Cleaning person or maid service recommendation

Does anyone use a cleaning person or maid service that you'd recommend? I'm just looking for someone to come in once or twice a month and give the apartment a good scrub.

I would love to hear recommendations too.

Subject: anyone?

no one has any recs at all?

Subject: Re: anyone?

bluestate wrote: no one has any recs at all?

I think most people here clean their own places.
I know someone whose wife does housecleaning and is always asking me to let him know if I need someone. I can get you her number, but I don't have any experience with what kind of job she does (her husband is really nice though).

it's bad karma to have someone else clean up your junk
don't do it man!!!!

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"what you do gonna do with all that junk"
"all that junk inside your trunk"

I'm looking for someone too. I've used Miracle Maids in the past, but they are pricey.

Going to a hooker is bad karma. Getting a cleaner is sound time management. You're providing someone else with work, and freeing yourself to do whatever you want to do.

Im not sure how to post a link here but this was discussed in the Prospect Heights forum a few times

steve wrote: Going to a hooker is bad karma. Getting a cleaner is sound time management. You're providing someone else with work, and freeing yourself to do whatever you want to do.

if you're like, Einstein and prefer to use your time to define the theory of relativity and stuff, then that's sound time management

if you're using a cleaner so you can spend more time at Gorilla Coffee, Target, BAM, Great Lakes, etc..., then that's bad karma

Yea! And if you use a grocery store instead of growing your own food, that's bad karma too!

I seriously hope you're joking. (And, yes, I do my own cleaning)

Yeah, I think the bad karma thing is kind of bullshit too. I don't want a cleaning person mostly because I value my privacy, but if you have skills that make your labor valuable, it clearly makes economic sense to hire someone to do this. For example, if you make 5 times as much per hour as the cleaning person, and your place requires 10 hours of cleaning per month, you could work 2 extra hours per month, give someone who needs work a job, and save yourself 8 hours of work per month with no net loss of money. Seriously, the guy I mentioned above has repeatedly asked me to call his wife if I need housekeeping done. Maybe it's actually bad karma for me not to hire her when I can afford to do it. :roll:

from dictionary.com

kar·ma Audio pronunciation of "karma" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kärm)
n.

1. Hinduism & Buddhism. The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.

steve wrote: from dictionary.com

kar·ma Audio pronunciation of "karma" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kärm)
n.

1. Hinduism & Buddhism. The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny.

Incidentally, I'm not saying that the concept of bad karma is bullshit. My point was that the idea that hiring someone to clean is inherently bad karma is bullshit.

Carnivore wrote: Incidentally, I'm not saying that the concept of bad karma is bullshit. My point was that the idea that hiring someone to clean is inherently bad karma is bullshit.

you misunderstand.

hiring someone to clean is not bad karma

not cleaning up your own shit is bad karma

quijibo wrote: not cleaning up your own shit is bad karma

After you clean up your own shit, do you bring your trash to the waste transfer station yourself, or do you leave it out on the street for someone to pick up for you?

I'd be curious to hear Quijibo's reason as to why it is not good karma, can you 'splain it to me?

Carnivore wrote: [quote=quijibo]not cleaning up your own shit is bad karma

After you clean up your own shit, do you bring your trash to the waste transfer station yourself, or do you leave it out on the street for someone to pick up for you?

you win

quijibo wrote: you win

Sorry, I didn't mean to be snarky. I just think that we all make decisions about what's worth doing for ourselves and what's worth "outsourcing." We all (even the pre-gentrification PH and PS community) live in a consumer society and live incredibly pampered lives compared to most people on the planet. Is it bad karma? I think it's more about attitude and intentions. If you hire someone to clean up your shit, and treat them without respect, or because you consider the job beneath you in some way, I agree that's bad karma. If you do it because it rationally doesn't make sense for you to do it yourself or because you're trying to spread the wealth a little to others in your community, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

I couldn't have put it any better.

Plenty of people hire cleaning ladies. The thing is that most of them don't speak English. I know of one person who is good but I lost her contact info (sorry). I recomend going to the Co-op and looking at their bulliten board. The woman I am thinking of definitely has her card there and there are probably others who are good. Of course you will need to interview but youw oudl want to do that anyway.

Joyce

One of my clients uses Zen Home Cleaning. They use all eco friendly productsand essential oils if you're into that sort of thing Their website is www.zenhomecleaning.com

Hi, I've registered here JUST so that I can post this warning re: the home cleaner Yancey Acosta. I hired him last year and was appalled...

He DID NOT CLEAN. He simply rearranged stuff (sponges, bottles) in my kitchen and bathroom to make it appear he had cleaned. He did not vacuum. He did not scrub. He did not sweep. He did not dust. He was mysteriously finished after 1.5 hours after he had told me he'd probably work for about 4. And then he tried to charge me way more than he initially quoted because he said my apartment was so much dirtier than what he was used to (a complete lie - I'm the neat type!)

My big mistake was telling him it was my first time ever using a cleaner.

This guy is nice and jovial, but COMPLETE cheat who does horrible work. I'm still seeing his signs all over Fort Greene.

STAY AWAY FROM YANCEY ACOSTA!!!!

http://www.wecandoit.coop/prices_and_scheduling.html

This place has been highly reccomended on the PH board. Never used it myself, but I don't recall a single person on the other board doing anything but raving about how good they were.

I want someone who cooks and cleans. And I will treat you well.

That would be me. Cooked and cleaned all day and still going. But if you want me to do it for you, you have to be a) hot, b) single and c) not a skankees fan..

Seriously, I have a great housekeeper. She comes once a week. I think she has an open day.. let me know PM... but only if you are serious.. because she is a gem. I would only share her with sincere people.

Shoot me.... I can afford to have someone to come in once a week and clean up!

In the #1 Ladies Detective Agency series, Precious Ramotswe, who is a middle-class Botswanan private detective, reflects that those who do NOT hire housekeepers are selfish. Because by doing the housework yourself, you are depriving others of a job.

Kind of takes the karma argument to another extreme.

Lo Kee wrote: http://www.wecandoit.coop/prices_and_scheduling.html

This place has been highly reccomended on the PH board. Never used it myself, but I don't recall a single person on the other board doing anything but raving about how good they were.

YES~! I've used them I they (or she, rather) was GREAT! Very reliable, very trustworthy, VERY affordable (my fiance actually tipped her- for the money we paid, we felt like we were ripping THEM off!).

scarlett wrote: That would be me. Cooked and cleaned all day and still going. But if you want me to do it for you, you have to be a) hot, b) single and c) not a skankees fan..

oh snap.
I got b).
Thats a start, right?