Cleaning lady, fishy? Let it go?

[Anonymous]

Came home yesterday and noticed that two baby bottles were missing.

I pay very little attention generally to the inventory of the house but baby bottles I keep track of because we have 9 and I always know how many are in daycare/spare category because I'm cleaning and counting them every day. So I'm not usually anal is all I'm saying.

Been tearing the house apart looking for them, finally texted her. She says she has them and will bring them by on friday. So going out of her way.

How weird is this on a scale of 1-10? Find-a-new-cleaning-lady weird?

Sometimes it isn't her coming but other ladies she employs, I don't know who came Monday.

I'm also worried that she like, has a baby and can't afford bottles and is just trying to survive blah blah blah.

[Anonymous]

Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

[Anonymous]

Ask her why she took them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

[Anonymous]

I'd text her "Oh! Lol. How'd you end up taking my bottles home with you?"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

This is a real possibility. I used to babysit on evenings and weekends and one time accidentally took the camera of the family I was babysitting for. I was gathering up a few of my things from their table, tossing them into my bag, and must have absentmindedly grabbed the camera too (I remember seeing it on the table). I texted or called and let them know I had it then next day, when I realized, and returned it immediately. They acted like they thought it was strange and implausible, and clearly didn't believe me, but it was the truth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd text her "Oh! Lol. How'd you end up taking my bottles home with you?"

Yup, this. If she doesn't respond, then drop it. I wouldn't fire her over this, unless it was part of a string of other things.

[Anonymous]

Does she have a baby that might need them? My old
Nanny was stealing diapers from me to send back to Cameroon. I fired her for other reasons but if you are stealing diapers you probably need them more than me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

This is a real possibility. I used to babysit on evenings and weekends and one time accidentally took the camera of the family I was babysitting for. I was gathering up a few of my things from their table, tossing them into my bag, and must have absentmindedly grabbed the camera too (I remember seeing it on the table). I texted or called and let them know I had it then next day, when I realized, and returned it immediately. They acted like they thought it was strange and implausible, and clearly didn't believe me, but it was the truth.

Something on a table scattered among your personal items, I could see taking something by mistake. Baby bottle? That seems like an odd thing to accidentally take with you unless you had a baby of your own and you were visiting someone with a baby.

Were they in a drying rack, in the sink, in cupboard, in a bag? That just seems odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does she have a baby that might need them? My old
Nanny was stealing diapers from me to send back to Cameroon. I fired her for other reasons but if you are stealing diapers you probably need them more than me.

I haven't noticed anything else missing. I'm not super on top of things but I also have a very small house so we don't keep a lot of excess stock of anything. I think I'd notice if anything like diapers/formula started going missing over a prolonged period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

This is a real possibility. I used to babysit on evenings and weekends and one time accidentally took the camera of the family I was babysitting for. I was gathering up a few of my things from their table, tossing them into my bag, and must have absentmindedly grabbed the camera too (I remember seeing it on the table). I texted or called and let them know I had it then next day, when I realized, and returned it immediately. They acted like they thought it was strange and implausible, and clearly didn't believe me, but it was the truth.

Something on a table scattered among your personal items, I could see taking something by mistake. Baby bottle? That seems like an odd thing to accidentally take with you unless you had a baby of your own and you were visiting someone with a baby.

Were they in a drying rack, in the sink, in cupboard, in a bag? That just seems odd.

I guess it depends what the bottles look like. A tall plastic bottle could, out of the corner of one's eye, resemble other tall plastic cleaning solution bottles the person was gathering up in a hurry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

This is a real possibility. I used to babysit on evenings and weekends and one time accidentally took the camera of the family I was babysitting for. I was gathering up a few of my things from their table, tossing them into my bag, and must have absentmindedly grabbed the camera too (I remember seeing it on the table). I texted or called and let them know I had it then next day, when I realized, and returned it immediately. They acted like they thought it was strange and implausible, and clearly didn't believe me, but it was the truth.

Something on a table scattered among your personal items, I could see taking something by mistake. Baby bottle? That seems like an odd thing to accidentally take with you unless you had a baby of your own and you were visiting someone with a baby.

Were they in a drying rack, in the sink, in cupboard, in a bag? That just seems odd.

They were in the nursery next to the crib from the previous night/morning. They usually take them downstairs, disassemble and leave in water in the sink for me. She does frequently have her cleaning supply bucket in the kitchen so this is actually plausible to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

This is a real possibility. I used to babysit on evenings and weekends and one time accidentally took the camera of the family I was babysitting for. I was gathering up a few of my things from their table, tossing them into my bag, and must have absentmindedly grabbed the camera too (I remember seeing it on the table). I texted or called and let them know I had it then next day, when I realized, and returned it immediately. They acted like they thought it was strange and implausible, and clearly didn't believe me, but it was the truth.

Something on a table scattered among your personal items, I could see taking something by mistake. Baby bottle? That seems like an odd thing to accidentally take with you unless you had a baby of your own and you were visiting someone with a baby.

Were they in a drying rack, in the sink, in cupboard, in a bag? That just seems odd.

I guess it depends what the bottles look like. A tall plastic bottle could, out of the corner of one's eye, resemble other tall plastic cleaning solution bottles the person was gathering up in a hurry.

Doc browns, 8oz, purple

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she bring her own cleaning supplies? She could have put them in a bucket by accident with other stuff.

Id be more concerned if she didn't admit she had them.

Yes she does thank you for giving me a plausible explanation. I really like her I just couldn't think of a way it could have been an accident.

This is a real possibility. I used to babysit on evenings and weekends and one time accidentally took the camera of the family I was babysitting for. I was gathering up a few of my things from their table, tossing them into my bag, and must have absentmindedly grabbed the camera too (I remember seeing it on the table). I texted or called and let them know I had it then next day, when I realized, and returned it immediately. They acted like they thought it was strange and implausible, and clearly didn't believe me, but it was the truth.

Something on a table scattered among your personal items, I could see taking something by mistake. Baby bottle? That seems like an odd thing to accidentally take with you unless you had a baby of your own and you were visiting someone with a baby.

Were they in a drying rack, in the sink, in cupboard, in a bag? That just seems odd.

They were in the nursery next to the crib from the previous night/morning. They usually take them downstairs, disassemble and leave in water in the sink for me. She does frequently have her cleaning supply bucket in the kitchen so this is actually plausible to me.

Oh, that's easy then. She threw them in her bucket to carry downstairs and forgot to take them out. No big deal probably.

[Anonymous]

So, she grabbed them and stuck them in a bucket or apron pocket or whatever to take them downstairs and forgot to take them out? That seems very plausible to me.