I have a friend that her and her daughter clean homes weekly for rich people. A bunch of them are doctors as it is kind of a word of mouth type business. She said early on it is impossible to know whose stuff is cluttering the surfaces and mostly nothing is ever picked up before they arrive. So she asks people where do you want the pile? Most pick a corner of the living room or a hallway. She gets there and the first thing they do if the space is empty the vacuum the floor there and then go thru the common spaces and pick up everything out of place like toys and electronics and clothing and put it in the pile. She says half the time the pile is still there from the week before. Then they pick up all the dishes scattered thru the house and put them in the dishwasher and turn it on. It is normally full of dirty dishes so they run them first. Then they can start cleaning.
She said mostly no one lifts a finger and are slobs and she hopes the kids also become wealthy because for the most part they have been taught nothing. She said just when you start losing faith in people she will get a new family to clean for and their house will be spotless. They will tell her we want you to do deep cleaning maybe one room a week.
She cleans for one wealthy family and the woman of the house had the house designed where every bedroom has its own closet with a stacked washer and dryer
helping cleaning. Each kid was taught at a young age how to do their own laundry and they do a good job of it.
My dad had me take the throw rugs outside and put them over the cloths line and beat them with a broom handle. I asked why we didn’t just use the Hover and he said because this is good for you. I knew better than to argue.
