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A maid cleans windows in an apartment block in Madrid
A maid cleans windows in an apartment block in Madrid
Howard lamented she used to return home to "a clean kitchen and bathroom and a drenching sense of guilt." Hiring a female to clean her home weighed on her "feminist conscience," so she was inspired to go "undercover" as a cleaner to learn more about the job firsthand for a new book. Working in office buildings and hotels, she says, "I picked used tampons off bathroom carpets and scrubbed bathtub tidemarks and sauces spattered across kitchen walls."
She goes on to demand cleaners be paid more, but she admits that paying her own cleaner well above the national average still wasn't enough to alleviate her guilt.
"Did I find I could hire a cleaner with a clean conscience? No, but I found I could ease my feminist conscience by scrubbing my own toilet," she announces at the end of her Guardian piece, which is meant to promote her book 'The Home Stretch' on the same subject.
Comment: The fact that people's instincts on prepping is so off-the-mark would be hilarious if it weren't so sad. Twinkies and Donettes aren't going to do your immune system much good if an overzealous government quarantines you in your home for weeks.
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