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LOL! I'm starting to think the cleaning may have been a curse. On a cleanliness scale of 1-10, my house was always about an 8. Today it's a 10.
But, darnit, I find myself wanting to keep it a 10. I've been going behind Queenie, picking up barely-there dog hairs -- although it's not easy to see a doberman's individual hairs, even on a white floor. I hope this obsession will subside and I can go back to being happy with an 8 soon.
P.S. Since the cleaning took so much less time than they had anticipated, the cost to my sister was reduced from $450 to $260. (Whew!)
Last edited by TFW46; 03-29-2012 at 10:50 PM..
Reason: Edited to add the P.S.
P.S. Since the cleaning took so much less time than they had anticipated, the cost to my sister was reduced from $450 to $260. (Whew!)
$260
Good Lord TFW, for THAT much money, I'll drive to Texas and clean your house! I had no idea it was that much. I was thinking $100 at the most.
Plus the obvious political incorrect response....you are close enough to the border to not have to pay such a high price.
Glad it's Friday...even though tomorrow is my Saturday to work.
I'm enjoying my daughters new job hours. They change every day, but so far, it has worked out to my benefit. I wonder what the possibly reasoning would be to change people's schedule so one day they come in at 6 AM and another day they come in at 11 PM? Doesn't make much sense....does it? She's young and can handle it, my body needs more consistent hours.
It's Izzy's computer game time....so I'm going to do some laundry & cleaning. I'll be back later.
Glory, the rate for house-cleaning by this service is $33 per man-hour. So, if 2 ladies clean for 2 hours each, the cost is $132 for 4 man-hours.
I agree that $33/hour is a lot. When I was cleaning repossessed houses in the 1980's (for a while during the oil bust), I charged a flat fee that usually worked out to $10/hour. And that was dirty, disgusting work. These ladies had a pretty easy time in my house yesterday. But I'm telling you that my house looks and feels brand new. It's a great feeling.
Wow TFW....too bad we aren't younger. We could get together in the house cleaning business and make a fortune.
I can still seriously clean, but I would only have enough energy to be good on the job one day a week.
I need to run some errands NOW and don't feel like getting up and out. I do want to pick up the handful of free items at Walgreens and Walmart
that I have coupons for before they run out of stock. Orlando is a shopping MECCA and you have to get on-sale stuff FAST.
Glory, I made a killing cleaning foreclosed houses in the 1980's. I did it only because the oil business was so bad and there were no jobs. Then, about a year later, when the oil industry opened back up, I was offered a great job and really had to think about whether I wanted to give up my housecleaning business.
The work was really bad at times. You cant (or maybe you can) imagine how some people live and what they do to a house that's being foreclosed on. And often the electricity was off, which meant no air-conditioning in the Houston summer. (In those cases, I usually paid the next-door neighbor to let me borrow an outlet for the vacuum and carpet shampooer.)
I usually worked 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week. I didnt have to work that much but I kept getting referrals from realtors and I never wanted to turn down any $$$.
I really loved working for myself and the exhausted feeling, at the end of the day, of a job well done. In the end, I accepted the oil company offer because of the benefits. I probably wouldnt have had the heart attack and the stroke -- and my current kidney failure issues -- if I'd still been cleaning houses. But I also wouldnt have a pension.
So, in the end, going back to the oil business was the right decision for me. But I'd highly recommend going into the housecleaning business to anyone. Maybe not cleaning residences like mine unless you can own a business (because I dont know how much $$$ the ladies who do the work get). But if someone can get in good with banks or realtors and get a contract to clean repossessed or vacant houses, there's money to be made.
But if someone can get in good with banks or realtors and get a contract to clean repossessed or vacant houses, there's money to be made.
I don't speak Spanish fluently enough to get those kinds of jobs around here.
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(In those cases, I usually paid the next-door neighbor to let me borrow an outlet for the vacuum and carpet shampooer.) 
