Did any of you have a maid?- Page 2
Did any of you have a maid?
Wildcard
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#26re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:49pmWe had 2-3 live-in maids when I was growing up. One was the governess/cook and the other two had cleaning duties.
#27re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:49pm
don't mind me, i'm just like joan crawford on a bender today. 
PED
#28re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:50pm
SonofMammaMiaSam---A mammy named Mamie??
SonofMammaMammyNamedMamieMiaSam???
And RobbO---There's NOTHING on earth worse than a redundant Joan Crawford.
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#29re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:03pmWe were/are too poor to even have someone clean our apartment once a year.**Cries**
#30re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:12pmWe've always had a nanny who cooks and cleans and runs errands as well as taking care of and picking us up. Now that I can take care of myself she mostly takes care of my brother, but I honestly do not know where I would be without her. She always knows where everything is, and where everyone is supposed to be, and when.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#32re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:36pm
wouldn't joan crawford on a bender be exactly the same as joan crawford?
No, that would be Faye Dunaway.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
#33re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:44pm
#34re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:52pmwe did, her name was Mom
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#35re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:59pmThe state provides me with a cleaning woman four hours a week as I am disabled. She is a lovely woman who is more like a friend to me. No, make that sister! I just don't know where I woul;d be without her. She also takes me shopping and helps with errands. She respects me a great deal and lets me work at what I can so I cam maintain my independence.
#36re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 7:00pm
We had Maids during the years when I was growing up. I now have a person who comes in once a week to clean and Iron.
"A Man Needs A Maid"
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#37re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:16pmWhere is PB ENT in this discussion? I know she's had long discussions about not being able to get good help in her comfortable corner of the world.
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#38re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:27pm
Everybody ought to have a serving girl
A loyal and unswerving girl
Who's quieter than a mouse
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#39re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:33pmI was thinking more of the "Naked Maid" song in NAKED BOYS SINGING!
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#40re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 12:58am
In my childhood my mum had what was called a mothers's help.)live in)(after the birth of her 3rd child) Part nanny part housekeeper. Often they were girls from up north trying for more of a life in the "Big City" some were great and were with us for 2-3 yrs. Others lasted only weeks- one never even came back for her little cardboard suitcase of clothes. Sad when you think of it.
Both my sis's had "nanny's" freq undocumented workers from the Carribbean. A couple were also frm Quebec - they were sweet kids)
It is NOT easy work, doubt I could do it NOT W MY BIG MOUTH!
#41re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:26am
No matter what. We still clean before the maid.
Don't want my sh*t on her resume...
Growing up, my mother had a maid. It was me.
Martha Stewart, eat your heart out. I can fold a shirt. And fold toilet paper. (I had little choice but to end up gay...)
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#42re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:32amYes , it was good but never left them a lot to clean as i felt rude!
#43re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 7:09am
Maid? Ha! We didn't even always have enough to eat.
Boy, did I make up for THAT later.
#44re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:22amRobbO- one of our servants is named Holly Hobby. Beat that!
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#45re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:25amBut does she bake you really, really bad desserts that take hours to cook under a lone lightbulb?
#46re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:28am
...And the others are Raggedy Ann and Betsy Wetsy, right?
You ought to get together with SOMMS's mammy named Mamie.
Since we're naming names, here are the one's that I remember:
Grandma's weekly "cleaning woman" - Catherine
Dad's servants growing up:
Cook - Estelle
Chauffer - Luther
Nanny - "Miss Fox"
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#47re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:29amSince she's merely a servant, I insist that she make everything in the Easy Bake Oven. Just to make her really earn that pay.
#48re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:31am
"merely a servant?"
Okay, now you're losing me.
But I love the Easy Bake Oven part.
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#49re: Did any of you have a maid?
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:44amShe was demoted from cleaning lady to servant after I caught her making Shrinky Dinks in the Easy Bake Oven.
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