{"id":69805,"date":"2009-12-07T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/should-you-give-moms-a-maid-for-christmas\/"},"modified":"2009-12-07T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:51:02","slug":"should-you-give-moms-a-maid-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/69805","title":{"rendered":"Should You Give Moms a Maid for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

My sister wants a maid for Christmas. Just to come once, clean her house from top to bottom and get everything really nice for the new year. She wants her to come the day after the kids go back to school from the holidays. Honestly, it isn\u2019t a bad idea, though it will probably cost $400 or more for someone to come out once and clean an entire house. There is something really appealing about starting your new year out with a nice, clean house instead of spending two weeks getting it all back into shape yourself after several weeks of children, friends and family scattering toys and crumbs about. I\u2019m not sure how it would go over as a  gift for someone who didn\u2019t ask for it, though.<\/p>\n

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I do think that this is definitely a gift that not everyone can give. If you\u2019ve ever commented to your daughter, daughter in law, or wife that her place could use a good cleaning, you probably don\u2019t want to give a maid as a gift in case she feels that the maid is your idea of a second cleaning hint instead of the thoughtful gesture you meant it to be. If your wife knows you could care less about the dust bunnies under the bed, but you gave her a toaster oven for her birthday, she\u2019d probably feel a bit like the romance was gone if her next gift was a maid. So, you should probably think about how the gift could be perceived before calling your local house cleaning service. <\/p>\n

Would you feel offended if someone gave you a day of housecleaning for Christmas or would you throw your arms around the gift giver and emit cries of joy?<\/p>\n

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My sister wants a maid for Christmas. Just to come once, clean her house from top to bottom and get everything really nice for the new year. She wants her to come the day after the kids go back to school from the holidays. Honestly, it isn\u2019t a bad idea, though it will probably cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}