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[...] senseless in the car: new Pyrex dishes, drying racks for dishes and clothes, broom and things for shtifa, non-perishable pantry [...]

By: nikki

nikki — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:10:30 +0000

i had a woman come to my house recently looking for work as a cleaner. as we already have cleaners who i am not looking to replace i told her no thank you, i already have. she took a look at the floor in the entrance of my house, upon which two post-shetach-tiyul-going children had just trod upon and told me that my cleaners must not be doing a very good job because my house was disgusting. way to criticize a potential new employer… i think not. i simply closed the door on her.

By: mother in israel

mother in israel — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:54:48 +0000

BB–I wash all household rags together in the machine about once a week.

By: BB

BB — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:58:34 +0000

MiI, some questions. How do you clean the rags after you’ve cleaned the floors with them? Do you stick them in the washer? Do you wash them in the bucket? I’d love to hear some useful tips on that. Thanks in advance.

By: Lion of Zion

Lion of Zion — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:56 +0000

know = no

By: Lion of Zion

Lion of Zion — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:00:23 +0000

i was studying today at a classmate’s house. some workers made a mess trying to fix something, and my friend wanted to clean up the floor before his parents came home. he had know idea what to use and had to ask us whether to use a broom, mop, swiffer, etc. to clean up the sawdust. he didn’t know what a broom was called.
i’m serious.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:50:26 +0000

Tile floors- wash and dry. They’re great.

By: Regular Anonymous

Regular Anonymous — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:12:33 +0000

I confess. I love having a cleaner. I hate to wash floors and scrub toilets. Of course having somebody once a week for 4 hours still leaves me with plenty of housework to do, but it goes a long way towards eliminating the big jobs.
I did fire one cleaner, an Israeli woman, who was very nosy and actually yelled at me once. Then I had some Russians who worked very nicely and quietly and would still be working for me had they not moved away. The woman I currently have does a nice job even if she talks a bit too much. I’ve also had a few teenagers from the neighborhood now and then, also doing a good job.

By: Baila

Baila — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:07:18 +0000

Sigh. I always feel so inadequate when I read these kinds of posts. Our method is using the sink to get the rag wet, add in the economica, and swish, swish with the squeegee and rag. Rinse and repeat as rag gets dirty.
Oh, and sometimes I just wet the rag and use my right food to clean those horrible black spots. Back and forth, back and forth. (But that’s not for a major cleaning.)
Don’t ever eat off my floor, okay?

By: bec

bec — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:25:29 +0000

for most of the ten years i’ve been married, i honestly had no idea how to mop a floor, israeli style or american style. sadly, i used to dump hot water on the floor, squirt some cleaning fluid elsewhere on the floor and mop away, replenishing both when they were needed. until the day my husband “caught” me doing this, i never really understood why my floor was so sticky after i’d just “cleaned” it.