How clean is your house?"Part of my kitchen floor are thick with dust, grease, part of a broken mug, a few mummified oven-chips, a desiccated used teabag and a couple of pieces of cutlery", says Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic. To most people, that's filth. To some of us, that's dinner. Tell us about squalid homes or obsessive cleaners.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 25 Mar 2010, 13:00)
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I bought this 3-bedroom condo...and it is only 3 blocks from here to the Chicago home of Barack Obama. I am very bored and alone most of the time, and I figured that I should at least try, out of Merkin patriotic duty, to keep up with the housekeeping - after all, The Prez lives just down the street. He may pop over to borrow a cup of sugar, you never know.
I gave up.
I now have a Polish exchange student who's moved into one of my spare rooms. She does the cleaning/washing/cooking for me, I never see her, and she pays ME for the pleasure. The only drawback to this is that I'm afraid to walk out to the kitchen naked at 2am (like I used to) to make a pot of tea in case she is sitting on the couch watching telly.
I've had maids in the past - $80/month is REALLY not bad if you just need a little help. It's money well-spent.
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A fellow Chicagoan!Greetings, good sir/madam!
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Go onwalk starkers, she may clean the top of your knob.
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 7:54,
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Ooh, you're in / near Hyde Park then?I used to live there! In fact, I'm heading there tomorrow!
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I didn't know that Americans drank tea (especially using a tea pot)or is this one of those idioms, like "fanny" means "bum"? I'll assume that "pot of tea" is American for "fith of vodka".
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Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 9:28,
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Hmmmm....judging by the way you wrote this,you're a fellow Brit in Yankeeland?
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Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 20:50,
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