Everyday Disasters

Category: Hiring A Maid

  • Another Dee Story – Children Terrorizing the Maid

    Dee, a respectable matron whose words flow with the gentle music of the south, gave me another story of how she terrorized Ida, her family’s maid, and with the exception of her family, the most loved person in Dee’s childhood.

  • A Welcoming Bathroom

    Most bathrooms can be improved with three simple steps. 1. Have a guest basket. . . .putting everything a visitor might want in a bathroom in a basket greatly increases your visitor’s enjoyment of their visit. A broken nail or dry eyes may not rise to the level . . .

  • More Trash and the Maid

    Send in more maid stories – I couldn’t even begin to make this stuff up – My in-laws returned from a 3-week trip the other day. While they were gone the maid came in to clean . .

  • Is My Maid Stealing?

    Conventional wisdom seems to hold that all maids pilfer. If you’ve found a maid through networking this is almost certainly not true. Most maids have a very good grasp of the fact that, like Caesar’s wife, they must be above suspicion. They want to keep their jobs and get recommendations. Maids are easy to blame…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.:

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…