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Cook something for me!
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> On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 10:28:48 +0100, "Ophelia"
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>>"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>> On 8/22/2014 11:35 PM, barbie gee wrote:
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>>>> On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Becca EmaNymton wrote:
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>>>>> On 8/22/2014 2:53 PM, jmcquown wrote:
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>>>>> We had a housekeeper, so I never saw my mother do laundry, iron
>>>>> clothes, change the sheets, wash dishes or do housework. She was quite
>>>>> spoiled. Us kids somehow learned how to do it when we grew up, though.
>>>>> Mother never worked, but she kept herself busy being a social
>>>>> butterfly. I still love her and miss her.
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>>>> how did she afford a housekeeper?
>>>> I'd give my eye-teeth to have someone in once a week...
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>>> Apparently it used to be fairly common for the middle class to have
>>> someone come in once a week. Even live-in help. [That, I cannot
>>> imagine.] The world (and the cost of living) was different 50 years
>>> ago.
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>>> A couple of times a year I hire a local cleaning service to do a "deep
>>> clean". The price is very reasonable. And they bring all their own
>>> cleaning supplies and equipment. They even wash the windows inside and
>>> out. They're licensed and bonded. Once a week? It would be nice, but
>>> no...
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>>All the years I working I had a cleaner who came in twice a week but in
>>India we had a cook/housekeeper and a retinue of servants. I didn't like
>>that
>>much!
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> Were you in Poona ?
Delhi.
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