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What House Cleaners Wish You'd Do Before They Arrive · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One to six point seven nine a m. With Kebby.
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  Speaker 1: Nina's in for Christine today and she returns tomorrow. We
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  Speaker 1: got producer Kristen hanging out with us. So do you
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  Speaker 1: have a housekeeper, Nina del Rio?
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  Speaker 2: Every once in a while, we do, and it's.
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  Speaker 1: A luxury to have one. Sure she comes every two weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And are you like most people where you spend hours
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  Speaker 1: cleaning before the house cleaner arrives.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want them to even know we live there.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people do it. Why is that some
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  Speaker 1: people spend hours cleaning up before the house cleaners come?
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  Speaker 1: But you actually may be wasting your time. So a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of pros, a bunch of pro housekeepers, they got
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  Speaker 1: together and they said, let me help the clients out.
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  Speaker 1: These are things that we actually appreciate. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you that you do in advance.
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 1: But you can skip it, okay, So clean off the
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  Speaker 1: counters and other services. So tiding and decluttering before the
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  Speaker 1: cleaners arrive is good because it lets them focus on
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  Speaker 1: getting your your home kind of clean. But if you
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  Speaker 1: had to spend half an hour moving all the products
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  Speaker 1: from your bathroom counter first, that's less time they're actually
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  Speaker 1: cleaning and disinfecting and scrubbing.
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  Speaker 2: This is about putting stuff away, not about like disinfecting
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  Speaker 2: the counter yourself. This is about like putting your jewelry
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  Speaker 2: away and putting your dirty socks away.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, right right, Like pick it says here, pick stuff,
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  Speaker 1: Pick stuff up off the floor, move packages, clothes and
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  Speaker 1: toys from the floor so the cleaners can properly vacuum
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  Speaker 1: and mop. Nobody wants to have to touch your dirty
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  Speaker 1: underwear before they, you know, get to the floor clean disgusting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of nasty. Do the dishes. This chore takes
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  Speaker 1: a long time, and some cleaning services even charge extra
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  Speaker 1: if you want them to do dishes for you, So
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  Speaker 1: you might want to do the dishes. Remove health and
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  Speaker 1: safety hazards. Your cleaners shouldn't have to deal with any
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  Speaker 1: biohazards or bodily fluids. Yeah, so you should get rid
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  Speaker 1: of any blood urine?
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  Speaker 2: Why is that out anyway? Why do you have a
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  Speaker 2: bucket of.
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  Speaker 1: Some people don't care, some people don't clean up right
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  Speaker 1: before we do. We do pretty much all this. Do
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  Speaker 1: you do all this?
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  Speaker 2: You know there's there are cleaners, Like when there's a
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  Speaker 2: death in the death in the house. There are cleaners
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  Speaker 2: that specialize in that stuff. You know, the specialize in
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  Speaker 2: cleaning after several passed away, after a murder, just say
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  Speaker 2: it out loud, after a murder.
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  Speaker 1: No, they're like deep deep cleaner, and they do it all.
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  Speaker 2: They do the crazy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So some of these, again they say, are pros and cons.
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  Speaker 1: They help it. Sometimes they don't secure your pets. Yeah
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  Speaker 1: you saw that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one makes complete sense. You don't want a
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  Speaker 2: yippie dog around.
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  Speaker 1: Communicate your preferences and priorities. Your house cleaner may be amazing,
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  Speaker 1: but they can't read your mind. So if there's something
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  Speaker 1: you want them to focus on, please make them aware.
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  Speaker 2: Clean this not that right.
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  Speaker 1: They're happy to do what matters most to you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just make sure you tell them because you have to.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just hold your tongue. Well, you get done.
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  Speaker 2: You get annoyed when they do the wrong thing and
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  Speaker 2: then you didn't tell them.
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  Speaker 1: Secure sentimental items and valuables, move thing you know to
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  Speaker 1: a safe location that's out of their way to make
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  Speaker 1: sure they're not damaged or misplaced, and.
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  Speaker 2: What else, And well, you don't need to you don't
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  Speaker 2: need to actually like disinfect stuff you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: actually pre clean, like the toilet.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of the only thing on the list you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to do.
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  Speaker 2: It seems you just put your stuff away basically because.
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  Speaker 1: It says here they wanted to give you kind of
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  Speaker 1: helpful hints to do in advance and what you can skip.
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  Speaker 1: But there's only one thing you can skip.
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  Speaker 2: It's a bunch of it's a bunch of does not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of don'ts correct, like get your stuff out
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  Speaker 2: of the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to really pre clean your house
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  Speaker 1: too much, but I mean, yeah, clean the counters. My
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  Speaker 1: wife loves the housekeeper for like the bed. The bed
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  Speaker 1: feels like a hotel. Oh, well, like she they make
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  Speaker 1: the bed and then the shower and the tub is scrubbed,
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  Speaker 1: which I and she doesn't do it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like them making the bed. I find something
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  Speaker 2: about that too personal. Like people touching my sheets.
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  Speaker 1: No, but if you have the fresh sheets ready to
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  Speaker 1: go on the dresser and say take these off, put
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  Speaker 1: those on. You don't like that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want somebody touching my pillow. Something about that really? Yeah, totally.
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  Speaker 1: And last thing before we go to break here, does
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  Speaker 1: your housekeeper make a little rose with your toilet paper.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I wish they would. Oh yeah, did they make
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  Speaker 2: a rose with a toilet paper?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it take a little rose.
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  Speaker 2: And where do they put that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I take it off and then you usually usually
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  Speaker 1: use it. It looks pretty for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: What for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah,