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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]150k and no cleaning lady.  [b]It feels uncomfortable to have someone else clean my house even if I wanted to spend the money[/b].[/quote]

+1  I wouldn't want someone in my house without me or my husband home (partly because we have wily pets that are escape artists), but I also would feel strange being home and doing other things while someone else cleaned up my mess.  But I was raised with a very strong sense of the least you can do in this world is clean up after yourself -- no matter who you are, how smart, how pretty, how talented.

But I understand that it creates jobs for people.  And I also get that when you have two working spouses and kids, that there are only so many hours in a day.  And yeah, if someone works 60 hours a week and wants to spend the only free time they have doing some quality activity with their children, it makes sense to outsource the other stuff.  So I get why people have a need for house cleaners.

But I also know people who have worked as house cleaners.  And it's hard work for not that great wages (either they work for a company and the company pays low wages, or if they are in business for themselves, they have so many other expenses -- the cost of being licensed and bonded, taxes, health care, transportation, equipment -- that they are really working hard for what profit they make).  It's not like some other trades where you can say that even though it is blue collar, they are making money hand over fist.  And I've heard firsthand that people talk down to them.  My overall impression is that they are not given a lot of respect, even from the same people who swear up and down how they couldn't live without having a house cleaner.  [/quote]

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