What's with all the Cleaning?
Christmas has come and gone, and I certainly hope you had a merry one. I love Christmas, and I'm always sad to see it go ... a maid service, but apparently he has. Before I got married, I told Mrs. Commissioner, I can live ... because the house is disgusting. Mr. and Mrs. Commissioner used to have a cleaning lady (actually [more...]
Date: 2008-12-27 11:14:15
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Dinner guests tonight get a delightful surprise. Decided to pull out a recipe I’ve not made in a long time. http://twitpic ... it for you next time your in town so you can rate it # Spending the afternoon cleaning house. I think once it’s truly clean this time I am going to follow @arlo’s advice and hire a maid service [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 05:59:59
Lucky One
Yeah baby I'm the lucky one. :) Or whatever. I got to drag out the Christmas decoration boxes and then, I also got to put up most if not all, ... into a garbage bag is a LOT easier than a Rubber Maid bin! just sayin')So now I'm off to dig ... of crap. Crap that was all over the house, that we took from all the rooms of the house and shoved [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 16:01:00
Magda
How do I get ideas for my posts? Well, take today's for example. The day before yesterday Magda made a cameo appearance ... calling her help? I hate that word). But I can honestly say Magda is, hands down, the worst maid ... , but no matter what she does I can't help but love her.And, if she's not useful around the house I'm thinking [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 14:18:00
New York Times reports on the economic crisis
OUTSOURCED CHORES COME BACK HOMEBy CATHERINE RAMPELLPublished: January 16, 2009A few months ago, as her family’s income fell, Laura French Spada, ... at home and cutting her hair and cleaning her house herself. And Tamar A. Zaidenweber, a health care ... his mother’s cookie-filled oven (“the new bakery”).After letting their maid go last October, Chris [more...]
Date: 2009-01-18 10:19:00
Are You Sellers Prepared to Move Out?
Moving out, as most of us know from our own and our clients’ experiences usually isn’t an easy task ... , and then my least favorite of them all: cleaning the house up after everything has been packed ... clean” so the new buyer can just move right in. I was looking at this Alpharetta maid service called [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 21:06:13
Cold season in full swing
Thankfully, we’ve kept colds at bay in our house with some awesome Shaklee supplements for grown-ups and kids ... when you’re cleaning up around the house, make sure to wipe those high-touch areas more frequently ... will slide off just like spilled juice would. If you have a maid service - natural and green [more...]
Date: 2008-11-02 12:29:18
Nani
We were lucky enough to have our Nani from Canada here with us for a few days last week. What a lady! We enjoyed our time together so much ... she stayed with the kids. She was always cleaning and tidying the house her whole stay. One morning she asked me where the window cleaner was, and I admitted that I was embarrassed having her act as our maid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 04:55:00
Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US (AP)
Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US (AP) By admin | IRVINE, Calif. – Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door. They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn’t much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms [more...]
Date: 2008-12-28 19:36:07
Permanent link to Just a precaution
Just a precaution Posted by Admin on January 19, 2009 at 9:02 am I live in the rural part of nasipit, we are currently renting a house, it has bars but bamboo fence. We do hire a armed guard at night, but only because when I am back in canada, I have the wife and 2 maids (3 women) living there by themselves. The guard costs [more...]
Date: 2009-01-19 10:15:36
Start Renting by the Hour...
The housing bust had introduced us to the world of foreclosures, squatters, and porn--that is, ... leveraged homeowners have wizened up and are charging for services rendered, while they still can.The ... to $3,000, Darrell said. That would cover about half of her monthly household bills, including maid [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 20:00:00
Saudi cartoon: Wall Street is the Devil
From The Arab news, a Saudi newspaper:It is interesting to see Saudis make fun of anyone as being greedy devils ... house has become inevitable. If this inevitability is not because of her services ... more than one housemaid.Saudi families are not only expected to have at least one maid, but also [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 16:31:00
slavery. in the united states. today.
From the Associated Press. Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to USBy Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press WriterIRVINE, Calif. (AP) -- Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door. They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 18:37:00
The case of the missing Grandpa and the headless maid
WCK's other big Christmas present was a Fisher-Price Loving Family Dollhouse ... , you might as well go all out and have the cleaning service send over one that has no head ... little girl in the whole entire world received one for Christmas this year. The house came with a mom [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 01:51:00
What do YOU think about this ?
Read below….and post your comment: Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to the United States By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, Associated Press Writer Rukmini Callimachi, Associated Press Writer IRVINE, Calif. – Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 04:06:27
Child Maid Trafficking Spreads to US
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, AP(Story submitted by Victor Moore)IRVINE, Calif. (Dec. 29) -- Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door. They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 21:19:00
A Kitchen Full Of Suds
A Kitchen Full Of Suds On the morning of the first day of this year, I had a rude surprise when my maid told me that ‘sabun keluar dari lubang’ ( ... and my maid had a hard time cleaning up the washing machine and floor afterward. In fact, that wasn’ ... , we used to stick play dough on door holes, bathroom drain covers and on every part of the house [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 04:14:28
Maid Cleaning Agency - How to Choose the Right One
by Alice Sy If you need to hire a maid in Hong Kong from a maid cleaning agency, ... cleaning agency before. You may also ask some maids around where they came from and what agency helped ... who would like to have someone responsible, dependable and hard working to entrust the house with while [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 08:15:47
Reminder
I’ve been doing some serious cleaning around the house this week ... at the schools. Individually, I don’t have a problem with any of it. The cleaning, chauffering, unappreciated volunteering, the constant feeling like I’m the maid around here. It’s what I signed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-22 06:03:36
The Maid Trade: Exploiting Child Servants
From the Washington Post: Adiza ran scared and crying into the street. Ten years old and 4-foot-9, she fled the house where she had worked for more than a year, cleaning and sweeping from before dawn until late at night.... "I couldn't take any more," recalled Adiza [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 14:26:42
Tired and Grouchy!
Just got done cleaning the entire house and I am very tired, hungry and grouchy ... not get mad at him. I hate cleaning but no choice, I have too. Hubby offered to call “merry maids” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 23:21:23
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