House Cleaning

Sorry for the break.

Sister from Canada was due to arrive on 27th and sons due to arrive on 31st kept me busy with getting help for cleaning home.

Two known housekeeping boys always help me out when I need their help. The best thing about them is that they don't need to be told what to do or how to clean or which chemical or solution to use to clean surfaces.

At 10am they started dusting, cleaning, sweeping, mopping the entire house. No messing with spilling or messing with lots of water either. Just half a bucket of soap solution and half bucket of plain water to rinse the duster cloth for each room. The rooms got cleaned like magic. The baths are sparkling like new.

I was so happy seeing the house getting neater and better. We had to shift furniture from one room to another to make more space.

They finished their work by 6pm sharp. Smiled when I pressed money into their hands. I pay them more than the market rate as its rare indeed to find men who know their jobs well.

I wondered at their stamina of continuously working like that for 8 hrs except for a half an hour break for lunch. Washing vessels one time a day makes me so tired. I defer the sweeping and mopping of rooms to the evening and at times skip it whenever my maid takes off. It requires hard labor and stamina to perform such physical jobs.

I salute their hard work. My house is clean once a while thanks to them. Wish they could come once every month to maintain the house neat and tidy.

Mahalakshmi.

Cleaning Boys

Dear Friends!

Today even as some work remained to be done to complete our renovation, I called in the cleaning boys to do a thorough clean up job around house as we were living in a mess for the past 2 weeks.

Since these are trained boys I dint have to monitor their work. They did a good job of dusting off cement from all over and then sweeping and mopping the entire house. It is sparkling clean everywhere. All this until tomorrow, when men will troop in with their dirty tools to start work, this time to finish it off, hopefully as it has dragged beyond tolerable limits due to labour playing traunt.

Of the two boys I know one, the other, a new one, never opened his mouth to speak at all and I was admiring his being so quiet while laboring away at a job like this one. I was later told that this boy was deaf and dumb but he worked so well and understood the sign language of his mate as well as mine quite well.

It was worth it as the place has got back to some better state from what it was till this morning.

These Rs.550/- a day seems quite reasonable for us when compared to all the work we may have to do ourselves and for them its an additional income on the side besides their salary in the company they work for. Its great when mutual needs are met and work gets done.

Cheers!
Mahalakshmi