Month: February 2007
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Cleaning the Bedroom
Unless your bedroom is lined with bookshelves, it is one of the fastest rooms to clean. Just make sure your maid doesn’t go too fast.
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Penni’s Story
Not everyone is comfortable with giving their maid a job description in the form of lists. Sometimes the language barrier is too great and sometimes the employer is just crazy. Penni Perfect’s maids have always been wonderful people from the local community who speak English perfectly.
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Victory Gardens as Community Insurance
Turning a portion of everyone’s backyard into a viable vegetable garden can be very effective. Victory gardens planted by approximately 20% of the population helped supply 40% of the food
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Rules for the Maid
take time to go over your views on general cleaning. If it’s in writing she can get a friend to check her translation to avoid misunderstandings. I found the following useful to go over with my maid.:
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Seeing Red on the Sidewalk
Bergen County has some of the best traffic markings in the country. Signs showing directions to other towns are plentiful, lights are intelligent and crosswalks are clearly marked. Several years ago they started painting the sidewalks at corners red. This is an eyesore that people gladly accept because . . .
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Potty Talk – Cleaning the Bathroom
By now the maid has finished her time in the kitchen and needs to hit the other rooms in the house. Bathrooms are definitely an area you want her to concentrate on. I have a lot of surfaces I want cleaned every time she comes. I can live with her washing the plastic shower curtain…
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Should Communities Support Seed Banks?
Norway, awash in oil revenue and significantly at risk if an abrupt climate change event occurs, has been working on a seed bank. They are planning to hollow out a mountain, install failsafe climate control and rent out space to governments to store seeds against cataclysmic disasters like abrupt climate change, asteroid strikes or nuclear…
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NJ and Your Wallet – Traffic Court Wastes Taxpayer Money?
I had to flip a car to discover a way for the state to save money . . .
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Does a Maid Destroy Your Child’s Character?
If you’re new – I wrote the How to Hire A Maid like a book. Click Table of Contents for future articles and links to old blogs in a more comprehensible order – or just click here & go to the bottom to read it straight through by scrolling up to each article. Everyone knows…
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Trash and the Maid
If you’re new – I wrote the How to Hire A Maid like a book. Click Table of Contents for future articles and links to old blogs in a more comprehensible order – or just click here & go to the bottom to read it straight through by scrolling up to each article. It’s a…