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If you have a cleaner, does she "improve" your home?

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whyohwhyohwhyohwhywhy · 09/12/2021 20:15

Our cleaner does a fab job of cleaning out home. We try to leave it tidy but we are a family of 5 and DH and I work full time, so there is often a small pile of clothes out folded, or a pile of stuff on a kids desk sort of stacked together. I want her to clean around it.

As she is so good I have given fair compliments to her and told her she has an eye for making the house look lovely etc.

As the weeks have gone on she has stepped it up. She now hangs up clothes or even puts them away in the wrong persons drawer. She tidies away the swimming bag which is left neatly for the kids and they play hunt the bag every week before their lesson. She rearranges the dressing table, so actually today DH has it all for him laid out. Every week she delves a little more into something. Today was the creme de la crème - she has rearranged the whole sitting room to accomodate where she thinks that Christmas tree might go!!! It is impractical, but does look lovely, but I'm just 😯😯😯

Does anyone have some good fun to share here?

(Yes yes, I am grateful, not complaining, and yes it is sufficiently tidy blah blah blah)

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ProudThrilledHappy · 09/12/2021 22:52

I could tolerate a lot of interference with plants etc but I would have to find space under the patio for anyone who grated my cheese uninvited

mnp321 · 09/12/2021 23:13

The ham and cheese ones are hilarious.

I love my cleaner. She also puts things in strange places. Partly because I'm too polite to tell her. She makes the house look wonderful and, when she's away, it takes me twice as long and looks less good.

When she finishes, I carry the hoover from the stairs to the cupboard for her. In some kind of strange "please let me ease your load" ritual, which is completely token given it takes me 20 seconds and she's worked her butt off for 4 hours restoring the oasis. I think I may have some residual guilt there!

Gwennid · 09/12/2021 23:42

Many years ago I used to clean for an extremely 'posh' elderly couple, really nice people.

One day I decided have a biscuit with my tea, there was a large cupboard full of tins and I had been told to help myself. When I opened the first tin I realised there was something moving in it, luckily my eyesight was excellent. Every tin had a few ancient biscuits or crackers in and they were all heaving with little weevily things.

I closed the cupboard and never mentioned it, I couldn't find the words.

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