Cleaning Help

Here's a little pre-Shabbos tidbit:

Cleaning help here is paid by the hour.  Of course, cleaning help in the US is paid by the hour as well, but here it's a totally different thing.  Here, the cleaner says, "I have x amount of hours available for you.  What would you like me to do?", which is quite a change from, "I have looked at your house and estimate it will take me x hours to clean and here is what the total will cost"!

We have cleaning help two hours a week, which is enough time for the floors to be cleaned (can't believe how good they look and feel after she's done), two bathrooms done, the front stairs and main mirpeset/balcony (unless we have guests and then she cleans the third floor guest room and bathroom instead of the outside spaces).

Just another little tidbit of "things are very different here"!