All About Life Without Maids
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janet_lee88:
Give yourself time to adjust. You can actually wash clothes at night after dinner and hang up to dry and bring out to the sun in the morning. Collect by mid morning or early afternoon. That way, your kitchen will be free of clothes when you cook lunch or dinner.Next year, I will be cooking 1 dish meals...soup with vege and meat. So it's actually 3-in-1. Hate the cleaning/washing up. Clothes will have smell too. Lunch will be simple since it's just for my daughter and me...son longer day in school.
No maid, body aches after housework.
With maid, heart ache PLUS headache.
Exercise in the morning 3x a week will free you from aches and pain. Go for a body massage or foot reflexology once a month or fortnightly. It helps to rejuvenate your body. The monthly salary for the maid can now be used to pamper yourself. -
Great idea! Will check out the 1 dish thread. Now need to look thru the threads to see which robotic cleaner to get…
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I am currently living abroad. When I was in Singapore, I didn’t have a live-in helper, though I did have lots of help from family and we also hired a part-time cleaner. Now I am totally alone and totally without help. I don’t even have a roomba!
I have to cook, clean and take care of my family. Hubby does little coz he has long hours. It’s exhausting, so I rope the kids in. They help with the laundry and dishes. The house is dirtier (it’s a bigger place than what we had in Singapore too!) but I just have to close one eye. I will clean parts of a small area each day coz it’s impossible to do everything, eg today I wash the toilet bowl, tmrw I clean the sink, another day I clean the floor etc. Some things never get cleaned (eg windows…).
As for food, I try to cook extra to freeze so I don’t have to cook so many meals. I also use the crock pot a lot. So I will prepare dinner in the morning when the older kids are at school and the baby is napping. The crockpot will slowly cook it while I go driving up and down to pick the kids up etc.
I must say that the dryer has really helped my life. I used to spend so much time hanging the clothes to dry. And I could only do one load at a time coz gotta wait for the previous load to dry. Now I can do one load after another. And it saves me so much time. I put the bed sheets in and when it’s done I put the bed sheets back on the bed. No need to spend time folding!
It’s tiring but the other mums here manage. They even have time to put their make-up on to go out. and some also work (i don’t), so I think we are a bit spoilt by all the help we get in Singapore. I’m the most frazzled looking mum on the street! The other mums must be thinking Singaporean mums are little princesses! -
dasalo:
I wash my clothes at night bcos I need them to block the direct morning sun.
Give yourself time to adjust. You can actually wash clothes at night after dinner and hang up to dry and bring out to the sun in the morning. Collect by mid morning or early afternoon. That way, your kitchen will be free of clothes when you cook lunch or dinner.janet_lee88:
No maid, body aches after housework.
With maid, heart ache PLUS headache.
Exercise in the morning 3x a week will free you from aches and pain. Go for a body massage or foot reflexology once a month or fortnightly. It helps to rejuvenate your body. The monthly salary for the maid can now be used to pamper yourself.
Body massage sounds interesting. Actually I would like to try that hot stones treatment but worry about the hard sell. -
janet_lee88:
I wash my clothes at night bcos I need them to block the direct morning sun.
Give yourself time to adjust. You can actually wash clothes at night after dinner and hang up to dry and bring out to the sun in the morning. Collect by mid morning or early afternoon. That way, your kitchen will be free of clothes when you cook lunch or dinner.dasalo:
[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]No maid, body aches after housework.
With maid, heart ache PLUS headache.
Exercise in the morning 3x a week will free you from aches and pain. Go for a body massage or foot reflexology once a month or fortnightly. It helps to rejuvenate your body. The monthly salary for the maid can now be used to pamper yourself.
Body massage sounds interesting. Actually I would like to try that hot stones treatment but worry about the hard sell.[/quote]I've just tried the hot stones treatment recently using my existing package for trial. Interesting concept, feels warm, skin subtle and relax after the session but I told them nothing spectacular, so I did not take up the package since I still have other sessions.
I too hated it when you still have many session unused and they still \"push\" you for a new package. How to reject \"hard sell\"? Just tell them \"your hubby - not happy if....\" \"you are not working.....\" . Now it's time to use \"your hubby\" as shield-挡箭牌。 -
The irritating thing is when they buzz around during the enjoying treatment. I am supposed to enjoy but they do the hard sell. That’s why I dare not step in.
My bro needs to get a maid for his soon to be born bb…pity the amount of money he has to fork out. Hope he gets one who is willing to listen and not stubborn. My mum is so used to not having one after so long. But his wife needs one when she works from home. -
MintyMin:
Is it? I think most parents will be happy to know if they children's safety is at risk.YEs.. Most of the times i just stared at them to get message across.. Like most of u.. i m afraid some of the employers might deem us being too kaypoh.. sigh.. such a headache..
thus.. better do without one.. only problem is when i have night gatherings for wrk.. n dh not avail.. who to look after kids.. -
33mama:
does anyone knows if there is maid for hire on weekdays from like 1.30pm to 5.30pm (prepare lunch for primary school children, clean the house, cook dinner)?
Maybe you can try to ask around your neighbours? There are some SAHMs who are willing to do these for a small fee. -
peapot:
I agree with minty totally. I cannot wait for the day I can do without maid. Pay high salary and agency fees and still get problems from them. Abit like tuition, pay through your nose and yr child grades still not improving.
Haha. Tuition fees cost a lot these days so if can do without maids, it will be good. Besides, read a lot of problematic issues with maids so I rather do without one. -
weatherbee:
Maybe SAHms may be willing but not maid...bcos their employers may not be willing to let their maids out of the house when kids return from school.33mama:
does anyone knows if there is maid for hire on weekdays from like 1.30pm to 5.30pm (prepare lunch for primary school children, clean the house, cook dinner)?
Maybe you can try to ask around your neighbours? There are some SAHMs who are willing to do these for a small fee.
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