I usually calculate the jobs as in time needed to make that money. I do pay for someone to wash my windows, especially the ones for the first floor, and I do pay somebody every 2 weeks to wash my bin. One is £12 every 6 weeks, another £4 every 2 weeks, but is paying them I save at least 4-5 hours, which I can use more efficiently. Other stuff like gardening for example, I enjoy doing it, even if it is hard.
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I think there is a tradeoff point for sure. If I had "real work" to do, I would have paid someone and did at times, because after the stroke I couldn't do many things that needed to be done. Even with the painting - I had the stroke while painting the kitchen :D But once able again, I started doing it for myself again too.
Some things bring no satisfaction either - like washing bins :)