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ctaylors6

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18. especially if they're not in one particular house constantly

Reply to elfin (Reply #14)

Thu Apr 12, 2012, 03:49 PM

Apr 2012

My aunt lives back and forth between florida and NJ. Since it's just her and my uncle, there's not much mess. She usually uses a housekeeping service to clean. In fact, in FL when we were visiting she knew the women from the service well. I guess it's usually the same 2-3 women. I think she likes that arrangement since it wouldn't make sense for her to have a permanent employee the weeks/months she's not there.
I'm not sure if she's in the romney category of $, but they have lots and the houses are big.

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