I've hired a maid for both of my families and I like it. This way I can concentrate directly on my family without having to send them all over the house to clean up first.

I haven't bothered with a gardener, though. There's really never that many weeds to worry about it *AND* they don't have to run clear across the yard to the outdoor garbage bins anymore to throw them away, so yard work is much easier now. In the first version, I purchased weed bomb anytime it was available and would hold onto it until the weeds were abundant, then zap them all in one shot because it was sooooooo boring dropping my peeps onto the weeds, then waiting for them to make the long trek across the yard to throw them away, especially if I had a peep that was particularly slow.