Present Professor, Meet Mr. Clean
Today I bought myself a little early Chanukah gift: I hired a housekeeping service to clean my apartment. See, I’ve been busier than I usually am ... for me anymore, I decided to spring for a service. If all goes well, they’ll leave my apartment shiny ... , and all-around slobs. Contact local cleaners beforehand to get an idea of what it will cost–many [more...]
Date: 2008-12-19 15:00:54
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Hypocrisy Redux
You would think that someone who is the the regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection, and the Boston Area Port Director, ... housekeeper from Brazil (and paying far less than the going rate for legal cleaning services ... would know better than to hire illegal immigrants to clean her house. If you thought [more...]
Date: 2008-12-06 16:08:00
The Case for Daytime Cleaning
I have heard a buzz for a couple of years about switching housekeeping services - typically a nocturnal activity - to the daylight hours. If your company/building owner uses green housekeeping materials and equipment, this eliminates ... , but discovered the energy savings were enormous: about $100,000 per year. All janitorial, landscape [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 19:43:55
House "Cleaning"
One of the seemingly attractive things in China is that it's relatively inexpensive to hire people to do service work like cleaning ... in our temporary apartment, the new house we're moving into, and even good hotels like the Grand Hyatt has been pretty uniformly poor. According to Michelle, who has been in the apartment while housekeeping [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 10:55:16
Ayi = marriage saver
Clean all this myself? No thanks...One thing I came to appreciate when I was home is our ayi. Even though housekeeping services has become more popular lately in Sweden (mainly because it is a tax-deductible expense for Swedish households since a few years back), most people still [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 03:40:00
Geithner hit with tax, housekeeper immigration issues
Given recent history, it seemed almost inevitable that one of President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet nominees would be hit with a scandal related ... reported that illegal immigrants had been working for the cleaning service employed by Homeland ... House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs released this statement on the matter: The President-elect [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 07:03:42
Holiday Public Service Announcement
While sugar plums and other things are dancing in your heads, I wanted to take a moment to tell all of you pups (and kitties and hamsterriers) ... housekeeping chore that often gets overlooked: cleaning out the dryer hose.According to Consumer Reports ... vent hoses.As a very fluffy husky, I can tell you that the human woman pulls enough fluff [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 23:36:00
Perseverance
I’m having a housekeeping moment: I just climbed up on the dining room table and cleaned the ceiling fan! ... t believe in dusting. But usually my housework time is taken up with vital human services like wiping [more...]
Date: 2009-01-13 22:18:39
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