Plenty of people tidy the house before the cleaner comes. The dishes go into the sink, the clothes come off the chair, the worst of it gets put away, and only then does the person paid to deal with the mess arrive and find most of it gone. It looks like paying for something you have already done, and it isn’t quite. There are two cleans in it. The first is done for a stranger’s eyes and is about what the place says about you; the second is done with a cloth and is about the place. Nobody hires help with the first one, because the whole point of it is that nobody sees you needed any.