All About Life Without Maids
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mamemo:
How abt ask him to dump all unwanted paper in just 1 box & ask ur kids (or yourself, if kid is not old enough) to transfer them into recycle bag once awhile? The table top in my room is an \"organised mess\" w small piles of \"to throw\" & \"to recycle\" & I only clear it when there is a critical mass.I'm also maidless and a FTWM. But I have a messy husband. My husband likes to empty his pockets on the dining table whenever he comes home, and stuff ranges from tissue paper to coins etc. So after a few days, I'll see a few packets of tissue paper on the table. For letters, like credit card bills etc, he'll open the letter, take out the bill, and leave the envelopes and promotion booklets on the table.
For cups, he'll take a new cup everytime he drinks and doesn't wash after that. So after a few days, I'll see lots of cups on the kitchentop.
Any solution to this problem ? I've tried buying boxes and train my husband to put into the box, but not successful.
On sunday I did the most drastic thing: I took 2 plastics bags, dump all his things in it and put one side. And I hid all the cups, so there is only 1 cup for each person. Unfortunately he wasn't quite happy about and showed me a black face until today.
Sigh.
Use paper napkins instead of tissue packs so that he can just top up w more the next day instead of leaving the finishing packs ard. That's what I do for DS1 as I find combining the various packs into 1 a hassle. :roll:
We hv a designated cup of our own for sweet beverages & a water bottle each for plain water which will b washed only at the end of the day. We just take the same bottle along if need to bring water out of the house. -
mamemo:
oh gosh, ur hb is same as mine! And guess what? When the PT cleaner comes, soemtimes he will just dump EVERYTHING into the bomb shelter so now my bomb shelter is so packed its filled full to the door you cannot get the things inside.I'm also maidless and a FTWM. But I have a messy husband. My husband likes to empty his pockets on the dining table whenever he comes home, and stuff ranges from tissue paper to coins etc. So after a few days, I'll see a few packets of tissue paper on the table. For letters, like credit card bills etc, he'll open the letter, take out the bill, and leave the envelopes and promotion booklets on the table.
Sigh.
Until now I have not found a effective way to train him. -
I wonder -- do husbands of SAHM, without maids, help out in the household chores and ferrying kids to school? And for CNY springclean, who does it? Wife, both, or engage third party services.
Care to share? :roll: -
wormy:
Husband does help me, as I find it time wasting to bring my little baby to childcare every morning and come back again to do my laundry. Husband on the way to work can drop my baby there. Although sometimes I do go along together to childcare. For household, husband does help to do cook sometimes, change my baby and night routine sometimes.I wonder -- do husbands of SAHM, without maids, help out in the household chores and ferrying kids to school? And for CNY springclean, who does it? Wife, both, or engage third party services.
Care to share? :roll:
I am thinking of irobot...since my baby attend childcare, seems that the floor is always with dust. Any robot to recommend? Wonder robot from china can be compatible for singapore hdb plugs? 220V.. -
wormy:
Dh helps alot daily, fetching DS1 home from sch in evenings, bathe the kids at nite, washing dishes when we eat at home & throw rubbish etc, as my batteries r going flat by then.I wonder -- do husbands of SAHM, without maids, help out in the household chores and ferrying kids to school? And for CNY springclean, who does it? Wife, both, or engage third party services.
Care to share? :roll:
We did tot of getting our previous cleaning co. back to spring clean but in the end decided to just DIY together a task at a time on some weekends. Great 4 bonding!
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My sil mentioned that she is using a mini device that will run around in the house, not irobot, and it costs only 50 to 60 dollars.It looks like a ball and will go round and roll the dust into itself.You just have to change papers after that.
Anyone has used this before?She mentioned that the supplier is in macpherson area.
Lynn2 -
janet_lee88:
now maidless. after agent told her want to meet up with her bf, she lan lan do her job but it only last short while, i have to keep telling her off. until i found her playing with my baby's dick and always bringing him into the toilet when she does her biz, i sent her to the agency without hesitation.
When my son first entered Nursery at 4, he will fall sick in Jan (fever, cough, running nose, sore throat) when school reopened, July after the hols as well as other seasonal period.catang:
oh goodness, wat a 4getful mami i am. i totally forgotten abt younger children at getting infected more easily...hmm..we shall see if breast milk really does makes the immunity stronger....lol
tks for sharing (=^o^=)
I gave him Milo and little breast milk every morn when he was in K2 (just had #2 then) and he hardly fell sick after that.
now depending on my elder gal to help me cope with but after she goes poly, i have to get a maid again and i'm so skeptical abt having a gd maid cos till now (more den 10 maids) and i haven meet a gd one *_* -
I guess everyone hopes to get good maid as that will be of good help.
I was toying the idea to rehire maid .But, think of all the prob , i gave up the idea.
Yesterday, I heard my neighbour asking her maid, xx, why the food is so salty?in a very nice tone.You know what the maid reply, MY tongue cannot taste…goodness…
Lynn2 -
Lynn2:
Told my hubby if there is extra income, getting a maid is not a bad idea...at least someone to do the cleaning...but the stress of having to handle another person in the household will be more stressful...the problems they give...not like I don't have enough headaches.I guess everyone hopes to get good maid as that will be of good help.
I was toying the idea to rehire maid .But, think of all the prob , i gave up the idea.
Yesterday, I heard my neighbour asking her maid, xx, why the food is so salty?in a very nice tone.You know what the maid reply, MY tongue cannot taste....goodness..
Lynn2
Talk to them nicely, these maids climb on the head. Strict with them, they put soap powder, run away or murder you.
With one of my Indon maids, she had problems with her teeth. Sent her to see doctor but she refused surgery...understand their culture but her tooth gave her fever. -
Hi all,
Really happy to chance upon this thread. My maid of 3 years is leaving in a few days time and I have decided not to have a new one after many bad experiences the past 14 years of having maids!
Besides being inspired through this thread, I have also learnt many household 'toys' that I hv decided to get - irobot, dryer & thermal pot
However I am still contemplating on the following and would like to hear from any users its effectiveness :
1) standing steam iron - is it easy and good to use?
2) dishwashing machine - any good brand to recommend?
Thanks!
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