I couldn't find an applicant via classifieds that didn't come off as total riff raff (probably easier to find someone good in GTA due to having a larger pool of people to choose from). She does a solid job so far. She's been doing it for 15+ years and has her own website for contact so pretty professional. I managed to find a really good one on kijiji actually over a year ago but since it's been unsuccessful and I gave up on it fast earlier this year after getting some strange emails (example: HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM WANT TO CLEAN FOR YOU WE ARE 54 AND 51 YEARS OLD). Creepy shit. Only 100kish people in my city though. Hit or miss with the classifieds.

Cliffs: I would ask around and get someone referred to you before posting a classified ad.