Dream presents

[bright sparks]

HaHa...I love that everyone put a house cleaning. I am clearly extremely anal as from experience, the clean is never good enough. Maybe my expectations are set to high, but to me a clean especially a paid clean from a cleaning company means that the place should be spotless. I can do a quick clean up and wipe around no problem myself but a proper clean is something else which takes my a lot of time and I have been through about half a dozen cleaners over the last 18 months and they all missed something, ranging from cobwebs in the corners of ceilings, which really narks me off, dirty floors, even though they apparently mopped and dusting around things versus picking things up and cleaning under them. So as for a cleaning gift, only if they would actually do a proper job would I be happy.

I paid for a move in clean in August with Molly Maid and it was a horrific job to the point where they gave me half refund and half credit note, so while I don't want them back in, tomorrow they are coming for an hour just to clean my california shutters and my upstaires bathroom and ensuite. I have the gift certificate so I may aswell use it. Not going to hold my breath for "sparkles" but its better than me doing it at this point.

My dream gifts would be bookstore vouchers or spa vouchers. Spa vouchers are only good if they are enough to pay for a full service though lolol no good giving me $30 if I have to spend another $30 to use it.

Red wine is always a good one for me too :-)

Only had one gift so far and thats from the family of 2 leaving....gift basket of chocolate looks like a regift to be honest, shes a teacher, and a bottle of red wine. Big difference from last year when they gave me wine, board game for my kids and $150 cash in a beautiful card. I did get a card this morning but the words didn't really go beyond the general generic thoughtless kind.

I have 17 days off so great concellation for any crappy gifts