So fed up, dh a multi millionaire and I'm having to get rid of the cleaner

[asif]

life's a bitch, what is one one do?

where does one turn in these hard times?

goodness yes, poor people just dont know they are born do they, they just get on and so the jobs themselves, get into debt and then get made homeless.

Whereas you and i have to worry about doing the cleaning oursleves and spending less on the housekeeping bills

Well it's obvious to me asif for consolation one turns to the pool boy or the chauffeur if he's better looking.

zazen, excellent suggestion, thanks you for helping me with this terrible dilemma

You can still use the feather dusters too coo arrrr missus!

Ask Xenia. This is probably something she faces every day. So brave in the face of adversity.

PCSMUM you are funny!

Xenia will come on soon to tell you its your fault for being a money grabber and marrying a rich DH. You should have made the millions yourself and employed your DH as a cleaner!

went through something similar, when dh and I were down to our last million, we actually had to hand back our black Amex and give up our membership of Quintessentially. Oh, the shame of ringing the Ivy ourselves and booking a table on my own and having to talk to a working person directly!

It is awful isnt it?

One is having to wipe ones own arse because of this reccession

I don't know what you are all moaning about.
I on the other hand do have reason, I actually had to get my clothes dry cleaned the other day instead of just chucking the horrid things.

The shame is Vinegartits, having to use toilet roll instead of ones tatty £50s

I am down to using tatty old fivers mumtoc&l

Oh for God's sake! (rolls eyes)very mature!

im really shocked by the lack of sympathy here for the op.
surely we could all club together to help keep the cleaner on?

VT, just cut up the silk sheets, it will save you the embarrassment of having to go to the shops.
I hope you don't mean the supermarket?

Perhaps the OP could place a discreet advert in the Lady Magazine regarding her situation? Something along the line of "all donations greatfully received". We really need to band together in this crisis.

HiFi - bless you, that is such a kind thought.

AsIf - Your other staff (dog walker, nanny, cook, housekeeper and gardner) and I have a proposal which might help. We understand that times are very hard, so we thought that if we formed a co-op and got a loan from your DH (We'd see him in his office of course - the gardners gran has a bus pass that could get one of us to Zone 1), we could make an offer on your house, rent it out to you, py our loan back to your DH with your rent, and employ you as our cleaner, I would be your manager, and everyone could live happily ever after. What do you think?

thanks you so much for your kind offer, this financial struggle is so hard, of course one such as myself has a little something of my own left to me by mummy, hard as it is I think selling the country pile is the only answer.

of course we still have the villa in St Barts and the New York penthouse, so the odd weekend away won't be too much of a problem

still, it was aneffincheek awfully kind to think of me in my hour of need, now do you think you could get on with hand washing my cashmere blankets, this cold weather makes one want to lie in bed surrounded by cashmere all day, exhausting I tell you

just extend the au pairs hours or threaten to dob her into immigration dahlink.

And remember to calm down and get yourself a lovely glass of champers because, you know, you are worth it!

Sorry, I have no sympathy for you! With the right choices, you could have had free domestic help. One does not have to pay for hired hands, you could have extended your generosity to the poorer people and offered a working class soul a voluntary job at your home

Perhaps if the OP had married into "Old Money" instead of marrying a barrow boy from the City she wouldn't find herself in this pickle? A lesson we all need to pass onto our daughters, non?