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Posts: 1565 (07/16/08 12:48 PM) Registered User |
So, being the messy guy I am, I've decided to seek out a cleaning lady on a regular basis. I've never hired one to clean before, so I've got some
questions for everyone. Do I stay in the apartment when she cleans? Do I supply her with the supplies? Should she be doing my laundry? An add on craigslist
said she would work for 14$ an hour, with a minimum of two hours. I think it's reasonable... is it?
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Posts: 10457 (07/16/08 12:51 PM) |
If you're only paying the bitch $14 an hour, you damn well better stay there, cuz your shit will be gone when you get back if you don't.
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Posts: 8933 (07/16/08 12:51 PM) Registered User |
Ah yes, the yearly Canadian cleaning lady thread. |
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Posts: 2072 (07/16/08 12:52 PM) Not really here |
because that's his name?
Do I stay in the apartment when she cleans? Generally no, but given that you found her on Craigslist I'd say probably yes. A MUCH better way to find a cleaning woman is via a referral from someone you know. Do I supply her with the supplies? Yes Should she be doing my laundry? Mine does An add on craigslist said she would work for 14$ an hour, with a minimum of two hours. I think it's reasonable... is it? Mind charges closer to $20-25/hour. I really don't like the craigslist idea. When her boyfriend ties you up and they rob the place you'll be sorry. |
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Posts: 1566 (07/16/08 12:53 PM) Registered User |
i dunno why I signed my post. I guess I'm just used to it from emails and such. Most people know my name anyway. It's not a big secret or anything.
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Posts: 10427 (07/16/08 12:54 PM) Registered user |
Ours is 10 bucks an hour and she uses our stuff. She's about 60, retired, works 4 days a week at different nurses houses. She comes every two weeks for 5
hours. Her husband drives her. She rearranges my mom's beanie babies everytime and hides one somewhere. She absolutely loves the dog and brings her
presents.
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Posts: 5196 (07/16/08 12:55 PM) Registered User |
Ryan,
How does a student nurse afford a housekeepie? Get a criminal record check from her - or you could just judge based on appearance when you meet her. She should look 'illegal', if she looks like white trash then tell her no. Don't hire her if she smokes. |
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Posts: 3217 (07/16/08 12:59 PM) Registered user |
Do NOT let a total stranger off Craigslist come into your home like that. Period. If you really can't manage to clean up after yourself, get a service
(which typically SUCK) or go with a referral. Either way, make sure they are BONDED. Otherwise kiss all your valuable stuff goodbye and all your breakable
stuff so-long.
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Posts: 10459 (07/16/08 1:02 PM) |
Mister Nibs wrote: I had a cleaning lady handling my post, but it got to be wayyyy too expensive. |
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Posts: 1567 (07/16/08 1:04 PM) Registered User |
goner,
i'm not actually a student anymore. I've been an RN for over a year now, I'm just too lazy to change my name (or clean my place). Ryan |
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Posts: 10460 (07/16/08 1:08 PM) |
TC,
I don't think it does. Hammy |
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Posts: 3218 (07/16/08 1:10 PM) Registered user |
Nope - it doesn't. My bad. Bonding is only for when the Craigslist lady steals all his beanie babies and designer fabric purses. The breakage comes with a
service - never known anyone who had a service that didn't break shit all the time.
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Posts: 8934 (07/16/08 1:12 PM) Registered User |
What would the cleaning ladies break ?
Hummels ? Little plaster unicorns ? |
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Posts: 9538 (07/16/08 1:14 PM) Nobody reads me.
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I hired a cleaning service for my mom and dad. They have never broke a thing.
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Posts: 3454 (07/16/08 1:15 PM) Lazy ass bitch, please |
I've had the same lady for almost 10 years. I did not find her on craigslist.
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Posts: 10462 (07/16/08 1:16 PM) |
The current broads we're using haven't broken anything. The last ones shattered a really nice piece of art glass though. Completely irreplaceable. That
sucked.
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Posts: 3219 (07/16/08 1:17 PM) Registered user |
 I knew as soon as I typed
'never' at least one person would have a great service.
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Posts: 3676 (07/16/08 1:18 PM) Geenyus extraordinaire
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I'm not trusting enough to ever get someone to come in to clean, besides I can't see why I'd waste the money on one when I can take care of it all
myself.
The cleaners at the office I worked for in Halifax stole everything from laptops to change out of our desks. And as many of them that would caught and fired, they were replaced by others who would pull the same shit a few months down the road. And one of my coworkers caught one of them with their lips on the spout of the water cooler drinking directly from it, and this was one scary looking bitch doing it too. I have cleaner phobia now. |
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Posts: 56023 (07/16/08 1:19 PM) Registered loser |
HOUSEKEEPIE!
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Posts: 3725 (07/16/08 1:20 PM) Registered loser
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I had a maid steal a coaster. I still haven't figured that one out yet.
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geddy lee for prime minister |
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Posts: 58 (07/16/08 1:20 PM) Bought A Clue
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goner1 wrote: When that student nurse performs "extracurricular activities" for the Pakistani docs who miss their hairy 4-legged fuck beasts from the old country. |
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