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Things Housekeepers Notice When Entering Your Home · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Olivia Dean as Christine gets her headphones ready one of
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  Speaker 1: six pointy seven Light FM. Cobby, Christine. That was happening
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, by the day. Yes, what's going on with
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  Speaker 1: your headphones?
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  Speaker 2: Little spongey part, Yeah, that keeps it tight on the
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  Speaker 2: top of your head. Yeah, it's coming off. Computer mouse
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  Speaker 2: isn't working this morning. Got some stuff going on here.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Monday for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We're still happy though, you know New York Knick's victory.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about that all morning. We've only been
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  Speaker 1: on the air for forty minutes, but we've brought it
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  Speaker 1: up a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, I want to talk about housekeeping and if
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  Speaker 1: you're fortunate enough to have a housekeeper, which ours comes
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  Speaker 1: this weekend, I believe that means cleaning will begin today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, clean for the housekeeper.
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  Speaker 1: And we've talked about this before. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: clean before the housekeeper.
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  Speaker 2: It's out of embarrassment, I know, right.
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  Speaker 1: We always say I'm sorry when they come in, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's not that bad.
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  Speaker 2: That's the first thing I do anytime anybody comes to
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  Speaker 2: work at the house. Now, whoever it is, you'll apologize
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  Speaker 2: as soon as they walk up. Sorry, and like I'm
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  Speaker 2: basically explaining my entire life story so you'll understand why
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  Speaker 2: the house is in disarray. I can't wait to get
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  Speaker 2: it settled and not have to go through that anymore,
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  Speaker 2: because that's exhausting, it really is. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But you found a great article on what housekeepers kind
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  Speaker 1: of look for or kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of what they notice is as soon as they walk in, so.
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  Speaker 1: You open the door, they look around. What are they thinking?
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  Speaker 2: They say, you know, they know we're worried about being judged.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the things they pick up on. This was my fear,
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  Speaker 2: the clutter, clutter.
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  Speaker 1: I knew it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially on surfaces like bathroom kitchen counters. They said,
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  Speaker 2: they're not judging you, it's just because they're planning out
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  Speaker 2: their visit and when you have a lot of clutter,
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  Speaker 2: they have to work around it.
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  Speaker 1: So do you, by the way, do you take everything
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  Speaker 1: off of your like shink area in your bathroom?
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  Speaker 2: I try I do too.
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  Speaker 1: You put stuff back in the medicine cabinet that stays
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  Speaker 1: out kind of.
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  Speaker 2: All week long, right right, it just goes back as
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  Speaker 2: soon as they leave. The smell from pet foods to
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  Speaker 2: musty odors. They do smell as soon as they come
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  Speaker 2: in the floors, they said, because if you have to
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  Speaker 2: scrub dirty grout joints on hands and knees, that involves
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time and price adjustment. So the biggest
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  Speaker 2: surface is you're flooring, and if you've been ignoring certain sections,
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  Speaker 2: they'll get to that kitchen sink and stovetop. Grease build
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  Speaker 2: up in a sink full of dishes. Tell them where
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  Speaker 2: the heavy lifting will be that day. Build up in
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  Speaker 2: hard to reach areas. Like I was just talking about
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  Speaker 2: scrubbing dirty grout joints, These include ceiling fans. This is
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  Speaker 2: why I need help with too. Ceiling fans, vents s, baseboards,
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  Speaker 2: and corners. They often get missed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen the dust on top of our ceiling fan.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid of that.
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  Speaker 1: And yet you have to get that little what do
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  Speaker 1: you call it a feather duster?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like there's a swiffer that reaches up there. Right,
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  Speaker 2: But then like when you take it down, doesn't it
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  Speaker 2: all go? Do you see all the dust?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? And then you wonder is that where did that go?
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  Speaker 2: All?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, just breed that in. That's can't be good.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone in your home cleaning crew was do you prefer
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  Speaker 2: when nobody's home? If possible, They are noticing who's there,
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  Speaker 2: from someone working from home to kids to pets, and
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  Speaker 2: cleaners aren't looking at some of the things you think
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  Speaker 2: they are. They say, they're not looking at your pill
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  Speaker 2: bottles and reading them or counting them. They're not judging
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  Speaker 2: your habits or living space. A lot of clients also
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  Speaker 2: apologize embarrassed because even before they start cleaning, just like
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  Speaker 2: you and I do. They apologize all the time. But
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  Speaker 2: they said, don't worry about that. They are not there
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  Speaker 2: to judge, just trying to assess the situation and how
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  Speaker 2: long this is going to take.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I pay my housekeeper pretty good, so I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you do too. Yeah, that makes me feel a little better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all the clutter in our house, right, do pay them
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  Speaker 1: a good penny.
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  Speaker 2: I know, Like I understand, there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 2: So when there's special days like right now, I would
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  Speaker 2: need like a big dusting, like you said, ceiling fans
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  Speaker 2: and blinds, all that stuff that was closed up over
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  Speaker 2: the winter.
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  Speaker 1: I would leave a note. Usually that's what I do
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  Speaker 1: if they haven't touched it in a while like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know this is if you could knock out the
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  Speaker 1: ceiling fan, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: Is that extra money, all that stuff you.
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  Speaker 1: Can always you know, add it on, Maybe throw an
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  Speaker 1: extra twenty four four three six three. It's housekeeping talk.
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  Speaker 1: Hit us up four four three six three