# I have been stolen from **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540 "2003-11-05T13:09:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/21 "2003-11-08T07:03:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Why won’t your wife pick up after people? Isn’t that what a maid does? And why not dishes? I’m just going to echo everybody else here…my mom worked as a house keeper for nearly my entire life and in the summer, I often worked with her. The cardinal rule was never, ever, ever touch anything that was laying around. Clean the piss off the toilet and the food stains off the kitchen floor and vacuum around the stained underwear, but that was it… ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/22 "2003-11-08T14:52:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pepperlandgirl \* > vacuum around the stained underwear, but that was it… ewwwwwww :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/23 "2003-11-09T03:37:08Z")
My Mom is 83 and she cleans and straightens before the maid service comes. :rolleyes: But the house is neat and the dishes are done so there is no where the maids can ‘go around’ something. So they get it deep clean = heavy stuff. ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/24 "2003-11-09T04:49:42Z")
Well, you probably need to check with others in the household before accusing anyone of theft. (Or feeling betrayed) ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/25 "2003-11-10T13:24:46Z")
> [@](#): > > So did your parents report that you had 20 bucks missing, bandit? Yup. And as luck would have it, a 10$ roll of quarters, among other change, is missing from my father’s little change cup thing. Now this was hidden in a beerstein (real German!) on the lower shelf of a lamp-desk on the ground floor. We’re not inviting them back, although we’ll probably never see the money. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/26 "2003-11-10T13:36:08Z")
I did housekeeping for a bit when I worked at the Grand Canyon, and that was bloody awful–cleaning up after messy, untidy, people. I could not do that in somebody’s house–I’d feel too much like an intruder. Having a regular housekeeper who you know and have a good working relationship with is useful, but i don;t think I’d want strangers from a cleaning service do the work, especially after having read Barbara Ehrenreich’s _Nickel and Dimed_\*. Still, everybody ought to have a maid . . . Everybody ought to have a maid. Everybody ought to have a menial, Consistantly congenial And quieter than a mouse. Oh! Oh, Wouldn’t she be delicious, Tidying up the dishes, Neat as a pin? Oh! oh, Wouldn’t she be delightful, Sweeping out, Sleeping in? ---
**Author:** ![Aries28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Aries28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aries28)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540/27 "2003-11-10T15:52:07Z")
We had a housekeeper up until 2 weeks ago and I was one of the people who cleaned before she came. I picked up things off the floor, on the staircase, etc. I didn’t want her to have to clean around them so I picked up any clutter. I knew she cleaned out the fridge so I would go through and throw out things and make it easier for her to clean out the shelves. Basically, I was paying her to dust, vacuum, clean the shower and bathrooms, sweep and mop. She only cleaned the main level of the house, not the downstairs or the upstairs and we paid her $100 a month for service every other week. Damn…I miss that lady! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-been-stolen-from/211540.md?page=1)