<prompt> Human: Ill just say its more than 50hr. Im self-employed, but work at clients office M-F, work at home evenings and weekends. Current freelance gig has big deadlines over next month, so opportunity to make bank. Gig will likely end completely by Thanksgiving. Have already steadily been working 45-50 hours week for several months, but its stressful and am already pretty tired. Ive been fairly frugal while working this gig bring lunch, public transportation, do own house cleaning, etc., but cant do all that if I want to work insane hours over next month or so. Is there a formula for working out when paying someone to cleandeliver foodwash clothes becomes worth it?  <response>: Just compare time required to perform X function to your pay rate. If cleaning the house takes 2 hours, thats 100 of lost work opportunity for you. If it costs less than 100 to pay someone else to do it, then youll save more money by doing so. That said, it sounds like youre not home enough to dirty up the house. Buy a pack of paper plates and plastic utensils, and live off takeout for the next few months. Laundry requires like 5 minutes of your time every 30 minutes or so, and can easily be done while working from home on the weekends and is the only household chore that should HAVE to be done since youre not dirtying up the dishes. Dont hire help, follow this model, and just have a good spring cleaning session when this gig ends and youve got time. 