On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 11:47:18 AM UTC-5, Brooklyn1 wrote:

> ABOUT? You don't know?
> Probably a typo, you meant about $4 per hour.

I pay her $80 to clean the house. It might take her two hours. It
might take her three. I just don't know. I'm at work when she comes to clean.
The house is clean when I come home; that's all I care about.

> For skilled labor yes, for unskilled labor no. You're only
> considering your little plastic microcosm world of cookie cutter
> housing.

My house was owner-built in 1948 by a stonemason for his own family.

> Where I live lots of folks live on very expenssive real
> estate yet wouldn't pay more for a house cleaner than if they lived in
> an inner city slum apt. Farm folks are extremely frugal, they could

I'm not "farm folks". I'm part of the tech/professional class, and I
choose to spend my money so that I don't have to spend my time cleaning
my house.

> be breeding race horses on a $20,000,000.00 property consisting of a
> few hundred acres and they would never pay $40/hr for someone to clean
> their terlits, they wouldn't pay $40/hr for someone to muck horseshit
> from their stables either... they have no need to impress people by
> boasting how much they pay their house cleaner... how gauche.

I wasn't boasting. If I recall correctly, I mentioned the rate that I
pay my maid because someone (you, probably) said that without skills it's
impossible to get well-paying work.

> Folks
> with absurd tales about how they pay $40/hr for someone to clean
> their house very likely doesn't have a house cleaner, most likely they
> don't have a house, they live in a one room basement hovel in the
> sleaziest part of town... in fact they clean houses for $10/hr and
> dream about how they're worth $40/hr.

Only a liar constantly accuses others of lying.

Cindy Hamilton