It has been six months
without domestic helper, first time in my life, I lay both hands on house
chore. The overlapping task took one
month, I jotted down the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and half yearly to
do list.
Now that without helper, the
most peculiar changes that I noticed was the usage of household items getting
much lesser as compare to before. The
reduction ranging from food stuff, beverage, toiletries, and the most
significant reduction was my water bill, it dropped more than 180%.
I recalled during a round
table aunties chat time, aunty May advised me to keep an eye on the helper , 24
hours in a day, 7 days in a week, she spied on her helper all the times, she
wore black spectaculars so that her helper will not notice her spying eyes, keeping
8 feet distance away from her helper. She
is more than a qualified CID.
Aunty Rosie added that we
must also do inventory check daily, she suggested to count the number of bread
slices, count the chocolate, count the biscuit, count the coffee sticks, count
the eggs, measure and mark the milk, or whatever at home that maybe consume by
the helper without permission. She has become the walking calculator.
Ya ya, interrupted by
Aunty Susie, she found biscuit wrapper under her helper pillow, coffee wrapper
under the mattress, half bite apple in her wardrobe , chocolate wrapper in her pocket
and many more eatable or uneatable things in her helper’s room. She even went to the extreme to check on the
garbage bin searching for evidence. Inspector
on the move.
Sounds to me that all helpers
are greedy for food.
Contradictory, my pillow
partner (husband) just work on the opposite of aunties, he asked me to keep both
my eyes close, let the helper eats extra, use extra, or if she takes our money
without asking permission, it is alright, as we should consider it (missing
money) as bonus for them.
I cling on to this
mindset, and I went through more than a decade of peaceful mind minus the position
of Inspector, Walking calculator and Inspector.
