I can clean my own house. I'd rather pay someone to do it and spend Saturday with my family.

The author (not pictured) hires a cleaning person to have more time with her family. Alina Rudya/Bell Collective/Getty Images I initially struggled to justify adding a cleaning service to our household budget. Working from coffee shops could cost me nearly $20 a day for coffee and food. I started working from home more often and prioritized cleaners over that expense Cleaning my house sometimes feels like an exercise in futility. Benjamin Franklin wrote that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. I would humbly like to add a third: that a dog will track muddy pawprints across a freshly mopped floor. The author's dog with muddy paws. Courtesy of the author Growing up in a blue-collar family , I never considered paying someone to clean my home once I had a place of my own.