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I can remember my mom had a Negress maid when I was a youngster. We called her Aunt LuLu. I found this three part BBC series (one hour each) on domestic servants in Great Britain (mid-19th to early 20th Centuries) to be very interesting and enlightening to what we see today with the current and future prospects for "domestic servants" in America. I have often thought about the possibility of hiring a part time house keeper for my wife, but not sure where we are as a society on this proposition.









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I have four sisters. My parents saw no need for a maid, nor had the money.


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Came from a one-car family, so no. A now divorced hunting buddy has a lady by once a week to do about 3 hrs of cleaning. Don't know why as he is retired with all the time in world.

My working sister in New Mexico hired a full time Hispanic lady until the kids aged out of school.

We live in a "snob knob" neighborhood here (Oregon), and near all hire out what I consider household chores (lawn care, snow removal, window washing, painting, etc), but no maids.

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Mom had no "servants".

Holy crap, if we had lived in that kind of society, we would have
all been servants.


No we all just worked.

She is 80, and wouldn't hear of a stranger going through her house.

I knew one family that might have had a maid.
An older woman whose husband used to beat the hell out of
her. Darn near killed her one night. My Aunt and Uncle took
her in, she lived with them for a long time. Worked for them,
In return for them taking care of her.

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I grew up in a big farmhouse with my grandparents living with us. So, there were two women in the house, but there was a time when they'd sometimes have a local Black girl helping out. My great grandmother and a couple of my aunts had Black women that helped them out full time. Also, my grandfather was practically raised my a Black woman because hos mother was very sick when he was a child. That would have been the late 1890's to early 1900 period.

We have a girl who comes every other week and cleans house.

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No, but my brother and I were master-class dish washers.

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Yeas there were 5 of us and we abided by the law of the wooden spoon!

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Originally Posted by crittrgittr
Yeas there were 5 of us and we abided by the law of the wooden spoon!


lol. We could handle the laundry detail, ironing, and running a vacuum too. Then there was the barn chores.

We didn't have too much idle time to get into serious trouble.

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The idea of domestic servants is abhorrent to me. How fuggin lazy do you have to be? Class system in play. The commies would LOVE to see it happen on a grand scale here. Give it a generation and they'd have have the ranks filled to bursting.


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My grandmother had a black woman named Mary. She was about 35 yrs old. My grandmother bought her a brand new 78 T-Bird. My mother was phooking pissed. lol


I stayed summers with the grandparents. The negro woman used to take me fishing. She was cool as hell.

She called my grandfather “Daddy Ramesy” lol


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I can remember my mom had a Negress maid when I was a youngster. We called her Aunt LuLu.

Funny! , my mother's name was LULU , but she wasn't a negress! but she did maid service at times.


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I'm the oldest kid and until I was in the 9th grade, no. But, Mom started nursing school and she hired woman to come clean once a week. Over the years, the women changed. Later on when Mom was working 11-7 shift, and only the girls were left at home, a lady named Bama, started staying most of the time Bama would stay with the girls at night, do the cooking, and keep the house. Great lady and funny as could be.


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I was part maid.

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Yeah, it was called my little Sis, her and Mom handled the indoor chores, we handled the outdoors work.


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We did, several in fact, then we left Cuba... Today, we have a lady that comes in once/week..


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my grandmother was a (white) maid for a rich landowner when she was a teen until she married my grandfather.


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Had a high maintenance high school teacher mention we orobably couldn't relate, but her family had an upstairs maid, butler and all. She was right, more likely our moms was the maid.

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No way, man! My mother was a home economics teacher. My brother and I always had home-cooked meals and a clean house and clean clothes. She never had an automatic dishwasher and still doesn't.


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I certainly didn't, but Claudia's parents had a weekly maid (very nice Black lady) and years ago I gifted Claudia the same. SWMBO was a high school principal then, with no spare time to do housework. I don't know how many years it has been now and we're both retired, but it is something I have not the courage to end. Either for us or the maid, who is very much dependent on the money I pay her. I tipped her a month's worth this past Christmas and she openly cried.


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