Is it common to hire maid in your country?

theres a lot of people here in uk have maids, personally I think its for the lazy people who dont want to do housework, I am a single dad and manage to sort 3 kids out wash cook clean and do the housework and also work on my online business. So theres in my personal opinion no need to hire maids etc, for a number of reasons A) he or she is a stranger would you let a stranger into your house I know I wouldn't. B) The expense of hiring a maid especially on low income families etc etc. C) I just think its being lazy aswell he he he twitter - benbo128

Hello mermaidivy, I have the same thinking like you. It is common to have a maid at home here. As for me, I don't like to have a stranger in my house. I don't like to lose my personal and private time with my family. I can afford to have maid but I prefer to do all the stuff on my own. For me, to do the house chores is not a big problem though I have to juggle my time between work and family. I send my boy to a baby sitter and right at 5pm, I will fetch him and play with him while doing all the house chores!

hi yes here in india-it is quite common to hire a maid servant,esp among those well off peole who can afford to have one.even we have a maid servant coming to our house-but she does not stay with us-she just comes for two hours daily-cleans up our house and the utensils,does a bit of gardening.but when i was a kid, i remeber we had a maid servant who was specially hired to look after me-i think i will have to do the same when we have kids.

I'm like you - I'm not comfortable with the idea of strangers in my home unsupervised and definitely not with my kids alone. In Malaysia, it's very common for people to hire maids and there are plenty of horror stories from both parties (maids and employers). I know of a lot of girls who have no qualms about getting a maid to help with house chores, cooking, cleaning and stuff but I dunno, I feel that it's akin to being lazy. My parents worked full time while they were raising us and we never had a maid. In fact, my parents did the housechores until my bro and I were about six and 12. Then we both each got our own set of housechores. Because of this, I know how to cook, clean, iron, wash clothes by hand, go grocery shopping and so forth and so does my brother. Sometimes I find it embarrassing for other girls to openly admit to people that they have never done housework or cook before in their entire lives. Some of my peers back at home even find it shocking that my hubby knows how to cook and clean whereas their husbands need prodding to even pick up after themselves. My hubby is French and he has never known anyone who has a maid. Yes, older people like my in-laws hire a cleaning maid who comes three times or twice a week to help with the cleaning and laundry but that's for old people. Younger people like my hubby, his friends and my sis-in-law DON'T have that luxury and definitely not the attitude for it.

Yes it is common in the kerala state where i'm living. I'm from india

I am from India and all middle class families hire maids. They may be full time or part time. Out here in delhi i employ a maid who would come to my home twice. Once in morning and she would do dishes and cleaning of home, scrub floors and then she would come again in evening and do dishes again. Some even use them for cooking and dusting too. I am happy with dishes and washing and cleaning of floors.

No I do it myself or it won't get done, because my Husband will not do anything, he is a pig. he thinks I am his maid, normally if a person has a mald they are finaially well off.

no, i have never had a maid. have always done my own housework. i could not have afforded one if i had wanted one. they probably wouldn't have pleased me anyway, lol. im pretty particular about the way my house looks.

I do the housework myself. But when I was working 50+ hours a week, I had a nanny. She took care of the children and cleaned for me because I just wasn't here. Nannies are common, but not as common as daycare. A maid is a bit much, there are cleaning women here that will come in once a week and clean whatever you leave on a list for them to do. I've used them off and on, like when I had all the family over for a dinner or holiday - the extra help was very nice. But as for day to day stuff, no I don't. I'd rather do it myself.

no it is uncommon to have a maid around my area unless you are very rich... I of course am on the opposite side of that...LOL, so of course I dont have a maid and I do all the cleaning myself. They have such services where you can hire Merry Maids, for like once a week, or more or for special occasions...like if you have a party or something... but that wouldnt be something I would do. I dont like cleaning but then I dont like it when others do it because I feel they dont do it right or how I would do it....LOL so I do my own!! happy mylotting!

It is normal to see wealthy families hiring maids in my country and this kind of thing is very common. It is not because the families have a lot of kids or it is because they are working bees, these are wealthy families I am talking about so they just don't want to touch anything and so let the maids do the work. Some families even hire more than 3 maids in the house and each of them do a different type of work. A best friend of mine hired a maid from Philippines by sponsoring her over to Canada. He has a 5000 sq. ft. house and spent a lot of money to get the basement professionally finished and so the maid would stay with the family. He pays her $2,000 Canadian per month and she does not have to pay for the rent and food because she stays with his family (him & wife and 2 small children). Once a month, him and his wife take the maid out to buy her new clothes and let her off in the weekends to go visit friends. Now she has been in Canada for two years so he sponsored her to be a permanent resident. I think she is the very lucky one. Cheers, Cest_moi

In our country it is usually on the rich that hire maids (their only ones that could afford it). I would not like having a maid in my house even if I could afford it or not, because I do not like other people's way of cleaning or going through my things!!

In our country it is common to have maid because both of the couple have their own work. As you can see they provide the need of the family and especially the needs of the children's. And also it is common in our country for clean in house they made by maids.

Yes, in our country, we always fine hiring maids for convenience. We used to have a maid at home since both of my parents needs to go to work and theirs no one to take care of the cooking, preparing the food, cleaning the house, feed our dogs and take care of our garden. If I can afford it now, I should have hired one. As of now, I'm the bread winner, works part time, and the maid of our home. lol But as soon as i can afford it, I will hire one. :)

in my hometown,people don't have maid for families with kids.usually,the parents earn money far from their families.the kids are taken care of by their grandpa and grandma.there is one chance to get along with each other for them a year.some of the kids don't see their parents for sevral years. for me,i do the housework myself and i will take care of my kid myself.i love my kid and i can't receive the opinion that the kids may live without their parents.