If you have lost three Saturdays in a row to chores, you are not bad at time management. You are outnumbered. Four adults cannot undo the pile a house of four makes in a week. Here is the order we tell Mabank neighbors to delegate, cheapest first.
The four chores eating your weekend
- The yard. Mowing, edging, trimming, leaf haul. 3–5 hours every week in-season.
- The reset. Laundry, dishes, counters, bathrooms. The one that never finishes.
- The exterior. Pressure washing the drive, the porch, the fence. A day every three months.
- The back-property stuff. Fence lines, brush piles, the corner you have been avoiding since March.
Where the hours go
We have clocked this on 200+ Henderson County properties. The yard on a half-acre lot eats 3.5 hours weekly in-season. The weekly reset — if you are actually doing it — is another 4 hours. Pressure washing once a quarter is 6 hours. Brush and fence lines, another 8 hours two or three times a year.
Which one to hand off first
Start with the yard. Not because it is the worst chore — it is not. Start with it because you cannot do it in the rain, you cannot do it at night, and you cannot do it in chunks. A yard has to be done in one go on a weekend day, which means it reliably takes the weekend you were hoping to keep.
The inside reset comes second. You can do it in 15-minute pieces during the week. A weekend chore it is not.
What it usually costs
- Weekly mow, edge, and trim on a rural-small lot in Mabank: about $65 per visit.
- Every-other-week house reset — kitchens, baths, floors: about $150 per visit.
- Quarterly pressure washing on a driveway + porch: about $240 per visit.
These are the prices we have been charging since last summer. We will not surprise you with a higher number on the first visit.
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