This is a housekeeper issue. This is a rant.

Let me say first that I do realize that many will want to come on and say how they wish they could hire a housekeeper. Be careful what you wish for! I wish more than anything that I could do it myself! The right way. On time. For free.

Here is the issue: Convenience products designed to "make life easier, less work, blah blah blah". The current gal has been on her way out for some time but I haven't found a replacement.

Her JOB is to CLEAN and she is forever asking me to get her the latest convenience items at a much higher product cost. Much of it I have just accepted as the inevitable lower standard that comes with someone else cleaning my house (no one, but no one, can do it right like my mom taught me).

I almost fired her on the spot when I discovered that she had been dragging that stupid, useless Swiffer duster all over the house after USING IT ON THE KITCHEN COUNTER. The furniture here is wood and is supposed to be cleaned with an oil rag. My mistake, I bought the freakin' duster for her. New Girl will not see one single Swiffer product here, ever.

Today, I'm wondering how she had the sheer audacity to ask me to unload the toilet brushes and buy the new spot clingy toilet things. I almost pushed her into the toilet myself.

Am I overreacting here? Should I pay to make her paid job easier? It's absolutely proved by her history that no matter how much or how little she is asked to do, it will be her absolute 4-hours fee every time.

C'mon want ads & networking feelers, we need a good replacement now!