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Post by ~summer~ on May 21, 2017 20:35:37 GMT
Growing up, no even though we had a big house with a big yard my parents did it all.
My mom growing up always had at least two full time housekeepers/nannies - they even had a person whose full time job was to just do the ironing! But my grandma had five kids and adopted two more teen girls when their parents died, she had a four story home and a well known husband who worked very long hours and traveled all the time. My grandmother was a hard working lady! We have a housekeeper and now and mow&blow guy but they only come once every two weeks.
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Post by workingclassdog on May 21, 2017 22:06:13 GMT
Nope never Edited: "It is so inexpensive to hire help that most people have some sort of help." Someone said that above... to me hiring help is not inexpensive.. in fact I only know a handful of people who have 'hired help' of some sort, but then again, maybe I am a class below? (not being snarky).. I'm pretty much middle class but struggling in the last few years of job changes, but even before I would have not even thought of hiring help. I mean I get that people have hired help, like lawn mowing, or cleaning once a week or bi-weekly. Shoot I would do it in a heartbeat if I could, but I can't see paying someone if I am able to do it.. which I HATE lawn work.. BLAH... I believe the person who said that doesn't live in the US. The only "help" I currently have is a cleaning lady every other week. No one when I was growing up and didn't know anyone who had help. That makes sense!! I didn't realize it.
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Post by darkangel090260 on May 22, 2017 4:14:00 GMT
they had me once i could reach the sink and the wash, I was in charge of taking care of all my older brother that included going to there places once a week and clean and bring home wash doing it and take it back. I started cook full meal about 10 for all of them
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Post by worldwanderer75 on May 22, 2017 8:30:27 GMT
I believe the person who said that doesn't live in the US. The only "help" I currently have is a cleaning lady every other week. No one when I was growing up and didn't know anyone who had help. That makes sense!! I didn't realize it. I'm the person who made the original comment. I'm an American who lives overseas. It is extremely inexpensive to have help where I live. My friends who employee live in nannies usually pay between $500-900 USD per month for their nannies. Now, there are other expenses - they provide food and other living expenses and most pay to send their nannies home to visit family once a year. But for most, it is a real bargain. A lot of the nannies have other families they fill in for and make more money than just that. We pay our gardener about $60 per month to water/weed and mow our yard. It's nothing for us but he can support his entire family super comfortably by working for several families who live on my street. It's a win win. I'm confident that when we all move back to the USA, none of my friends will have any sort of help.
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Post by lbp on May 22, 2017 13:22:33 GMT
Nope! I came from a lower middle class family and we did all our own work. The only help Mom had was a babysitter for us while she worked and we went to the baby sitters house. The baby sitter also kept 13 other children! It was so much fun there!
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 14:27:44 GMT
Like Gina, my family was the staff. My paternal grandfather died during the flu epidemic of 1918 and left my grandmother with six small children. My grandmother was laundress for several families, house cleaner for others and janitor of the high school in the evenings. I don't know when she slept. My maternal great grandmother was a maid for a wealthy family in Germany. The husband of the family felt that part of her job was to sleep with him. When she became pregnant with my grandmother she was let go. She always had a strong dislike for my grandmother, blaming her for what happened and so when my grandmother was eleven years old she was sent to America and she became a maid for a wealthy family here. They did let her be educated with their children which was kind of them. At the age of 25 she left the family to marry my grandfather who was 40 years older than her. They had seven children but grandma still worked as a housekeeper for another family while raising her own family and being in poor health. Sadly, she and my grandfather died two weeks apart when she was 49 and he was 89. How I would love to be able to sit with her and have her tell me about her life. She will always be my hero. Your grandmother's story is so interesting. I have a close relative that was in foster care as a teen in the 1960s. She was placed in a home when the lady of the house was expecting and was there not to be loved and parented but to clean, cook, and serve the foster parents with a new baby. Like in your story, my relative was also there to "serve" the husband while and after the wife recovered. To this day, she has issues.
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Post by Anita on May 22, 2017 15:28:06 GMT
Um, no. I am considering hiring a cleaning service to do my bathrooms and kitchen once my youngest moves out, though.
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Post by ghislaine on May 23, 2017 0:21:40 GMT
I grew up with the occasional babysitter while my mom worked a few hours as the local librarian but that was it.
My mother was born in Africa and my grandparents did have servants while they lived there. My grandmother didn't let anyone touch the baby though! Cooking and cleaning might have been one thing, but taking care of her baby was something else entirely apparently. My grandmother did hire cleaning ladies to come into her home here in the USA, though I got the impression part of the deal was learning to clean to my grandmother's standards! LOL
My brother had both a maid and a gardener while living in Kenya. When he and his wife were living in Thailand their apartment came with a room for a helper but I don't think they took anyone on for that kind of full time help. My brother and his wife and my BIL and his wife have housekeepers come in every two weeks.
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