The mechanic DOES know where you live. Unless you empty the car (including registration in the glove compartment) or never pay by check. Although the nanny and housecleaner are the only ones who enter your house (well, other than all repairmen and contractors), the other examples are very personal and intimate in their own way. The cook or waiter has the option of putting his spit inside your body if he is sneaky and hostile and unethical enough. And that's a lot more intimate than your house. The point is, all the problems you worried about (copying of car keys, theft of identity) are possible in a variety of professional interactions and no more (or less) likely to happen just because the perp is in your house rather than in your glove compartment, curbside trash or handling one of the thousands of sheets of paper that are outside your house yet have your personal info. The risks taken are the same risks taken with all these transactions. So to worry about them specifically makes me wonder if you avoid all these other transactions or if you think they are somehow less likely or less of an affront just because your house isn't involved.
this conversation absolutely kills me...it's not enough we WOHMS don't "raise' our own kids now we we're held to the fire b/c some of u hire cleaning ladies? good criminy...
"Divide the chores up among family members and it can be done in a few minutes."
Or...do what my daughter and I do in our single mom/only child/ can't afford a cleaning lady/hate to clean household..
ignore it.
cleaning has always been last on my things of how i will spend my time (right up there with cooking--nope don't do much of that...crafts-- never -- camping--don't make me laugh-- and dental work). Our house is free of clutter which is my BIG pet peeve and I give the counters and sinks and toilets a wipe down and I do break out the vacuum every year after we take down the xmas tree- but REAL cleaning. nope ain't gonna happen! LOL
"think the act of sex is demeaning to both parties if there's money involved."
Does your DH buy you gifts?
"And no, I get no power kick if I were to pay someone to fold my underwear. I'm not kinky that way."
Nothing kinky about it. It's power. It's nice to tell friends and coworkers that you were able to shop at Bloomies today while your housekeeper was at home wiping up the sticky juice on the floor, is it not?
It's probably even God's fault that Adam and Eve ate the apple. I mean, what was he thinking, putting it right there where they could reach it and then telling them not to touch it!
First, I prefer to have my entire house cleaned in one fell swoop, not in little bits here and there over a 2 week period only to start over again. Second, I have no interest in cleaning my own house so whether or not I could find the time to do it doesn't really matter to me, I DO NOT WANT to do it. Third, considering the number of cleaning services and cleaning people that are available to choose from, not everyone has a problem hiring someone to clean their house.
I haven't gotten an answer for this from anyone else. If you divide up the chores between all the members of your family, how much time do you think each member would spend to clean your house?
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this conversation absolutely kills me...it's not enough we WOHMS don't "raise' our own kids now we we're held to the fire b/c some of u hire cleaning ladies? good criminy...
"Divide the chores up among family members and it can be done in a few minutes."
Or...do what my daughter and I do in our single mom/only child/ can't afford a cleaning lady/hate to clean household..
ignore it.
cleaning has always been last on my things of how i will spend my time (right up there with cooking--nope don't do much of that...crafts-- never -- camping--don't make me laugh-- and dental work). Our house is free of clutter which is my BIG pet peeve and I give the counters and sinks and toilets a wipe down and I do break out the vacuum every year after we take down the xmas tree- but REAL cleaning. nope ain't gonna happen! LOL
Yes. We. Did.
"think the act of sex is demeaning to both parties if there's money involved."
Does your DH buy you gifts?
"And no, I get no power kick if I were to pay someone to fold my underwear. I'm not kinky that way."
Nothing kinky about it. It's power. It's nice to tell friends and coworkers that you were able to shop at Bloomies today while your housekeeper was at home wiping up the sticky juice on the floor, is it not?
"I think they like the fact that they can outsource menial, mundane tasks to others."
Yes, I do.
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