Meow

This is just like EW. See what you have started MM!!
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Madam Medusa

i know, i'm sorry...

MM, xx

Grace O Malley

but how would they manage in the UK or wherever? They would do it on their own, like so many mothers do in the UK unless they are lucky enough to have a family member living close by, but not everyone has their family close by and def the average person in the UK could not afford full time help.


I am not against anyone having a maid here, its part of the culture, its cheap, you have a built in babysitter etc etc.

But it does make me laugh when they are paraded to spinneys or the doctors as MM and others have said.

soukie

Haven't you heard of status symbols ?

Bahtatboy

Why not move up-market (a bit)? I'm very good with kids, can change a nappy, scrub up quite well (suit and tie, or jacket and open-neck shirt, your choice), don't fiddle with myself too much in public, have my own car and am usually free in the evenings and at weekends. I can even do the butler look, far better than a mere maid. Payment in kind.

Meow

Apparently, in certain circles, a manny is quite the thing...

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Welivehere

My confusion, and maybe i am missing the point, is that I just don't see why it is so bewildering that some-one you pay to make your life simpler by cooking, cleaning etc wouldn't then be used to help shop, go out, visit the doctors etc. I just don't see the difference is apart from one is at home and one is out?

Patsy Stoned

Tess goes shopping on her own, she runs my house so she knows what I need.

I work from 6am to 7.30 pm so I don't have time to do (grown up ) shopping.

I do essential shopping (shoes/clothes/etc) on Thursdays and I can do that on my own

wallydug

Pools, villas, maids.....I`d guess most of you lot wouldn`t have a pot to piss in if you lived in the UK.

Wally.

Welivehere

And that's all it can be ....

DeadVim

If they did then they'd need a helper to wipe/shake afterwards.

I'd love to live the "hard" bits of my life by proxy, it would make me such a better person ...

Meow

Rarely is a poster more aptly named

Bahtatboy

Ooooh, miaow Meow

Patsy Stoned

I don't live in the UK, I have not lived in the UK for over 20 years, I have no intention of living in the UK again BUT when I did live in the UK I certainly had a "pot to piss in" and a fulltime cleaner and a gardener, 2 kitchen porters plus 5 chefs, 6 bar staff and 10 waiting staff

Ethos83

You forgot the 4x4.