How do I get my cleaning lady to stop redecorating without hurting her feelings?

[Midlodemocrat]

She's a goddess with one slight fault. She redecorates. And, I don't mean small stuff. I mean moving tables, putting lamps that coordinate with one room in another.

I always move it back, but every other week, there she goes again.

She's such a hard worker I've been sucking it up because I don't want her to think I don't like her taste, but today. :banghead:

She put out Christmas stuff. It's 102 degrees here. :banghead:

[jobycom]

1. Tell her if she redecorates again, you'll have her killed.

She'll be too terrified to have hurt feelings.

And jail cells don't really have much room for redecorating anyway.

[Midlodemocrat]

2. LOL. I couldn't do that. She's like a member of the family.

[jobycom]

4. You must have a better family than me.

:rofl:

[Critters2]

36. LOL!! That's what I thought..."yeah. Have her killed. What's the prob?". nt

[CreekDog]

25. just like a member of the family

only less so... :rofl: :hide:

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Xmas stuff is exactly what you need on a hot day.

Think winter.

As for the problem with the cleaning lady, I got nothing.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Midlo...

I'm sorry, sweetie...

But you're just going to have to tell her...

Sweetly, gently.........

But you have to do it!

Christmas stuff in June?

No Way!

Just. Do. It.

:hug:

[Mutley]

6. Just tell her you like your house decorated as it is.

As nicely as possible.

I wonder why she put Christmas decorations out in June. You know, earlier today I heard a Holiday Season commercial on the radio. :tinfoilhat:

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Well, in all fairness. I was putting them from one spot to another

and they were on the kitchen table. So, she decided to redecorate the sunroom with the nativity.

She's a doll, though and I don't want to hurt her feelings. We just don't have the same taste. I like my rooms coordinated.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Um, have you ever stopped to ask her why she redecorates?

Or, is it somehow beneath you to speak with the help?

:evilgrin:

[Bucky]

9. Whatever you do, do NOT tell her the truth. That will only backfire.

I suggest roundabout methods of subtly manipulating her. Or maybe drop puzzling, but somewhat decipherable hints into your conversations with her. When she doesn't pick up on them, then quietly seethe with resentment and maybe start injecting more passive aggressive content into your conversations. One week, on the day before she shows up, get really drunk and vomit on your carpet. Don't bother to clean it up. At least for that one week, she'll be too busy cleaning up the caked on mess that she won't have time to redecorate. Plus that way, you'll be able to enjoy the Christmas decorations for another week.

[MrCoffee]

10. I would keep my yap shut, if it were me.

She knows things. Terrible things about what's in your bottom dresser drawer.


Merry Christmas, Midlo.

[Midlodemocrat]

44. Dude. I'm with you.

At this point, she is the only person who knows where the charger to my cell phone is. :scared:

[LucyParsons]

11. That is WEIRD.

nt

[Haole Girl]

12. Christmas stuff?!?

LOL! We're lucky if we're finished decorating before Christmas Eve! hahaha!!

[JVS]

13. QUIT MOVING MY SHIT! THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO TO HIDE THE FACT THAT THEY'RE STEALING!

That ought to scare her.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Moving tables, couches, floor safes, that's nothing!

Mine moves the Tivo channel changer IR emitter when she dusts, so Tivo starts recording the wrong things. This is a nightmare, I tell ya.

You have my sympathy.

:hi:

[SOteric]

15. Tell her Mr. Midlo is easily confused,

and while the gifts he spontaneously brought home at the sight of the ornaments was rather nice, getting plastered on egg nog and cutting down the neighbour's prized blue spruce really didn't go over well.

[flvegan]

16. If I've learned one thing from Two and a Half Men, it's

don't piss off the housekeeper/cleaning lady.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. Consuelo:

por favor, no movo los thingos, or yo callo immigracion manana.

[Carnea]

18. That is wrong

:spank: :rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

20. have you seen this?

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/spanish-for-your-maid/2646033284

[Lyric]

27. ....

:spray:
:rofl:

[Carnea]

28. I like it very much NT

[AlCzervik]

21. you should have seen Suzanne when Consuelo moved Noel out into the backyard.

[mikeytherat]

19. Clean your house your damn self, or get the LazyMidloKids to do it.

Jeez, housepainters AND a maid? As kids, we had to WORK around the house!

Are you sure you're not a secret West Ender?

mikey_the_rat

[JanMichael]

22. oh for God's sake. Crack the seal on that box of "merlot," and

when you are about three glasses down, with the A/C on, you'll feel Christmas-y.

Think of it as a vacation. From reality.

[jberryhill]

50. Box?

Merlot?

In a box?

Did you mean to say "crate"?

Surely you do not refer to one of those cardboard packed colostomy bags with vinegar in them which some people refer to as "wine" in a "box"?

[KitchenWitch]

23. You librul elitist - I clean my own damn house!

I keed, I keed!

:D

[lunatica]

24. Tell her your spouse is to blame

That he just has fits when anything is moved. That he likes things to ALWAY! look the same. That no matter how many times you yourself tried to redecorate he just went batsoskitzoid because he has a real problem with anything being changed ever. If you make it elaborate enough, like throw in a couple of times you had a terrible fight over it and that it nearly drove you to divorce then she'll probably stop.

Be sure to tell your spouse to back you up if she asks him.

[CreekDog]

26. Two words:

Museum Wax. :think:

[merh]

29. Do your own cleaning

tell her not to bother coming over and keep paying her.

That works every time.

:dunce:

[matcom]

30. She can't

you kidding? Midlo has to take the midlobrats to the mall every day to buy Coach purses in her MERCEDES mini-van (with the TWO tv's) and then come home in time for her personal Chef to cook lunch on a grill the size of Delaware.

then she retires up to her MARBLE bathroom to freshen up before meeting the ladies at the Country Club for Bunko over martinis with 3 olives thank you very much and then it's home to change for the Opera!

Midlo has a tough life. why can't you respect her tax break? x(

[sasquatch]

31. .

:rofl:
And she still lives in a tacky ass McMansion.

[AlCzervik]

32. i have the same grill, maybe it's not as big but she'd approve.

[matcom]

34. no she wouldn't. YOUR grill can't hold TWO whole hogs on spits

WITH 4 bushels of Corn and room left over for a saucier :eyes:

[AlCzervik]

35. hogs? please.

no swine will be on my grill.

[matcom]

37. she lives in Virginia

hell they eat hogs RAW down there

[AlCzervik]

38. well i had my box wine goggles on i might do the same.

she's going to kill you and then me.

[matcom]

39. she won't kill me. TM and I are "expecting"

:hide:

[bicentennial_baby]

40. 2+ for saying "saucier"

:rofl:

[matcom]

41. i'm sophisticated like that

:P

[AlCzervik]

42. seriously, almost impressive. He lost me at "Hogs".

[Midlodemocrat]

43. Oh, thank you. YOU only understand.

:eyes:

Freak

[Midlodemocrat]

45. Coach? please, that is so plebian.

You. suck. You know. :rofl:

[jberryhill]

51. Did you know...

...that in Delaware, we are limited to having grills the size of Rhode Island?

It's true.

[Book Lover]

33. OK, if you are seriously looking for advice...

As a former housekeeper (yes, in high school and college), I am frankly astonished that she is moving your possessions around. Just tell her to stop. "I like things where I put them. Please don't move the furniture. Thanks." is perfectly understandable and acceptable. If she does it again, tell her again without the "please." Why beat around the bush? White guilt?

[petronius]

46. Huh? she's part of the 'help' - they don't have feelings

Just whack her with a yard-stick, and if she gets uppity, set the dogs on her...

[LeftyMom]

47. I want to have your problems when I grow up.

:rofl:

[sasquatch]

48. Well that's what happens when you carpetbag

:rofl:

[jberryhill]

49. Send her to my house....

Please?

[Skittles]

52. oh just kick her ass fer chrissakes

do I have to do it for you?

[applegrove]

53. My mom had a cleaning lady who used to put the toothpaste on the windowsill

when she cleaned the sink. Then she'd close the shutters. Needless to say after my toothpaste went missing for the 4th time I thought maybe she was in desperate need of toothpaste. Then I opened the shutters one day and there were, sitting right there side by side, four tubes of toothpaste.

[Midlodemocrat]

54. Okay, this beats all.

I had two parking passes to TM's graduation on the kitchen counter. I am FedExing them to my brother along with tickets.

I couldn't find them this morning, so I called her.

She put them in the Bible on the desk in the family room. Series. :wtf:

:rofl:

Gotta love it.

[AlCzervik]

58. is she trying to send you a not so subtle sign that you need some bible time?

does she think you're a sinner?


:D

[Midlodemocrat]

59. Apparently.

I mean, c'mon. It's the Bible from my Mom's wake. It's absolutely gorgeous and I keep it out because it reminds me of my Mom, but parking passes?

Holy Crow. What was she thinking?

There is stuff I own that I haven't seen for two years. :rofl:

She's a doll though. I just adore her. She takes anything I am donating to goodwill and spreads it among her family. She hit the lotto yesterday. BabyMidlo is done with Gymboree, :eyes: and there was a ton of brand new clothes that we gave her.

Hardest worker I've ever seen.

[Seeking Serenity]

55. Just look her in the eyes and say, "Stop moving my stuff!"

and then call her your favourite GD-P epithet!

[LisaM]

56. Why don't you forestall her by mixing everything up ahead of time?

Then she can spend her time putting it back - she clearly needs to move stuff around.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

57. you remind me of miranda in sex in the city. where the maid moved her vibrator.

:rofl: