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    The life-changing magic of paying someone else to tidy up | Stuart Heritage

    Researchers in Canada have found that spending money on a cleaner brings much more happiness than material goods of the same value. Of course it does – life’s too short for tidying
    by Stuart Heritage Jul 25, 2017 3 minutes
    ‘Mindfulness isn’t easy when you’re going hammer and tongs around the clock to equalise your domestic situation.’ Photograph: Choreograph/Getty Images/iStockphoto

    You’re not happy. Of course you’re not. Every moment of your life is accounted for, down to each agonising second. You wake up, you make breakfast. You wash up, you put some laundry on, you leave for work. You grind yourself down to a blistered nub at a job you resent, then you buy food on the way home, vacuum, help your kids with their homework, cook dinner, put your kids to bed, wash up, sort the laundry out and enjoy 45 seconds of a B-grade American

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