Does anyone of you people ...

[Tender Branson]

Like Berta in "Two and a half Men":



No, I have not and my parents had none either.

[Franzl]

Yes, but only for 2 hours a week.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

"Does anyone of you people . . . " is an unusual turn of phrase.  But no, I never have and I never liked the idea either. 

[opebo]

No, but I'm looking for one.  I've a much bigger place than my previous 'bed sit', and I will need a maid to come in about once a week I'd say.  I'm not sure what this will cost but I think not more than $8-10/week for a half-day visit.

For years my mother had a woman come in about once a week like that - I think for one full day per one week, usually Saturday or Sunday as we usually weekended at the country house.  This was a highly variable practice - sometimes she managed to go a full year with one, without squabbling, and other times they parted ways rapidly and we were back in the chaos of my mother's own house-keeping.

[dead0man]

I wish!

[LastVoter]

No, but I'm looking for one.  I've a much bigger place than my previous 'bed sit', and I will need a maid to come in about once a week I'd say.  I'm not sure what this will cost but I think not more than $8-10/week for a half-day visit.

For years my mother had a woman come in about once a week like that - I think for one full day per one week, usually Saturday or Sunday as we usually weekended at the country house.  This was a highly variable practice - sometimes she managed to go a full year with one, without squabbling, and other times they parted ways rapidly and we were back in the chaos of my mother's own house-keeping.

How cute.

[Хahar 🤔]

Two and a Half Men is representative of all the worst things about America.

[Oakvale]

No, never have. The idea doesn't sit right with me for some reason, either.

Also,

Two and a Half Men is representative of all the worst things about America.

^^^

Two and a Half Men is the Great Satan.

[Lambsbread]

Nah.

Two and a Half Men is representative of all the worst things about America.

^^^

Two and a Half Men is the Great Satan.

Also this.

[Ebowed]

Of course, and his fresh water bowl is refilled daily, unless we go on vacation.

[memphis]

Very briefly, when I was in middle school, my dad had a woman who would come every few weeks and vaccum or whatever bit for an hour or so. I think it was one of those situations where people don't want charity, but friends wil make a job for friends to help through a rough patch.

[Niemeyerite]

3 hours per week.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Had a neighbor who did when I was growing up, but they had a large family and one of the kids had health problems (he eventually died in his 20s from them), so looking back, I suspect they hired a housekeeper so the mom could concentrate on looking after the kids instead of the housework.

Housekeepers aren't fashionable these days.  If someone were to make a show like The Brady Bunch today, they'd make Mike a Mormon, and Alice a co-wife instead of a housekeeper.

[Hash]

A long time ago, in Riyadh, yeah. Once a week iirc.

[Gustaf]

My flatmate (who owns the apartment) is very messy. And rich and spoiled.

So his mother pays for a Polish cleaning lady who comes every week or every two weeks. She cleans his room and all common areas (the living room, the two bathrooms and the kitchen).

She hates us - with good reason and often screams out loud and curses in Polish. She also once broke our toilet in a fit of rage.

[Yelnoc]

My flatmate (who owns the apartment) is very messy. And rich and spoiled.

So his mother pays for a Polish cleaning lady who comes every week or every two weeks. She cleans his room and all common areas (the living room, the two bathrooms and the kitchen).

She hates us - with good reason and often screams out loud and curses in Polish. She also once broke our toilet in a fit of rage.

What do you do to her?

[fezzyfestoon]

Surprisingly no, we've never had one. I don't know that my parents would agree to having someone they don't know come in and take care of their shet.

[Hatman 🍁]

What a horrible thought.

[CLARENCE 2015!]

I have a cleaning lady who comes weekly and mostly dusts... it is difficult for me to be on my knees and up on ladders as some of the ceiling fans are very high...also have regular gardening and lawn services

[opebo]

My flatmate (who owns the apartment) is very messy. And rich and spoiled.

So his mother pays for a Polish cleaning lady who comes every week or every two weeks. She cleans his room and all common areas (the living room, the two bathrooms and the kitchen).

She hates us - with good reason and often screams out loud and curses in Polish. She also once broke our toilet in a fit of rage.

How much does this cost?

But good for your roomate's mother.  After all, if you allow young men to live alone without cleaning services, it will destroy the apartment.

[Gustaf]

My flatmate (who owns the apartment) is very messy. And rich and spoiled.

So his mother pays for a Polish cleaning lady who comes every week or every two weeks. She cleans his room and all common areas (the living room, the two bathrooms and the kitchen).

She hates us - with good reason and often screams out loud and curses in Polish. She also once broke our toilet in a fit of rage.

What do you do to her?

It's not so much me - but his room is often quite scary. He once dropped a glass on the floor and just left the pieces of shattered glass lying around. He also once left a bowl of porridge in a drawer in his room and went away on vacation, leaving it to rot there for a month.

Also, it's good etiquette to clean up things so a maid can do the dusting, vacuum cleaning and so on more easily. Since all communication with this maid (who only knows Polish anyway) goes via my flatmate's mother I never know when she arrives so I can never do this in the living room or kitchen.

At least I clean my own room though so it doesn't get that embarassing for me.

The Polish-speaking girl who lives with us now was a bit bothered by all the Polish cursing though, since she can actually understand it.

[Gustaf]

My flatmate (who owns the apartment) is very messy. And rich and spoiled.

So his mother pays for a Polish cleaning lady who comes every week or every two weeks. She cleans his room and all common areas (the living room, the two bathrooms and the kitchen).

She hates us - with good reason and often screams out loud and curses in Polish. She also once broke our toilet in a fit of rage.

How much does this cost?

But good for your roomate's mother.  After all, if you allow young men to live alone without cleaning services, it will destroy the apartment.

I've no idea, since I'm not paying for it. But those things are generally quite expensive in Sweden, so hardly anyone but the really rich can afford it. Unless they do it illegally and don't pay taxes on it, of course.

I think most of the apartment would do fine. And we're not only men living here either...

[Mechaman]

My parents had maid services during my junior year in college.  It scared the hell out of me when I visited during Winter Break, mostly because I had no idea that my parents even had maid service.  I was in my room working up my motivation when this short Hispanic lady just burst into my room!
I almost had a heart attack at age 21.
She was freaked out too and went about cleaning other areas.  I managed to clean a few spots in my room (mostly just taking some water glasses downstairs and throwing my bedding sheets into the washing machine, throwing all of the clothes on my floor into a suitcase) and then gave them the go ahead and sped off to the nearest bar so I could get my heart rate back down to a non-life threatening level.

But I personally don't see the need for one.  I mean really, I'm so disorganized and lazy about keeping my sh*t clean that any sane person would hate being my cleaning person.  I would much rather wallow in my own slothery than end up dead on the six O'Clock news story of "disgruntled" home cleaners.

[Хahar 🤔]

It's a very common thing in Bangladesh, of course. Both sets of grandparents have live-in servants.

[Frodo]

We did when we lived in South Korea and the Philippines, where we had a maid and (in Manila) our own driver.  

I still haven't forgotten catching a glimpse of our Filipina maid topless when she was changing in the hallway -and she and I were the only ones in the house.