Comments on: I Don’t Have Any Home Help. Am I Mad?

By: Rocky

Rocky — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:06:28 +0000

You are definitely not at all mad!!!

By: Ramit

Ramit — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:31:21 +0000

Evil! Gah! You’d probably ask the maid if she needs any coffee or maybe a muffin every day when she comes in!

By: Evil Cathy

Evil Cathy — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:13:19 +0000

Hmm that seems to be the case everywhere…when one of my friends tells me things about his neighbours and I ask how he knows, the answer is always ‘the maid’… I had wondered why they had a maid for a 1BK apartment when the wife is at home but perhaps that is the answer lol…perhaps she isn’t lazy…but rather nosy… I would be terribly paranoid if I had someone around all the time…I even feel nervous of nosy neighbours…but then, that could be because I live such an evil life

By: Ramit

Ramit — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:49:51 +0000

Abdullah you’re so right. You have to be so careful what you say in front of the maids. You never know what she’d blabber to whom!

By: Abdullah K.

Abdullah K. — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:31:01 +0000

@ Can’t beat ‘em? Join ‘em! – “Most Indian maids I have experienced are too busy to get into doing anything extra like moving stuff around or gossiping.”

You have had a fortunate experience then. I’ve had to hire a maid for house cleaning ever since my regular live-in servant went for a holiday to Nepal. I found that the maid is quite an adept multi-tasker. While she sweeps or wipes the house, she’d keep whining about her alcoholic husband and ‘ill’ children. She is also quite inquisitive about my life. I have found the best way to avoid gossip is respond to her ramblings with monosyllables and when the housework is done, chuck her out.

By: Val

Val — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:30:10 +0000

I din’t have a maid either for years. Now that we got a baby, my husband got one. She comes for an hour daily to wash the floor and dishes.
I didn’t want maid for one reason: I think we can clean up our own dirt. Or to say in other way, we should clean up.
This is a big topic for me living in India.
I believe, we can make clean rooms, homes, cities, countries only if we understand what “making something dirty then clean it up” means.

Anyway, GREAT BLOG!!! Just found yesterday somehow from the Compulsiveconfessor. I’ll be back reading you!
Hugs!

By: Dev

Dev — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:15:08 +0000

no way, one of the main reasons to LIVE IN INDIA is the help you can get!

I’d have a maid, a driver, and a cook!! I don’t think even Bill Gates has that!

By: sarita

sarita — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:49 +0000

u r not mad.
u r right.
at last someone who thinks alike me.

even if u keep maid she/he wont be available when u need them most– guests, health problem etc
I have a bungalow and manage everything without any servant
i am independent and happy.

By: D. Jain

D. Jain — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:12:32 +0000

Getting bathed and dressed before the maid arrives?? Hahaha, forget it. When we’re in India we tend to be later risers (on vacation after all), so my husband and I were usually eating breakfast, watching cricket, or reading the paper when the maid came.

By: Sharell

Sharell — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:21:39 +0000

Hi Era, welcome! I totally agree with you. When I was living in Kolkata, there was a maid. I’m sure she stole money out of my handbag, because stupid trusting me left it laying around and didn’t keep a watch on it. I also didn’t like feeling like I had to be be bathed and dressed, ready for the maid’s arrival. And the brooms! I’m quite tall and find them so difficult to work with.

(Funny blog post BTW — some of those things are sooo true!).