Here in Portugal having a maid come in regularly is pretty common.
One of the main points to consider about any maid is to choose someone who is trustworthy. Of course, that is difficult to ascertain, so I prefer to hire someone who comes recommended by friends or even a previous maid.
My current maid I know is trustworthy, if she finds money in my jeans or lying anywhere she'll put it somewhere I'll find it later and tell me did I see it there the next time I see her. I'm usually home for the first hours of her work but then I leave her in the house alone and I don't have to worry. She does a better job if I'm not there because I'm not in the way. She has a key.
She does most of my ironing, washing, cleans the entire house top to bottom and waters my plants. She works 4 hours at a time and charges me $10 per hour.
I hate cleaning but I like things to be clean, so this is perfect for me.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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