First World Problems - Suburbs edition

[Hotsauce]

So every couple of weeks we have housekeepers come to our house and clean everything up. 2-3 days before they come, my wife always freaks out and gets on this "we have to clean the house before the cleaners get here" rampage.

Why do I need to clean my fuggin house BEFORE the house keeper comes??? What the hell am I paying them for?

[Panthro]

Clean your dishes before you put them in the dishwasher

[Doyle]

Just tell your wife the cleaners are coming every couple of weeks but never have them actually come.

[PandaPancake]

Just tell your wife the cleaners are coming every couple of weeks but never have them actually come.

You could be the smartest person here.

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[Darth Biscuit]

Sounds EXACTLY like something my wife would say (if we had cleaners).

 

She would never hire them for that reason... the house is too dirty and she'd be embarrassed.

 

Her definition of "dirty" is "not picked up"... I've tried explaining that that isn't "dirty" but she doesn't buy it.

[mr beauxjangles]

So every couple of weeks we have housekeepers come to our house and clean everything up. 2-3 days before they come, my wife always freaks out and gets on this "we have to clean the house before the cleaners get here" rampage.

Why do I need to clean my fuggin house BEFORE the house keeper comes??? What the hell am I paying them for?

 

Had this very same argument with my wife about a year ago. My wife has a little OCD when it comes to keeping things orderly. I don't have a problem with cleaning the house at all, especially since it's so important to her. It';s not like we're slobs or anything - I tidy up almost every day and I'm happy to devote as much of my free time to keep it clean. But I absolutely will not clean the house in order to pay someone else to come in and do another layer of cleaning.

[Zcustom]

Lol good problem to have. My house is such a disaster area all the time. I'll trade problems with you

[Captroop]

Sounds EXACTLY like something my wife would say (if we had cleaners).

 

She would never hire them for that reason... the house is too dirty and she'd be embarrassed.

 

Her definition of "dirty" is "not picked up"... I've tried explaining that that isn't "dirty" but she doesn't buy it.

 

The worst is when they tidy things up when you aren't around. I can never find anything! I live in a world of controlled chaos. I know that my glasses are on the pile of magazines in the living room, my undershirts are in the unsorted bin of clean laundry, my tablet is in the kitchen for some reason, my car registration renewal form at the bottom of the second pile of papers on the mail storage surface (which she calls the "dinner table"), and my watch is under the couch. I know that.

 

But I come home, and she got home before me and cleaned up and organized everything based on logic and reason, and I can't find poo!

[Darth Biscuit]

The worst is when they tidy things up when you aren't around. I can never find anything! I live in a world of controlled chaos. I know that my glasses are on the pile of magazines in the living room, my undershirts are in the unsorted bin of clean laundry, my tablet is in the kitchen for some reason, my car registration renewal form at the bottom of the second pile of papers on the mail storage surface (which she calls the "dinner table"), and my watch is under the couch. I know that.

 

But I come home, and she got home before me and cleaned up and organized everything based on logic and reason, and I can't find poo!

 

Oh my god man... that's like our biggest fight.

 

She'll take my poo and shove it in the most random places and leave her crap laying everywhere.

 

It got so bad that I assigned myself a drawer in the kitchen and told her if she absolutely must put my stuff away, put it in there, so I'll at least know where it is.

 

That, plus the fact that I started randomly hiding her poo, got her to quit it to a degree...

[Anybodyhome]

We have someone in every other Tuesday and my wife does the same thing. The whole "pre-cleaning" thing became a conversation topic one evening, here's the logic behind it (from my perspective):

1. Would rather have the cleaner doing windows instead of picking up my laundry.

2. Would rather have the cleaner vacuuming floors instead of emptying the dishwasher.

3. Would rather have the cleaner dusting window blinds instead of washing dishes.

 

Are you paying a cleaner to pick up your laundry or clean the window blinds? See my point?

 

[Darth Biscuit]

That goes back to the whole "cleaning" versus "picking up" argument...

 

Doing the dishes and laundry falls in the "picking up" category to me... 

 

Vacuuming and dusting blinds is "cleaning"

 

 

I get it that "picking up" the house before the cleaner arrives is fine... it would allow them to focus on "cleaning"...

 

My wife would want to clean before they clean...

[Cat]

My house is almost always "picked up" I can't stand poo lying around.  I don't mind dusting and vacuuming or even cleaning toilets. What I want is someone to come in and clean our moldings and my master bath shower twice a month because we're lucky if I do that once a month.  Oh and put laundry away. God I hate putting laundry away, i'll let it sit in the laundry room all clean and in baskets for a week. I just close the door an its out of sight out of mind.

[SCP]

This must be an instinctive trait of women.

[Cat]

We have someone in every other Tuesday and my wife does the same thing. The whole "pre-cleaning" thing became a conversation topic one evening, here's the logic behind it (from my perspective):

1. Would rather have the cleaner doing windows instead of picking up my laundry.

2. Would rather have the cleaner vacuuming floors instead of emptying the dishwasher.

3. Would rather have the cleaner dusting window blinds instead of washing dishes.

 

Are you paying a cleaner to pick up your laundry or clean the window blinds? See my point?

 

 

 

I kind of agree with your wife :)