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<p>The cleaning lady doesn’t come until Wednesday…it would be best if the bus arrived after that date.</p>
<p>CBBB, just tell yourself this (stolen from McSon): I will put off procrastinating until tomorrow : )</p>
<p>Cleaning lady? I WISH!!! H doesn’t like to pay for ANYTHING!!</p>
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<p>ROFL…My H is a stay at home dad, so he’s the one who makes sure the cleaning lady comes twice a month. Whenever one quits or moves away, he is on the phone immediately trying to find a new one. That’s the job that he takes care of most promptly…making sure there is a cleaning lady…</p>
<p>I have absolutely no luck in the cleaning lady department. They do a great job the first couple of times, but then… I notice the cobwebs missed and whathaveyou and then when I write the check, I think… really? But then I let them go and now am faced with where I am now… overwhelmed. OK… today I am getting motivated and you are here to keep me accountabe. NMN – you wanna come over and help me? You seem to be very much on top of things. I could use a friend like that close by.</p>
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<p>You are so right…there will be the mirror that wasn’t cleaned, the vase that was broken, the wooden furniture that is chipped from having the vacuum cleaner banged up against it. But then we have to weigh all of that against having bathrooms that are never cleaned, floors that are never scrubbed, etc. Yesterday I pulled out the vacuum cleaner, which I rarely do. The vacuum cleaner looks and functions like it is 20 years old, and I think it’s about 2 years old. Things do get abused. But I don’t want to clean and H won’t clean, so there you are…</p>
<p>(BTW, when I first started work, I found it extrordinarily offensive when people complained about their cleaning ladies, so please forgive me everyone!)</p>
<p>I agree… there are things to complain about and cleaning ladies aren’t it. But I do wish I could find one I could completely trust with my disorganization. If I lose it now, it’s my own damn fault and I can blame no one but me when I can’t find it anywhere.</p>
<p>I always thought I didn’t really want a cleaning lady but rather a 1950’s wife. You know someone who every day runs the vacuum, wipes down the bathrooms, fixes a well balanced from scratch dinner and cleans up afterwards. I once asked my H for a wife for Christmas. He did find it amusing.</p>
<p>:raises hand wildly: That’s what I want! But unfortunately, sometimes I feel that’s what I am expected to be! Seems no one is getting what they want around here. :)</p>
<p>I have the cleaning lady from heaven - she is a saint. She just dropped off 8 jars of homemade spaghetti sauce that she and her mother(93yo) made from homegrown tomatoes. A couple of yearss ago she offered to help me with my huge Christmas party -when H went to pay her, she refused!! on the other hand, I’m pretty tidy to begin with, so maybe it works for her as well.</p>
<p>I wonder how my mom did it…raised 6 kids, had clean house, cooked every night, baked all the time and every drawer was neat and tidy. WIll add a wife to my Christmas list!</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s what I’ve been saying for years – we need a wife.</p>
<p>When we became empty nesters, we cut back on a cleaning person. The main drawback is that now we’re not forced to pick up the house so often before the cleaning person comes …</p>
<p>Ah, June Cleaver…all that, while wearing an attractive dress with pearls.</p>
<p>I had the best “cleaning lady” ever: cheap, easy, and familiar with my standards, not given to hiding my cooking utensils in irrational places either,…except he went off to college : (
Now I’d like to investigate a mail-order strong teenage son secure enough in his masculinity to do laundry, scrub floors, and clean the office as well.
McSon thinks this will be hard to find and told me I’d have better odds if I just built a 'borg.
Hi ho.
The McStepford Son : )
I have also mentioned to H., who doubles as my business partner and once looked at me incredulously when I asked him to zest a lemon (“you want me to do what to this lemon?” – think he was thinking about Led Zeplin’s Lemon Song ; ) that I would happily divorce him if he promised to get a mail order bride for us both: someone to clean house, clean office, shop for home and office, and do our bookkeeping. He didn’t bite. Guess he’s thinking it’d be double jeopardy!</p>
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<p>I know how my mom did it–child labor. My sisters and I vacuumed, dusted, ironed, cooked, did dishes, sewed our own clothes, hung laundry on the line, cleaned bathrooms, cooked dinner, etc. </p>
<p>H is visiting S1 in Brazil and mentioned that his first night was spent sleeping directly on a hardwood floor. The next day they went to the store and bought an air mattress so he could sleep better, but I woud like to know what 22 year old boy puts his 50 year old father on the floor while he sleeps in the bed? We sure messed up in his training somewhere. </p>
<p>S1 and S2 are both stressed about exams. I will be glad when the 18th gets here and everybody can relax a little.</p>
<p>Son just updated his Facebook status to say that he has sweaty palms and butterflies in his stomach about his upcoming final. I believe that this is the first test anxiety that he has ever had in his life…seriously…I don’t know if it’s a step forward or a step backward.</p>
<p>I’ve only had a cleaning lady on a regular basis when I worked full time. My floors and bathrooms always looked better when they do it. Maybe I 'm just not a good cleaner?</p>
<p>Analyst- my Mom used child labor, too. I remember being sent down to the basement with a load of laundry and being instructed to take the clothes out of the dryer and fold them, put the stuff from the washer into the dryer and put the new load into the washer. Yet I never really realized that I was “doing laundry”. I was probably about 7 or 8 when I started doing this.</p>
<p>I have a sinking feeling that S would also have Dad sleep on the floor, but H can sleep anywhere. Seriously. I admit I miss the arm strength of S at times, but I don’t miss his mess. D16 makes enough mess for three kids!</p>
<p>Got some things done today. Last year we had a company come and do the house lights but we passed on it this year and so I had to dig out the lights - amazingly most worked and so now it’s just a game plan I need. Still.</p>
<p>I have spent most of the day doing cyer shopping. hmmm…not as much fun but easier on the knee. Got two BCBG pant suits for D1 for work…they look young and nicely tailored. Were on sale and then I had a 25% off and free shipping coupon. I think I am done with her. I had already bought some blouses and a few sweaters, a camera and GPS. Now that I write this down I realize she is really done! Hopefully the sizes will be ok…I haven’t seen her for a while!</p>
<p>Hey Friends - I AM a cleaning lady!! </p>
<p>A super-good cleaning lady, too! lol Ths week I have 4 houses because lots of people want theirs done before Christmas parties, etc. I have also heard cleaning lady horror stories. Mostly from the ladies that hire me - after they have let go their previous house cleaner. It actually helps me know what is important to them. I know of a couple ladies who would set “traps”, so to speak, to see if the cleaning lady was really doing her job. I remember one lady put a tiny piece of trash (maybe part candy wrapper or something like that) behind a picture on the fireplace mantle. It was never moved - so she knew that the cleaning lady never picked up the picture to dust it, or dusted the mantle, etc. And I believe in one house, I was secretly filmed the first time I cleaned it. In fact, I know that I was.</p>
<p>I love hearing your cleaning lady stories.</p>
<p>Oh - I clean for real estate agent - once she came home from work early to find her previous cleaning lady doing the bathroom - naked. I do admit it’s horrible to get all wet and have suds running down into the armpit, but have always managed to keep my clothes on. While cleaning, that is. :)</p>