All About Full-Time Maids

[autumnbronze]

moom:

May I ask how many of you here allow your maid to use the washing machine for her own clothes?

Initially, when they first start, they will hand wash all their clothes. Usually after some weeks when they have settled down, I will suggest to them to use the washing machine.

[nms1]

I have always allowed them the choice of using the washing machine or hand-washing. No need to waste time handwashing unless they need to!

[Karl12]

So isst ok for the maid to put her clothes together with ours and wash together?

How abt her undies?
For me, i always wear panty liner so mine is quite clean in a way…
if i buy panty liner for her, abit exp…

[moom]

My previous maid used to hand wash her own clothes of her own accord. When this new one came, I told her to handwash her own clothes; she can use the machine for her sheets and big items.


However, I know that she has been using the machine in my absence to do her own laundry, including her undies. She washes only a few items at a time.

I would have let her use the machine after a while, but I take issue with the fact that she has disobeyed my instructions and wasting resources by washing her own few pieces in one cycle.

My Neighbour makes her helper handwash all the laundry in the family except for the bed linen. So in comparison, there are worse practices elsewhere.

Would you do anything abt this ‘disobedience’?

[autumnbronze]

Karl12:

So isst ok for the maid to put her clothes together with ours and wash together?

How abt her undies?
For me, i always wear panty liner so mine is quite clean in a way...
if i buy panty liner for her, abit exp....

I would think it's a personal decision lah, as in up to you.

My helper accumulates quite a number of T shirts and shorts every few days cuz she has 2 to 3 changes a day. So usually she will wash her clothes separately.

My 2 cents

[LOLMum]

autumnbronze:

LOLMum:

About 3 weeks now with my maid. So far so good except for the window shock :xedfingers:



A better cook than me.....we practically finished almost all the food every nite. :rahrah:

Quick and independent but sometimes a bit if communications breakdown.

Been praying nearly every nite.....Thank God for His Blessings!

3 cheers :rahrah: :rahrah: :rahrah:

:thankyou:

[Angelight]

Hi, want to get some advice here.


If my maid has completed her contract and want to stay on in Spore to work but I don’t need her service anymore, what shld I do? Return her to agent or help her find a new employer? And who pays for her passport renewal and work permit then?

[LOLMum]

Everytime I go into the yard, i see a different undie hung on the pole. So I think she does it by hand daily.


Also we wash our clothes separately on different days.

I can’t say she has not mixed her undies with her clothes in the machine but I would say it is likely to be one out of ten times.

My current also prefers to hand wash all her clothes but we don’t.

[verykiasu2010]

Angelight:

Hi, want to get some advice here.


If my maid has completed her contract and want to stay on in Spore to work but I don't need her service anymore, what shld I do? Return her to agent or help her find a new employer? And who pays for her passport renewal and work permit then?

the maid or her new employer should pay for the passport renewal and wp

your obligation is to send her back to her home country and nothing more

[moonee]

moom:

May I ask how many of you here allow your maid to use the washing machine for her own clothes?

My machine is only for bed sheets, pillow cases, blankets or any big items. Occasionally we will throw in some big towels just to fill up.