I tried to think back on when my parents property went from feeling vibrant and cared for to stagnant to neglected/Mrs. Havisham. I put the turn right around mid to their late 60's. So we decided to stay ahead of it and bit the bullet this month and hired a housekeeper. Granted, we are starting with once a month and it ups our game because of course we start cleaning before they are coming...... We spend the majority of our time outside on our yard. We looked at that and this year (we are in our early 60's) we hired a landscaping company to get it whipped in shape in spring and now we are maintaining. Spring is usually pretty hard on us with clean up and planting. Now we only have planting and then nurturing. We figure we can keep this patched together for at least 10 years and then assess where we are. I so wish my parents had done that.