Did any of you have a maid? — Page 2
#27
Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:49pm
We had 2-3 live-in maids when I was growing up. One was the governess/cook and the other two had cleaning duties.
#28
Posted: 8/30/06 at 5:49pm
don't mind me, i'm just like joan crawford on a bender today. 
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#29
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.
SonofMammaMammyNamedMamieMiaSam???
And RobbO---There's NOTHING on earth worse than a redundant Joan Crawford.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#30
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:03pm
We were/are too poor to even have someone clean our apartment once a year.**Cries**
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#31
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:12pm
We'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.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#33
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.
No, that would be Faye Dunaway.
#34
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:44pm
"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions"
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#35
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:52pm
we did, her name was Mom
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#36
Posted: 8/30/06 at 6:59pm
The 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.
"Friends are the people you chose as family."....Me.
#37
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"
"A Man Needs A Maid"
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#38
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:16pm
Where 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.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#39
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
A loyal and unswerving girl
Who's quieter than a mouse
#40
Posted: 8/30/06 at 8:33pm
I was thinking more of the "Naked Maid" song in NAKED BOYS SINGING!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#41
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!
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!
#42
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...)
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...)
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"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
#43
Posted: 8/31/06 at 4:32am
Yes , it was good but never left them a lot to clean as i felt rude!
#44
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.
Boy, did I make up for THAT later.
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Updated On: 8/31/06 at 07:09 AM
#45
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:22am
RobbO- one of our servants is named Holly Hobby. Beat that!
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#46
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:25am
But does she bake you really, really bad desserts that take hours to cook under a lone lightbulb?
#47
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"
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"
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#48
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:29am
Since she's merely a servant, I insist that she make everything in the Easy Bake Oven. Just to make her really earn that pay.
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#49
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:31am
"merely a servant?"
Okay, now you're losing me.
But I love the Easy Bake Oven part.
Okay, now you're losing me.
But I love the Easy Bake Oven part.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#50
Posted: 8/31/06 at 9:44am
She was demoted from cleaning lady to servant after I caught her making Shrinky Dinks in the Easy Bake Oven.
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