I know the answer is yes probably I am being a bit unnecessarily tetchy, but I need to find a way to deal with this really.
I have a cleaner - a girl from the village who has 2 small children, can't work (can't drive, no work around here as it's rural) and so does some cleaning for me for a bit of pocket money. (Yes, people, it is the Black Market, and I can explain further but don't call the Social on me.)
She's a brilliant cleaner.
However, there are two minor issues:
- she uses bleach. Loads of it, place stinks of it, and I want her to stop - I've asked, but she snorted and ignored me. I tried to claim DH (and now DS) have delicate skin (they don't) but nothing doing. Any suggestions?
The other issue is the reorganising. We have baby clutter, and I tidy up before she comes (if I have advance warning which I don't always get), but she still insists on moving things around.
- toys were moved into another room, when I'd stacked them all tidily on the play mat
- I was requested to take down DH's stained glass angel decorations, and also his chandelier. (No, he's not gay! )
- I have packing boxes for my office, and she asked me to chuck them - no, they're there for a reason.
- baby clothes which I had taken out as DS is too small and put in a separate pile in my room for taking to charity were taken back and put in his drawer (not folded, btw) so I had to re-sort
- his door bouncer was taken off the door where it lives permanently and put in his bedroom.
- furniture was reorganised upstairs!
It sounds minor (it is!) but I was a bit peeved as it's my house, she doesn't live there, and whilst I don't mind her moving stuff in order to clean, general reorganising of my house, and of things which are there for a reason, and attempts to bin stuff gets to me as she doesn't live here. And I don't need the whole 'can you put this in the bin?'(no, it's there for a reason) etc etc.
Sorry! Feel better now!