It's no easy task to find a trustworthy and 'helpful helper'.

We have used both family members and non-family members. There's good and bad in both scenarios.

Overall we have been lucky to have found some really good folks to help us out.
Whether they are family or not we always end up with more of a family relationship than a formal employer/employee.
If we go out for shopping and a dinner we will more often than not include them.

Never employed anyone on a loose basis to warrant paying on a daily basis, but if your happy and the helper is happy that's it.

We had a family member helper one time who always went missing, totally unreliable and generally unhelpful (Well except in the teaching Tongits department ).
More seriously, all sorts of things would go missing.
Bought a ticket back from Manila to Davao and dropped-off at the airport.