An Amazing Month Without A Maid

We did it! We made it, a month without a maid. So it is not impossible for one who is not working and kids in school at least for half a day. Morning is best to do all the necessary chores. Start up the washing machine at once to get the ball rolling. After breakfast, start off immediately with sweeping and mopping. Mopping can be done twice a week. Wash toilets once a week but remember to dry the bathrooms after showering to get rid of water marks. Pick up anything on the floor as you move around the house. By the time sweeping and mopping is done, the laundry should be done. Hang up the clothes to dry at once. Do the second wash at once, if any, but watch out for the weather.

Day 1 Without Mus

Back breaking as it is, it is rewarding to see the house cleaner and neater as we ourselves tend to put in real effort to keep the house a home. We see it as something we can do with love. We are able to do it wholeheartedly.

Maids, on the other hand, consider themselves as outsiders (even if we treat them well) do it because they have to, not because they want to. There is no real concerted effort to do more for the household as they consider it not theirs. Of course, there are exceptions.

It was different when we had Ani 5 years ago. She did all she could to make the house her home. She even took effort to learn English and teach our sons their school worm, then Jordan was in kindergarten while Johan literally spent his first few years with her, learning his numbers and alphabets. Although Mus was to take care of Joey as well, she took no effort to sing or teach him his numbers or ABCs.

I spent some time tidying up Mus' former room, our spare room downstairs. It was so dusty in places she did not see nor took the effort to clean. There was a note for a Mustafa, a new found boyfriend. One wonders.

In a way, I am glad to have my household back.