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10-27-2019 11:14 AM
Oh wow! No kids living here, so no toys laying around. I keep my dishes done (or in dishwasher), bathrooms are never disgusting & clothes in the hamper. I have to live here between her twice a month visits. I even vacuum dog hair on alternate weeks.
The night before she comes, I'm running around making sure everything's tidy for her and the two ladies that clean w/ her. DH walked by and said, "Are you nuts? You DO realize you're cleaning for the cleaning people we're paying to clean."
Anyone else feel obligated to do this?
10-27-2019 11:18 AM
@Shanus I don't currently have a cleaning lady but if I did you can be sure I would be picking up things and straightening up. Everyone that I know who has one does so but it still sounds funny!
10-27-2019 11:20 AM
I do pick up as that way she can focus on actual cleaning. I think this is not, cleaning really---but straightening up!
10-27-2019 11:22 AM
Yes! I always picked up every thing and made sure the kitchen and bathrooms were not too bad. Especially the bathrooms.
10-27-2019 11:25 AM
I have to pick up things and clean the house on alternate weeks. The week I have the maid I do things she doesn't, like deep cleaning.
I always make my bed and change it.
That way she can clean better!
10-27-2019 11:34 AM
Oh thank God I'm not nuts. I may relate replies to DH. Lol
10-27-2019 11:36 AM
My experience in hiring cleaning ladies with excellent reputations to clean rental properties that I had refurbished was that on two different occassions on 2 different properties , the cleaning ladies just wanted to do the fluff work of just vacuming or dusting . When they cleaned the windows , they only cleaned the glass and neglected cleaning the dirty outside window sills .
I ended up doing the cleaning myself so that I could sell the two properties .
10-27-2019 11:38 AM
I call what I do before the cleaners come organization, not cleaning but I always do it.
Best thing that ever happened when I didn't occurred way back in the 1960's. I'd been making a dress between visits and was having trouble setting a sleeve. I didn't even know my cleaning woman knew sewing, but for some reason I left the machine up and the dress hanging outside the closet door.
When I got home that evening, the house was clean AND the dress was finished except for the hem! I love coming home to a house fully organized and clean, but nothing has ever topped that experience.
10-27-2019 12:10 PM
I don't have a cleaning lady. But my 94 yr. old mother does & she cleans the day before the ladies come to clean. The cleaning ladies have asked me why mom has them clean, as the house is always spotless.
10-27-2019 12:40 PM
@millieshops wrote:I call what I do before the cleaners come organization, not cleaning but I always do it.
Best thing that ever happened when I didn't occurred way back in the 1960's. I'd been making a dress between visits and was having trouble setting a sleeve. I didn't even know my cleaning woman knew sewing, but for some reason I left the machine up and the dress hanging outside the closet door.
When I got home that evening, the house was clean AND the dress was finished except for the hem! I love coming home to a house fully organized and clean, but nothing has ever topped that experience.
@millieshops Now that IS above and beyond!
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