[nunez]

I'm glad a housekeeper works for y'all, but to provide a contrarian view to round this out, I've found that doing a little bit of chores every day avoids the three hour pileups that you've described, i.e. throwing expired items out when they expire, doing the bed/clothes/etc every morning, etc. I personally would never ever pay for a housekeeper, but I'm also a neat freak!