My cleaning lady comes three hours a week. She straightens up, cleans the house, and irons all the weeks laundry into neat closet-ready stacks. I love her and pay her 16 euro’s, about 20 bucks, an hour. I also have a gardener who comes in two days a year to do the heavy tree pruning. No lawn.
Cleaning lady comes once a week. I pay her $110 to do laundry, vacuum and wash all the floors, dust, change sheets, clean the bathroom and kitchen and wash the curtains. She loves on my fat cats for free. She also makes me a nice lunch every Friday. I live in Tokyo.
This. Full time gardener = household servant. Some guy who shows up every week or two and cuts the grass = independent businessman delivering a service. Same for occasional maid services, dog walkers, etc.
I have a cleaning lady who comes in every two weeks to do the laundry, iron shirts, and tidy up in general. She has a key and has worked for me for 24 years.
I pay her $25 for probably about 5 hours work. (I’m not in the apartment when she’s here.) This is a pretty good pay rate for Panama. The minimum wage is about $2.30/hour.
Add in one Piper Cub, and you’ve described our household.
Just one.
Well, my dog cleans some of the stuff thrown on the floor.
If you count gardeners, once a month or so my landlady brings some gardeners, and they clean out the weeds and my yard too (provided I pay for that part). But I do that because I hate garden job and don’t have a lawnmower here.
Does a building superintendent count? Technically, he works for the landlord, not the tenants.
I want to note that our yard guys mow, weed-eat and trim the hedges, and we do the actual picking up/straightening up in the house, and the cleaning ladies do stuff like scrub the tub and walls, clean the toilets, sweep/mop, etc… We do our own laundry, and we sweep/vacuum about every day or every other day.
It’s like **Oredigger77 **said; losing the time on the weekends doing the periodic stuff was driving us crazy- we can usually keep up with the daily stuff.
We don’t. I live with my grandparents, and they had a cleaning lady who came three days a week for almost 20 years.
Since there have been threads here that claimed in a previous generation everyone was either a doctor/lawyer or servant themselves, I would be more interested in knowing how many people here ARE servants. By this definition if you own a landscaping company or provide a service of any kind at someone’s home you ARE a servant.