CLEANING UP FOR CLEANING LADY

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

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?

haddon9 · ‎03-09-2010

@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!

JasoninBoston · ‎02-18-2012

I do pick up as that way she can focus on actual cleaning. I think this is not, cleaning really---but straightening up!

relaxer · ‎03-19-2010

Yes! I always picked up every thing and made sure the kitchen and bathrooms were not too bad. Especially the bathrooms.

1Snickers · ‎03-19-2016

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!

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

Oh thank God I'm not nuts. I may relate replies to DH. Lol

skatting44 · ‎07-26-2019

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 .

millieshops · ‎03-09-2010

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.

teachergal · ‎08-07-2010

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.

Shanus · ‎05-17-2010

@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!