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Housekeeper duties

BabyCarryingVesselBabyCarryingVessel member
in October 2012 Moms
If you had a housekeeper, what responsibilities would you have them do around the house? Sweep, mop, vacuum and dust only? Would you want them to make beds, wash and fold laundry and do dishes? Just wondering what tasks a housekeeper would normally do and not do.

 

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  • candaceleigh21candaceleigh21
    Sweep, mop, vacuum and I don't even care if they dust. I would like to have my bathroom cleaned though, maybe scrub the tub. I dont want a stranger folding my undies.
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    Can I get her to put up with my husband stealing the sheets, et al? Bwahh..Honestly, I wouldn't care what she did. I just sit down on the floor and drink wine and cry Publishers Clearinghouse tears of crazy joy. She could wash around me. nbsp;


    Pahaha i actually snorted. I will send my make believe cleaning fairy to you ASAP.
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  • ChrisG83ChrisG83 member
    I would have her do the deeper cleaning like dusting the blinds, scrub toilets and showers and clean baseboards.
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  • LorMorLorMor member

    Kitchen, bathrooms, sweeping/vacuuming, ironing. All-round cleaning. I do the laundry and daily kitchen. We don't have pets so our house is pretty clean, I think.

     

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  • kross605kross605 member

    I might be an idiot on this one but I dont really know if theres a difference between a "housekeeper" and a "cleaner/cleaning lady", but we have a "cleaning lady" (by the way, what is the new PC term for that?).

    She basically cleans everything in the house except for windows, which she only does a couple times a year and we pay her extra those weeks. She does all floors, baseboards, window sills, everything in the bathroom and kitchen, furniture in all the rooms etc. If we leave the bed a mess she makes it but if its tossed together already, she doesnt make it. If there are just a couple dishes left in the sink she'll wash them but if the whole sink is full, she leaves it--assuming its going into the dishwasher. She doesnt ever do our laundry.

    The money we pay her comes back 10 fold in our happiness, work/life balance, relationship etc. 

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  • numberonemamanumberonemama member

    My old one came once a week and dusted, vacuumed, mopped, washed windows and baseboards weekly too!, changed sheets, cleaned bathrooms, swept front stairs, did dishes if needed, picked up toys, fold clothes and towels if needed.

    I miss her! Stupid recession!   

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  • navyandvioletnavyandviolet member

    imageChrisG83:
    I would have her do the deeper cleaning like dusting the blinds, scrub toilets and showers and clean baseboards.

     

    This is what ours does.  I can get to the regular cleaning it is the deep cleaning that I can't.  She makes the beds if I put the pile of clean linens on it though.  And I like that. 

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