If You Could Easily Afford Servants Would You Hire Any?

I don't have servants but I do pay for cleaning and laundry twice a week, gardening - at least what I can't do scooting around on my behind and clearing snow in winter, window cleaning, pool guy and cleaning and valet service for my car
 
Butterfly said:
I know what you mean! I have several things that I need to do, but my arthritis makes it impossible for me. For instance, I'd like to clean out my bottom cabinets in the kitchen and get rid of stuff I don't use anymore, but I can't get down there to do that anymore.
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When my mother began to need/want help we were lucky to find a 'cleaning woman' that would come in four hours a week to do just about anything that my mother needed to have done.

My mother used to clean all week in preparation for her visit so that when she arrived they could do something that was important to my mother. The woman would take my mother to get her hair done, shopping, do laundry, bake Christmas cookies, go to visit an old friend, and sometimes she would even clean.

Each week it was like a senior playdate that my mother always looked forward to.
 

If the question means live-in servants, then eww NO, it would crimp my singing and dancing around the kitchen, not to mention the hide and seek game with the cat (not nearly as much fun as with my dearly departed little dog, the cat barely seems to care where I am, the dog would run back and forth looking for me).
I do wish I could afford contractors and cleaning people, I would love to hire people.
 
Jeweltea said:
I wouldn't want any live-in servants but I wouldn't mind a gardner/handyman and a house cleaner. I am pretty picky about food so I would probably prefer to do my own cooking.
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A live-in never...Those that helped when I was a kid lived in there own place somewhere on the property far from the my home...
 
Yes, I'd definitely hire a cook who also would be responsible for doing the dishes, which I hate doing (thank God for my countertop dishwasher). But lately my DIL sends me food from time to time, enough for several meals. I might have a cleaning lady come in a couple of times a month, which I can afford...just haven't done it mostly because I have trust issues.
 

If You Could Easily Afford Servants Would You Hire Any?​


Don't seem to have a use for one

I get up
Shower
Go to put on some clothes....the bed's made
Clean clothes seem to always be in my dresser

Stroll into the dining room.....breakfast is on the table

Do a little paperwork at the roll top, coffee is in my cup there

We seem to always have a clean toilet bowl

No dust gathers.....for some reason

I could eat off the wood floors......have yet to do that.....but I could


I do have to do the yard work, however (I may file a complaint....jus' don't know who with)

Now, where was I....


ah, yes

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Aunt Bea said:
When my mother began to need/want help we were lucky to find a 'cleaning woman' that would come in four hours a week to do just about anything that my mother needed to have done.

My mother used to clean all week in preparation for her visit so that when she arrived they could do something that was important to my mother. The woman would take my mother to get her hair done, shopping, do laundry, bake Christmas cookies, go to visit an old friend, and sometimes she would even clean.

Each week it was like a senior playdate that my mother always looked forward to.
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Funny you mention that Aunt Bea...for 26 years my mom lived with me and then for a couple my mother in law also moved int.
For a time we had 2 different "companions" driving them around on their day out to get done what they wanted and to also have lunch out.
 
I hire a young lady to clean my house. She had applied to a university in the Netherlands and to one in Germany
and I know sooner or later she will leave us for some lofty goal or school. No I would not hire a servant unless I
had a mansion and the hiring servants was commonly done and it would benefit both me and the one I hired. I
learned this morning that my house keeper has applied for a retail job on Campus Konner near the university
and to work what they will allow and keep her domestic job with me. That doesn't sound so lofty. She graduated
high school last May, got her driver's license two weeks ago today. She will spread her wings and fly away one of
these days and I will be the loser.

Here's where she learned to fly.
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We have two ladies come in for two hours to clean every other Saturday. If we had more money we would make it every week (although not Saturday).

Other than that, no.
 
was never "rich" nor "poor". hadd jobs to do as a kid and thought i was forced labor at times... how unfair to expect me to drag that basket of clothes up from basement AND fold its contents! how horrid to have to wind that cord up on the vacuum cleaner and roll it into the closet.

i'm not a lottery junky, but when jackpot is HUGE... like over 6-7 figures, i make plans. a new "little" cute house... with huge kitchen. all "open floor plan". now thinking maybe a little bungalow off "yonder" for someone or a couple or small family to live in. let them live there for free in exchange for pretty much ALL the chores.
 
We are not folks who enjoy having servants around. Would only have what we absolutely needed to have in the way of hired help. We tend to get "displaced" when they are here. Like wherever they are, that's where we want to be so usually would leave if we could till they were finished.
 
No. I never liked hiring people to clean. Never liked people fussing around or with my stuff.
And they never do things exactly like I like it done or how I asked them to do.
I am sorta ok with hiring people to do the outside stuff, yard, sidewalks, roof clean, paint that sort of thing. Mainly because I can't and wont do it.
We always put out the sign that said "don't clean our room" when we traveled or lived away from home for work.

However, If/When they create Robots/Androids that can clean my house....I will buy one !!!
 

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