100’s of elves

How many elves to bring into the workshop ?? Of course there is no right answer !!

“Two is twenty”; you hear the sayings - expect each additional family member to increase the whole lot exponentially. 

Here is a real-life EG from our family:

0 children - mom cleans small apartment solo.

1 child - cleaner comes 1x every 2 weeks in streamlined new home.

2 children - mom begs cleaner to come 1x per week. Cleaner cannot. OK.

3 children - new cleaner hired, comes 1x per week.

4 children - cleaner comes 2x per week at much higher rate. Extra help is hired. She comes the other 3 days for laundry, kitchen and everything else on ‘the list’. That’s 5 days of housekeepers. 

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