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I Have A Love, Hate Relationship With Maids
And I just hired a new one.
This is how I want my living space to look.
This is how it feels like it looks to me.
The truth is somewhere in between. In fact, if it really looked like the way it feels to me, as in photo above, I would just move out.
For those of you who follow such things, I am a Virgo with a Cancer moon. So I love home, and am supposed to be detail minded. Somebody forgot to tell me about the detail part. It only shows up when I get in a major Virgo throw away mode, but then throw away the wrong things and keep the wrong things. I need a Marie Kondo miracle, and I need it in nineteen hours. That is when the first maid service I have hired in years arrives.
As a single mother with a private psychotherapy practice, I have fairly consistently hired maids or maid services. Most of the time when my son was younger, I would just shut his room off when the maids came. There was no way to make the carpet visible for cleaning under the clothes, sports equipment and toys.
Occasionally he would clean his room if I helped, and we would throw out or give away huge…
